Is it just the states that the tech market is bad? What about moving abroad for awhile?

If I could move at all right now, I would, but it would be difficult for me to move even domestically right now.

We're having the same situation in the UK rn

it's not a you problem. while it's not uncommon to hear or see, 99% of people do not do Whitewater kayaking as a hobby.

I agree, but my problem is not about kayaking. Not sure how to say it academically, but it's rare to be high, yet equally rarely to be too low as depression.

they created an interface around a product they didn't own..

You just defined every third party app that works with an API. Are all such apps cash grabs to you?

These apps developers were trying to piggyback off the reddit api, so are you surprised?

all of the third party apps sucked in terms of usage, hence why reddit was willing to destroy them

Just watched it on youtube. He doesn't use the fingerholes but I wouldn't expect all pros use them. The second hand just remains on the ball longer before the throw. My verdict: not that different

He uses the finger holes (you can see this in the front-on shots), but not the thumb hole.

The holes are custom drilled to each bowler. If they weren’t being used why drill them?

Most children do not know what a "thought-experiment" is. I actually feel very sorry for you and other children who never believed.

Well I didn't know it was called that at the time. If I recall, a book, perhaps Alice in Quantumland, or some other similar book named the idea for me eventually. I also didn't know how what oxygen was called, once upon a time, and somehow managed to breathe.

Anyway, I feel grateful to my parents that they managed to feed imagination without deceit, and I also appreciated that gifts came from my parents, some requested, some unbidden and all with love.

You said "I thought everyone was just playing up to the same fun thought-experiment" which implies you did that thinking at the time. I'm not questioning whether you knew how to breathe or understood the mechanics of it. I can only go by the information you provided.

Your reply even shows you don't understand the magic of Christmas that some children felt.

> I feel grateful to my parents that they managed to feed imagination without deceit

You're framing this deceit as a bad thing. What do you think about parents pretending a child's spoon is an airplane?

Or worse..

the response is: list out your priorities and the impact of not doing them long with a recommendation of moving forward

... isn't that YOUR job? This especially sucks when it happens regularly and it means you're not spending any time on the prioritized work, just working on setting priorities.

I feel for you. A manager should probably be better on-top of those things. But this response means you're probably working with an earnest, but perhaps not fully up to level manager, instead of someone who just doesn't give a shit about how you're getting screwed.

If I am whiteboarding with people in work I definitely don't try do proper syntax etc. That is pseudocode to me.