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by afarrell 6y ago
1. Start by making it easier to learn whom to talk to. This requires that you accept that the very thing you are frustrated by is in fact fundamental to the value delivered. The purpose of documentation is to aid conversations. 2. Make life
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by afarrell 6y ago
> If you're conducting a business relationship, why are you talking about trust in the first place? Please don't downvote /u/ThePadawan for this. It is an important foundational question. It is a hard question to answ
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by afarrell 6y ago
If someone is frustrated by doing ongoing maintenance and about having to wake up to handle problems, I have bad news for them about farming.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Deflation of a currency only increases the purchasing power of people who already hold that currency. If they start a business, they'll only be able to earn revenue solving the problems of other bitcoin holders.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Open question for HN: When evaluating how much to trust a person in a business relationship, when is it wise it to consider A. The person's past actions B. The intent behind those actions C. What they say now about those past actions ?
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by afarrell 6y ago
Its much harder to fix things if people are unwilling to hear the idea that things are broken.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> doesn't often go over too well Beware the difference between being nice and being genuinely kind. The latter requires the courage to be willing to upset somebody and lose a lucrative contract.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Indeed. In a conversation about being insufficiently thoughtful in deciding what you really want to build, flying cars are an excellent metaphor.
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by afarrell 6y ago
I think you might be underestimating the amount of work required to achieve real consensus among humans.
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Docs are only useless in companies that actively want them to be useless. Like most things in life, it takes active effort of ongoing maintenance. https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27023
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by afarrell 6y ago
Documentation rotting is fine so long as: 1. It is easy to tell which documents are clearly marked as snapshots in time vs. living documents. 2. Most docs are snapshots, so people have enough energy to maintain the living documents. 3. Ther
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by afarrell 6y ago
> There’s some cognitive bias in which we assume that when we regard some information as important, that anyone exposed to that information will fully absorb it. Part of the problem is that people get really upset when you don't a
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by afarrell 6y ago
> why we don't tackle that with urgency is beyond me When you see a person not doing something and are confused, a good first step to understanding the situation is to map out the steps that would be required. Then, go through and s
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by afarrell 6y ago
> regarding others honestly Strong agree. Example: One of your reports says something that you perceive as self-deprecating. It can be tempting to dismiss this as mere impostor syndrome. Doing so might soothe your fear that someone you
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by afarrell 6y ago
As a first step, you might hire a coach to help you with 1. Making and keeping the necessary appointments. 2. Dealing with insurance. 3. Persuading your parents to endure the ego-threat of listening to your actual needs instead of telling y
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by afarrell 6y ago
Question for HN: If you were talking with someone at a conference and heard him say > The job of management isn't hard (I'm doing it) What signals would you look for to tell the difference between these two possibilities? A. Th
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by afarrell 6y ago
> ADHD It is worth getting yourself checked. I'd also recommend listening to the podcast of prof of Neurobiology Andrew Huberman. He does research on the relationship between the eyes and the brain and a lot of it touches on sleep.
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by afarrell 6y ago
What I'm seeing here is two needs: 1. Trust the tech/maths capabilities of hires who pass the new interview process. 2. Clearly represent that need to others in the org who are more conversation-focused. Do I have that right? ----
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by afarrell 6y ago
Cultural appropriation of something that many members of a culture promote is good. Without it, the only cultural symbols that people can get an intro to are those from European cultures. ----- That said, I encourage people to read the Bhag
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by afarrell 6y ago
Agreed. The problem is that the Fed only has the power to inject dollars at the top of the economy, yet sales taxes and the IRS drain dollars from a broad base of the economy. I think an MMO designer would suggest two options: A. Nerf the F
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by afarrell 6y ago
To rephrase: Different engineers and different problems have different needs. When you ignore this, you'll get something that someone new can pick up, read the docs, and work with... but you can end up with a slight mismatch between t
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by afarrell 6y ago
> an excuse Whenever I see this word, I see a trust or communication problem.
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by afarrell 6y ago
As a mere mortal with limited Working Memory, the bottleneck is getting sketch-thoughts out of my head where I can see them and edit them. Others' needs are different.
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by afarrell 6y ago
How influential was the fact that Margaret Thatcher: 1. Studied chemistry in university. 2. Was respected by Ronald Reagan. to creating consensus to act among political leaders?
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by afarrell 6y ago
> Making subtle decisions depending on context is an important part of programming. Yes, and so is deciding what context matters across a whole team or team-of-teams.
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by afarrell 6y ago
That is because: 1. Versailles has a boatload of art in it and is massive. 2. Some rather dramatic things happened there. Buckingham palace has plenty of art, but so does the V&A Museum. And you can't re-create the historical drama
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by afarrell 6y ago
> a human factor, not a technological one I think the author's point is to highlight the relationship between technological and human factors. Git+markdown has a better user experience if your user is a developer who uses git every
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by afarrell 6y ago
I wrote a little shell script to park things that I'm thinking about which are not related to my current task into a file I review weekly. As someone who has been working on this for myself for a while, I think the right route starts w
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by afarrell 6y ago
For me, it is the desire to write non-flakey automated tests and easily pop a debugger into them.
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by afarrell 6y ago
Okay, what is the "thing that does not scale" which they are starting out with? There's a difference among: A) We are having someone in the company moderate this manually and gain insight into how we could do so scalably. B)

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