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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:xCal="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xcal" xmlns:geo="https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"> <channel> <title>Ask MetaFilter</title> <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/</link> <description>The past 24 hours of questions at Ask MetaFilter</description> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:46:50 GMT</pubDate> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:46:50 GMT</lastBuildDate> <language>en-us</language> <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> <ttl>60</ttl> <atom:link href="https://rss.metafilter.com/ask.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <item> <title>How to prepare for an interview without my anxiety getting to me!</title> <description><![CDATA[I have an interview coming up early next week. Now... I'm trying to figure out how to best prepare for it without my anxiety getting the better of me. What's the best way to prepare without going overboard or underpreparing? I tend to do both.<br/><br/>I haven't had a job interview in about 3 years, so I'm pretty nervous!! The position is a pretty good fit skill-wise. <br><br>It's with a government department and I know from other people who've interviewed with the gov't that they expect STAR answer method. So I'll work on some some questions/interviews that fit that format. I don't know if I've ever had an interview that really stuck with the STAR method before, so that does worry me a bit. <br><br>I'm just not sure how to spend the next few days without worrying over not preparing enough, or preparing too much, or whatever. The interview is on Tuesday morning. I won't have much time today to prepare, but right now I'm just reading the website of the team within the ministry I'm interviewing with. I'll have almost all day Friday, Sunday, and Monday to prepare. On Saturday my friend is having a party and I want to go to that in the afternoon, but part of me is like "noooo, you must prepare ALL weekend and have no fun!!!). Can I go to that and not feel guilty about... not preparing for the interview?<br><br>What's the best way to focus my time without feeling guilty, avoiding preparing, preparing too much, etc? It's so hard for me to not view an interview as an exam I must pass, especially with the rigid STAR method.]]></description> <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/386423/How-to-prepare-for-an-interview-without-my-anxiety-getting-to-me</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:ask.metafilter.com,2025:site.386423</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:46:50 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>VirginiaPlain</dc:creator> <category>jobinterview</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://ask.metafilter.com/386423/How-to-prepare-for-an-interview-without-my-anxiety-getting-to-me/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>How I learned to stop worrying and love AI. </title> <description><![CDATA[My industry is going full-tilt-boogie into all-AI-all-the-time. I've been informed that my current lack of enthusiasm for this is unacceptable. Help! If you are an AI lover, or have learned to fake it: how do I learn to be, or at least convincingly act like, the World's Biggest AI Booster? I have six days to start adopting this persona before an in-person AI Initiative conference where I'll be expected to participate fully.<br/><br/>Medium- to-long term, I accept that I'll simply have to become proficient in using whatever tools the company decides to adopt. I'm not worried about that; I have adapted to other tech shifts just fine over my 25ish years in this industry, and I have acquiesced to a lot of morally terrible bullshit over the years as well so my soul is pretty thoroughly corroded. <br><br>It's the short-term enthusiasm problem where I'm stuck. Any hint that this isn't one's favorite development <em>ever</em> basically puts a target on your back for "next fired." For example, my boss warned me <em>never</em> to mention that I don't (intentionally) use LLMs in my personal life. So, okay, I won't say it...but also, I don't, and I'm not going to. I just need to seem like someone who does. <br><br>Are there catchphrases I can say, terms I should absolutely know and throw around? Crash courses I should take? What should I pretend I use LLMs for in my day-to-day that won't sound like I'm an idiot who can't function but will sound like I'm a super cool master of efficiency who just is too Smart and Fast to be held back by [task]?<br><br>Of possible relevance: I am not a coder/dev/engineer in any way and my job is not coding/webdev/engineering based. I am on the content side.]]></description> <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/386422/How-I-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-AI</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:ask.metafilter.com,2025:site.386422</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:35:29 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese</dc:creator> <category>AI</category> <category>AIbooster</category> <category>SkynetTakeUsNow</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://ask.metafilter.com/386422/How-I-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-AI/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>I'm more of an ideas guy</title> <description><![CDATA[I'm looking for... not <em>writing</em> prompts exactly but more like story-expanding prompts for speculating/ideating on original <u>non-narrative</u> fictional, um, ideas. Like <a href="https://i.postimg.cc/7L5KKGtm/v07iqhba09551.png">GRAPES</a> does for world-building, but for things besides world-building.<br/><br/>Does that make sense? I don't know how to express what I'm asking for better because I'm not a writer, but I'm happy to say the word ideas five or six more times if you think it'll help lmk]]></description> <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/386421/Im-more-of-an-ideas-guy</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:ask.metafilter.com,2025:site.386421</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:11:10 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>phunniemee</dc:creator> <category>fiction</category> <category>idea</category> <category>prompt</category> <category>prompts</category> <category>speculative</category> <category>ThoughtExperiment</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://ask.metafilter.com/386421/Im-more-of-an-ideas-guy/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>best dishwasher-safe nonstick muffin tins?</title> <description><![CDATA[What are your favorite muffin tins?<br/><br/>I bake a dozen bran blueberry muffins about once a month. I think it's time to replace my old, non-dishwasher-friendly tins.<br><br>I would love some muffin tins that are dishwasher-safe, non-stick, and generally nice to use. <br><br>I currently use two 6-muffin pans. Should I switch to a single 12-muffin pan, or is 2 6-muffin pans better?<br><br>If you use non-stick muffin tins, do you still grease them?<br><br>Thanks!]]></description> <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/386420/best-dishwasher-safe-nonstick-muffin-tins</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:ask.metafilter.com,2025:site.386420</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:07:46 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>kristi</dc:creator> <category>baking</category> <category>blueberryMuffins</category> <category>branMuffins</category> <category>cupcakes</category> <category>dishwasher</category> <category>muffinPan</category> <category>muffins</category> <category>muffinTin</category> <category>nonstick</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://ask.metafilter.com/386420/best-dishwasher-safe-nonstick-muffin-tins/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>when you're inside a watermelon, you curl up</title> <description><![CDATA[At 12:00 in <a href="https://youtu.be/18IvIfCqU6I?t=720">this video</a> the interview subject is translated as saying "There's a Vietnamese proverb which says 'when you're inside a watermelon you curl up in a ball; when you're inside a squash you stretch out'." I thought that was a cute saying and would like to find other references to it.]]></description> <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/386419/when-youre-inside-a-watermelon-you-curl-up</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:ask.metafilter.com,2025:site.386419</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 03:57:55 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>moonmilk</dc:creator> <category>proverb</category> <category>vietnam</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://ask.metafilter.com/386419/when-youre-inside-a-watermelon-you-curl-up/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>How do we come back from the abyss?</title> <description><![CDATA[So things are dire and getting worse by the day, hour, minute. I don't want to believe that things are hopeless, so I'm looking for stories and examples of recovery. Please point me to the long-form essays, books, documentaries, or other historical examples of cultures/societies that have recovered from autocracy.<br/><br/>While it may be hopeless, I want to live in a place of hope and possibility, so please focus your suggestions on examples of societies that have rebuilt and recovered after being captured by fascist and other autocratic regime.]]></description> <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/386418/How-do-we-come-back-from-the-abyss</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:ask.metafilter.com,2025:site.386418</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:06:07 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>brookeb</dc:creator> <category>democracy</category> <category>recovery</category> <category>US_Politics</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://ask.metafilter.com/386418/How-do-we-come-back-from-the-abyss/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> <item> <title>How do I give my baby the life she deserves if I'm not wealthy? </title> <description><![CDATA[How can an average family provide their kid with opportunities in the face of a stark global economic future?<br/><br/>I love my baby with my entire heart and soul. I want to give her the best life possible. <br><br>Since she was born I have overwhelming anxiety about how we will set her up for a secure life financially when we aren't wealthy. We are college educated, we work corporate jobs and we try to save, live frugally and invest a tiny bit where we can.<br><br>But the economic landscape is growing more and more unforgiving and these things aren't enough anymore to protect you from financial precarity.<br><br>It seems that social mobility will become increasingly rare as more and more wealth gets captured by the few, and the rest get cemented in the tax brackets they are born in.<br><br>It would be a fair observation for someone to make that we should had thought of this beforehand, and we did! But our calculations and expectations have changed a lot since she got here. Things are dawning on me that I hadn't realized before or foolishly hadn't paid attention to, like friends who are in a much better financial position selling their already paid for house to buy one in the best school district in the state with the help of their families, or others are planning to send their kids to private schools since first grade given the abysmal state of public education right now. Are elite educational institutions the only way out of a life of wage slavery? Neither of us had that opportunity but will that be even more detrimental for kids born today if they also can't attend an elite university? <br><br>Both my husband and I come from poor families who have no wealth to leave us. We have worked very very very hard but all that could get us is maybe to the middle, but nowhere near being truly financially secure . We don't even own a home yet despite making decent salaries. I have no illusions about the importance of money in giving you a head start and it breaks my heart to think that her peers will have it and she may not. I've made my peace with the fact that I was raised poor and missed out on a lot of experiences and opportunities because of it but I can't accept that for my baby.<br><br>I feel so much guilt over it and I wish I had some unique skill or talent that would allow me to work in a lucrative field like tech but I do not. This is the best I can do but it is not enough. It also doesn't that help that seemingly every high paid executive at my job seems to already come from money. It just solidifies the fact that the highest paying jobs go mostly to those who are already very privileged. <br><br>I'm not the first or last parent to have these concerns but I'm having a hard time feeling optimistic about the future and it casts a shadow over the tremendous joy she has brought into our lives.]]></description> <link>https://ask.metafilter.com/386417/How-do-I-give-my-baby-the-life-she-deserves-if-Im-not-wealthy</link> <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:ask.metafilter.com,2025:site.386417</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:47:36 GMT</pubDate> <dc:creator>Riverside</dc:creator> <category>finances</category> <category>mobility</category> <category>Money</category> <category>social</category> <wfw:commentRss>https://ask.metafilter.com/386417/How-do-I-give-my-baby-the-life-she-deserves-if-Im-not-wealthy/rss</wfw:commentRss> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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