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this is so real
if I don't make time for ~3-4 hours a day for just programming, I actually get cranky
what have I done to myself
Over the past several weeks, I've been back in the lab working crazy hours like old times, and loving life. This was much needed. I'm happy ;-)
If I'm not programming, hands-on with robots/hardware for many hours a day, I feel a bit lost and less able to think clearly about the world. It's just how my brain is built. I think it's because engineering humbles me to the reality of the world.
I need both literature & engineering in my life 🤣 I love both, and both are a source of truth.
I'm still doing the podcast, just adding much more engineering back into the mix ;-) The podcast gives me an opportunity to celebrate great scientists, engineers, and builders. This is one of the things I love doing most.
In the coming months, I'll continue splitting time between MIT and Caltech (Boston & LA) working with some brilliant people. The focus of the work is human-robot interaction with quadrupeds and humanoid robots.
I'll also likely be at NeurIPS in San Diego this year.
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People ask what is my schedule now that i am full time content creator
6am - 6:15am work out
6:15 - 3:40pm work
3:40-4pm work out
MTR:
4pm - 5:15pm kids/wife/dinner
5:15-7:30pm work (kids at soccor practice)
7:30-9pm get kids in bed
WF:
4pm - 9pm kids / family
S/Su
6am-8am work
Answer.
I worked full time while starting my side gig. Back then it was just fun. I pursued streaming because I loved it.
Schedule:
5 am: wake up
6 am: at Netflix HQ
4 pm: leave HQ
4:20pm: hang with kids
7:00pm put kids to bed / read to them
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3 nights a week I did streaming from 8pm to ~midnight, sometimes later
I truly did it for the love of the game and I wouldn't recommend anyone to this lifestyle, but I wanted it.
I absolutely abused myself and my body because on the weekends I wanted to be with my family.
During this time I had three kids and later on my wife was pregnant with a fourth.
It was absolutely one of the harder parts of my life, but I would not trade it for anything
when i did multi-variate calculus and learned the math world does Z up....
still upset about it to this day
Answer.
I worked full time while starting my side gig. Back then it was just fun. I pursued streaming because I loved it.
Schedule:
5 am: wake up
6 am: at Netflix HQ
4 pm: leave HQ
4:20pm: hang with kids
7:00pm put kids to bed / read to them
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3 nights a week I did streaming from 8pm to ~midnight, sometimes later
I truly did it for the love of the game and I wouldn't recommend anyone to this lifestyle, but I wanted it.
I absolutely abused myself and my body because on the weekends I wanted to be with my family.
During this time I had three kids and later on my wife was pregnant with a fourth.
It was absolutely one of the harder parts of my life, but I would not trade it for anything
I love @dhh as much as a straight man can love another man
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Omarchy has been on an incredible growth spurt over the last few months. We've distributed over a petabyte worth of ISOs in the last thirty days alone, which is enough for 150,000+ new installs. In total, we're well into the hundreds of thousands of ISO downloads.
But what I care more about than the numbers are the anecdotes. I'm constantly hearing from people who switched from Windows or Mac to Omarchy and love this beautiful, modern, and opinionated Linux way.
This is something the Linux diehards tend to forget. What seems like old hat to them ("Hyprland?! Psh, I ran i3 in 2006!!!") is completely revolutionary to most people who've never used a tiling window manager. If you've only ever used Windows or Mac, Omarchy is like traveling to a different computer dimension — full of strange, wonderful new colors and designs.
There's still work to do before Linux is likely to take over the desktop for "normies". But that was never the mission for Omarchy. We've been targeting people who genuinely love computers, don't mind learning how they work, and are willing to invest time in memorizing hotkeys to be able to become much more proficient and efficient machine operators.
That's surely a subset of all computer users, but tons of such people exist! And it's not just developers, although they make up the lion's share. I've also seen Omarchy get embraced by designers and writers. Not just because this is such a fresh, new take on what a computer can look and feel like, but also because, as a community, we've dumped the silly gatekeeping that for so long has hampered the adoption of Linux.
It was part of the reason I didn't think Linux on the desktop was something for me personally for so long. So happy to have been proven wrong! And now I'm excited to help others come to the same conclusion.
Omarchy is for anyone who loves computers ✌️
Robinhood having prediction markets is literally the rich stealing from the poor
Great job Robinhood