@progo Ooh well that would be confusing if you weren't sure which it meant

@levisan if ≠ isn't easily typable, you've configured your desktop wrong.

@levisan on mac i just hit option-= to get the real ≠, but if i was writing to coders (or myself about code) i might use !=

@sabbatical I had a maths teacher say to use the last one when typing and the first is what Excel uses. Number 3 came from a look at Wikipedia!

What easily-typeable do you default to for ≠?

@sabbatical my wife (31) is in part-time college courses now and they're using "mature" for basically anyone 25+

I guess it works, but I wish there was a more clear way to say "this person has basically been in school for their entire life" vs "this person did some non-school in between now and high school" instead of pegging it to an age bracket

The fact that they call people who go to tertiary education later in life “mature students” says everything you need to know about those that go straight out of secondary school

Asking because you might know from seeing your comment about working with subtitles and transcription. 

@freeschool okay.

@levisan @Zonz l think it's more useful to ignore "introvert/extrovert" labels and focus on:

- what can you do or tolerate?
- what do you want to do?
- what is your life requiring of you that makes you uncomfortable, if anything?

Then think about what you can do to restore balance if needed.

@Zonz I think that's part of it now that you mention it!

A good description I've heard and used myself in the past is that "extrovert" means socialising=charging, alone=draining and "introvert" means socialising=draining, alone=charging.

If that truly is what is meant by the words, then why does the method of socialising seem to sometimes reverse whether it's charging/draining?

I'm starting to think that the intro/extroverted breakdown is not actually useful but I can't seem to put it to words

If you’re doing forced subtitles on your content and you’re not fixing glaring issues in the transcription, you’re doing it wrong

@mike TIL some people hate Asana!

I don't love it, but it does the job for what we need at work. Maybe I have stockholm syndrome after being given the task of teaching the team how to use it a year ago 😝

@brad @sabbatical @ambihelical At the very least, you'd think they wouldn't want to be seen as spamming!

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