Still OSHA, I believe. I did a quick google and they seem to have rules for fishing boats.

OSHA does not approve.

Beautiful art, however.

Beautiful art for a fascinating moment in the Bible. For those who’d like to know more, I wrote a small blurb:

So this is one of those oft-misunderstood moments in the Bible. Mary is sitting at the feet of Jesus while Martha works to host everyone. Martha gets all huffy at Mary for not helping, but Jesus protects Mary.

What’s interesting is there’s subtext here that isn’t about housework or hosting.

Sitting at the feet of a rabbi is where one learned to become a rabbi. Paul himself says he learned at the feet of Gamaliel, a famous rabbi of the day.

Martha was upset that Mary was presuming to learn like a rabbi. She likely thought Jesus was just being nice about it, so offered a pretext for him to dismiss her. Jesus shut that down hard. Women are welcome to learn to become teachers in the kingdom he’s building.

-Luke 10:38-42, Acts 22:3 (nrsv)

That’s a fair point.

Yes and no? My team is scattered around the US, so if my east coasters hit a snag early, I genuinely don’t want them in a holding pattern until I get around to it. Same for my coworkers on the west coast.

Some of the intensity of it has been that I assumed control of a team that was already severely mismanaged and had missed it’s initial deadlines by a month.

Of course that manager got promoted to an area that better suited his skills and I was asked to step in and try to right the ship. Our final deadline is today and we only have minor and cosmetic bugs left (that we know of).

We have plenty of new features to add moving forward, but with the project back on track and the foundation established, I’ll be able to set better deadlines for everyone’s work life balance.

I will probably always have some temptation to pull long hours for my team scattered around the country, but it becomes much less urgent now that we’re past our insane crunch.

Maybe it’s hopelessly naive of me and the next deadline will also become a crunch, but I have some control over those future dates, so I hope it will be less of an issue.

Really good advice, thank you.

Really helpful. Yeah, it’s already invaded my vacations and time off, but I’m working to create better boundaries moving forward. The problem is that there’s literally no one else who can answer certain questions or resolve certain problems and everything will grind to a halt if I don’t deal with it in a timely manner.

I know this is just a joke, but I’ve recently become a project manager for the first time. I’m open to tips and suggestions.

I’ve really enjoyed it and have worked hard to give my developers everything they need as soon as possible. Otherwise I try to stay out of the way and do my best to shield them from the pressure that’s being applied on me to achieve deadlines.

I’d agree that anyone can ask for project updates, but I really do work hard to balance client demands with c-suite expectations and the realistic outcomes described by my developers.

I, for one, am eager to ride the next civilization wave. They’ve only gotten better and better.

Dang, this is cool.

Several trillion tons of mass? I think you’re off by many orders of magnitude.

When can I get one of these voices to read an epub on my phone? I’d love to have something like that

Is this digital? These are unbelievably clean lines. It’s impressive no matter the medium, just trying to figure out what’s happening.

Kinda looks like it’s about to pitch forward onto it’s face.

There! I have you, sir!

Love the puffer fish reaction. Really locks in this joke.

I obviously don’t agree, but I absolutely love that you feel strongly enough about it to rant a little. I’m sorely tempted to re-watch ‘03 based on the strength of your conviction alone.

That ending though. It was a big miss for me and I’m not sure I’m willing to sit through it again, knowing where it’ll go.

Brotherhood then. Dope.

Lovely work! Good luck at the heels!

They don’t look like plants.