That's the second major confusion. There is no such thing as average!! An average person doesn't exist. This is an error of statistics. Average is a statistical concept. It doesn't and can't make sense outside of the context of statistical analysis. There is no such thing as average culture, or an average teacher, or an average school. Anytime you... See more
FDEs tend to write code that gets the job done fast, which usually means – politely – technical debt and hacky workarounds. PD engineers write software that scales cleanly, works for multiple use cases, and doesn’t break. One of the key ‘secrets’ of the company is that generating deep, sustaining enterprise value requires both. BD engineers tend to... See more
It was also interesting, to me at least, to note the body language and between point box-bickering that consumes much of a Musetti and Shapovalov between-point routine. Both men appear tormented, and waste so much energy and attention on things that are simply out of their control. The difference between these two, versus Alcaraz and Sinner, or... See more
Eventually, the bikers dropped us off and we walked 10 minutes to finally reach the cottages we were staying at. The total trip took us close to 4 hours, 1 taxi, 2 tuktuks, and 3 people on 2 bikes each — for a distance of only 25 km (15.5 mi). Welcome to the Kumbh Mela!
Solitarist identity is an example of dichotomous or binary thinking, one of the cognitive distortions that are evidently becoming more common, at least among young adults in the United States, according to George Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s analysis in “The Coddling of the American Mind.” Psychologists studying binary thinking have also found it... See more