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by heymijo 6y ago
It's also wasteful. Deloitte is one org that crunched the numbers on it. They scrapped their old system and moved to a new lightweight system. I'll have to check on their progress in the interim 6 years since this report. https:&
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by heymijo 6y ago
It's a shallow article on well worn territory. This is the closest it gets to touching your assertion > A number of line managers told me they gamed the system. They would put people who had just joined the team in the bottom brack
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by heymijo 6y ago
closeparen, you're majoring in the minors. I watch a group of twenty kindergarten students (5 and 6 year olds) every day who have figured out how to have effective remote meetings (turn taking, mute by default, etc) and most don't
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by heymijo 6y ago
The author circles back on himself though and notes that even though the 15 minute stand up itself is "a waste of time" the conversation it catalyzes amongst employees afterwards is of value.
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Does SAP use its own system?
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Ask HN: How do you build/test/deploy/maintain software in your organization?
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This past year wasn't WFH. This was WFH during a pandemic. Thinking they are the same is a mistake.
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The great tragedy to me is the regulatory capture of the FAA and the erosion of trust in commercial flight.
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"In his letter, Jacobsen recommends that Boeing upgrade the MAX’s autothrottle logic to either disconnect or give the pilots a warning when the computer registers invalid data. In the upgrade to the MAX that allowed it to return to ser
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by heymijo 6y ago
The article shows that safety engineers at the FAA would have had the requisite knowledge to see the problems with the MCAS system, but as OP said above, there was no "issue paper" from Boeing to regulators about the system.
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Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) [0]. You might have missed this news. It’s a modern remix to the Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich days of developing legendary aircraft at Lockheed’s Skunkworks that you lamented the loss of. People in the kn
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by heymijo 6y ago
What you noticed is what is well known in education--school ratings are merely a proxy for the socioeconomic status of its students/families [0]. What can be teased out from that regarding cause/effect/deterministic is still
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by heymijo 6y ago
"...I think makes this untenable, at least in the US" Some information that may be new to you: Widespread cheating is common in the US. Atlanta, El Paso, Columbus. Google "big city name + cheating" and you'll likely
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by heymijo 6y ago
When was the last time you saw a cigarette ad on TV? Commercial speech in the United States has limitations. Historically commercial speech was not protected by the 1st amendment. Protections and limitations have largely been established ov
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by heymijo 6y ago
Yes! I've been in late model Porsche's, BMW's, GMC's, Honda's, and Ford's.* It's weird being in an $80k Porsche and thinking "this is garbage" because the infotainment system is so poorly designe
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by heymijo 6y ago
“There are no environmental restrictions here.” Cloud is still computing. Computers with a finite life that need to be produced, from natural resources. Computing that needs to be powered and cooled. Those have environmental impacts and ver
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by heymijo 6y ago
The CEO for starters. Post-Enron accounting rules via Sarbanes-Oxley made it so that the CEO had to sign off on and certify the financial statements. The buck stopped there. [0] Why not here as well? Unless you are thinking about putting th
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by heymijo 6y ago
I think these three books offer a solid framework for providing an answer to your question: 1) The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich [0] - Reich drops the buzzword neoliberalism in favor of the word power. I like that as
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by heymijo 6y ago
I see how that could be confusing. I am unfortunately past my edit window but thanks for the feedback.
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In your head > out loud > on paper > to someone else. "First you communicate with yourself." - Peter Drucker I remember Drucker laying out this hierarchy for communication in his tome on management. Each step is progressi
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by heymijo 6y ago
I'm curious what ideas people here have to best address our world's collective quantitative illiteracy.
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Biosphere 2 was originally meant to demonstrate the viability of closed ecological systems to support and maintain human life in outer space [0] > including humans seem to have caused most of the problems I chuckled a bit at your reply
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I taught this in 6th grade social studies in Ohio (a state in the USA) two years ago. A reasonable interpretation of the standards should see this being taught in all 6th grade social studies classes across Ohio. SPATIAL THINKING AND SKILL
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by heymijo 6y ago
I think there's such an interest in seeing the genius behind a work which actually involves the collaboration of a group to actually succeed Walter Isaacson recognized this when he went to write his book The Innovators [0]. He intend
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by heymijo 6y ago
Prosecutors have been going after Purdue and the Sackler's for over a decade now. Forty seven states have sued Purdue pharma over the opioid crisis with twenty nine of those states specifically naming members of the Sackler family in t
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by heymijo 6y ago
I think that maybe then you too should be mad at the Sacklers. They intentionally and knowingly deceived the market that opioids were safe. Had they not done that maybe the opioid epidemic would not have happened and you could still have ac
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Sure. This was a school/school district. We thought big, and started small. Our initial initiative was for K-6 only. In the following years, this spread to both the middle school, and then the high school. Driven by demand from the tea
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This was a school/school district. The common concern was lack of direction and changing direction with new change initiative one/two/three/four times per year. We created an initiative for teacher created and led profes
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by heymijo 6y ago
Listened to people. The organization I worked at had no direction. Low morale. Lots of complaining. No leadership from people in management positions. A colleague and myself tried some of the things mentioned by others below to build camara
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In theory performance management should be about helping people improve. In practice performance management is about four things: 1) Pay 2) Promotions 3) Accountability (e.g. firing) 4) To satisfy legal requirements (perceived and real) Per

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