aerosmile

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by aerosmile 5y ago
Why? Because people can. They either have enough opportunities with flexible work arrangements that are too hard to resist, or they have either enough savings to bridge periods of unemployment, or certain jobs started paying more. All of th
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Founders will sometimes say "if I can't build this company with no more than a million dollars, it's not worth building it at all." In isolation, that thinking may not be wrong, since it highlights the importance of frug
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by aerosmile 5y ago
I mentioned elsewhere that there are many industries where transparency works, and the public sector is one of them. Your employer wants you to deliver deterministic output, and your pay reflects that. That's less the case when you&#x2
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by aerosmile 5y ago
> Been a role for 2+ years and want a meaningful comp change? You have to leave, that's how it is. That's even more likely to be the case when there are strict guidelines around compensation (eg: when salaries are public). When
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by aerosmile 5y ago
> if cutting out Colorado is less painful to profits than disclosing salaries So you implied that disclosing salaries cuts into profits, which I took to mean that you're seeing an inverse first-order relationship between salaries an
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by aerosmile 5y ago
I don't have a political leaning - in the US, everything is either black or white (with very few shades of grey). In most other countries, the governments are formed through coalitions, and you get a much higher diversity of political
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by aerosmile 5y ago
That's ridiculous. If you list the salary as too low, you're sending out a negative signal and will get less qualified candidates. You obviously cannot list it any higher than you're willing to pay. So you'll end up list
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Or perhaps: "John will ask why Sandy is making more. The truth is that Sandy is more productive, and saying that to John will lead to friction. John will either need to make more money (which will piss off Sandy), or Sandy will need to
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Unions and public positions are not the only ones with public salary info. As I stated in an earlier comment: Airlines pay just like that (as do taxi companies and most other parts of the transportation industry). Guess what you all have in
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by aerosmile 5y ago
> the literal sole goal is to profit. When trying to build an argument from first principles, it's important not to make a mistake early on. In your case, you use the profit seeking as an argument that this automatically leads to mi
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by aerosmile 5y ago
> You accuse others of rationalizing these collective behaviors and end up sounding like an apologist. Not true - I am not saying that the market cannot be whipped into shape. What I am saying is it cannot be done by someone who doesn&#x
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Here's the problem with non-deterministic conversations: everyone has an opinion (fair enough), and is willing to state it with the authority of a highly experienced subject matter expert. In deterministic conversations, a naive opinio
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Definitely a publicity stunt. But I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of the exercise, they actually really do end up unearthing some weaknesses that the process feedback mechanism failed to put sufficient spotlight on. I mean, how e
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by aerosmile 5y ago
You would be handing over full political and military control to a group of individuals, with no way of taking it back. If those individuals turn out to perform as well as the current Chinese leaders, you would be ahead. If they turn out to
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Airlines pay just like that (as do taxi companies and most other parts of the transportation industry). Guess what you all have in common? Zero agency. So when you take a job where the ideal output of your labor is 100% deterministic, then
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by aerosmile 5y ago
I met with some SF city officials a few years ago to discuss a program that our company was going to run for the city. I've never interacted with a less competent group of people, and we withdrew our proposal simply because we were sca
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by aerosmile 5y ago
It's a cultural thing. In Austria, people build multi-generational houses because it's expected that your kids and grandkids will live in the same house. In fact, Austria only has one city with two million residents - the rest liv
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by aerosmile 5y ago
An absolute zero on the patriotic scale. And when I say patriotic, I don't mean the "we're the best in the world" type of patriotic meaning, but more like "tiktok is a sign of things to come, let's try to slow
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Surely, someone did at some point do some work on the roads in your neighborhood outside of the example you're bringing up? Well, that's taxpayer money, and Google is a big taxpayer.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
I don't know why anything "humanitarian" should be taken with a grain of salt. You surely are not going to argue that something like the Syrian humanitarian crisis is comparable with a cartoon character? On the environmental
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by aerosmile 5y ago
See my related response to refurb's comment.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
See my related response to refurb's comment.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
> The military doesn’t decide where to invade, our government does. I would agree with this statement when it comes to defensive campaigns. But in the case of offensive campaigns, the military very much gives the government an idea of wh
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Singlehandedly? Of course not. But two years ago, they owned more than 50% of the holiday shopping [1]. It's fair to assume that the percentage has grown over time and especially this year given the supply chain issues that have affect
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by aerosmile 5y ago
You have to give it to the military - they really succeed in indoctrinating their community in their success metrics. Everyone who leaves the military has a very high opinion of their peers' professionalism, dedication, and so forth. F
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Agree that "useless" was a bit harsh. Perhaps "unachievable"? It's a bit like dieting. You take someone who has been chubby their entire life, put them through a bootcamp, and then look at their weight 5 years later
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by aerosmile 5y ago
That's a very thoughtful take and I am glad to see other people putting a lot of thoughts into this. The only thing I would question is are there really any evergreen open markets. Sure, they might be open today, but will they stay ope
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by aerosmile 5y ago
As someone who has seen both sides of the world that you describe, I think I can verbalize a topic that was not explicitly discussed in the video: if you feel forced to raise capital for a company that you personally don't believe in,
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by aerosmile 5y ago
The truth is that someone's gotta pay the bills. Pleasing the crowd by giving the content away is easy; finding a way to pay the bills while upsetting the least amount of people who are strategically important for the next month's
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by aerosmile 5y ago
> The point 3 is similar to the relocation scare of a few years ago to India or similar. > It hasn't happened. We think it hasn't happened. And yet, the likelihood of talking to a CX rep from a Fortune 500 company who is bas

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