I don’t believe that you can make a comment as sweeping as “most Bay Area women... are so useless you could trade them for a jerry can of diesel” that doesn’t reflect a stance on all women.

There are 7.75 million people in the “Bay Area”, presumably about half women. The idea that you could believe nearly 4 million women with totally disparate histories - only united by currently living in the Bay Area and being women - are mostly useless without making sexist generalizations about women defies credibility in my view.

And I used the word “most” because his quote begins “most Bay Area women are soft, cosseted, and naive...” so you’ll have to ask him what he means by “most”.

Even more importantly IMO, Apple is located in the Bay Area! That means he's speaking about his would-be coworkers and subordinates.

I don't see how you could be a good team member if you come with these types of preconceived notions about the other people on the team.

You are deliberately misquoting.

He is comparing to Eastern European women.

I don't have to work for those directors, authors, or comedians. And if Joss Whedon is any indication, a lot of other people don't want to either but have toxic people like this forced upon them by powers-that-be.

As usual, it’s taken out of context.

He is comparing Bay Area girls to a girl he was sleeping with whose family moved here from Russia when she was a teenager and who “had spent years backpacking through jobs in rougher parts of the world”.

This is the reference to “worldliness”.

Being raised in the Bay Area compared to the experience of a family descended from Russia is of course going to result in a different upbringing and personality.

I don’t think this is hard to argue with unless you are naive to history and have not spoken to those who lives through 20th century Eastern Europe.

Ironic, as the lack of “worldliness” that those refute, is the same quality that prevents them from appreciating the sentiment in the quote.

A lot of fashion is about bravery, as mentioned in the article.

People look on those who can wear what they want as free, because they know they are not, and that they are afraid of being judged.

I saw a guy wearing a kimono and a belt yesterday. Was quite a sight.

Typical judgmental thoughts of "look at that odd dude“ went through my head. But I realized that I couldn’t wear that and the reason would be other people judging me for it, or assigning questionable gender identity upon me.

When looking back to 18th century fashion it is extreme compared to the extremes that people are chasing today.

Everyone is trying to be different. Maybe wigs will come back.

Imagine a world without fashion judgement. What would you wear?

A world without fashion judgment what I would wear is probably close to what wear now, functional clothes that optimism for price, durability, and utility. Plain black or grey T-shirt under work a breathable (earth tone) button up shirt, (long sleeve in spring, winter, and fall short sleeve in summer). A light jacket/sweater, and canvas or thick denim pant (shorts in the summer). hiking/ work boot for shoes.

The only thing I see changing really is I would probably accelerate toward buying multiple of the same outfit for every day but I have been headed in the direction incrementally already.

But I am more of 'function over form' person when it comes to clothes.

I was thinking the other day about half the signers of the Declaration of Independence either had their hair curled or in a ponytail, but today a grey-haired man with a short ponytail says "old hippy" not "founding father". Anyway if you'll excuse me, I'm off to get fitted for a new pair of spats.

Judgement is a critical aspect of fashion, at least as defined in practice.

But leaving that aside, without judgement 1/2 would probably just wear enough to stay warm and the other 1/2 as ridiculously colorful as they could manage.

In a world without fashion judgement everyone would dress the same. It would be boring and functional and no one would care.

Cooking is enjoyable and you can get the same flow state cooking that you can coding. And it’s where you can let your mind wander and come up with sparks of new ideas/approaches.

Soylent is terrible for your insides.

I also find cooking enjoyable, but I would hate it if it just became an extension of work! One of the reasons why I continue to cook dinner every night despite having a fairly minimal life in other aspects is because it's a set of physical actions that helps to get my brain out of work mode. This is especially important during pandemic/work-from-home era because there is no commute (I used to cycle).

But this experience of finding value in cooking is not really universal. I have some friends who legitimately, actively dislike the process. It's not that they're bad at it, they just consider it a waste of time. For them Soylent, or a food delivery service might be just fine.

I think the key is to aggressively optimize out the things in your life that aren't working for you. We shouldn't feel like we "need" to do things just to have a "normal" life, I think that's one of the causes of stress and unhappiness for a lot of people.

Humans ate only meat for 2 million years.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-2-million-years-humans-ate...

He wasn’t exactly on the paleo diet... his diet seemed to be missing some things he could have gotten more than one way.

How is the author overweight eating what he eats, and walking around outside. That makes no sense.

Is the author overweight? Over weight for what? For living a life of hard manual labor? Well in his 70s and still mobile and able to run a farm seems like he's doing fine. Besides ... he may have gained weight after his stroke; used to eating a farmer's meal but not moving about much.

Besides ... you've heard of studies that have shown that the calorie expenditure of hunter-gatherers, walking around all day, is about the same as couch potato Americans sitting around all day... here's the link: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/06/13/191036200/what-...

Reading about what he eats, I am not sure why you would expect him to be thin.

Both his food and shape are pretty much the normal shape for people living in villages doing small farming.

He says he has biscuits at the end of every meal - he doesn't say how many!

He looks similar in size to plenty of Welsh farmers that I know. I suspect that eating a tin of beans every day isn't the best.

My thoughts exactly. He gets plenty of fresh air and exercise, and his meals don't sound too unhealthy, but he's had 2 strokes?

Could be genetics I suppose?

Glad he's found happiness though.

Same here. I love software but also hate it. Too many decisions.

During lockdown I relish the opportunity to clean the house and cook because they are straightforward tasks where there are clear goals and I always achieve success.

Software for me these days involves too much despair and worry over whether things are done the right way.

You'll never find the right way. But there are lot's of ways that are good enough - you can learn to get satisfaction in a good enough solution and move on.

And if you got it wrong, and it wasn't good enough, you can take another stab at it later with the wisdom gained meanwhile.