After 25 years of career, I still have to see an organization where things are so perfect that:

• no refactoring is needed
• no additional documentation is useful, it’s all there shiny and beautiful. And it updates itself nightly.
• logging/monitoring/diagnostic tools are perfect
• builds are so fast that you wonder if you did press enter
• all necessary linters are configured and used
• everything has unit tests
• and integration tests
• and there’s enough time for exploring alternative technologies for future development
• and enough time for contributing feature/fixes upstream for the open source things you use
• and you cannot build tools to answer asks from customers even faster So yes, you may not get official tickets assigned to you, but it doesn’t mean there’s nothing else to be done. Perceiving that need is the first step for moving from junior to more senior role, acting on that need is the second step.

Now, depending on the country you’re in, social norms may make you unpopular among co-workers and managers alike if you move too much, so there’s that.

Beautiful lessons by /u/mavvam

The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it.

No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you, or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.

A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.

The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.

As To Minh Son says: “4chan shit”

Every year, American culture embarks on a massive project to carefully recreate the Christmases of Baby Boomers’ childhoods.

• some guy on reddit

Darwin spends five billion years optimizing your genes for reproduction, and God laughs and decides that whether or not you mate will depend on which weird parties you go to, or whatever.

• some user on /r/TheMotte

telling people that they only get to win elections if they vote for things they don’t actually want is isomorphic to telling them they don’t get to vote. The point of voting is securing one’s preferences. If voting can’t do that, voting is pointless.

I do not believe anyone involved in this discussion at any level considers democracy itself as a terminal value. If a durable 75% majority of Americans supported reinstating slavery of a specific ethnic/racial group, it would be madness to expect the other 25% to simply accept this outcome because them’s the rules, so whaddya gonna do? If you convince people that they do not have a reasonable hope of achieving their preferences through the political system, they will work to achieve those preferences through other systems.

• /u/FCfromSSC

https://www.reddit.com/r/theschism/comments/rt0pe4/selected_anecdotes_from_the_man_who_mistook_his/

“Friends come and go, but a good enemy stays with you forever.”

• Hagar the Horrible

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I had a similar transition in my walk with Christ. While others claim grandiose visions and moments of overwhelming emotion as their conversion experiences, I feel my God seemingly did not come to me in such a manner. Instead, I simply… started caring one day about God and His will, realizing that I needed to seek His desires over my own, in a change so sudden that I myself didn’t even notice it at first. Like… seeing a flower pop up in a field of snow, not there until it is suddenly very much there.

• some user on /r/TheMotte