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by cal_dent 10mo ago
I'd argue that if your point around remote fully held true then that would be shown in the very short-term by rental prices (as the key indicator of people leaving London in lieu of population/census data) but that hasnt been appa
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
nostalgia is a helluva drug
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Housing is a funny old one and speaks to it being a human problem. One thing a lot of people dont truly engage with with the housing issue is that its a massive issue of distribution. Too many people want to live in too few places. Yes, cen
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
I tend to agree on your algorithm point. But one distinction, which i think is a valid one, is that the algorithm is designed to over correct to what people's impulses are and that is is a design choice so there is a "guiding&quot
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
I remember watching a doco series about moon landing a long time ago; and for the life of me I can't remember what its called. But essentially amongst the awe of the whole thing, it also had the perspective from black americans which i
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
I tell everyone to introduce friction into their lives...especially if they have kids. Friction is good! Friction is part of the je ne sais quoi that make human's create
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
Thank you for expressing this. It might not be pithy but its something I've been thinking about a lot for a long time and this a well articulated way of expressing this
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
Yes i agree with this. I think more people, than not, would benefit from actively cultivating space in their lives to be bored. Even something as basic as putting your phone in the internal zip part of your bag, so when you're standing
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
I so wish every new starter in professional working life is given a 101 on literally this. I've seen so many talented people over the years think they're above taking part in the corporate optics and then subsequently get bogged d
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
FWIW, coming from another unknown internet person, this is 100% the best reply to this whole thread and the most pragmatic way in corporate life. If you think otherwise, you're an idealist and I wish all the best for you in what I susp
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
You are part of the collective, but that does not necessarily mean that your perception matters for the purpose of the score, what this thread is about. Sticking to thread, in terms of perspective on corporate world, are you a decision-make
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
Hear me out...the sim city soundtracks are excellent
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
I think of it as "introducing friction". There's a lot things that we do now which is largely as a result of frictionless ease of doing it. Smartphones and social media are the obvious one, but it applies to many technology&#
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
wow. this thread is microcosm of how wild and polarised the internet can be.
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
The bigger concern is that we've steadily been going from a circa 4:1 ratio of worker to non-worker to closer to 2:1 ratio. For an economic system based on workers paying the way for non-workers that is toxic. We've royally screwe
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
rent control (which realistically for all but the most idealist is some sort of capped rent increase policy) can only work if its done and owned by the state/nation. It can't work for private sector as the ROI will be relatively p
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
White collar office society can barely cope with the relatively minor friction that technology brings from allowing work from anywhere and we're expected to believe it, it can deal with somewhat unaccountable and unknowable AI smoothly
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
i remember when it was the buzzword in q3 2020 too....
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
I believe the long-term average in the US and UK was somewhere around 20 - 25 weeks so that's still broadly in line. Not trying to dismiss anyone but there is a cacophony of voices about the difficulty in finding jobs but hard to ascer
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
looks like a return to post GFC pre-covid trend. That's sort of what I mean, we've obviously come from a boom-ish market and correcting. How much of it now is the shock that now isnt the same as the 2021-2023 market v this is the
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
more importantly, good luck to any country that has to deal with an environment full of huge swathes of people festering with the anger and nihilism that comes from going from something to nothing...not for me
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
I think there's something quite interesting (well to me anyway) where if you go by the internet, there is this bloodbath (slight exaggeration perhaps but feels like that) in jobs out in the US, UK, Aus and major European countries (the
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
I’d change to “can be the same as being wrong” and agree. All these people out there thinking their being oh so clever with bubble this short that etc. Everyone knows. One of the idiosyncrasies of modern human society is that we’re pretty g
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
think you've been led down a garden path there...this is not true, based on my equally anecdotal takes from family who are teachers there. There is a problem about lack of male teachers in NZ but that is more as a result of men not wan
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
What about their dad’s & uncle’s? Mum’s male friends? I don’t know, external (outside the family) isn’t the only source of “mentorship” and we should stop trying to pretend it is
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
Sure but fwiw in 30 odd years in large corps, I’ve never come across any corp that doesn’t succumb to a sanitised form of basic tribalism
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
I see it as the continued corporatisation of everything. I suspect that you'd be hard press to find anyone who has ever been anywhere above middle-management in a corporate organisation who doesnt see, and chuckles at, the similarities
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
“All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage“
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by cal_dent 11mo ago
That’s true…but I do think people need to learn more that avoidance is a strategy too. The odds are too stacked against the average person to engage properly so just don’t. I don’t know. Sure there are certain unavoidable things but for a l
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by cal_dent 1y ago
hmm not sure i buy this but happy to be corrected. I'd argue that low interest rate for a substantial period post GFC has led to misallocation of capital to more finite assets such as housing which in turn has led to increase house pri

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