"Sleep when you're tired" is the most valuable piece of advice I dispense to anyone I mentor/tutor. I just napped and woke up to fix a bug.
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As a result, I took a ton of classes. I'm technically 3 or 4 classes from having a full dual degree in Aeronautical & Mechanical engineering
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And I also nearly died. Thyroid storm is no joke. I remember the first one I had. My bp was so high I couldn't form sentences.
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I took a half bottle of atenolol and lied down and figured I'd never wake up. STEM glorifies unhealthy behavior. This is wrong.
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The world is full of broken software and we propagate martyr syndrome and glorify people who power through fatigue to ship.
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Every so often this is ok. But it's not a rarity in tech and for some reason we refuse to acknowledge it as failure of planning.
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It also means the people who can't or won't do this--often women, parents, older workers, disabled folks--never get the recognition.
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for a large part of the country though it seems the advice seems to be not "sleep when your tired" but "sleep and be fired"
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