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If you come from a deep red state, as I do, and struggle with how to talk to your family about science, you too may find this piece a lifeline.

"We are all science communicators now." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
My grandma died yesterday; she was 104, healthy, independent & spry until two days ago, when she had a small stroke. They were able to take her home and sit her at the window to say her farewells.

I can't even muster sadness, that death is a fucking triumph.
My parents have never had insurance. Dad revoked their social security numbers and marriage license when I was eight or so, and they will never get Medicare or Social Security bc of their beliefs. (militia/Patriot/homeschool/separatist/fundamentalist, highly ..iconoclastic)
I just got off the phone with my mom earlier, and I was honestly astonished to hear that they were taking the virus and social distancing seriously.

A strong constitution definitely runs in my family on both sides. I think that's why they have sustained these views for so long.
(I'm pretty sure if I were to press I would find that *mom* is taking the virus seriously, and my brothers and dad all think it's a conspiracy of some sort. Heh. I didn't press.)

Also today in Idaho news: fist sized hailstones and a 6.9 earthquake. 🤨
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we tend to think of pain as a bad thing. but in the immortal words of the Dread Pirate Roberts: life is pain. growth is pain. it's a tool.

all you can do is pick your battles, and try to minimize the pain that is disproportionate, unproductive, or just plain pointless.
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We have some killer blog posts on managing and understanding your AWS costs with honeycomb, btw. Like this one by @eanakashima.

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Not every job is going to be a winner. *No* job lasts forever.

But hopefully by the time you are 10 years into your career you can look back on one or two highlights, jobs or roles that really set the bar for you moving forward.
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* coworkers who were visionary and kind; a social group that outlived the business model
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I'm probably going to get more shit for bringing this up now, at a time of so much upheaval and terror, when most of the world is eyeing a choice between doom and doomier.

But it feels even more urgent to me now to say .. if you are so lucky as to have a choice, /don't waste it/
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