rachelhands.com
contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. đ€đ©¶đ€đ. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com
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couldnât find the 100 tubas piece on bandcamp, unfathomably
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ensemblesignal.bandcamp.com/album/darker
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not on this list but worth the listen if youâre willing to Just Trust Me and buy the tracks: cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/3-3-2
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ok one more đ
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the light is very good. almost pratfall-worthy
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I was looking at the good light and very nearly faceplanted on the concrete after stepping on a rain soaked donut but itâs fine, all is well
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in case this wasnât clear from my syntax, âour neighborsâ and âusâ are the same people.
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oh, and re: the humans with critical thinking skills reviewing job applications: that part is increasingly impossible. Decent job postings get absolutely swarmed with both real and fake applicants, and even the most conscientious, well-staffed hiring teams canât give them all real attention.
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I mean, we have to if we care about our fields staying relevant in the world (which, enough of us tie our own relevance in the world to our jobs that we probably should care about this)
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I donât know that I have a âhereâs where we go from hereâ on this yet, except to say that people like me have to do a better job of understanding what people entering our fields are actually up against today, and letting go of the idea that their experience will be anything like ours was.
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What we can do is help people connect the dots between what they know and what a company wants, and help translate that into the right language. That helps if and only if a human with critical thinking skills is reviewing job applications.
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I got my first tech job two years out from music grad school. I was hired by a theater major who was hired by a cellist who didnât care about credentials, at a time when no such credentials even existed. Thatâs not actionable career advice in 2025.
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I did not like the anxiety in the voice of the vet as she was telling me about the bonus mystery shape
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a beautiful clean answer to my personal FAQ, âwait, did I preorder this alreadyâ
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YOOOOO
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my most very generous read of this is that itâs a symptom of techâs âI canât imagine why this matters so it must not be important to anyoneâ syndrome. I am not inclined to be generous.
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this smells so much like the âweâre changing banks and canât issue you pay stubs for a couple monthsâ scam they were pulling at Bitwise
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oh I absolutely need this, ty for sharing!
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trust me to take a conversation about translation and music performance directly to Workers Union compilationsandmixes.bandcamp.com/track/worker...
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flowers + cat + good light update
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also your wildly late sub renewals are not to blame for a 50% drop in single ticket sales in April and May đ
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how many of those mailers got sent after last seasonâs subscribers left for their summer homes
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ahahahaha bro your patrons booked their whole seasons back in March
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good light tax
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this is temporarily a flowers update account now, fyi
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with the right toolkit, you, too could get a âshows improvementâ performance evaluation from your spouse!
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hereâs wishing you all an extremely boring, uneventful migration!
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some real Assertions being made here about classical music too, lol
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yesssss this is so good!
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weâre gonna find out!