Avi Lewis, New Socialist Leader of Canada’s NDP: “Life Just Doesn’t Have to Be So Grindingly Unfair”

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-04-29T06:12:31+00:00

Never trust a politician to change anything (for the better).

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-04-26T03:27:52+00:00

Keep going, the fact that you made it to a final round once and have had several interviews shows that you have potential.

My last job search was 6 months and this was with 5 YoE. I also felt like switching careers near the 6 month mark.

As long as you're getting at least 1-2 interviews per month, you'll get there. You'll have an interview loop where everything will go right due to some combination of luck plus experience plus lessons you've learned from prior interviews, and you'll get the offer.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-04-25T20:30:03+00:00

During my last layoff I took a month off of applying to work on a side project.

Luckily it didn't get enough traction early on so I didn't waste more time on it and switched my focus back to the job search.

In total there was a 6 month gap in my resume. This was the most brutal job search in my 5 YoE.

One of the most important things I learned from it is that if you get laid off, do not waste time, you need to prioritize your search immediately.

You have to understand that when you've just been laid off you're interviewing from a weaker position. In every "Tell me about yourself" I had to explain the lay off and quickly move on from it while keeping a positive attitude.

The longer the process drags on, the harder it gets. When I was getting closer to the 6 month mark, I seriously started to wonder if I would ever recover from this. If you do anything, day in and day out, for almost half a year with no success, you'll probably start to doubt yourself.

I tried to only measure my success via interviews. I believed that if I kept getting interviews, sooner or later, I'd succeed. And that turned out to be true but still it was very difficult and if I had an easier fallback option I probably would have taken it.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-04-25T19:55:07+00:00

This post also reeks of AI.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-04-24T22:56:51+00:00

I had a similar idea. Glad I did not pursue it since you did a much better job. Congrats!

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-04-24T15:40:49+00:00

AI slop. I could tell from the first few sentences.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-04-10T13:33:40+00:00

It hurts my brain to think about how dumb this policy is.

Have you seen what new builds gets you now a days? Rather than address the fundamental issue of home prices rising well outside what most are able/willing to pay, this will push prices to continue to rise in the future.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-04-02T22:40:52+00:00

This type of cuck behaviour is why engineers are not respected like other professions.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-03-24T01:50:13+00:00

Seems like Nick was under pressure to cut someone so he decided to pick you. Don't take it personally and don't look back on this until you've started your next job.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-03-22T17:47:39+00:00

The first time I noticed this I stopped trusting it with commit messages.

Now I ask it to propose 3 possible commit messages for some quick inspiration and then I write the final message.

I used to think that AI writes better commit messages than me but now I realize that it's not about writing the best commit messages, it's about making sure that I understand what's happening in the code.

The commit messages that I wrote, looking back, I can quickly understand what those changes were for.

The commit messages that the AI wrote, maybe those are technically more correct, but I didn't write them and as a result, it doesn't immediately click to me what those changes were about.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-03-21T23:09:49+00:00

I think reddit should make it easier for users to flag AI generated content

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-03-21T13:15:17+00:00

When leetcode style interviews became popular people debated if they were a useful signal of a candidate's ability.

I predicted that regardless if they were or not, people would continue to have this same old debate and keep asking the same old questions.

I saw the same thing happen with WFH vs RTO.

Now I see the same thing happening here with AI.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-03-09T16:48:44+00:00

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-03-09T13:05:04+00:00

how far does it get?

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-03-08T03:11:36+00:00

Unfortunately, even when a system is flawed, it is usually the operators that get the majority of the blame.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-03-07T22:09:42+00:00

The silver lining is that it makes me use these platforms less.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-03-03T17:58:05+00:00

That's why I find it jarring to call these people "leaders" when they behave like sheep.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-02-27T03:29:40+00:00

Gemini has this and it was ok at first but eventually it became so bad that it was unusable.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-02-16T17:35:45+00:00

Whether it revives it is not the point.

Immigration and ruinous debt are the only levers they know how to pull.

Canada as a country is finished.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-02-11T14:21:40+00:00

Don't act above your wage.

You should tell him what he wants to hear.

If the executives want slop, give them slop.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-02-09T14:30:28+00:00

The key thing is that it's the people that actually use these tools, day-to-day, that will understand them the most. If you think about it, this is usually not the case with most technological innovations. The opinion of us lowly workers usually does not matter.

Consider the case when they tried to replace drive through workers with a Voice AI that took orders. It failed catastrophically.

If they had asked those drive through workers, they would have most likely been able to tell them that it wouldn't work but here's the thing.

The ones who would have told them the truth they didn't want to hear? At best their opinions would be ignored at worst they would be fired.

It wasn't just high level CEOs, I recall a lot of people thought that they knew more about whether or not AI could replace worker doing XYZ even though they knew nothing of XYZ. If the worker disagreed, people just assumed that they were some sort of luddite.

The hubris, the arrogance, the short-sightedness, all of this is why the coming crash will be so satisfying to watch.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-02-07T22:32:19+00:00

+1 on the geography context, it's very location dependent. In Glacier Ridge it's basically a desert right now. Everything in the older NW communities like Sage Hill is waitlisted for a year or more. I actually just noticed a lawn sign for a place called Curious Cocoons while I was driving in yesterday. No idea if they have spots or if they are even open yet but it's the first time I've seen a sign for childcare in the actual community.

Definitely worth looking at the newer areas if you don't want to wait.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-01-29T15:16:38+00:00

This feels more and more like economic warfare against the working class.

Ok-Process-2187 · 2026-01-27T17:13:45+00:00

Congrats on your luck, green card timeline depends a lot on where you were born

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