If women in particular are good at this. And I'm thinking as I say this...wouldn't women be the sex that pursues? I'm not saying men do better at this because they pursue/initiate. This just seems like a false statement unless I misunderstand what you mean.
I'm confused -- are you saying the writer is wrong because of your anecdotal process for coding?
As someone who writes I would have a very hard time imagining writing without the ability to have a mental monologue. I do know Alan Moore said in an interview that he would talk to himself in the mirror. Maybe he's an instance of a writer who doesn't think in words.
I would not think of a blue elephant as the word 'blue elephant' it would be the mental image of one. However, when it comes to thinking about a multiple choice question on a practice test or a quote I've recently read I can recall the words on the page of paper and the words mentally "read out".
The fifth natural language I learnt any conversation in was BSL (British Sign Language)[1]. Later, doing further language training, when I was trying to recall words (particularly in German) I would recall instead a sign. Not an image in my mind of making the sign, but a feeling that if I let them my arms/hands/fingers/face would make a sign.
Can you imagine writing through an interpreter without any audio/vocal use at all, as a BSL user could?
Without using a word, can you think what your favourite vegetable that isn't a carrot is? Like, can you call it to mind without using the word?
[1] Kinda, fwiw I just know smatterings of lots of languages.
How would a writer decide what a character will say? By trying random words until something makes sense? Or by an idea of what their values and emotions are at the point in the plot? Lots of thinking going on, without rehearsing "she's in a paint factory, its dark, she's stalking the victim…" as words in our mind.
If you're a beginner in this thread focus on going to the gym/your favorite workout environment first. Don't listen to all the people giving rep counts. If you go everyday for a month and do 1 effortful rep its better than going 2 times a week--getting sore and forgetting about it after soreness goes away. Also listen to your body, we are all different. The similarities--id even suggest only focusing on body weight stuff for a year or two and the only weight you lift is a deadlift(just the bar--about 45lbs in most gyms) or air squat.
Personally -- when I work out I am focused on the moment and each muscle movement. If you want to get philosophical about it..there's no room to be bored because the "me" that experiences boredom is paying close attention to each movement. Not only does this avoid injury I find it as a point of growth, self-control and meditative. Same when running.
Lol also as a person of color (i.e black) that is an immigrant. When i see the whole --I moved to a small city town/the country/small city -- I tend to assume the persons race. Not a bad thing but they say it like the shoe fits everyone. I also like how new ideas come to the big city faster--
I was joking with my brother that this narrative of "being rich must be miserable" is one of the greatest cons played on the middle class -- or just sour grapes. Taleb states: if you control your preferences you are way way way ahead of the crowd--most people become rich to impress other rich people and lose their personal preferences in the process. The treadmill effect is wild.
Note: we were born in Africa moved to NA and slept in a one bedroom apartment with our parents like sardines. Fast foward to now and life is much better. I am not rich by any stretch.
When people born here (western world) say being rich isnt worth it I laugh. You're used to a certain level of safety net that we know is not sustainable and is soon to disappear (in my humble opinion). We are Zimbabwean (left 2001)
Millennial here. I like cities...the spread of ideas and culture is fast. Concerts, coffee shops (to read in) and its easier to meet hardworking people in a city(i feel like most relatively young people stay in cities at the very least until they reach their goals)...and learn how to make money just like them. Suburbs to me are where people go wait to well...die and I don't mean literally. I lived with my parents for a year after finishing school in a really nice suburb I felt suffocated. They love it.
My old man always told me not to call things 'expensive' but to ask myself why I cant afford them (at the moment). If you aren't willing to make the money to live somewhere comfortable then just call it what it is: not a priority.
FYI im immigrant and did not start out life well off but I did have parents that are very no nonsense and honest about why and how people choose to live where they live and why. Most just want to be comfortable and that's O.K
Well, I think you're right in that they probably wouldn't know unless I told them (assuming it doesn't directly or indirectly encroach on my job time)
I'm not sure exactly the definition of external income in my case, but I know external employment counts and I've also heard coworkers brush off 1-off side gigs because they'd have to fill out paperwork.
In this case it is a company policy, not a legal matter. Even if you signed a contract the contract has to be legal and valid under the state & federal laws governing it, the company and the person/people involved. Many companies put clauses in contracts which they know are unenforceable because lay people won't know the difference and are just fearful of being sued, hell many attorney's don't know.
The companies recourse here is to terminate you for violating company policy, which could open them up to a wrongful termination suit for trying to enforce a policy that may or may not be legal in that state. The company suing the person in this case has no value nor any outcome where it is a net positive for the company, and the company knows that and they just hope you don't.
