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by afarrell 5y ago
> The only thing that (almost) guarantees good relationships with management is to just do whatever they want even when it is leading the company to ruin, never voice your objections, etc. This is correct but the implication is that a go
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by afarrell 5y ago
When we either A. adjust our social norms to make the world at large less punishing for pedants, “well, actually”, and those who do not “read the room” — when people are more willing to accept “well that was poorly framed but true” as a val
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by afarrell 5y ago
> by yourself But you can have a friend with you to talk this through. You are not alone, but you need a phone call… not a forum of internet strangers.
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by afarrell 5y ago
1. Be willing to accept run of the mill advice. Your problem is not tricky—it is instead dreadfully frightening and painfully difficult. 2. Go for a walk outside while listening to Brené Brown audiobooks. 3. Talk to humans who can actually
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by afarrell 5y ago
Somewhere in the middle but towards the latter end of things. I believe that before the licenses, they did not have the recurring revenue to pay for a high-quality support team.
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by afarrell 5y ago
One struggle I have is how to simultaneously embrace uncertainty and take responsibility for the impact of my actions. A high amount of uncertainty makes me feel like I’m a chef taking chicken thighs out of a warm fridge. I think there is a
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by afarrell 5y ago
The subscription fixes the problem because you can use the money from it to solve other problems in your life like having insufficient tacos in your stomach.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> Were they going out of business... Whom would you rely on to handle something that matters to you: A. Someone who refuses to eat until they start collapsing from hunger? B. Someone who eats regular meals?
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by afarrell 5y ago
One could argue that their support team has handled this change unskilfully and that Agilebits should have hired a larger and more skilled support team before having a way to pay that team. One could argue that.... but one would be silly to
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yep. And it's totally fine for different forums to have different jobs!
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by afarrell 5y ago
> what exactly does moving from a purchase to a subscription benefit me? Trust that the company which provides something you need is far more likely to continue to be around. Suppose you tell your employer that you're taking a 1-wee
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by afarrell 5y ago
> Subscription business models and non-native apps are hallmarks of rot by VCs. Dump them! The costs of developing and maintaining software are recurring -- especially for security-critical software. Subscription business models align in
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by afarrell 5y ago
Not only that, but it becomes harder to recognise consistent norms. If you post an assertion and I respond with a 350-word cited explanation of how you are well-intentioned-but-factually-incorrect, am I A. Behaving like a know-it-all jerk?
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by afarrell 5y ago
I believe the word people generally use is "trauma". - nightmares and insomnia - intense negative emotion both can be caused by trauma.
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by afarrell 5y ago
We should perpetuate it for at least 3 more years because we have way bigger epistemological fish to fry.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Sure, but people can only focus on so much at once. To achieve Amazon levels of customer support at Amazon scale, you need years of sacrificing other things in pursuit of customer service. See this Jeff Bezos interview from 1999: https:&#x
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by afarrell 5y ago
> The public doesn’t care how a company is managed - they care about the share price going up so they make their money. Thats like saying you don’t care about the fridge temperature of a restaurant, you care how quickly they get you your
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by afarrell 5y ago
Building N units of dense housing also ends up simultaneously increasing the number of people allowed to live in a walkable neighborhood by N.
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by afarrell 5y ago
Yea, you have to ask people “do you like walkable cities enough that you’d be willing to let a for-profit developer build houses and vote for an otherwise-unsavory politician who repealed minimum parking requirements?”
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by afarrell 5y ago
The problem is there are real costs: - Politicians need to be willing to withstand accusations that they are allied with property developers who earn more than they spend. - Politicians have to be willing to piss off people who support mini
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by afarrell 5y ago
One important cause of Normalization of Deviance is when an organization stays misaligned at the top about what the norms actually are. The effect of this is that: 1. Some folks at the top will shout about the norms being violated and nobod
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by afarrell 5y ago
You are right that this is ultimately about choosing priorities and sticking to that choice. > "I don't have the time" Can also mean "I have enough chaos in my life right now that I cannot determine my priorities well
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by afarrell 5y ago
I feel like it needs a group identity around it —- how about “Syndicalists”?
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by afarrell 5y ago
If the underlying RSS technology still works just fine and has momentum, then saying it is dying is going to kill that momentum. This sounds like a marketing problem more than anything else. Which is to say: It is a problem to be solved wit
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by afarrell 5y ago
blink blink I would ask them to clarify what their intent is by doing that.
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by afarrell 5y ago
> Any suggestion? As a fellow ADHD software engineer: 1. Read the work of Berné Brown (or listen to audiobooks while walking in nature) and learn to do the deeply anxiety-inducing work of setting boundaries. 2. Be clear with your manager
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by afarrell 5y ago
This means do not build any software useful for building - a payroll system. - a logistics network. - an expense-tracking system. - a personnel-management system. - a project-management system. - a communications network. - a software devel
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by afarrell 5y ago
I still don’t understand how someone looked at that clause and did anything but giggle. I am always genuinely surprised when I encounter adults who think evil is well-defined enough for these purposes. Genuinely, I think this is a serious g
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by afarrell 5y ago
Option A) would be to not make the source of it available publicly but instead restrict access to it to those whom you trust. Option B) Write a function to rigorously define military/colonialist/statist and then call that function
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by afarrell 5y ago
It sounds like there is a misunderstanding.

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