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by club_tropical 4y ago
Penalties are generally meted out using the press (smear reputations through excessive focus on one person, show kompromat) and economic actors (withdraw sponsors, withdraw funding, etc). In the rare case that someone fails to be adequately
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I didn't know about Husserl, very interesting, thank you for sharing.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
1) You cannot mentor and teach good judgment. 2) Management has virtually nothing to do with mentorship and teaching. It is more akin to having a garden. You have a particular type of soil and sunshine and rainfall (tasks, company culture,
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Was there a secondary adjustment step to finalize admit/deny? Your heatmap-based method would almost certainly result in an unacceptable racial composition of the class.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Barring fraud, standardized tests are not gameable, unlike GPA, references, etc. You can study and improve your score, of course (just like you can study and improve GPA) but that's not "gameing" in the subversive way you m
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by club_tropical 4y ago
You can take things on/off someone's plate, but you cannot improve them into good judgment. If you are letting someone go, it is almost never the case that, had you given a different set of tasks, they would have been a good emplo
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I cannot see how, if the issue was a simple mapping update like this, it would have taken years to come up.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Harshness is absolutely a metadata of language, at least as important as the dry content. If I say "pass me the salt", but do so with a loud and angry voice, far more is being communicated than the simple request to pass a salt. P
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by club_tropical 4y ago
The drawback is that most of the time, words are highly reductive and inferior to indirect and nonverbal communication. They are only useful if the issue is extremely isolated or about adding/removing things off someone's plate. V
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by club_tropical 4y ago
"never telling the employee that there’s a problem" is almost never the case. Your comment mentioned years of miscommunication. If they never expect an update or ever ask you about that thing you were supposed to do, I guess tha
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by club_tropical 4y ago
When an employee doesn't work out, it is virtually never because, had you used different words, the issue would have been fixed. I get it, there are other cultures, some say "why don't you look into X" while others say &
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by club_tropical 4y ago
And yet, your examples are when words did not bridge the gap. You think "You should do X" is more clear, but to the Californian in question, that framing would sound very harsh. If they gave you "feedback", the manager
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I think feedback is overrated. If somebody can't read the myriad of indirect and nonverbal communication to understand whether they are pulling their weight and meeting expectations, there is little words can fix. Feedback only works i
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Have some mercy on the employers; they didn’t want it this way. This is all downstream of law. Nobody wants to play Russian Roulette by being direct with people and risking a lawsuit or, more likely, a complaint at the EEOC. Even if everyth
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I am arguing for a different telos of education: maximize the number of Mozarts and its equivalents in every field. Not a system that maximizes the average score of the nation's Jingle Bells performance over time. I care singularly abo
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I hear you guys on the (relatively small time) financial fraud / theft, but the article mentions far worse. If you went to the police with a video and PII of a violent crime, would they still not open an investigation?
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by club_tropical 4y ago
1) That's not at all the point. If it was, NAEP and its ilk would be measuring the exceptions, which they are not. It is not even mentioned, let alone measured. 2) Also, "equal access to education" does not mean sticking kids
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Content moderators and their pay should be a footnote - the real story is Tiktok's treasure trove of criminal evidence, presumably with a lot of PII. It is telling that there isn't any effort to refer evidence automatically to loc
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by club_tropical 4y ago
The company that would do those things wouldn't get investment or would be actively railroaded; that's why. There are plenty of underserved markets with huge market demand, you identified one of them, and they will remain underser
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Those "few more bucks" end up in the right manager's PnL who gets promoted, though. Nobody at Lenovo leadership cares about Lenovo beyond the next few years; that's the problem.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Suzerains gonna suzerain.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Is 13% increase in NAEP scores worth all the increased the public school math / STEM investment since 1990? And that's being charitable - believing that the increase is not due to mucking around with the "representative sampl
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by club_tropical 4y ago
This whole exercise in mass mediocrity cannot end soon enough. We need to be measuring exceptions not averages. Just like an honest measure of public investment in "piano education" would be the ability to produce Mozarts, not eno
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Notwithstanding the particulars about serotonin, I'm not disputing that brain chemistry balances might be heritable to some extent, like height. But "depression" is a downstream phenomenon of one's brain chemistry intera
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by club_tropical 4y ago
This sounds like you've been at minority-shareholder-operated companies (as opposed to owner or majority-shareholder operated). They are managerialized and the reason job-hoppers are negative is that it is a bureaucratic organization w
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by club_tropical 4y ago
The clear divide in hiring preferences will be if it's owner operated or manager operated. Owner (like I suspect, you) will have clear goals, expectations, and fast ramp-up for the position. Manager wants cog_A in engine_B - predictabl
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by club_tropical 4y ago
In 200 years, people will study this as a crazy tale from the dark ages. The worst thing for depressed people has been the idea that it's a random/genetic phenomenon as opposed to ecological misalignment with their biospirit.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
> More of an oldest child with extra responsibilities and a higher allowance. And a disposable one at that!
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Excepting the exceptions, only men care about legacy and purpose. Women care about a well socialized easy life. A family can provide that, but it does restrict you in significant ways. An air conditioned office where you're tippy typin
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by club_tropical 4y ago
What's going on at the North pole?

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