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by borroka 3y ago
"Finally, you're right that Kobe Bryant is admired more than the average hard worker in school, and that's because he was among the best in the world." All over the world, sportsmen and entertainment personalities are ce
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by borroka 3y ago
I kinda disagree. For example, expectations may come from work, but not from your work, but from the work of others not at similar workplaces (the "work culture" more in general). One of the (mildly) "shocking" cultural
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by borroka 3y ago
c) the workplace culture is not transmitted just at work, or in the specific company one works for. It is a matter of expectations, the circle of friends overlapping with the circle of professional acquaintances, of media consumed, of etiqu
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by borroka 3y ago
This is all very theoretical in nature. In fact, I don't know of any U.S.-based company who successfully outsourced their whole operations to South America, India, or, as the comment above the one I am responding to proposed, Canada. T
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by borroka 3y ago
Comparing one or two thousand workers in one industry (say NFL) with hundreds of thousands in another (tech) is rather daring
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by borroka 3y ago
"If there is no advantage to your job being done while being physically collocated within the US, there is no advantage to your job being done by someone in the US." Time zone still makes a difference, there are very few jobs that
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by borroka 3y ago
Most workers in the tech sector are young, and young people earning below-median salaries are salivating at the idea of moving, at some point in the near future, due to their skills, market conditions, luck or wishful thinking, into the abo
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by borroka 3y ago
Unionization is more likely to occur when the variance of workers' wages (in the technology sector, this is total compensation) is low. In tech, the variance of workers' wages is high.
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by borroka 3y ago
RTO is there to remind you that despite claims of talent shortages and after taking into account the fact that a substantial portion of the workforce is okay with returning to the office, for many companies the supply of talent is greater t
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by borroka 3y ago
As somebody who grew up in Europe and moved to the US for a postdoc and then started working in tech and never left, the main difference is the lack of venture capital ecosystem in Europe. Why there is no VC ecosystem is a topic for another
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by borroka 3y ago
I don't like to judge the appearance of others and prefer just to maintain high standards for myself. My comment was descriptive and not normative. I like working out and being in shape, but if others prefer to do some side project at
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by borroka 3y ago
This is true, and it is puzzling how people think that there are geniuses, evil or otherwise, who have planned the educational system so as to achieve some sort of results for the society at large that go beyond the mundane. Where the munda
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by borroka 3y ago
It is important not to think of black-white alternatives. The style "good job, kid!", "great effort, little man/woman!" is undoubtedly paternalistic. There are people who like this style on both sides of the convers
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by borroka 3y ago
I don't see my comment as particularly profound. I have lived for a few decades at this point and have noticed, like anyone else I imagine, a desire in (some, but a nontrivial percentage of) people to maintain lifelong ways of thinking
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It is the HR-motivated eternal infantilization of the people. In fact, to the person who went through mental and physical developments with no blockages or traumas, it comes across as a quite paternalistic way of communicating, but it is a
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by borroka 3y ago
There was (there is, but now he is older and much less popular) a famous Italian TV host, Giovanni Minoli, who had the same style of interviewing (you can find some of his interviews from the 1980s and 1990s on youtube; they are in Italian,
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by borroka 3y ago
TC says he is well-prepared for interviews, that he has read this book and listened to that interview of the current guest, but then asks questions that are way out of the interviewee's circle of competence, interests, or knowledge. &q
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by borroka 3y ago
Yes, that's what I was saying is unlikely to happen, not impossible, certainly. The top players are generally recognized as people to be supported, put on high-value projects, and kept happy. The comment says the opposite happens, whi
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by borroka 3y ago
I think this is one of the tropes that assume that senior management is basically made up of people who have no idea how to do "work" and who have the inclination to make the most ineffective decisions. In reality, there is a dist
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by borroka 3y ago
I guess you think they are actually working 103 hours per week. I have a bridge to sell, in case you are interested.
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by borroka 3y ago
I don't agree at all that "people" are okay with this. If I, like many others, had a choice, we certainly would not want people, for example, to work so many overtime hours that no sane person could reasonably justify. But wh
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by borroka 3y ago
"Owyang, the senior deputy sheriff with the highest overtime pay, logged more than 3,300 overtime hours over the year, meaning he worked an average of 63 overtime hours per week. Two other deputies, Barry Bloom and Kristian DeJesus, al
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by borroka 3y ago
It's not just about money, there are cultural changes that you can see from a distance, but when you are not in the middle of it. For example, I used to play soccer when it was thought that doing weights made one slow or "tied up.
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by borroka 3y ago
Kareem's article does not say much about Bruce Lee the man, the martial artist, the actor, the philosopher, apart from the usual mundane observations. Frankly, it is a rather disappointing article. Much more about Bruce Lee and the Cal
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by borroka 3y ago
I once walked out of a picture, for Ermanno Olmi's Il mestiere delle armi (The Profession of Arms). I was not ready for what I later discovered was a masterpiece about the last days of Giovanni Dalle Bande Nere. If you are interested i
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by borroka 3y ago
You did what I did, but 30 years ago, hats off. I've had a few suits made by my tailor and some were well crafted, others, well, let's leave it at that. I would say, outside of SE Asia, $1k is the middle ground between too expensi
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by borroka 3y ago
I am not the above poster, but I have a semi-reliable tailor in Southeast Asia. They took my measurements a few years ago when I visited their country, and I send them size updates when needed. They have excellent fabrics in a variety of co
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You are right, but the "I know nothing" after years of practicing whatever skill you are trying to develop sounds much more like feigned humility than a frank and frankly attractive assessment of someone's abilities. I have a
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He could also assume that he is above average and aim to be in the top 0.1%. Would it change how (1) the results he is seeking will be achieved and (2) the effect his story has on others? My answers are: for (1), no, and for (2), yes. As fo
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by borroka 3y ago
Racquet sports and fitness trends come and go. When I was a kid, decades ago, squash was niche but well known, kids like me and my friends spent hours playing variations of table tennis, "pelota" was a cheap game with made-up rule

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