Sleeping with tinnitus can be very hard and increases the anxiety. At least it was for me. I found specific sleep earphones worked particularly well at reducing this.
Thanks for your articles. About your "The surprising benefits of disciplined, deliberate self-logging", I couldn't understand and it seemed cryptic how you're logging? The biologger.md is throwing 404. Could you explain?
Wow, thanks for digging! Looks like I haven't committed that file! It's an incomplete description of the android app that I wrote to output the jsonl in the self-logging piece going through some comparisons of existing options in 2019 and design decisions for the app. In short, it's like myfitnesspal tailored to my use case. 3 years later, the data is still a sprawl, but the logging strategy is stable.
For most public cloud providers you have to give them your credit card number so they can charge an arbitrary amount.
For Hetzner, instead of CC#, you give a scan of your ID (of course you can attach your CC too or Paypal). Personally I do my payments via a bank transfer. I recently paid for the whole 2025 and 2026 for all my k8s clusters. It gives unimaginable peace of mind when compared to AWS/GCP/Azure.
Plus, their cloud instances often spin up much faster than EC2.
So what would the therapist convince him of? That his work was brilliant irrespective of the outcome? That's just gaslighting. (Not to say that the interview evaluation was fair)
You would hope that it would help him come to an acceptance of himself in such a way that he was less likely to engage in this kind of negative self talk.
