"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
It's OVER for ProgrammerCels: 1 in 4 programming jobs have vanished. What happened?
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
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AI has helped make programmers more efficient which has reduced the need for entry level/junior devs.
However, most of the reasoning is that companies vastly over hired during the pandemic and the days of free money but once it was over, they realized that many of the developers they hired literally were doing nothing and they started cutting positions and getting rid of projects that were not profitable or didn't really fit with the direction they were pivoting post-pandemic.
Software development jobs for quality engineers are not going anywhere anytime soon. Anyone who says otherwise is living in Fantasyland.
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Lol...not to sound like a doomer....but that's where were headed.
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How will a man be able to show a woman that he is a good provider if he's on welfare because the robots are doing everything?
"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
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You shorten the workweek across the board, like how France does it via overtime laws, but you take it further.
Of course, our Elites would rather have half of us overworked and the other half wasting time all day job searching, so...
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Sure...just like how robots were going to make all factory workers obsolete 50 years ago right?
Still plenty of those.