purpleball
I did similar. I asked for double my previous salary, figuring that’s absurd. They told me that’s too low for the position, so they gave me 5 grand more than what I asked for. Clearly I could have gotten substantially more.
But the way I look at it is I got a very high salary that I wasn’t expecting, and the company feels like they got a deal. Win - win situation, right?
A friend in high school helped me install a counter strike server on linux on an old desktop. From there, I experimented with hosting some forums and an upload script to save files remotely. In the days way before the cloud was a thing. That got me interested enough to start figuring things out and get into it.
My number one tip is slow down. Don’t be afraid to go too slow. Keep training and speed comes with time. Don’t make it too hard but keeping too fast of a pace. Running slowly will still provide training and is less likely to cause injury. Your body will know when it’s time to speed up.
This American Life
Radiolab
Decoding the Unknown
The Running Channel
Every so often Planet Money
I used to listen to Reply All until their whole thing and they shut down.
I program in multiple computer languages, and I speak two human languages. I find them completely different skillsets for entirely different purposes.
They are both of interest but for completely different and unrelated reasons.
Well, my neuroscience professor told us the story where he served on a jury that related to brain injury. He thought it was odd they didn’t have a problem with him.
As an aside, the defendant’s expert witness explained some findings of 2 men, Santiago Ramón and Cajal. He then questioned to himself how much of an expert the witness was if he didn’t know that Santiago Ramón y Cajal was the name of a single man.