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by azhu 7y ago
> Unfortunately with the rise of identity politics and ethnic factionalism, we've lost this notion of 'America as an idea' I hate to open from this angle, but does your ethnicity happen to be the dominant one in this count
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by azhu 7y ago
There is a lot that could be considered wrong about this situation and a lot of directions fingers could be pointed. Dave should not have been of such importance to the company in the first place. When you hire a person who brings in domain
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by azhu 7y ago
You will be fine whichever you decide. There are always consequences to any path of action. In this case, let yourself be calmed by knowing that none will cause your ship to spring critical leaks. I have back to back <6 months full time
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by azhu 7y ago
I'm also sometimes confused by how people don't get this. Anybody honest with themselves should realize their phenomenal fallibility. Life necessarily involves drawing conclusions from incomplete data. I can't see how it&#x27
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by azhu 7y ago
You are correct. The chaos that results is due to misaligned understandings of what these two words mean in each participating discussion member's head. It's advantageous to define what these two things mean up front for your team
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by azhu 7y ago
So you would rather they tell you the wrong thing twice? C'mon.
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by azhu 7y ago
The situation described in the article is at least partially caused by people acting without understanding their motivations, or how to concert them. It can be drilled many layers into, or it can simply stated as having this work on your te
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by azhu 8y ago
I think the author is driving at the fact that labelling something ethically and technically heavyweight like ML programming as 'fun' downplays and obscures the gravity of the activity.
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by azhu 8y ago
1. I did not mean to imply that east Asian culture is inferior. I did mean to imply that it is much less emotionally comprehensive. I agree with you that the concept of duty is sensible and functional on the human race wide scale, and I was
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by azhu 8y ago
Not having the vocabulary to express certain concepts is one half of the Darth Maul lightsaber of hypocognition. The other end is not having the vocabulary to detect certain concepts. You are right, many people can still intuit something th
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by azhu 8y ago
Merging research and anecdotal experience, I can say that east Asians tend to understand life in terms of duty. Happiness and satisfaction are understood as intrinsic to the fulfillment of those duties, and as a result any perceived shortco
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by azhu 8y ago
I was almost derailed by the grossly oversimplified programmer personality dorito chart at the beginning. Personality types are merely stereotypes for shortcutting the immensely complex network of factors underlying every decision in every
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by azhu 8y ago
> "parameters that don't matter in real life" Asian Americans are the least likely group in the US to be promoted to management. https://hbr.org/2018/05/asian-americans-are-the-least-likely...
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by azhu 8y ago
There is a difference between wishful thinking and motivation enough to actualize. I agree that one will most likely not roll out of bed and complete a marathon, but do not underestimate the power of belief. If one believes strongly enough,
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by azhu 8y ago
Examined closely enough, optimism, confidence, and happiness are naught but delusion themselves. IMHO you are not being overly cynical in being skeptical, just do not discard these conclusions entirely. Weigh them amongst other studies. I s
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by azhu 8y ago
Did you look at the linked article? The point is that it reinforces a potential implicit bias. "Rather than taking the chance of unintentionally offending someone or of being misunderstood, it is best to relinquish the old innocuous pr
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by azhu 8y ago
Or perhaps brilliant people care a lot and just have the ability to pull it off so well that everyone else thinks they don't care. The real answer to how to be happy is not to not care how you affect others, it is to master your abilit
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by azhu 8y ago
> I've conversed with many people who have done this to themselves, and they present as drug addicts to me, not as fully-functioning, let alone super-functioning, humans. Rather than grow as human beings, they're growing as som
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by azhu 9y ago
I offer an anecdote: as a young person I struggled with many of the self-actualization how to be happy type problems that young people do. I was depressed. I was never formally diagnosed, but I would wake many days and simply have no desire
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by azhu 9y ago
The point of view presented in this article is not that psychedelics are necessary to achieve such opinions and perceptions, but rather that they can be helpful to such ends.
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by azhu 9y ago
How is an association choosing not to associate with you any different from banishment or expulsion? Let us remember that in the 1960s, speech promoting civil rights was incredibly non-consensus and "dangerous" and resulted in ban
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I finally learned to accept my own vulnerability as a man. It helped(washingtonpost.com)
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by azhu 9y ago
Bad can be just as well defined as a lack of good, much like depression itself. Consider that it may be an exercise in futility to try to discern the "true cause" of your emotional state, and that it may be more worthwhile to begi
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by azhu 9y ago
My two cents as a sufferer of emotional pain is that if the exposure of a personal emotional wound, raw and without bandage, helps others heal then that is worth it. This is speculation as I have no formal training in mental health nor neur