burntoutsophos

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by burntoutsophos 5y ago
Not the parent commenter, but Thank you fellow Internet stranger. With people speculating about re-incarnation and linking it with Quantum stuff (basically pulling things out of their cloaca), I had to scroll way far down to see your direct
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by burntoutsophos 5y ago
Ah, found a person of culture in my geographical proximity (relatively speaking)! Humans like you are hard to come by these days (or maybe that was universally true across the ages). Appreciate your practical recommendations. I never expect
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by burntoutsophos 5y ago
This True Story sounds suspiciously specific.. as if you know this person (who went through with the self-sacrifice) up close and personal.. unless you are implying that this person is none other than... In either case, please let 'him
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by burntoutsophos 5y ago
Apart from lack of interest in dis-incentivizing this behavior, two possible reasons come to mind - why managers like these exist: 1. (Nature) Some of them were just tuned that way since childhood. 2. (Nurture) When these managers were juni
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by burntoutsophos 5y ago
I empathize with her situation as I've been in similar situation at a Big 4 organization - An onshore manager (not my direct manager) from my team called me up at 2.30am (his afternoon time) during the first week of our engagement. I d
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by burntoutsophos 5y ago
I echo your sentiments - That's precisely what I thought after reading those same books. I've speculated that his excessively positive stance might be - in order to cater to an uber-optimistic crowd of humans (high percentage of e
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by burntoutsophos 5y ago
To summarize both viewpoints in a single clichéd-but-true-timeless quote: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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by burntoutsophos 5y ago
From the abstract: >We fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning our best thinkers have discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update belie
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by burntoutsophos 5y ago
If someone had shown me this 1922 article a decade ago, I'd have labeled him/her as cynical. In the present day however, this article surmises so much of what I've experienced in the past few years. Another comment in this th