I can’t imagine any other group who would be as calm as NASA astronauts. Maybe SEALs or other special forces.

It looks like there are a few astronauts that were SEALs, one returned December 9th from the ISS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim

Jonny Kim was indeed a SEAL, and a few more things as well, with a CV almost as impressive as Johnny Sins:

> American NASA astronaut, physician, U.S. Navy officer, dual designated naval aviator and flight surgeon, and former Navy SEAL.

Note that "physician" here means Harvard MD.

This guy is the Chuck Norris of NASA. His Wiki page is wild.

In the US, many astronauts start as Air Force pilots.

And for the preternaturally calm and confident who don't have the perfect eyesight required to enter the Air Force, many of them apparently serve instead on nuclear submarines...

The point of training someone to their breaking point is not to make them immune to breaking. It's to give them experience with a realistic battlefield situation and their own physiological responses during it so they stand a basic chance when it does occur.

I work/program on CalTrain but that’s pretty common. NYC subway or BART seems a bit more challenging.

It’s overall time much better spent than being stuck in a car.

It comes down to dopamine and if there was friction involved to get that dopamine.

No point in quitting, reduce workload.

If leadership needs to manage folks out make them do the work and collect a paycheck while it happens.

Yeah I don't get people who quit when RTO or unreasonable changes are made. Quitting makes it easy for them and means they stop paying you now.

Letting them fire you means at worst you end up with the same outcome, at best you call their bluff and get paid a few months more (or forever).

Yeah but RTO takes real time and money. Sure you can earn a paycheck, but if you're commuting 2 hours a day total, you're still losing those 2 hours until they fire you. And that kind of stinks. And that's assuming you don't need to move. Moving for a job you hate is the worst.

I think the suggestion is just ignoring the RTO mandate and continuing to work remote, until they fire you for insubordination.

Reduce workload, get in a bit later and go home a bit earlier.

Avoid attending meetings involving people dialling in from a different office (that’s not in person collaboration, so it’s worthless work. Sorry, I don’t make the rules) and be present at the meeting (keeping the chair warm it’s all it counts after all) while browsing HN in the ones you really cannot get out of it.

Anterior mid cingulate cortex (aMCC) has been shown to grow when individuals overcome challenges.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7381101/

The US is still cowboy country in many ways.

Actually a lot less than I expected.

That’s impressive, how much vert?

Ascent: 1,304 m Descent: 1,167 m

More info: https://nutskarhunkierros.fi/en/races/83km/

I do want to mention when I said: "surprisingly little training "

I realize now what this sounds like. I want to mention that I did other races to build up my condition to be able to this one (the longest one I ever did).

I also want to mention that it was probably the physically hardest (but most rewarding) thing I've ever done.

Nice work!

An 80 year old also completed Badwater ultra (135 mile run in Death Valley in the summer).

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5467389/meet-the-oldest...

Ultra typically has much more vert, if you don’t strength train or train downhills your quads get destroyed. It gets to the point where you want uphills because the downhills are all pain.

It’s also not unusual for ultramarathoners to include speed work early in a training block (see Jason Koop).