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by afarrell 4y ago
I have empirically observed that talking with friends about problems, meditation, and other things that help me carry less stress in my body significantly reduces or eliminates my back and neck pain. My hypothesis is that my back and neck m
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It did introduce the metric system.
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Making a functional state requires solving logistics problems. Or as Napoleon said: “An army marches on its stomach”.
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> the name of the game is to get the emotions on your side. In order to do this, you need to recognize your own emotional needs. You might say something like: “to move forward here, I need to trust that we are both willing to see reality
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I wish I had worried less about wasting time and thought more about being fully present. If you fear wasting time, you'll be reluctant to invest time in things that lack either an immediate reward or someone else's plan. This make
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It depends crucially on the game you want to play instead. The problem with this article is the example. When the article says: > It’s important to note that people were dismissive of Paris because validating her playbook would mean admi
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> Jobs program for the senators district. Also an incentive for the US Military-Industrial complex to place a high value on the territorial integrity of the US and assign high cost to supporting a divisive coup.
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Your first sentence is correct. Your second sentence would be better revised to "Explain the problem and the fact that the client will be signing on for a long timeline and high level of schedule-risk. Then work at a pace which does no
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You need some amount of brotherly conflict and competition in order to have healthy collaboration. Otherwise, you just get the pretense of agreement and a slow slouch into frustration and resentment.
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I’m curious what advice from it you find dreadful.
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If you are looking for book recommendations, How to Win Friends and Influence People is still a good foundation. Books by Berné Brown are really good. The short answer is: your anxiety comes from the fact that you are focusing on how awkwar
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And upon hearing it, I would decrease my trust that their words were shaped to portray reality clearly. It’d be much more clear to say, “man, I’ve been carrying a heavy weight of stress and loneliness.” > no one in America currently is S
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As someone who does have Black enslaved ancestors: Sure, we can discuss comparisons among transatlantic chattel slavery, the treatment of the helots, or the people trafficked south along the Volga. The problem with a CEO calling themselves
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My argument is that in either case, spite as a motivation is a distraction from your true values.
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Or they take the other’s words in stride and decide their path based on what they already wanted to do anyway.
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He did so in correspondence with people in the scientific community. If AGI is both banned AND normatively reviled, then there can be a powerful incentive to defect from a community that would develop AGI. … or it becomes a tribalistic divi
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Not if there are sufficient incentives to defect from the team trying to develop AGI and sufficient memetic defenses against someone doing so for nationalistic reasons.
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There are some questions for which there is no rational "how" answer -- only some form of courage. For these, the answer you're looking for is to be found either in a community or a spiritual practice. So: find a community of
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> being able to build whatever, whenever If persuading people to adopt such zoning in your area matters to you, then you probably want to describe this more accurately as "zoning that blocks nuisances but does not micromanage"
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Neither are people who move from the third world hoping to make money to make a better life for their (now distant) families.
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Different social environments have different social expectations. HN has a social expectation that focusing heavily on technical considerations of how something can be done better will lead to pleasant shop-talking like OP's response h
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Right, but why would getting hired to do work you hate result in having a good job?
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Sounds like a path to escalating amounts of social anxiety and loneliness. If you cheat your way through life, what do you do when you’re 40 and no longer cute & full of potential? You don’t trust anybody and nobody trusts you.
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> I don't wake up excited to make schematics or lay out a PCB. How on earth would an electrical engineering degree help you get a good job?
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Either that, or it is a sign of humility about one's ability to quickly think through a complex question. By saying no to answering all those questions, you give yourself the time to actually deeply think through the questions that you
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Looking at the photos of Mariupol or old photos of Tokyo and Dresden, I just feel sorrow.
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No
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That definitely relies on a lack of deadline pressure... which is really about knowing that your team lead trusts your judgement in how you allocate time.
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“I want to make more money” is an easy thing for a manager at a not-failing company to handle because it is so concrete and concretely deliverable.
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> Stay hungry, stay foolish. If you want to feel disengaged at work, neglect your diet and make foolish choices that break people’s trust. If you want to feel engaged at work, eat lunch with your coworkers and talk philosophy.

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