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What share of products and companies have a reasonable expectation of people passionate (irl-passionate, not ”professional passionate”) for their domain?
by djhn 2y ago
What share of products and companies have a reasonable expectation of people passionate (irl-passionate, not ”professional passionate”) for their domain?
- jaredsohn 2y agoI think professional passionate reasons would work well here, too.
- smolder 2y agoZero percent. Companies don't have reasonable expectations, or any other human qualities. They are desperate, psychotic, money-seeking apparati.
- djhn 2y agoFair, companies shouldn’t be anthropomorphised, but surely a money-seeking apparatus can form a justified expectation? I could rephrase it as ”For what share of companies might one have reasonable expectations…” Are “desperate” or especially “psychotic” any less human qualities than “reasonable”? ;)
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- smolder 2y ago> surely a money-seeking apparatus can form a justified expectation? Hiring managers have all sorts of opinions and expectations. Often they use lazy heuristics because hiring is hard work. Gauging passion (for the business domain or particular company) is one such lazy heuristic, ineffective in part because it is easily faked and sometimes not apparent. False positives and negatives both occur. It might also be irrelevant. Also, yeah, you're right that I anthropomorphized after saying companies have no human qualities. There's a lot more nuance. The idea was that for groups of self-interested people following incentives to cooperate, they collectively have a much different character from the individuals within, in terms of their ability to reason, their motives, and their grasp on reality, among other things.