I’ll bite.

So one way of reading this is that you’re surrounded by incompetents. Early in my career I thought this. As a corollary to Chesterton’s Fence, it turns out I wasn’t so special and most weren’t so dumb. In a high-density area, being truly surrounded by bozos is just unlikely. So my advice here wouldn’t seem to be folly. If one tries several roles and every one is just full of bozos, it suggests that the one is in error.

Another way of reading this is that you are not in a high density area and perhaps the monopoly-oligopoly players who offer the work to which you are called are so few that the incompetent middle management is entrenched in these few spots and you’d love to leave but burning bridges / no proof the grass is greener suggest stay put. But with so few businesses, theoretically they have their pick of market and would not hire bozos. So, again, moving seems viable and not folly.

Lastly perhaps the factor is life/circumstances/education for you. Like if these desired roles require retraining or expensive certification. I feel for you if this is the case. But since you see those skills’ value, perhaps current-job learning/practice opportunities on-the-job could level you up to be able to hop to greener pastures. Most companies etc of even meager size have some tuition assistance program. Maybe that’s your way.

Regardless, this is your one precious life. I hope you’ll find access to your truest calling. It might be harder than what I said: “move” (such dismissive tone probably resultant from the ignorant perspective of the comic), but I’m confident your creativity and capability can point you in a path toward your flourishing.

Is that the “Elephunk” with the original title for “Let’s Get It Started?”

Roland.

Here’s the biggest reason: we are evolved from savannah primates for whom the ability to make eye contact and hold it was a signal of “you can trust me, I’m not about to bite you.” Paper and pen don’t signal “I have decided to break this evolutionary/social contract” in the same way a phone or open laptop does.

I help mentor a lot of young people in early career and their generation with a phone is an excuse for an x-er/boomer interviewer to punt them waiting to happen. It’s career and comp limiting, right or no.

Also if one finds a taken note is missing something, contact the original party. A conversation that begins with: “you got me thinking about this more deeply and I think I may have missed something…” is the key to mentorship, advocacy, and growth.

In short from a transcoding of bits perspective, other media may be better. But for those they acknowledge human constraint and opportunity a nice notebook and (a cheap shill from me) a Lamy Safari medium nib fountain pen will do you quite well.

Adorable vulpine gent.

Function as first class data was pretty great (lambdas) far ahead of other languages used in 1999.

Asynchrony / event loop to get to non-blocking was / is a huge leap.

Like it or no, it’s pretty much English: a polyglot, imprecise, syncretic mish-mash that’s absolutely everywhere. Many arguments against it are some sort of rehash of “But how will they communicate well without learning Latin?!” I love Latin and know Latin, ut the fact that kids in Delhi are rapping (!) in Hinglish suggests that English’s promiscuity is a virtue. Same for JS.

Shout out to David leisure as Isuzu pitch man in that era

Thanks, the details of the early decade of the year of Desktop Linux are growing murky.

ATH0

It hung up!

Just to confirm, SuSE has no ties to SCO and that weird crusade Darl McBride was on, right?

I read this and wasn’t sure what song it was. And so I read the letters and was like oh yeah Engima. And then I saw the earlier comments confirming it.