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by afarrell 4y ago
Alternately, it assumes that the risk matrix of an executive also includes: 1. Their reputation. How much less likely is it that a board of directors would think twice before hiring them to be a steward of shareholders' assets? 2. The
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by afarrell 4y ago
One of the difficulties of public relations is communicating to multiple audiences at once. One of Docker’s audiences are the paying customers who outside that 2% and would want some assurance that if docker makes errors, those errors are s
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by afarrell 4y ago
I find that silly songs are pretty essential for actually doing it. Calendly is good for scheduling phone chats with friends while you do annoying tasks. Also the Reader’s Digest New Complete Do-It-Yourself-Manual is pretty great.
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by afarrell 4y ago
It is possible for a normally-reasonable person to have a moment of panic and say something foolish.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Also, it doesn’t get very cold or hot there, in comparison to Chicago or Atlanta.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Find where you spiral and focus on changing some of your attitudes to remove the cycles of spiraling. An example of spiraling is: 1. “I should be achieving <unreasonable expectations>” 2. Shame about not being productive enough to ach
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by afarrell 4y ago
It might be that at this point the solution to inflation is to let things settle and get more efficient after the significant disruptions we’ve seen.
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by afarrell 4y ago
> Is this true for all decisions by the school board? No.
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by afarrell 4y ago
You also need to be comfortable enough with yourself to hear the other person's real honest thoughts and feelings.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Why would violent resistance be effective at this point? That seems likely to result in Syria or Libya at best. Speaking uncharitably (and ignoring vast theological differences…), the folks talking about violent overthrow seem pretty naive.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Because 1. Any political movement will attract people who are hungry for power-for-power’s-sake or to inflate their own ego. Naiveté about this is malpractice in the same way that US naïveté about Chalabi was malpractice. Iranians who are n
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by afarrell 4y ago
Ah, then CNN could do a better job translating. "death to" and "down with" have pretty different meanings.
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by afarrell 4y ago
> A voice shouted "Death to the Islamic Republic" This sounds like a source of fear that is likely to motivate people to seek security and stability. I imagine it would remind people of the threat they've been told their c
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by afarrell 4y ago
https://lawcomic.net/ — goes into digressions about english common law and also the history thereof. A warning on this topic: it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking you know more than you really do.
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by afarrell 4y ago
I'm still wondering if there is good evidence that crypto is useful for Venezuelan economic refugees. I imagine such evidence is hard to find publicly because removing the obscurity would raise the probability that a friend of Maduro u
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by afarrell 4y ago
When I call myself an intellectual, it is mostly a form of pride or vanity. As a boy, I read Ender's Game and Zhuge Liang's commentaries on The Art of War. As a man, I like to imagine that I now know enough to keep the whole world
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by afarrell 4y ago
I would never tell someone about this at work and especially not at a python conference. https://www.cnet.com/culture/two-people-fired-over-pycon-don...
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by afarrell 4y ago
Arguably the war in Ukraine was influenced by the unrest against Lukanhesko after his poor handling of covid-19...and by Russians thinking that was yet another example of NATO attacks against their security.
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by afarrell 4y ago
How much do you charge to run training sessions on how to write better comments?
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by afarrell 4y ago
Part of the problem is that caring for someone requires their cooperation or else it is exhausting. Caring for the least cooperative people requires even more resources. To illustrate this: If you lived in a 3-bedroom apartment, how would y
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by afarrell 4y ago
DRY is the easiest rule to tell if you are following, so it is one that people are inclined to follow.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Right. It also requires overcoming problems of trust and trustworthiness. Doing the work to restore that trust is the work of justice.
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by afarrell 4y ago
The truth is more likely that a single VC's opinion carries limited information and you'd need to both do more building and talk to more people in order to learn a more certain answer. In fact, notice the words of the VC: "I&
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by afarrell 4y ago
> incentivizing prisons to actually rehabilitate Parenting is hard. Parenting someone who is already an adult is harder still. Beyond incentives, they might not have the resources to rehabilitate the prisoners.
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by afarrell 4y ago
My hunch is that this is a third of the reason why politicians give “politician answers” to things that most people believe are straightforward yes-or-no questions.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Turning off overhead lights around 9pm and getting sunlight in the morning. This gave me a consistent sleep schedule. Sleep is mental strength.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Excellent turn of phrase
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This calls for a marketing person with more experience in branding. I’d aim for meaningful metaphors.
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by afarrell 4y ago
Cute names are fun for the people creating them and writing code. They are stressful for the people trying to make sense of code and maintain a product under a deadline. The question is, which matters more: A. Having fun yourself over the c
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by afarrell 4y ago
> talk about the problem space your idea is in Converse about the problem space. Remember that you have two ears and only one mouth. Listen to your users more than you talk

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