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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • For better or worse, I think the importance of the resume has gone down a little bit over the past few years. There are so many people blasting resumes to 1000 places with LLM generated cover letters that the only resumes that make it to the people with hiring power are through referrals.

    To actually answer your question, though, I think a link to a personal website (or LinkedIn if you use it) is nice to give more space to elaborate on work you’ve done, especially of there are things that are better explained by photos.

    For many positions, especially if you have a “foreign sounding” name, it’s good to specify if you are a citizen/permanent resident/etc. Companies may or may not be able to sponsor visas, and many positions, depending on the type of work, can only be done by citizens or permanent residents.

    It is good to brag about yourself, but definitely avoid making your resume too wordy or long. Even people with really impressive careers will have a 1 page resume because people reviewing them need to be able to see the highlights immediately.

    If you have a list of skills, it might make sense to try and be really explicit about how skilled you are with each thing. It’s going to be dependent on the job, but for example, if you were listing JMP and R on there, but you spent years on R and only did a class project once with JMP, the company might want to know that. You could put “R (expert)” and “JMP (familiar)” or something like that.

    Obviously, you need a job to eat and pay rent, but if someone hires you specifically to do something you are only slightly competent at, it’s really a lose-lose.











  • On 11, I’d say you also need to decide if the type of terrain you are going on really even calls for boots. Plenty of people do long trips in trail running shoes, which is usually my preference on decent trails, but on really rugged backcountry (or snowy/mountaineering) conditions, you need boots.

    Also, to an extent, you don’t really break boots in as much as you break your feet into the boots, so a pair you wore all summer last year and set down for 8 months could probably still use a little ramp up to a long trip.

    On 12, I’d say gaiters are really nice even if you aren’t in snowy or wet conditions. I wear them even when it’s nice so I can keep rocks, dust, etc out of my shoes.



  • There are a few levels of accuracy. Simplest is just using your max heart rate according to the equation (or trying to actually see how high you can get your heart rate), and basing percentages off of that.

    Slightly better than that, most heart rate monitors/apps have some analytics built in that can factor in stuff like speed to approximate metabolic cost, and predict your lactate threshold. That’s the heart rate that corresponds to the workload at which your body can’t keep up with processing lactic acid (a byproduct of anaerobic metabolism). It’s an important threshold cause you want some of your workouts to be definitely below that limit, and some to be definitely above.

    There are ways to actually test that limit, often involving finger pricks to get blood samples while running on a treadmill.

    The most accurate way (and what elite athletes will do), is a full metabolic test involving running on a treadmill with a heart rate monitor and a mask to measure oxygen consumption/co2 expiration.

    For most people who just want to be healthy, and maybe get a little faster, it’s not that important to be super accurate. The main thing is that in order to improve cardiovascularly, you basically need to activate the signaling pathways in your body that signify that you can’t take in and process as much oxygen as you’d like to be able to. That involves high intensity work that is really hard on your body (muscles, joints, cardiovascular system) and it can take a few days to recover.

    If you do most of your work in that low intensity zone, you give your body time to recover from high intensity while keeping overall volume up.

    If you try to go too hard every time, you never recover, and never adapt.



  • I’d say consider where things are growing, too. If you are foraging near roadsides, pipelines, powerlines, houses, or old dump sites, there are things to consider. If you are in somewhere like Appalachia, it’s shocking how common "artisanal " mining sites are when you can recognize them.

    Herbicides are often used to keep growth down in those places.

    Old houses often have lead paint falling into soil, and leaded gas polluted a lot of roadsides. You don’t want to eat roots/tubers or low growing leafy veggies in those places. Luckily, plants apparently don’t accumulate lead.






  • I use Feeder, but even with filters to try and remove as much stuff as I’m not interested in, there’s still too much for me to keep up with. I imported all my feeds to Nunti to filter things down more. Nunti allows you to either upvote or downvote articles, and that information is used by the app with a transparent, relatively simple algorithm to try to predict what type of things you want to see vs don’t want to see. It doesn’t give much priority to breaking news, and it doesn’t have the article snippets or built in reader mode like Feeder does, so i still use Feeder.