Is the European welfare system too generous to employees and too hard on startups/employers?
This is a current hot topic on Twitter.
A particular guy was complaining about too generous employee care system in Netherlands.
(I am not Dutch, so I do not know the exact rules, but as for me, no system is completely fair to anybody.)
I know that without written rules, either employees or employers can exploit it.
How do you communicate with your beta testers effectively?
What’s your “digital burnout” moment that made you rethink your habits?
I recently hit a weird kind of burnout not from overworking, but from being constantly online.
Between coding, Slack, Twitter, YouTube, and checking analytics, my brain never really rests.
Even when I take a break, I open another app.
Can a product be technically ready but not ready for customers?
I've spent a lot of time thinking about the difference between testing a product and validating it.
When you're building software, there are so many things you can measure. Does the functionality work? Are the calculations correct? Can users complete the workflow? Are the security controls working as intended?
Those are important questions, and you can spend months getting them right.
But there's another question that technical testing can't fully answer:
Is interacting with AI characters becoming the norm for you? (Your POV)
Common Sense Media published a report on this topic, and it reminded me of how big a bubble I live in.
When Meta announced back in 2024/2025 that they wanted to create AI avatars to boost engagement, I was skeptic, but data speaks clearly young people enjoy AI interaction.
How do you recruit beta testers?
What's a piece of advice you give that you don't actually follow?
I tell everyone to ship earlier. I say it in comments, I say it to friends, I believe it. And I've been sitting on a landing page rewrite for three weeks because it's not "ready."
The advice is good. The problem is that giving advice and taking it are two completely different activities, and the first one is much cheaper. I suspect this is universal and nobody admits it.
So: what's advice you genuinely believe, that you give freely, and that you routinely ignore in your own work? And the harder follow-up: is it actually good advice that you're failing to follow, or is it advice that sounds good but doesn't survive contact with your actual situation?
I'm asking because I want to know if "ship earlier" is advice I should keep giving, or advice I should stop giving because I can't even follow it myself.
What would you do to land your dream job? [your procedure or advice]
Getting a job is becoming increasingly difficult many applicants (high competition), automation and the replacement of tasks with artificial intelligence...
Now it's a miracle if someone opens your email.