I’d like to play Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, but I think I got close to the end of the game and haven’t done all the side quest / collectible stuff. So now I have to decide whether to just finish it and see how it ends, or go back and try to 100% it.

My indecisiveness will probably result in the secret 3rd option of putting it off and playing something else.

The warriors of the resistance to the AI-pocalypse will wear red sneakers and wisecrack like it’s 1994.

“My local restaurant is awful but unfortunately if I don’t keep going there I’ll starve”

I’d say stage 4 is being the keystone attendee: if you don’t go, the whole thing falls apart. Even if you somehow manage to get out of the meeting, it has to get rescheduled because it “needs” your input. The meeting thus becomes inescapable.

Stage 5 is when everyone else realizes you’re in stage 4 and begins to cater to your availability and preferences. Obviously this is mostly theoretical.

This would be like if someone bought out everyone’s favorite restaurant and totally ruined it. The food is worse, the staff are rude, and the only people who still hang out there are a bunch of jerks. And now you’re telling me the owner sometimes shows up and kicks you out of your seat because you’re in “his” spot?

The obvious remedy is to stop fucking going. And yet, people keep fucking going.

Continuing with the analogy, even the honest attempts to fix Mondays are characterized as impractical, idle fantasies.

How about we don’t schedule critical meetings to start first thing Monday morning? Even if that’s the “only” time everyone can meet? And if it’s really the only time everyone has available, doesn’t that warrant questioning a bit?

Or what if we just start later on Mondays? And maybe we consider not offsetting it but working later on other days? 39-hour week? 36-hour week?

This is… silly. But I do wonder how it works. Does it aggregate all responses and look for commonalities? Does it factor in the upvote/downvote counts? And, does it know how to discern genuine user input from astroturfed marketing copy in disguise?

Does it need to be online and continuous?

Hot take of the day: academia doesn’t need social media.

This thread surprises me. Excel is fine, but I’ve seen people do so many silly things with it that it makes me dread having to use it. It’s like they treat every cell as its own special little canvas… Oh, you wanna randomly change the date format from mm/dd/yyyy to dd-Mmm-yy mid-column? With Excel, anything is possible.

Maybe I just don’t work well with others.