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Emotional Rollbacks: Why We Revert to Old Versions of Ourselves Around Certain People

How specific relationships reactivate archived behavioral patterns, why personal growth collapses in familiar emotional environments, and what happe…

Your Job Ends at 5. Your Developer Brain Doesn't.

5:00 PM. Laptop closed. Slack closed. Workday over. Except my brain didn't get the memo. I'm making dinner, and I'm still half-thinking about a func…

I Tracked My Anxious Thoughts for 30 Days in Notion — Here's What the Data Revealed

The Experiment As developers, we spend our days debugging code. But when was the last time you debugged your own thinking? I ran a 30-day experiment…

AI Mental Health Support: What a New Audit Found in Long Conversations

Originally published at roshni.online A study published in Nature Medicine this month tested AI mental health support the way people actually use it…

How do you deal with chronic fatigue, brain fog and burnout as a developer?

Hey everyone! I’ve been working as a software engineer for a few years, but lately my fatigue and brain fog are completely out of control. Even afte…

Stop Calling Everything Impostor Syndrome: The Myth of "Just Push Harder"

Not everyone who doubts themselves is suffering from impostor syndrome. Sometimes the real problem lies in the strategy they've chosen, and that's e…

Summer Log #4

کم‌کم دارم برمی‌گردم به همون ذهنیتی که همیشه باید می‌بوده استمرار و نیت خوب آخرش جواب می‌ده خیلی چیزا ارزش این همه درگیری ذهنی رو ندارن برای ناامید…

Are AI-Generated Videos Rewriting Our Understanding of Physics?

How synthetic reality may influence human intuition about motion, gravity, and causality AI video generation has reached a point where a model can c…

Choose your Burden

Hey everyone. Just an update on the Salesforce Certification. I am planning on releasing articles about it after getting the certification, so that…

Brain Science: Friday, July 17

Brain Science Friday: What Neuroscience Actually Says About How You Should Be Studying Right Now Here's a fact that should change everything about h…

Eastern Philosophy for Developers: Using Wang Yangming to Combat Burnout

As developers, we are constantly bombarded with noise. There is always a new framework to learn (Rust, Go, Next.js), a new architectural pattern to…

I am that I am.

We all hear about "Not comparing yourself to others" and that "comparing yourself is the thief of joy". To be honest, I agree and it's strange that…

Isn't Just Only a Term (Tech Winter)

Should I quit IT or just live through the burnout? Low-effort AI content as a burnout trigger Klaudia Grzondziel Klaudia Grzondziel Klaudia Grzondzi…

Dear Stranger — A Page for You

There is a kind of loneliness that does not always announce itself. It can be quiet. Heavy. Hidden behind a smile. It can make someone feel as thoug…

ADHD Waiting Mode — Why One 3 PM Appointment Ruins Your Whole Day

You have one appointment today. It is at 3 PM. It will take an hour. It is now 9:30 AM, and you have already decided - not consciously, but somewher…

Why Context Switching Destroyes Your Productivity (And How to Fix It)

You are in the middle of a report. Your phone buzzes. You glance at it. Just a Slack message, but you answer it real quick. Then you check email. Th…

ADHD Paralysis: Why You Freeze When There's Too Much to Do (And How to Break Out of It)

You have twelve things to do. You know what they are. You know they matter. And yet you are sitting on the couch, staring at your phone, feeling the…

It's You.

To start off, I appreciate the community support I have received on the post about being behind. I am behind, and I can't prove it but does it matte…

The Subtraction Principle: Building a Meditation App Without Gamification

The Problem with Mindfulness Apps Last month I downloaded five meditation apps. Within a week, I was juggling three streak counters, two leaderboard…

👾 🧚🏼‍♀️Maximizing Fable for Life Admin

TLDR: The most powerful AI on the planet, only a few days of access. Maximize it. I'd first like to give credit where it's due: @trickell - Thank yo…

Subtraction > Addition: Why the Best Meditation App Asks Nothing From You

Every meditation app I have tried wants something from me. Headspace wants me to maintain a streak. Calm wants me to listen to a Daily Jay. Insight…

Burnout isn't just "being tired"—it’s a cascading symptoms.

Do we actually know what it is? Maybe we're experiencing it and just don't realize it. Feeling depleted in spite of sleeping for hours. Feeling nega…

How letting go of expectations makes us better

With mindfulness being one of the cornerstones of the way I try to live, I sometimes think about how mindfulness practices can help us in software d…

How to stop overthinking at night

It is 11pm, or 2am, and your body is finally still. The lights are off, the day is done, and that is exactly when your mind picks up the megaphone.…

What I Learned Building an peptides tracker app for My Girlfriend's Stack

A few months ago my girlfriend went down the peptides rabbit hole. GLP-1 first, then a bunch of others whose names I still struggle to spell. She st…

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The Psychology of Freelance Pricing: Why Smart People Undercharge

Originally published on https://fairprice.work/blog/psychology-of-freelance-pricing-undercharging/ The Smartest Freelancer in the Room Still Underch…

I am behind, and I can't prove it but does it matter?

Let's be fair. The title of this post is confusing at first, but once you read it in full, I hope you will understand why. Do let me know if otherwi…

I finish the hard build in private, then freeze at publish

There is a folder on my machine nobody has ever seen. It holds some of the best work I have done. A system that runs itself, tested to the edges, th…

Imposter Syndrome in Tech: How to Deal with Feeling "Not Good Enough"

Picture this: You are staring at your screen, reviewing a pull request. The codebase feels like an alien language. Meanwhile, your colleagues are dr…