Being surrounded by "yes" people can only get you so far.

Although it probably gets you further than the opposite extreme where everyone disagrees all the time.

Personally having such info (critical reviews on previous employers) for a candidate, would be close to already having their answer for "Tell me about a time you had a challenge/problem/conflict at work" type of interview questions.

All the babies/toddlers I've seen (my own kids included) naturally do that "asian/slav squat" - for example to pick up toys from the ground, or when they want to rest a bit without completely sitting, right?

So at which point/age do some of us stop doing that type of squat before "use it or lose it" kicks in?

Elementary school history was really long time ago. Though having been born in the Balkans - there's a lot of emphasis on history (in hopes to learn and not repeat same mistakes).

IIRC WWI was continuation of things that were left unresolved from Balkan wars (big powers only jumped in at the end of Balkan wars to get their say/way into peace agreements).

And Balkan wars were continuation of the fall of Ottoman empire where many Balkan countries tried to continue with how things were ~500 years earlier (before Ottomans captured Balkans).

There's a lot of high-paying tech jobs that can be playing into ADHD (and other not neuro typical brains) strengths and focus thats more like running 42 1km "sprints" than mostly consistent pace 42km marathon.

Things that come to mind are data science/analysis, debugging and fixing outages (finalizing follow up RFO might be hardest part ), security/hacking (hopefully white hat)...

And basically whatever else one personally finds interesting to dig into deep and/or wide.

I’m a SWE at a Series A startup with predominantly inattentive ADHD. The need for me to jump around a bunch of things rather than just tunnel on the same area is a godsend. I struggle to really go deep or commit to long-running efforts, but if I can just jump into each thing for a few hours and constantly rotate things, I get an insane amount of work done.

Most jobs would not afford me this, but I lucked into a great role that plays into it rather than fights it.

Isn't that called proactive procrastination?

Where you intentionally have more than 1 thing/project going on, so you can procrastinate on nr1 while you work on nr2 ...etc.

And for going in deep and long - it really needs to be something personally interesting.

Or someone else has a better was to get into hyperfocus flow/zone?

AFAIK everyone in e-commerce tries to have consistent pricing throughout the whole flow - otherwise people notice difference between pages and drop off.

Stuff that you explained can happen because initially IP-to-Country isn't 100% precise (later in booking/checkout stage you provide country and then it knows for sure).

Other case I've seen is that meta (comparison) website you came from showed you prices without including everything even though they should've.

And then booking platform tries to transition you into correct pricing in between their pages.

Actually Booking has been allowing reservations longer than 30 days for a few years now.

Perhaps accommodations in your destinations that are on Booking don't have availability for the whole duration you're searching for?

In The Netherlands normal savings (retirement/pension savings are taxed once you retire), stocks, crypto ...etc are all taxed to everyone except Dutch Royal Family.

Was your last job a place with more focus on quarterly business cycle and less if any on longer term?

It might even be that there's seemingly a lot of long term goals/objectives/focus. If it's mostly strategic level plans/talks/etc, while day to day things are still planned, executed and evaluated on half-year and even just quarterly period - it seemingly ends same as not having longer term plans.

It was focused around quarterly cycles but they also had a lot of long term goals.

This!

Both Amazon search and trying to workaround it's problems by using it's "categories" are frustrating experiences.

It also extra annoying that sometimes you do get, and other times you don't get a link to category specific product you're looking at belongs.

And as soon as you sort/filter reaults it goes from bad to even worse.

That's actually very likely. Besides famous example where actual people get confused - like "half drie" is "half past two" or "two thirty" (so if Dutch person is telling me time or number in English, I double check by repeating it to them in Dutch).

In my experience Google Translate often does silly things like mix up AM/PM, day and month, and often enough it even flips the meaning (say "not required" somehow becomes "required") when translating Dutch to English.

So every now and then (when it's really important stuff) I also double check the original Dutch version.

And yeah I should do it more often, or even just turn off automatic NL to EN translations...