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by afarrell 5y ago
Agreed. The judiciary should be the least accountable and most transparent branch of government.
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by afarrell 5y ago
It is worth thinking about them before you need them because by the time you gain the skill and infra needed to support them, you’ll have scaled so large that your ability to coordinate and communicate will be overwhelmed.
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by afarrell 5y ago
I think their job is maintaining the health and ambient trust within the social system that is HN -- keeping HN a place people generally want to keep coming back to for thoughtful conversation. Assuming thats reasonably close, lets look at
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by afarrell 5y ago
> open themselves up to lots of questions about what else they are doing Is there a name for this pattern? 1. Observe that a human is taking some action to more effectively do their jobs… but in a way that has some risk of being unevenly
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by afarrell 5y ago
0. Start listening to the Huberman Lab Podcast 1. Turn off overhead light at 9pm 2. Wake at the same time each morning and go outside to view natural light.
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by afarrell 5y ago
When I do carpentry, I make and use wooden jigs when I identify situations where I know my hands will not be steady enough. This is good poka-yoke. If someone forced me to use their jigs taylor-made to their workflow (however scientifically
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by afarrell 5y ago
“Every problem at Toyota can be blamed on Matthew Perry if you keep asking ‘Why?’ enough times.”
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by afarrell 5y ago
I’ve worked on a team that explicitly aimed to budget about 10-20% of its time on “tech investment” projects to expand/protect our capability to deliver. We also delivered fairly predictably on business goals. It was glorious.
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by afarrell 5y ago
You’ve just made an analogy to a situation that ~never happens in complex profession which ~none of us have direct experience in at a professional level. Thats fine, but it doesn’t really help with reasoning. An estimate serves the purpose
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by afarrell 5y ago
Nuance requires more attention and brainspace than most people have for someone they are only tangentially aware of like a NYT author. Such casual thought only leaves room for binary yes-or-no questions. Is Freddie DeBoer still worthy of co
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by afarrell 5y ago
Talk to a therapist and tell them about this fear.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Re 1: start with the thought of getting 30-60min of walking with sporadic jogging. Once you either get used to that to the point of hungering for that walking time or you get an urge for more vigor, then escalate to a training regimen. Re
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by afarrell 5y ago
1. That feedback is not really as high quality as asking an insightful question. 2. Doing this burns trust, especially if done deliberately.
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There are no villains but the ignorance of our former selves.
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These three things also influence each other. Incentives act as a signal of the type of culture you want to incentivize. Process allows or blocks people from following that culture. Seeing leadership create processes and incentives that ali
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by afarrell 5y ago
There are other possible interpretations of this: 1. They disagreed with you about code quality. For example: Imagine your tool highlighted duplication across tests and pushed people into using things like rspec’s shared examples. People wo
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by afarrell 5y ago
I think you’ve just explained to me why I am not a good fit for ruby. I should leave it to those who can do justice to the spirit of the language.
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by afarrell 5y ago
_why was no more famous than someone who writes for a newspaper under her own name. For a journalist to advocate privacy violation and do so practice …sounds like she is creating a world she would not feel safe to live in.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Agreed. Both “trite” and “forced” imply an unjustified distrust of the author’s motives.
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by afarrell 5y ago
There is also a cost to hiring folks via an interview process that does not clearly signal, “we have thought about it and decided you belong here.” It reduces their willingness to ask for help and admit ignorance.
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by afarrell 5y ago
How does a junior engineer working remotely tell if you are obviously not concentrating?
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Then those countries can solve the problem in their local environment.
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by afarrell 5y ago
The head of state, (as opposed to a head of government) acts as a symbolic center for belief in the “civic religion” of a country. Having them be separate allows for a sense of continuity, stability, and security —- that the entire world is
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by afarrell 5y ago
It is better to risk being thought a fool by some than to act foolishly out of fear.
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Thats my motive. Why? Because “If people would assume the worst about someone as competent at communication as $leader, then how much more likely are they to mistrust me when I try to communicate sincerely?” is the story I tell myself. Spen
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by afarrell 5y ago
If you start from the assumption that it is meaningless and insincere, then it is eye-rollingly vapid. If you start from the assumption that it is a genuine attempt to put messy feelings into concise words, then it is a bit lacks vividness
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by afarrell 5y ago
I think it is good faith because it points out the unintended consequences of the action that OP advocates: quality journalism goes underfunded and the cohesion of society suffers —- unless there is also a proposal for how to differently fu
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Whom do you talk to if you notice it in the CTOs?
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In my experience, this sort of thing is why good leadership has an outsized impact.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Why do the subscriptions have to die? Companies have monthly recurring payroll costs—it makes sense to have monthly recurring revenue too. Also, it makes monthly budgeting easier for individuals.

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