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Platform / DevOps / Cloud Engineer in the UK, have worked at banks and a big online retailer. Expert in CI/CD pipelines. I care a lot about increasing developer productivity and at the jobs I've had have made drastic reductions in times for developers to deploy to production, run tests, or get a test environment up and running.

London has loads of small chaotic markets all over the place

For me it was to spend time during the day to just think. This could be going for a 20 minute walk, or just lying in bed for 10 minutes or so with no phone or whatever. Let yourself be bored.

This way when it came to bedtime my thoughts aren't racing because I've already allowed my brain time to process them.

I think for many people when they go to bed it is the first time in the day they're not distracting themselves, and have time to just think. So all the thoughts from the whole day, or days, come rushing in at once and you feel like your "mind is racing". If you do this earlier in the day you might find it a lot easier to get to sleep.

> just lying in bed for 10 minutes […] Let yourself be bored.

This has been very effective for me.

On nights where I take a few minutes before conking out to just rest (not sleep, but _rest_) and let my subconscious bubble up whatever's going on, I'm always amazed at how valuable it is, and what I learn. It's almost like a bridge to the next day …

Thank you for the suggestion!

I do this now. We have meetings about how to create templates on how to write Jira tickets. Meta meta meta work.

Wait until you get to management. I have meetings about who to get to have meetings on how to create templates to create Jira tickets.

And for some reason this is valued and rewarded more than ROI generation tasks. We are truly fucked as a species.

aaaah fuck I was hoping it was just where I work that this was the loop.

It's down to the age of the business. I have the following hypothesis:

<5 years = sensible

5-10 years = JIRA incursion, agile factions

>10 years = Project manager and bureaucrat hostile incursion

I quite like the latter if you're working from home. You can get a LOT done on shit you actually care about when you're on conference calls just as part of a faction to make it look bigger against another corporate faction.

This is hardly evidence Twitter is "awash" with OpenAI spam since by the bold text you can see he specifically searched that phrase and yet only showed three responses.

There were many other tweets that matched this, many from accounts paying $8/mo. Sorry my screenshot wasn't bigger.

And its been an effective argument, with no nuclear powers ever fighting a war vs each other.

No, but it allows countries with nuclear weapons to invade countries without nuclear weapons.

Those countries would have been able to invade those other countries regardless no?

That's amusing since the UK tax year runs from April to April

The Dutch and Portuguese outcompeted the British, until they didn't.

In the 19th and early 20th century the British owned the seas, a post 1945 another English speaking country has - the United States.

The relative power of German speakers (Germany) dropped massively after WW2 compared to English speakers (USA).

Yeah, what? I'm using Google Chrome, the most popular browser in the world and its giving me this nonsense.