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by afarrell 4y ago
> Imagine you are the CEO Warning: If you take this farther than idle speculation, it is a good way to burn yourself out trying ineffective strategies to drive organizational change.
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> This is a misconception junior devs often have... that you need to ask permission to do your job I think this is driven more by junior devs still trying to figure out what their job is.
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At some companies, it takes more effort to go through the procurement process than to build the thing.
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> Airplanes crash...but nobody seems to care If you think that nobody cares when airplanes crash, that signals that you likely want to: 1. Re-evaluate the evidence. Boeing was fined $2.5 Billion[1] over the MCAS debacle after it was a ma
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Range anxiety could also be solved with marketing. 1. Design a graphic symbol that means, “this parking lot has a charging station” 2. Put that graphic on relevant signs as tall as the ones which advertise Exxon or Shell gas stations. This
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Could this be a market opportunity for a restaurant chain like Sonic or Fuddruckers?
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There are UK employers who have offer health insurance as a benefit on top of the healthcare available from the NHS. There's not much point to it, but it is available.
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It is also a part of the family histories of many Americans. Many of them are descended from people who made the decision to flee 1000s of miles before things got really bad.
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Specifically, the bottom line of the business unit within the company which earns revenue from the business.
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I’d be grateful to see this broken down by municipality (or by precinct within NYC). If it is possible for a company to develop a dysfunctional culture which leads it to fail at serving its customers, why would the same not be true of polic
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The Boring Company just raised a series C round. https://www.boringcompany.com/seriescround
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People say consistency is key. But humans naturally have variability, especially under conditions of high uncertainty such as founding a startup. So practice the courage to trust yourself today even if yesterday was unproductive.
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Isn’t it implicitly the claim made whenever a construction project is stalled for environmental review?
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The thing I miss most from Linux is strace. This is far outweighed by 1. The much frequency with which stuff just works on OSX. 2. The opportunities to spend $30 on an app instead of $300-$800 worth of time on software that is Free as in
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We should strongly advise naive people not to get involved in either gang warfare or inter-nation conflicts.
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It similarly sucks that our justice system punishes the clumsy criminals and lets the really skillfully sneaky ones go unpunished. Nobody has yet faced charges for robbing the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Two techniques for addressing this: 1. Write down the fear so you can see it clearly and take control of it. 2. Reframe your action as testing a hypothesis. That way, you know you are on the path to learn something specific.
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What do you want more of in your life? From what you've typed, it sounds like you want less of people (employer, therapist, girlfriend) hassling you over being non-proactive. Thats fine, but it is still a reactive desire. To be more p
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I’m interested to know what sort of insights you get from creating a language like this.
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1. An argument (that others are also making) that we need to be willing to accept partial solutions. 2. A pun.
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https://www.tellmemoregifts.com/ does this for the artists that make gifts for their customers.
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Faced with an overwhelming problem, is is tempting to seek simple solutions which would boil the ocean. Personally, I’d prioritize suboptimal solutions which prevent a rise in ocean temperatures.
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It would need to be at the point of extraction or importation. Then you'd need tax treaties with countries who are adopting similar policies.
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That would not solve the problems like transporting goods from ports and warehouses to stores or transporting equipment that a plumber or drummer needs to do their job. We'll still need electric trucks and vans.
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by afarrell 5y ago
A mythology is a story that expresses what the culture telling it wants to be true. It is an expression of values. For example, our culture loves re-telling the story of Lord of the Rings. Why? We want it to be true that even in a world w
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> Do you think time management is a learned skill? Time management is mostly about emotion management. For example, procrastinating on asking for help overcoming a roadblock on is often a symptom of fear of appearing stupid or annoying.
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I find it motivating to have the story of how someone uses the skill to solve a complex real-world problem. I think you are right that it is overwhelming to start out by solving that complex large-scope problem first.
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There are ways to improve things but they require: 1. Abandoning the mechanical metaphor you've adopted. The brain is a part of the body with thousands of neural and hormonal connections to the rest of the body. 2. Abandoning the quest
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Increase the quality of communication between team and thier stakeholders so that there are fewer reasons for the plan to change. Increase the trustworthiness of the developers' tools, docs, and skills so there are fewer schedule risks
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> You're nervous Emotion-management is the key challenge here. Fear is the mind-killer which reduces your working memory. Your listening process was OOM-killed. Specific suggestions: 1. Repeat the question back for the benefit of th

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