A few years ago I booked a hotel suite through Booking.com for a convention, about six months in advance and for a group of friends.
About an hour before I checked in I got a message from Booking.com saying my reservation had been canceled. I called them and they said the hotel had canceled the reservation. They attempted to find another hotel upon request but there wasn’t one that would fit our group within 45 minutes of the convention center (the original was a block away).
Without many options, I showed up to the hotel to attempt to check in anyway. They told me Booking.com had canceled it several weeks prior. I denied any knowledge of the reservation being canceled and we got our room with little issue.
I’m not sure what was going on, but I’ve never used them since.
I work together with my team and I socialize IRL with friends, family, or sometimes coworkers essentially every day of the week. I’ve been fully remote since 2018. Your comment makes no sense to me.
Also, likes commuting? You can listen to your podcast anywhere.
Ditto, and I find that that socializing is higher value, because it is special: we made an effort to meet (and depending on one's WFH habits, that effort might be considerable), we didn't just shout "pub?" over the partition.
I found a Stevia product, White Stevia, in my local organic market. It has maltodextrin added, but that's it. The downside is it's not measure-for-measure with sugar (1/6 tsp vs 1 tsp sugar).
There are plenty of pure stevia powder products. They don't need to be 1:1 for sugar. I am okay with using the tiniest fractional teaspoons to dispense pure stevia.
For my past several jobs, I've put together a job satisfaction matrix that I fill out once a month. If it scores below a threshold three months in a row, that triggers a job search.
It helps me because I have a habit of fixating on the team’s mission and ignoring my own happiness, so the monthly check-in keeps me from staying somewhere longer than I should.
Sure - it's fairly personalized based on what I'm looking to get out of my career, but it has questions roughly like this:
- Am I free from feeling frustrated/stressed at work once a week or more?
- Am I free from work stress/anxieties outside of work hours?
- Am I keeping up with my hobbies?
- Do I feel respected and valued, with the ability to influence my work environment?
- Do I feel proud of my work and confident discussing my job with others?
- Am I learning/growing?
- Am I excited about the company's direction and secure in its stability?
- Do I feel like my job is secure?
I score each item 1-5 (1 = rarely, 5 = always) and track the total. If that total stays below my cutoff for a few months in a row, that would trigger me to start looking. Sometimes I include notes beside any low/high scores for context.
Friends have challenged this, asking if I can't just feel when it's time to move on, which I can, but I've found this leads to me being more thoughtful and proactive about it.
The way I've viewed something similar is top-down vs bottom-up thinkers.
top-down
- makes decisions based on intuition, rationalizes them afterwards if necessary
- quick reactions to new information
- more flexible (sometimes inconsistent) beliefs
- faster to adopt new ideas that align with their feelings, but also more resistant to ideas that they don't like
bottom-up
- systems based reasoning
- builds internal frameworks around ideas
- consistency is paramount
- slower reactions to new information
- can be seen to have more "unique" thoughts or insights through drawing parallels in their internally developed frameworks
- can be more rigid when it comes to new ideas, but not stubborn. it either fits into their frameworks or it doesn't
I'd say it's a spectrum, but people tend to significantly favor one way or another in my experience. I feel like top-down thinkers would be much more likely to be story-based, and bottom-up fact-based.
> Still in these very days we meet random people who in normal random conversation tell us (as part of other matters) of coincidental devastating effects.
You may have. I haven't met anyone who has had any effects other than feeling mildly sick for a day or two afterwards. That's the thing about anecdotal evidence.
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