I was diagnosed with bilateral cubital tunnel syndrome. It may have been slightly related to lifting in that while lifting didn't cause it, it may have made it more apparent. My surgeon told me that based on what she saw it may just have been to me being unfortunate in how my elbows were constructed.
At first I had to stop lifting altogether and rest hoping it would go away because it was getting really bad to the point I could not work (type) for more than 5 minutes at a time without my hands/forearms going numb and holding anything in my hands. It got so bad that even just lifting up a cup to drink from or using utensils for more than a minute or so caused a lot of pain.
After 3 months of physical therapy and limiting usage of my arms altogether it hadn't gotten any better so I was told the only remedy was surgery. It started with one of my hands/forearms suddenly starting to go numb one day while working, and about a week later started in the other hand. I was told its fairly rare to occur in both sides except in cases of it being a genetic issue so I think I was just unlucky.
So I had surgery on one side and then waited until that side mostly recovered in terms of pain and had the other side done.
Technically my hands do still sometimes get a bit of numbness/tingling but I was told by my surgeon and from research that its fairly common for people who get surgery for this to still have occasional mild numbness for even years, or basically forever after surgery since nerves heal super slow. But it is so much more bearable than it was to prior.
Napping is also associated with dementia, I wonder if that's explained by sleep deprivation? Could be that you don't get as much (if any) deep sleep during shorter naps, compared to a full night's sleep.
In the work rules book about google, Bock claims (apparently using a lot of real data from google) that employee performance follows a power law distribution.
The winds of war and war and remembrance books (or audio books) are a pretty good way to get a feel for ww2. They're historically accurate fiction and offer a lot of long-form detail and context (at least from the US/allies side of things)
The books are excellent, but the two miniseries made from the books are also worth watching. Wouk's strength is not only in portraying the sweep of events in both Europe and Asia before and during the war, but humanizing it with characters who, while they do seem to show up everywhere important, suffer real loss and hardship while doing so.
If you really want to have a solid overview understanding of World War 2, and you are just not the type to read two long books no matter how good they are, then here is probably your best option by far:
1. Pay for an Audible account. (Or figure out how to get free access to audio books from your local library.)
2. Listen to the books “Winds of War” and then “War and Remembrance” by Herman Wouk.
The drama and characterizations are just fine, and will pull you right in to caring for Pug Henry and wanting to know what happens to him and his family.
The battle scenes are true history and will blow you away, and teach you a lot. Midway, incredible.
The coverage of the Holocaust will break your heart, but make you think, “wow, everybody in the world should read this once”.
The character evolution of Werner Beck, in light of today’s world events, might terrify you. Whole nations don’t all of the sudden become evil. Evil powerful leaders push evil down into a country over time.
This approach is definitely possible with a good web-based git IDE. We use gitlab's webIDE and have taught a few very non-technical (even temporary) employees how to do simple commits of markdown files (the trick here is high visibility into their commits -slack messages- and safeguards to make sure important things don't go live via CI too soon). There's a number of rough edges to sort out but this is vastly simpler, faster, more flexible etc for many situations (and amazing to not be using jira or wordpress :) )
I always marvel at gitlabs handbook and would love to introduce it to our company. Are there any tutorials how to set it up? (I don't mean how to set up gitlab, but rather which tools you need and how to set up the render pipeline, server etc to enable a markdown wiki/handbook?
