In general, I'd be cautious recommending any type of medication, especially those involving serotonin, to others given how we as individuals react differently to them.
For example, the first time that I took SSRI's (a decade ago or so, recommended by my primary care physician), I had a negative reaction, and roughly a year of CBT was a much better solution (with a diagnosis of major depression). Fast forward to a few months ago, after being diagnosed yet again with major depression, this time by a psychiatrist, the SSRI's that were recommended and that I took triggered bipolar disorder--not an uncommon occurrence from what I now understand--and my current diagnosis.
All in all, it sounds like you may likely benefit from therapy (individual or group based) in addition to the meds that you're already taking (for what it's worth, it's helped me immensely).
Are there any "condensed" CBT resources you could recommend so I don't have to read this 600++ page book I've had sitting on the shelf beside me for 2 years?
Went through phone + video screen, in-person interview (they flew me down), and was finally hired several years back (May 2013 was the posting date, but I replied directly to an individual @apple.com email; can't find the original HN post) as a full time Sr Engineer at Apple through exactly this. I was living in Portland, OR at the time, so they paid for relocation too. Took a few weeks, but there was communication on both sides throughout.
"Today, even as so many barriers have fallen — whether at elite universities, where women outnumber men, or in running for the presidency, where polls show that fewer people think gender makes a difference — computer engineering, the most innovative sector of the economy, remains behind. "
With younger demographics showing far less bias towards gender in polls and elsewhere, and with the tech scene bringing in so much young talent, why is it that non-males are still not accepted as peers by the general male tech crowd? If anything, shouldn't the tech community have accepted non-males long before other industries given these circumstances?
Considering that most elite universities started as male only and have taken a long path to inclusion, it is unlikely the power dynamics there have gone from biased pro male to biased pro female. So yes, the hard won primacy of women in higher education is probably the natural order of things.
Or it could be a sign that the lack of male teachers in our primary education system somehow has an effect on male student performance? Primary school teachers used to be mostly male so the teacher gender balance has clearly changed over time, but it seems incredibly hard to study this subject.
Personally I think it is important for our society that kids get more exposure to male role-models and caretakers.
That's a good question. However, polls don't necessarily tell us what's really going on, since:
- People can lie to pollsters because they're not comfortable admitting their true biases.
- People may not have enough maturity or empathy to realize that their own behavior is offensive to others, so they don't think the questions about bias apply to themselves.
Also, the "tech industry" is much bigger than the small world of Silicon Valley startups. In the wider corporate world, where there's more diversity of age and sex (and more HR people keeping a watchful eye on employees), the accepted norms of behavior are very different from "bro culture".
The Portland Mercury (a free alt-weekly) published a cover on this last year, mostly about how ill-prepared the city is in general for earthquakes. Glad to see this sort of friendly-neighbor approach happening though, as it's going to be more effective right now than waiting for the politics to catch up, and oh so very Portland.
I believe there were further tweaks for additional pages that needed to be supported (whereas I had only solved, and most likely not very elegantly, the rudimentary issue) that took additional time before the hash bang removal was actually launched.
Thanks - I was estimating off the top of my head - the site was in flux for a while at the time. They also went back and forward with keeping the story sidebar at fixed positioning and it seems they settled on it not floating.
I check the site every couple of weeks because I was interested in how the redesign would work out. It seems they eventually got it right, I like it. A lot of the other blogs have home and article pages that are just too heavy and slow.
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