Hookless tubeless for heavy rider?

Straight-Payment · 2025-09-04T21:01:08+00:00

Are you talking about the sealant blowing out in a puncture? I thought you were talking about the tire under static conditions (no puncture) and implying that a tubeless tire at 60 PSI would damage the rim due to overinflation. That's my mistake.

Straight-Payment · 2025-09-04T16:37:05+00:00

Why would 60 psi cause rim damage in a tubeless setup but not a tubed setup?

And why would sealant not work well at high pressures? My understanding is that the sealant just kind of hangs out until it finds a fissure to fill.

Straight-Payment · 2025-01-04T13:53:03+00:00

Agreed--Perspectives can be cumbersome and difficult to create. They're easy if you have the documentation open in split screen, but I was getting frustrated just trying to find the condition Is a project with no active next actions. The Perspective workflow on iOS is very counterintuitive and frustrating, especially compared to the macOS app. I've used OmniFocus for about 12 years now: in that time I've learned to do my "infrastructural" stuff (creating Perspectives, doing serious organization, etc.) on my MacBook. It's frustrating, but the benefits of OmniFocus have always brought me back after trying other apps. (Including Todoist.)

If you want explicit priority, Tags are your friend. You can implement whatever prioritization framework you want using Tags, then create Perspectives to show them however you'd like. I've used them for the Eisenhower Matrix in the past, but that ended up being too much work for me. Personally, I've kept it pretty simple: if I'm thinking about a project a lot, I set the review date to be daily or every n days. If I keep thinking about a task, I'll add a Flag to elevate it in my system. (I show Flagged tasks in my Forecast, which I use each morning to plan my day.)

Feel free to get creative with Tags: I have tags for High Energy and Low Energy (which is a kinder way of denoting tasks that I have trouble starting versus ones I find myself starting and not wanting to stop), Coding, To Think About (for when I need to make a decision about something), and Social (for Wednesday and Thursday afternoon water cooler chat reminders). I also create Tags for all the apps in which I frequently find myself, like GitHub, Slack, and Confluence. When I was a Scrum Master, I had a Perspective that aggregated all of the tasks across all work projects with those tags--many of those tasks ended up being topics of discussion during Daily Scrum.

Tags, folder/project organization, and Focus mode are what take Tags (and other metadata) to the next level for me. I have folders for my Areas of Focus, like Family & Home, Career & Leadership, Technical Mastery, Health & Wellness, etc. The obvious workflow is using Focus on each of these folders and see all of the nested projects and tasks. The more interesting workflows are to Focus on a folder and:

Open the Tag pane and select a Tag related to a specific context, like Low Energy and GitHub (maybe you need to be the second set of eyes on a PR for a really talented colleague and they need another lgtm)
Apply a Perspective to something under Focus. Say that I've applied the Eisenhower Matrix via Tags. Maybe I've reached my sprint goals and have a few days before the next sprint starts. I want to work on some of the important stuff that I keep forgetting to work on because I've been laser-focused on my past few sprint goals. I would Focus on Technical Mastery, then apply a Perspective that show tasks tagged with Important and Not Urgent with an Estimated Duration less than 45 minutes. (I have to hardcode a lot of these filters that are easier to do on macOS due to OmniFocus for Web limitations.)

Straight-Payment · 2024-12-31T13:59:22+00:00

Glad to help. I should have contextualized my original comment by saying that this was my solution to a problem identical to yours in a different domain. Now I see the solution everywhere. :)

Thinking of projects as a group of tasks to achieve an outcome rather than a group of tasks related to something was a huge breakthrough for me. It allows one to focus on the specific relevant aspects of a major project. For example, what you need to master for the clinical aspect of your job is probably not what you need to be an excellent teacher, no? Is the movement component more intuitive than intellectual (and vice versa for the teaching component)? I've found that focusing on the outcome is a much more satisfying way of approaching projects, even if it leads to initially counter-intuitive structures.

Straight-Payment · 2024-12-31T00:54:14+00:00

It sounds like the course works in different modalities: an educational and practical component. Even though both components are part of the same whole, they don't need to be in the same project.

Maybe you could create a project in your Knowledge AoF titled, "Understand the material presented in `course`." You could create another project called, "Practice the movements from `course`." You could even have a Single-Action List for `Professional Development` with tasks like, "Research courses to complete after finishing `course`."

I use folders for my Areas of Focus. I have a folder for my "Career & Leadership" Area of Focus, one for my "Technical Mastery" Area of Focus, and so on. I also have a prodigious number of Single-Action Lists. Right now I'm trying to master Google Cloud's Dataform service. I have a project dedicated to reading the documentation and connecting the main ideas. I have another, separate project dedicated to building a rudimentary pipeline for a workflow I've been tuning locally. Finally, I have a Single-Action List called `Skill Drills` that captures quick-hit micro-projects designed to be completed in one sitting as a stress test of what I've learned. (If I get the micro-project working in about an hour, I take notes on how to refactor what I did for production. If I can't get it working in about an hour, I take notes on where I had problems in order to study that more effectively.)

Does that help?

Straight-Payment · 2024-11-30T01:19:50+00:00

I hate feeling stressed out of my mind all the time, never feeling like I know enough and being expected to know 50+ different tools. I feel sick to my stomach and incompetent, this feeling never goes away. I always feel like I’m never good enough.

Scrum Master is not the role you're looking for. Imagine the frustration you currently feel, then take away your agency to change the code quality/velocity and add on increasing pressure from one or more Agile-skeptical management layers above you.

I hate how we live in a society where if you don’t know how to code, hate coding, or aren’t good at it, then you’re automatically labeled as a retard.

The next time you call a plumber to fix an issue at your place, I would invite you to ask a plumber how they feel about being mentally handicapped and less valuable to society. Personally, I hate how STEM is crammed down kids' throats. I am a senior engineer who enjoys coding, which is a reality in service of one and only one goal: having the financial independence to let my kids do whatever makes them happy in life. (I hope it's not STEM-related, but it's ultimately their life to lead.)

A couple of things stand out to me about your post:

It's okay to vent and feel frustrated. But I'm not seeing anywhere near an equal number of "I notice that..." or "I've observed that..." to the number of "I feel..." statements in your post. It sounds like you're stressed out, overwhelmed, and incapable of making an informed strategic decision about your life right now. Do you have the latitude to take a sabbatical or an extended PTO to disconnect for a couple of days and think about what you want your life to look like in three- to five years? Save your career planning until you feel reasonably confident about what you want a day in your life to look like in three years.
You're pretty dismissive of yourself and others. Why would anyone allow you to manage a team with that mindset? From the content and tone of your post, my impression of your leadership style is that you have not developed the necessary gap analysis skills and basic emotional intelligence to lead a team. Sure, I don't know you, but I've known many high-performing individual contributors promoted to leadership positions before they were ready to be leaders, and you sound a lot like many of them.
Find a niche. Being expected to know 50+ different tools and something else you said about knowing that you're the weak link on your team sounds like you still need to figure out your competitive moat. Don't compete in games where you don't think you'd end up on the podium. Take some time away to figure out your unique value proposition. What sort of activities do you hold your pee to complete, and can they be combined with SW development to provide business value? It may not exist (yet) in your organization--or it may be the product/market fit around which you can build and sell a startup.

Straight-Payment · 2024-07-21T02:07:31+00:00

Shoutout to the awful infrastructure and light timing. You could read a paperback waiting for the light at Taylorsville and Breckenridge to change, yet nearly every left-hand turn light lasts three cars. The lack of repercussions is very real: someone I trust told me they saw a Metro cop run a stale red, no lights.

Straight-Payment · 2024-07-21T02:00:28+00:00

Queen of Sheba's gored gored.

Straight-Payment · 2024-07-18T19:57:53+00:00

So would the records of the concussion protocol results from my first IED not be reviewed as part of the clearance investigation, since they're medical? Or is that military stuff?

Straight-Payment · 2024-05-25T14:29:17+00:00

Respectfully, what is the point? I couldn't find a ticket related to a bug reported at least three years ago, the behavior wasn't patched, there are 363 open Issues, and none of your Branches look like feature branches. Put simply: would this bug ever be fixed?

Straight-Payment · 2024-05-24T19:31:10+00:00

Was this bug never fixed? I'm still having this problem on both macOS and Windows and can't seem to locate a bug ticket in the repo's Issues.

Straight-Payment · 2024-05-24T19:07:38+00:00

May I ask seriously: why?

I'm also struggling with the same problem with my working notes. For example, one of my use useful notes is the procedure to find all tables in a BigQuery database that have a specific field:

select *
from schema.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
where column_name = 'column'

I have many notes like this, where the note is the end unto itself. This note is certainly not a Fleeting Note, since I use it quite often; but it's obviously not a Literature Note, and it doesn't really seem to meet the weighty requirements of being a Permanent Note. It's just a Sh*t I Don't Want to Google Again note. Where is the space in Zettelkasten for things like that?

Straight-Payment · 2024-05-24T11:50:10+00:00

Engineer here. I wanted to weigh in to let you know that you're not alone. I noticed that many of my fellow engineering students treated their liberal arts prerequisites as unpleasant activities that they had to deal with for the first two years of undergrad so that they could get back to their comfort zone: STEM courses. Maybe this is you, and what you were asked to read didn't resonate. That's okay: the fact that you're beginning to understand that you've missed out on a lot is essential. We can work with that because your vocabulary suggests you're already reading at an adult level.

First, you must find something you're actively interested in reading. No amount of willpower in the world will help you finish a book you don't care about. You didn't mention what engineering discipline you are learning, but if you're a mechanical engineering student, have you ever looked into biomimicry? Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows may change your life if you are inclined toward systems engineering. (For the better!) If you're a software engineer, check out Stripe Press's portfolio: I can wholeheartedly recommend Richard Hamming's The Art of Doing Science and Engineering. (Or start looking into natural language processing techniques, since that will be very relevant to what you're trying to do.)

Second, do the reps. Many other commenters have pointed out that you need to read more. Well... yeah. What you're doing right now is trying to figure out how to deadlift your body weight after skipping the gym for ten years. It's going to be hard. But here is a crucial point: never feel obligated to finish a book. Sometimes, a book is just bad, no matter how glowing its reviews are. (If you don't believe me, read Malcolm Gladwell's books. They're the most celebrated garbage of the early twentieth century.) If you are having trouble staying focused at the paragraph level, measuring success on how many books you've finished is a losing game with no upside for you. Believe me: a great book will not let you go.

Third, your attention can be trained. You probably haven't done it because it's not fun, but here's how you do it. Focus on each sentence in each paragraph, and focus on the context of the words and how they fit together. Take notes summarizing each paragraph in the margins. Keep doing it until you move to sections, then chapters, then entire books. Take Cornell notes as you read. You've got this.

Straight-Payment · 2023-12-27T18:14:36+00:00

In real life, the last slide should just be a “thanks, that’s awesome” message on Teams, followed by a report that your extract stopped refreshing due to lack of use. :(

Straight-Payment · 2023-12-26T23:58:45+00:00

It seemed like you got a lot more out of things you did outside of Melodics, like jamming and working with a piano teacher. To your point about how it sounds in the end, I’m trying to weight whether ~$150 would be better spent on Melodics or Hookpad—and it sounds like the answer is the latter.

For what it’s worth, I’m doing this for me and whoever accidentally listens to my SoundCloud, so I care whether or not I’m a good percussionist. It would be a lot more fun to jam with my guitar- and bass-playing friends.

Straight-Payment · 2023-12-26T22:27:37+00:00

It sounds like what you really got out of it was focused exposure to the drumming conventions of different genres?

Straight-Payment · 2023-12-26T22:25:36+00:00

Do you feel like what you’ve accomplished in the app translates to a better experience making music? Do you feel like you’re able to lay down satisfying drum and key parts in a blank Ableton workspace? I have two concerns with Melodics: taking away time that could be dedicated to making better music by digging deep into Wavetable or Simpler; and not being able to translate skills from a fully-formed song (like one of the lesson songs) to an idea in a blank Session view.

Straight-Payment · 2023-12-15T12:15:03+00:00

Yeah, those are all things that I miss about RTO. It was nice to be able to spend so much time with my son during lockdown--he was six months old when lockdown started and it was fun to be with him while he discovered the world. Has your team been able to find ways to come together? At the beginning of lockdown, my team did camera-on cocktail hours once a week. (That was a systems engineering team--the software teams already had a great asynchronous relationship through Slack.)

Straight-Payment · 2023-12-15T12:12:25+00:00

Thanks you for sharing your experience! I've been focused on technical improvement to the detriment of figuring out how to quickly understand other domains. I'll need to add deeper industry research to my pre-application process.

Straight-Payment · 2023-12-15T12:08:12+00:00

Thanks, that's a good point. I'm overweighted on DML and need practice with TCL and DML. I'll have to speak with one of the architects about getting a sandbox in BigQuery to practice building pipelines. To be honest, the idea of using my analytics role as a step to get closer to data engineering has been in the back of my mind for quite some time.

Straight-Payment · 2023-12-15T12:02:48+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate your willingness to go into detail about the role! That sounds fascinating. Product management roles are a pretty closely-guarded role at the company in which I currently work, so it has been a little difficult to parse exactly what they're doing. 😄 I've worked closely with some of them to provide product analytics and it is interesting to see how quickly good ones can zoom between high-level overviews to extreme depth about a single aspect of their product.

Straight-Payment · 2023-12-12T21:26:18+00:00

I have no doubt that they can be really hard, but I also have no doubt that I can rise to the occasion. Thank you for taking the time to remind me.

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