The biggest thing for me was learning, remembering, and using people’s names. This may not be helpful for everyone (and that’s okay), but it helped me be a more confident person in social situations.

Growing up I was painfully shy and awkward, but I had fantastic semantic memory and always did well on tests in school (does this sound like you?). One day, after I heard someone say “I’m terrible with names, sorry if I forget yours”, I decided to heck with it! I’m going to be good with names! If I can memorize pi to however many digits, I can memorize that many names of human beings.

And it helped me :) People like it when you remember their name, and they like you more for using it. For me, unfamiliar things are scary, but knowing someone’s name makes them a familiarity. Plus, there’s a devilish part of me that delights in remembering someone’s name who clearly doesn’t remember mine. I always offer it easily, to not embarrass them. But it’s a reminder that everyone’s out here struggling to make connections just as much as I am - and I can handle it.

Ps: it’s nice if you can let the person see you learn their name. It can feel creepy for a person to know your name without you telling them. If you learn someone’s name without them telling you, all you gotta do is hit them with a “your name’s Alex, right? Got it, thanks! I’m Daniel” and then you’re covered

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Woah, you’re on OG! I’m unfamiliar with a lot of those things and had to look them up. Crazy!

Hah! ISE - I used that for a hot second, and you still see tutorials using it as well.

My goodness, tell me about it, I’m new and I already find myself frustrated with Xilinx sometimes. It feels like there are very few resources from them for learning, but I thought that was just because it’s a niche subject. I’ll have to take a look at Efinix. I guess I thought it was safer to stick to the biggest name while I’m trying to get established. At the moment I’m trying to get some example projects working on a Zybo Z7. I’m finding out that it’s a lot to take in

Thanks for taking the time to reply! I feel strangely honored to hear from such an OG :) Cheers!

Hey! Can I ask you about that? What type of chips? What are your most used skills/technologies and what helped get started when you were new? I want to work with fpgas, and I’d love to know what your experience with that has been like

Thank you!

I’ve heard many glowing reviews with this same sentiment. In order to avoid most spoilers, may I ask you here - if I didn’t enjoy Undertale, would I still like this? I didn’t enjoy the metagaming that undertale did, making fun of the player for reloading a save. It felt dishonest. Does Inscryption also do this?