SpeedilyDamage

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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
Then why should they care about your outcomes? You’ve got to do better if you expect to retain employment long term, and certainly if you expect to retain the privilege of working remotely.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
Not trolling, I just know in difficult conversations it’s sometimes helpful to restate what the other person is saying to try and figure out the disconnect.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
It's not really yours to give up, is my point. You're not looking at this from the employer's perspective, and it's making it hard for you to understand that what you want is only part of the equation.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
So, a) we're not talking about how people decide what to build, as that has nothing to do with working remotely, b) managers aren't involved in determining either what to build or how well the plan to build something was executed,
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
> We are fully remote > we can’t train new devs Yeah, I think it’s clear what’s going on here to folks who aren’t you.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
If you don’t know why or how your management figures out what to build or if what you’re building is what they need, and don’t see how that’s related to remote work, there’s not much I can do to help you.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
Sorry but you can’t opt out; you’re either part of it and therefore part of the team, or you’re not and first on the chopping block when tough decisions get made. Punch in/punch out mentality has its place, but if you don’t have one of
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
If your mood is improved, to the degree that someone comments on it, by reducing general news media consumption, you’re not in control of your emotions to a degree an adult should be in control of their emotions, and should seek professiona
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I mean sure, but there’s no real way of knowing what you’ve left on the table by working remotely. And I say this as someone who was also working remotely before the pandemic. I’m always wary of people who refuse to acknowledge the downsid
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I’ve found that folks who are attached to parts of the business that are focused on growing the business want to be in person more than parts of the business that “punch in/punch out” and don’t take full ownership of their role in the
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I think you focusing on delivery and cycle time is kind of emblematic of my point; none of that matters if you ship the wrong thing, and don’t correct over time, but to you that’s where the conversation ends. That’s not where it actually en
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
It’s really not hard to have private convos in an open office setup, I did it for years and years. Nobody cares about you or what you’re saying. I would find it highly suspicious if someone tried to have a backroom convo with me on a digit
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
How would you know? The very nature of that communication is that it’s private. Maybe nobody talks to you in person, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
Technical folks simply cannot do their jobs without solid working relationships, and those are not as well formed digitally. Remote work will continue to reduce over the next couple of years. If you don’t have a real reason for being at ho
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
Sorry but what ??? “The only useful conversations are thoughtful, planned, and collaborative”??? That’s so wildly untrue and obviously so, I’m blown away that you could declare something so obviously false so confidently. Where do you wor
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I think it's a key skill for an adult to have, to be aware of one's own emotional state and be able to self regulate based on that awareness. If someone struggles to apply that to the consumption of news media, I worry about their
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
You delete the system and start over.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
For what it's worth, I'm not sure this is healthy; you should be able to consume news without having it effect your mood so negatively. Might be time to talk to a therapist about it.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I make a joke at my current startup (though I'm not really kidding) that my goal when designing systems is to make it last long enough that we can hire a team to rebuild the given system by the time it starts failing to meet its use ca
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
You were asked for conservatives who were being silenced, not random people who had said inflammatory things, as that's the entire topic being discussed here. It's clear you can't come up with any, since you had to move the
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
The comments were not related, if you were no longer discussing conservatives being banned from platforms. Sorry you feel the need to name-call here, but hope you have a better time elsewhere.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I can't change how you feel.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
Did I say I didn't "like" (I'd use the word "appreciate") it, or that I didn't think it should happen? If so, could you please highlight where? I just see, in what you're doing, a wild lack of self a
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I never understand the point of these kinds of submissions. HN isn't for you alone, and there's a whole voting system. All you're going to get here, at best, are a handful of likeminded people who agree with you, reinforcing
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
...what? I'm so confused.
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I just... how is what you're doing here different from what I was saying, other than you're explicitly calling me names?
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
For what it's worth, when I ask these kinds of questions (rarely anymore), I'm looking more at how the problem is solved, not what the solution is. A wrong answer with good thinking is better than a correct answer with no explan
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
All good, it's just hard sometimes to understand intent online, maybe I overreacted to what I perceived as bad faith engagement. Words are hard!
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
Yeah, what is the problem with that? They engaged dishonestly by claiming they didn't understand something, why should I do anything other than call them on that?
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by SpeedilyDamage 4y ago
I don't think I had a militant attitude, but I do think saying, "I don't understand..." rather than "I disagree with..." puts a sour note on the entire conversation.

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