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by brianmcc 6y ago
To be fair there are quite a few millennials for whom loss of beloved parents and grandparents to an avoidable cause would be something of a downside too...
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by brianmcc 6y ago
Great real world example. IMO it's a really powerful "language pattern". Another example: "Boris Johnson is a woefully inadequate Prime Minister but he was kind of funny 20 years ago on Have I Got News For You". It&
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by brianmcc 6y ago
It could well be! Reading it properly again for the first time in literally around 30 years I'm astonished at how much I've taken its messages to heart in my 20+ year career. To this day I have a downright visceral reaction agains
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by brianmcc 6y ago
This Orwell essay stuck with me many years ago, well worth a read: https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
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Very much agree (friendly tip it's 'shiny' with just one 'n' btw)
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It's "cool" to move fast, break things. It's less cool to tread carefully and do due diligence. People love to use folksy stories to justify the former (the one about the monkeys for example - https://workingo
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by brianmcc 6y ago
My new Pixel 4 arrived literally yesterday, such timing :-) In fairness I picked it as a great "carry-around camera" with a phone attached and it looks like it might work well in that regard, photo quality is very good from first
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by brianmcc 6y ago
It's a predictive blog entry , not a predictive blog overall. He's not some genius super forecaster like Dom Cummings :-) He is though successful Sci-Fi author Charles Stross in case you didn't pick that up from the page, a
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by brianmcc 6y ago
Yes! There are people you can send a numbered list of questions - 5, even 10 - and get a structured, definitive response from them in return, and your task is done. And there are people you just can't collaborate with in that way - you
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by brianmcc 6y ago
Where in EU, and are you up for perhaps moving?
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by brianmcc 6y ago
Hadn't thought about this before - but you're spot on, some serious investment in innovating in this area could massively improve the whole remote working experience. Here's hoping!
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My own story is not dissimilar :-)
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You're the Zach Edwards behind the findings I assume? Helpful to confirm in case others miss the username implication! (Nice work!)
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by brianmcc 6y ago
You might find this a useful discussion and article from a couple of years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717168
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by brianmcc 7y ago
But he's not saying "everything's currently super" he's saying "things are truly crappy right now but they will get better". I don't see what's tone deaf there. He's pitching a message of lo
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by brianmcc 7y ago
My take on this - the guy's not boasting about accomplishments here, just trying to reassure some young people who will be feeling pretty anxious about their future. Why the hostility?
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by brianmcc 7y ago
In the UK?
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by brianmcc 7y ago
If "standing out" is your goal, sorry but generic boilerplate platitudes is not the way to go. I reckon the problem is this vague notion that exists about what "professional" looks like - slick, smooth, bland, and relent
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by brianmcc 7y ago
Sounds like we are in agreement. And yes there's a world of difference between world-class TV drama and the dross that fills much of the airwaves that frankly perhaps should come with some sort of health warning...
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by brianmcc 7y ago
Yeah I don't see it as competing with other "wholesome" activities (cigars?!), just: don't beat yourself up for enjoying a bit of low-effort, passive entertainment! Personally I find decent TV shows a great way to unwind
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by brianmcc 7y ago
Glad the change is working for you. There's definitely such a thing as overdoing TV binges. But all of us need to be cautious about ditching a legitimate entertainment and relaxation medium because it's not "productive",
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by brianmcc 7y ago
"As you move up the ladder you are constantly trading control for impact." What a wonderfully succinct way of expressing this - it also captures why "control-motivated" people for want of a better description struggle so
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by brianmcc 7y ago
Being colourblind I wasn't going to bother with this video but this and the other comments about his series have piqued my interest!
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by brianmcc 7y ago
If you can solve the "don't hire 'bad' people" problem you will be a very rich person :-D
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by brianmcc 7y ago
Definitely some truth here, but it favours upper management benevolently choosing leaders IMO. Those with talent/ability but without the desire to lead will never compete with the actively power-hungry.
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by brianmcc 7y ago
Kind of been there, done that, it ain't nice, good luck. Don't be afraid to make your own move if it's the only escape option!
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by brianmcc 7y ago
Leaders will either be imposed, chosen, or emerge organically. Not necessarily formally/titled as such, but they will emerge. Sometimes an organic leader will be great for a group - best person for it - but there's potential for s
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by brianmcc 7y ago
Do you mean UK or England? I'd like to hope Scotland remains a welcoming environment. And it has lots of opportunities for tech folks, certainly in the "central belt" Glasgow and Edinburgh. Check out the jobserve.co.uk websi
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by brianmcc 7y ago
the built in resilience via N nodes of something like CRDB can be useful even with super-small-scale data/traffic
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by brianmcc 7y ago
Indeed - 200 people at 25% efficiency is still 50 people-units of contribution!

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