abetterday

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by abetterday 5y ago
Aside from fixed costs and aspects like coordination efficiency, companies have to raise pay more than linearly to get people into high hours jobs. Those disproportionate gains should be given back at cut hours, but too many employees would
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by abetterday 6y ago
We had animal-like answers based on conceptions of the human telos. We had bee-like answers based on conceptions of societal progress. Pomo, globalization, and prosperity made them feel unworkable. Meaningness is trying to develop a concept
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by abetterday 6y ago
There is a whole mindset that has invigorated growth investing and has been invigorated by it: success is more luck and social proof than correctness or work + winner will take all = illusion management is key work + valuations don’t matter
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Circumstances, Agency, and Just Deserts (2019)(growwiser.com)
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Motivational Compass(growwiser.com)
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Contribution and Consideration(growwiser.com)
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Last Persons and the Tiger Mother(growwiser.com)
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Two Paths Towards Happiness (2017)(growwiser.com)
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Dictionary of Arguments and Positions (2018)(growwiser.com)
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by abetterday 6y ago
Totally. We were making massive amounts of progress on our own and virtual school curriculum mostly gets in the way. We've largely stopped going to the video sessions and are just doing some of the school work on top of our own. Tha
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by abetterday 6y ago
From behind Rawls' veil of ignorance, how many children would choose not to be born if given that choice? It is at least as reasonable to say that they've been given a most precious of gifts as it is to say that they were forced
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by abetterday 7y ago
>vote against “socialism” and then collect Medicade, social security and disability. Much like people rally against sprawl, but move the burbs for their kids; or rally against global warming, but don't live minimalist lifestyles. It
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by abetterday 7y ago
While I heartily agree in not forcing the child into a method, it very much matters when they learn to read. Reading is a tool more than a skill. Having the tool earlier is hugely valuable (provided they don't hate it as a consequenc
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by abetterday 8y ago
I recently read Searching for Bobby Fisher and Joshua Waitzkin's childhood seemed intense, but not broken. Would you consider him an exception or is that level of intensity itself dysfunctional in your view? I do agree that integrity a
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by abetterday 8y ago
I am curious how they funded the tournament play. It tends to cost about $10/rated game.
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by abetterday 8y ago
You can find Top 100 lists at http://www.uschess.org/component/option,com_top_players/Item... and his play history at http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?16649696 . It is almost precise
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by abetterday 8y ago
Or at least not consider buying a house as some kind of a necessity. The rent to buy ratios in these places tend to heavily favor renting. Plus they often have tenant protections and rent control which remove many benefits of ownership. And
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by abetterday 8y ago
But it's the same thing in the other direction. Countless people claim that they've done their best and were just unlucky - or even that no one could have succeeded in their particular situation. Yet, I often encounter people not
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by abetterday 8y ago
It seems to me that worker productivity gains come primarily from better technology and processes - from business investments - rather than from workers themselves. The rewards flow accordingly. Workers who enhance their own productivity a