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When I Thought I Was Smart

• sophist 18y ago
  "i still think i'm smart, actually." Not smart enough to use proper capitalization, it seems...
• sdpurtill 18y ago
  "comfort is the last state of mind before death." Does this mean that being comfortable at a company that it's about to die? Not sure I understood this one, explain please!
  • d0mine 18y ago
    As long as you live you always have something to worry about. A possible interpretation along the line: "Only the Paranoid Survive" by Andrew S. Grove
• aasarava 18y ago
  Unfortunately, a lot of those "let's talk about improving the company" retreats do end up being historic wastes of time -- but not necessarily because the meeting itself happened, but because nothing happened afterward. Or more specifically, the people with the power to make changes based on what they are being told rarely take any followup action. For them, the conversation at the retreat is the action.
• bprater 18y ago
  Great stuff. When a committee's job is to make sure that each individual in the room does what is necessary to keep their employeement with the company, the life is ready to be sucked out of out of the company.