This summer I started playing pickup volleyball in local parks in the city. I've found a meetup or facebook group for almost every day of the week, and I've gone from total beginner to pretty competitive in just a few months. It's free, a great way to meet new people, and a great way to stay active.
I work in the CTV ad-tech space. Viewership data is highly guarded by every company. It's how every company is trying to differentiate themselves from each other. So, no, YouTube and Hulu etc wouldn't share information.
Ad data is known by the DSP that serves the ad (if the company doesn't serve their own ads), but viewership data is secret as a competitive advantage.
I quit my job after working for 2 years as a software engineer and traveled solo for a year and some change through 30ish countries in Europe, Asia and Oceania. It's without a doubt the best decision I ever made in my life.
When you first start out traveling, you end up moving really fast since there is so much to see. I think it's because that's what you do when you're on a fixed-length vacation. After a month or two of this you get tired and you find yourself staying longer and longer in places you like. For me, that ended up being tropical places where I could scuba dive for cheap.
During a long trip you'll grow a lot as a person. It sounds cliche, but you'll be scared and lonely sometimes, but also super-charged with energy and surrounded by great friends at other times. You may even fall in love (a few times). It's important to realize it goes in waves - I found that every 3 to 4 months I would feel depressed or lonely and think about going home, only to meet some incredible people and realize how cool of a life I was living.
I came back when I ran out of money. I traveled on a "shoe-string" with only a carry on backpack for roughly $24,000 USD. For those interested in traveling like this, check out "How to Travel the World for $50 a Day" by Nomadic Matt.
Coming back and joining the workforce was incredibly hard. I didn't have a laptop with me, so a lot of my technical skills had atrophied and it showed in interviews, leading to me failing every interview from big tech companies. Luckily, after having only a few hundred dollars to my name, I got a dev job and my skills came back rather quickly after that.
