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by heymijo 6y ago
Performance management is subjectivity masquerading as objectivity. I'm a broken record about this.
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Unfortunately the educational system I work in prioritizes conformity. I feel that in my bones. If you see this I'd be curious to hear more about your education experience. Drop me a line at heymijo.hn at google mail if you'd li
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https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=heymijo&p=2&commen... I favorite comments often. I like to scan back through. I generate a lot of ideas and make a lot of connections doing so. Same caveats apply to my favo
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Btw, since this is HN and its oriented towards startups let me pull this out of the teaching world and into management.+ I'm not alone. Andy Grove and his concept of Task Relevant Maturity (TRM) have a lot of overlap here. Primarily in
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I'd have thought that my advisor was crushing my creativity and ingenuity Thanks for sharing this story. I think a lot of about potential impacts like this on students/learners. My goals when teaching are to nurture agency, auto
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You're welcome. It's useful and enjoyable for me to see how people think through their teaching. Should you want to find out more you can search "productive struggle nctm/math/teaching." The concept came to me
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From someone versed in teaching, here's my unsolicited analysis of your teaching: On the spectrum from direct instruction (I tell you/show you what to do) to inquiry (I set up a situation for you to use some of your prior knowledg
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No discussion of sprawl is complete without talking about Robert Moses. American highways, and highways around the world sprawl as they do because of Robert Moses. Throughout Robert Cairo's 1344 page biography of Moses, the reader sees
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Six months ago a poster here lamented that they were rejected by Google and Facebook. That it would take 2-3 years for them to make $250k. That everyone they see on IG is getting to go to Hawaii on offsites while their employer won't e
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When something is written so perfectly there is nothing else to say. But comments with many replies seem to draw more attention so I will add to this: I have taught in an area that is poor. The opioid epidemic piled on top of that poverty t
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I first heard this idea articulated in Umberto Eco's article on Ur-Fascism or Eternal Fascism [0,1]. First link is the abridged list. The second is a full feature article. From Point #8 "by a continuous shifting of rhetorical foc
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How do venture backed economics for a supersonic jet company work? My understanding of watching VC over the past decade is that it's great for hyper-scaling software companies, tenuous at best for hybrid tech/real world companies,
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Andy Rachleff, known for his articulation of product/market fit, says a company with a lock on product/market fit can do almost everything else wrong and still succeed. Google firing all of its managers early on in its existence i
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The big company was more vulnerable to systemic risk due to inflexibility, the small companies are more vulnerable to individual risks due to employee action or lack of controls. This is incredibly well said and worth highlighting.
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In Ohio its signature and ID number on your driver's license or last 4 of your social security number. So ballots go to the wrong place, fine. The probability of random person there being interested and then finding any of this informa
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Credentialism - I saw this word used today elsewhere and it sums up what I am trying to say
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My assertion is that continuing education credits, or advanced degrees are far from a guarantee of improving a teacher's practice. Continuing education suffers from "box checking." There are a number of reasons for this. It i
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No one pays for prevention. Few pay for maintenance. Everyone pays for the fixes required from the lack of investment in the former.
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> Nobody can argue what the next accounting rules are This is just not accurate. Accounting rules not only can be argued, they are all the time. FASB and GAAP are rife with subjectivity. I have an accounting degree.
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Goodhart's Law May be what OP is referring to. I have seen it in teaching. Teachers need xx hours of training per year. Training often satisfies that requirement but provides no significant benefits in terms of pedagogical improvement
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I bootstrapped a startup to $27m in revenue. I woke up with knots in my stomach for months thinking about the things I would have to do to get customers and the non-stop rejection the day would hold as I worked to get a foothold for my star
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Atoav above described this culture in Viennese coffee houses where "you get one coffee and stay for hours." I have seen this environment at a small university town where I used to live. You overhear all sorts of interesting conv
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I put off reading the 48 Laws of Power for a long time for reasons similar to OP. Probably should have read it sooner but at least I had plenty of experience to compare against it when I finally did suck it up and read it. I will add Dictat
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I am obtusely aware that Germany has banned hate speech and imagery relating to Nazis yet remains a democracy with mostly free speech. Am I wrong? If no, how have they accomplished this?
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Whitman also integrated Paypal after the acquisition. Eric Jackson's book, Musk's biography, and other sources paint Paypal as an organizational mess. Successful mergers are no small order. Whitman succeeded.
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Thank you for pointing this out and making the implicit explicit for me.
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After reading Part I yesterday I got to thinking about SpaceX. In his biography, Ashlee Vance describes how Musk built a knowledge base about rocket construction after his exit from Paypal. Both the "how to" and a first principles
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In America there's at least one more major example that just "generally need more money" doesn't help—medical costs/debt [0,1,2] [0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-019-050
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That's a great question. Followed by a good point about perception of the individual being important. As for a well-defined line about abuse, I'll draw from Justice Potter Stewart's utterance about pornography [0]: > I kn
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Agree 100 percent about Catmull and Pixar ignoring and enabling John Lasseter's sexual harassment/abuse of women at the company. Appreciate you bringing it up and contrasting with the "small ugly pettiness" of the MJ&#x2

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