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by afarrell 6y ago
1. Abandon any notion of “should” and replace it by nurturing your own genuine curiosity or desire to play with new ones. 2. Abandon the “consistent” part of this goal. Curiosity and creativity is inconsistent. 3. Talk with other people abo
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by afarrell 6y ago
Sure. Similarly, the US government "knew" about 9/11 and Pearl Harbour hours before the planes hit anything. But understanding which signals to pay attention to and make decisions upon is genuinely a hard challenge of leaders
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by afarrell 6y ago
OP should extract insights from this thread, thoughtfully reflect on their experience, and decide for themselves.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Learn more neuroscience. Start with the class “learning how to learn”. Then move on to the podcasts by Andrew Huberman.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Yes, but there would be a sufficiently-well-resourced agenda to mostly avoid convolution....except the incentive is misaligned.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Migrating python2 -> python3 is hard because it requires rewriting code and because you can't really run python3 code if you depend upon python2. If poetry create consume non-poetry packages and create packages which other package m
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by afarrell 6y ago
Dotted notecards. Dotted stationary is a good tradeoff-between guidelines for writing and free space for drawing.
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by afarrell 6y ago
This seems like the sort of place where a book like The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck would be a wise read.
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by afarrell 6y ago
It's also possible to try to strike a balance and to get it wrong. It is also possible to strike the right balance proportionally but be in a business environment where your best effort results in failure. https://www.youtub
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by afarrell 6y ago
https://getputpost.co/overhauling-api-docs-with-gocardless-9...
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by afarrell 6y ago
In general, weaponizing humans seems like a solution searching for a problem.
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by afarrell 6y ago
I think: 1. Good feedback is hard to get outside of a trustful relationship. 2. Good feedback is important. Consequently, I think it would be worth $300-400/month of your employer’s time to have an ongoing relationship with a contracto
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I think raising a child is a lot more effort than giving a trained operative weaponized dentures.
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by afarrell 6y ago
ADHD-PI here. I use a version of Pomodoro technique with adaptations inspired by Leadership is Language by David Marquet and by what Prof. Andrew Huberman says about Dopamine. Blue: Come up with my intended outcome. Set a duration from 10 t
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by afarrell 6y ago
Sometimes you have to make the least-bad choice that you can based on the information you have available. Sometimes you know that you will fail and have to choose the least-lethal way to fail.
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by afarrell 6y ago
We should have a person who is skilled at communicating with the public about policy decisions and who can calmly preside over conversations like this.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> There is no excuse to not have a fixed set of KPI's with a well defined end-state that includes a full return to normal. To say that someone "has no excuse" only makes sense once you have at least as much understanding a
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People can have whatever emotions they like. However, the way they speak about others has an impact in the world.
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by afarrell 6y ago
A programming language is a tool. What matters most is your relationship with the tool: - How much do you currently understand and trust it? - How curious are you about learning to use it better? - How well can you converse with a teammat
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by afarrell 6y ago
> If you have a bug or are missing a feature they will tell you Reporting a bug takes work. Doing it clearly takes more work. Some percentage of people will do work for free. Relying on it is a choice with tradeoffs.
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> while doing nothing tangible to address the real issues Doing things to solve the real issues would run into difficult real-world problems both symbolic and logistical/physical. Overcoming them require having conversations where
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by afarrell 6y ago
There is a dichotomy here. If an individual contributor is unclear whom they report to or what the product strategy is, then seeing the CTO contribute to numpy is not comforting. As you say: > It's nice to see the top guy, who perf
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by afarrell 6y ago
I thought facilitation payments were illegal...
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by afarrell 6y ago
Was that true pre-pandemic?
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Ask HN: How to plan a minimal restructuring to enable TDD
8 points by afarrell 6y ago|6 comments
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by afarrell 6y ago
An entire fleet of Chinook helecopters would blow a mighty draft of air downward onto the ship, holding it in place.
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by afarrell 6y ago
When I start a session, there is a comfort tone in the background. It sounds like static even when I turn my microphone off and there is nobody else there. This fuzzy sound is also one of the most irritating things about Zoom. Is there any
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by afarrell 6y ago
Social Capital is not fixed, but Dunbar's number does provide an upper bound to it.
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Identify areas of work which 1. Someone else has can build a higher level of mastery than you intend to attain. 2. Are decoupled enough from your workflow that you can describe your mission intent and allow someone to execute with high auto
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by afarrell 6y ago
Definitely do not delegate tasks which are urgent yet actually unimportant to you. You'll be spending your [social] capital in exchange for having a stressed person asking you urgent questions about a task you do not care about. This w

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