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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I'm absolutely fine with moving 10 times faster than ~~others~~ I was moving before, and people thinking they're doing better than me at the same time. So I'm not complaining.
I could be wrong, but everything I see in my own worklife suggests that I'm not. The performance increase is immense. I genuinely cannot understand why the results seem to disagree with this. I've always been a bit ahead of the curve, so perhaps that's the reason now as well.
I'm happy for you. From what I've seen, that observation correlates highly with one or both of 1. a poor evaluation of "productivity", 2. rather low productivity to begin with.
The first category is by far the worst, as they think they're being extremely productive. But the burden is simply shifted onto someone else. No doubt that the authors of each of these vulnerability reports considered themselves to be immensely productive: https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d1cd
Producing 10 times more garbage, is a hefty net negative.
Could be our team composition that's the magic sauce: we're 4 seniors with 20+ years of experience from software development each and just one who's more like a junior. We could be doing this like artisans of pre-2025 but we're in a bit of a hurry, being a startup. Also, using AI seems to give us quite a bit more free time.
Remains to be seen, I guess, whether it's garbage we're producing. But we have completed in 6 months what I would have assumed would've taken 2 years and a bigger team.