cojadate

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by cojadate 17y ago
What would be really is interesting is the same study but with the first group being told they're hard-working and the second group not being given any praise at all. That would help test how far the "praise/incentives diminish performance"
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by cojadate 17y ago
Just praise her for her non-physical qualities, so that that when the twisted high-school value system kicks in, she'll at least be aware of an alternative value system.
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by cojadate 17y ago
I'm not so sure. I've found a certain level of anxiety can make me perform better at things. Complacency can be dangerous too in my experience.
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by cojadate 17y ago
You conflate two separate things there – 'noticing' and 'deciding it was a nice opportunity'. The article claimed that noticing opportunities was a characteristic of lucky people. It did not say that lucky people were any more likely to be
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by cojadate 17y ago
The article was saying that luck was down to mindset, not psychic ability! Richard Wiseman's claims are in no way affected by the experiment you just mentioned, because games of pure chance are not affected by mindset. Most of life is aff
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by cojadate 17y ago
I would argue that Stephen King's 'It' should also have the status of a great novel. One French critic wrote of 'It': «Ça» fonctionne parce que «Ça» fait peur. Pendant plus de mille pages – Jean-Pierre Dufreigne, L'Express Translation: 'It'
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by cojadate 17y ago
I don't think they are necessarily problems. Re: first problem: I think a large number of fairly good comments probably IS a more valuable contribution than a small number of very good comments. The second problem is more, er, problematic,
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by cojadate 17y ago
Aha, I didn't realise. So HN is already an example of a karma system that doesn't reward hyperactivity.
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by cojadate 17y ago
I'm glad to see the Economist raise this subject. I've known so many people who hate their jobs, it really does seem like it should be higher up on the political agenda than it is. This article brings up two particularly interesting points
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by cojadate 17y ago
It perplexes me too, especially after Tony Blair committed political suicide by joining in with the invasion of Iraq. Churchill established it as a lynchpin of British foreign policy, as absolute and unquestionably valid as the old "maintai
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by cojadate 17y ago
I mostly agree with you, but it's not hard to create a karma system that isn't just a reward for hyperactivity. For example, Hacker News could change its system so that nobody got a point simply for posting a comment. But however fine-tuned
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by cojadate 17y ago
I starting reading that with the usual sense of horror I get when reading about these kind of degenerative conditions and ended with a real sense of admiration and awe at the guy's attitude.
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by cojadate 17y ago
One of the most striking parts of this article came right at the end: the mention of all these successful, well-adjusted people's amazing capacity to lie to themselves: "In 1946, for example, 34 percent of the Grant Study men who had served
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by cojadate 17y ago
Well this is an article about life stories so tough luck. The study had some conclusions which could be drawn out without understanding the life stories, but they're nothing you haven't heard before. The point of this article really was the
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by cojadate 17y ago
In the end we come down to an unfruitful debate on the distinction between 'idea' and 'execution'. If you've got every last detail for a website planned out in your head but nothing implemented, that's still an idea, not execution. In my op
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by cojadate 17y ago
"There is almost no mention of inflation in The General Theory" Combined with the apparent lack of explanation for bubbles, doesn't that meant there is a gigantic gaping hole in the entire theory? I don't quite see why The General Theory wa
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by cojadate 17y ago
An idea can be completely unoriginal and still be a good idea – an idea is still good even after it's been copied. So the article's contention that there can be no success without both good execution and a good idea is completely accurate.
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by cojadate 17y ago
Working harder IS a good business strategy, but only if you've correctly worked out what's worth working on. Once you've identified what tasks produce the highest value, it makes sense to work on those tasks as much you can (i.e. as many ho
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by cojadate 17y ago
I really don't think article is meant to be taken very seriously. I mean dividing society into three powers, the footballers, the artists and the nerds... is not a sociological theory that anyone is going to defend without the aid of severa