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by ellius 7y ago
You get nuance and immersion in a longer form, but shorter forms are definitely sufficient for main ideas or a refresher.
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by ellius 7y ago
He's referring to the current academic climate, especially in fields like literature, much of which is derogatory towards the past and "great works."
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by ellius 7y ago
There's a fine line, though. Even keeping a list may interfere with feelings of clarity and direction if you become swamped by feelings of obligation. I once heard someone refer to Marie Kondo's "Magic of Tidying Up" as
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by ellius 7y ago
That's a nice theory and all, but if the NBA really believes that then its representatives should stop pretending to care about free speech.
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by ellius 7y ago
Why is it any less the responsibility of American businessmen than American politicians? We're a nation of free people, and we all share in both the benefits and responsibilities of freedom. You don't get to pretend to be an Ameri
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by ellius 7y ago
"By diverse means we reach the same end" https://medium.com/@phillip_hayes/montaigne-1-by-diverse-mea...
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by ellius 7y ago
There's a good Seneca letter, "On Quiet Conversation." It includes these lines: "Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs... Words should be scattered like seed; no matter how small t
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by ellius 7y ago
Great book. I also recommend "The Effective Executive."
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by ellius 7y ago
Yeah also that's not how the process of check clearing works (instant account-to-account payments). Banks batch checks payable to the same counterparty institutions and then compare their liabilities against one another to transfer onl
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by ellius 7y ago
An apple is red, and your underwear are red, so you should eat your underwear. The fact that two things share a superficial attribute does not make them equivalent.
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by ellius 7y ago
"A university is a business." This is a massive false equivalence. For one thing, most of the "employees" in your metaphor are eighteen to twenty-two years old. Not to mention the fact that students are regularly put thr
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by ellius 7y ago
In general I think matching your tools to your needs, and coming up with solutions that are as simple as possible (but not simpler) is a super power and hard to get right. Your goal should always be to maximize your leverage by hiding and o
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by ellius 7y ago
I mix and match a bunch of systems, some of which are digital, to create something that works for me. I think personal productivity and reflection systems have to be unique to the user. The part I personally find useful to digitize is the s
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by ellius 7y ago
Anecdotally, I really like the Bullet Journal system of combining todo lists with reflection. It's useful to compare the things you'd like to be doing to the things you're actually doing, and to actively contemplate the diffe
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by ellius 7y ago
On the other hand, recalling the books and passages that really resonate with you is useful and pleasant. Schopenhauer said, "Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately." I agree with the recommendations of &
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by ellius 7y ago
I think people also have a very hard time conceptualizing the amount of time it took to evolve human intelligence. You're talking literally hundreds of millions of years from the first nerve tissues to modern human brains. I understand
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by ellius 7y ago
It depends on what you need. If I need a Docker expert, you can be sure I'll tailor my interview to a Docker deep dive with very precise and detailed questions about commands, concepts, etc. The first step in any interview process shou
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by ellius 7y ago
Amen. I'll throw in a pitch for "High Output Management," which does a good job of describing how and why to do 1-on-1s. Everyone hates meetings, but they're the primary way for people to propagate information and vent f
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by ellius 7y ago
I actually agree with that and think that's something I need to mix in. But I will say it's hard to bullshit your way through every one of those questions. I've had people BS through 3-4 but pretty much inevitably they fell a
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by ellius 7y ago
Here's mine: 1. I ask about prior experience, following up on any interesting resume items or comments. I try to act like a "biographer" (per the book "Who") and just learn their story. 2. I ask them to describe dat
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by ellius 7y ago
Can you elaborate? I work on a Spring Boot application and so far we're all pretty happy with it. Obviously I'm one data point, so I'd like to hear more about what you're seeing.
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by ellius 7y ago
Actually I didn't know that, thanks.
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by ellius 7y ago
I really wish iPhones had away messages for iMessage and/or SMS. It can seem like you're intentionally being a dick if you don't respond promptly, so it'd be nice to just make it clear you've chosen to be not availa
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by ellius 7y ago
It's sort of a "Tragedy of Systems." It's very easy for negligent or malicious actors to make bad decisions in a system context, but to have the consequences of those decisions not manifest in the same time or place as w
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by ellius 7y ago
"In the City, they sell and buy. And nobody ever asks them why. But since it contents them to buy and sell, God forgive them, they might as well."
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by ellius 7y ago
In my book if you don't have authority, including to hire and fire and affect compensation decisions, then you aren't a manager. In that situation you're half glorified babysitter and half scapegoat. And I agree this is how m
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by ellius 7y ago
The more I study history, the more grateful I am that we invented these weapons. I look at the polarization in the United States today, for example, and I wonder what it would be like if we could kill each other less extremely. The fact tha
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by ellius 7y ago
So I included that "necessarily" on purpose. In general smarter people will solve problems more correctly. But there is also a whole class of problems where being smart is actually a detriment. Here is a good read on this topic:
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by ellius 7y ago
You probably know this, but a lot of studies back you up. Being smarter doesn't necessarily make you more likely to be right, but it makes you a hell of a lot better at rationalizing your position and persuading others. Also, that comm
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by ellius 7y ago
Did an overnight study at a sleep clinic. I'd been told for years by friends that I made very weird gasping, snoring noises. After I'd been out of college a few years and realized I was fatigued literally every day despite going t

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