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by hos234 7y ago
There is nothing weird or abnormal about people pushing their own agenda. Its normal and happens all the time. You won't find a manager who hasn't experienced it. The new dimension these days is how many people you can rally to yo
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by hos234 7y ago
You don't hear about the people who don't get fired though. All this depends on the experience level of the boss you work for. There are lot of oversensitive influencial customers out there, not just the Chinese Govt.
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by hos234 7y ago
>share chunks of code and write narrative around it. >encourage writing a lot of plain text around your code Is this targeted at non techies? Teachers? Can someone provide some good example of this? Not having used it much trying to u
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by hos234 7y ago
That was the reaction after the Arab Spring too. Wael Ghonim(former Googler) talked about how he used Facebook too and then the unintended consequences after the euphoria faded - https://www.ted.com/talks/wael_ghonim_l
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by hos234 7y ago
Personality type has a big role to play here. Certain personality types can't become workaholics. Let them go find their own path, and while they do that, some tolerance for whatever work-in-progress philosophy they might spout, is not
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by hos234 7y ago
Read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
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by hos234 7y ago
Probably in sports broadcasting/sports analytics. They do a lot of manual lookups for replay, identifying important moments, filtering out wrong camera angles etc. There maybe some simple cases that can be automated. Looking at what Ha
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by hos234 7y ago
It's glaring if you assume human behavior is rational. Often it isn't - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality
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How addictive social media fuels online abuse(ft.com)
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by hos234 7y ago
> How did they ever raise such capital? Access to a good network. It's not like cash isn't available these days. It's just that you have to treat networking as a full time job and hone the craft just as you would anything
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by hos234 7y ago
They are all related. From Niall Ferguson's- The Square and the Tower "The Times noted in 1863, the history of the Saxe-Coburgs showed ‘how much one success leads to another in Princely life’. Augusta of Saxe-Coburg’s grandchildre
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by hos234 7y ago
They should have pitched a Franco-British football team. Might have sealed the deal.
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It also matters what problems you work on at the beginning of your career and who you are surrounded by. People who work on things that nobody in their group has good answers for, become much more aware of other disciplines and the historie
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by hos234 7y ago
This kind of stuff usually is a sign that there is group involved. Sometimes directly or indirectly (public repos/forums) working with each other. Even amateur groups produce stuff much more quickly these days. You can see it play out
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What an Economist+Political Scientist+Pyschologist+Programmer Looks Like(en.wikipedia.org)
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by hos234 7y ago
It does seem a bit oversaturated. You could probably sell a Terabyte hard disk with the best shows and movies ever made and probably keep people entertained for quite a while.
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by hos234 7y ago
The Gates Foundation is definitely better than running a pedo island or putting up another building in Harvard, but whether it's outcomes are better than anyone else is not clear - https://www.forbes.com/sites/will
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by hos234 7y ago
This stuff is easy to generalize and misunderstand.
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10 Papers of the '10s(petterhol.me)
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by hos234 7y ago
> Were you able to push back against it? Not really. I tried once and got walked out of the building after sitting through an endless bunch of meetings where different rungs of the hierarchy making the "...but everyone does it"
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by hos234 7y ago
On the flip side - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
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by hos234 7y ago
It does change, things do get better, but it takes time to see the change. Years usually. In large orgs "conservative" managers who escalate and block issues usually don't get fired, they just get pushed to some other part of
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by hos234 7y ago
The main point is likes/views/clicks don't have to be shown or displaying them can be delayed. It's that simple to reduce random group behavior. If you don't understand what role they play, or even worse, misunderst
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by hos234 7y ago
Thats the ultimate destination. But it's also where they will meet the maximum resistance. They have to build momentum with easier victories before the assault on the main gates. That's how culture changes. Direct attacks on statu
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What TikTok tells us about Pakistan(dawn.com)
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by hos234 7y ago
I don't agree. All this activity whether its legitimate volunteers OR trolls has not generated any real sustainable outcomes. Both are just mindlessly trying to hit metrics(like/views/clicks/upvotes etc). And everyone is
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Facebook has no imagination. That's the consistent message.
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Yet I see a lot of young Bernie and Trump fans.
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It is the same damn thing. Wages is proxy for WORKER productivity. Go and ask Dalio why wages/worker productivity has stagnated while sector(factory/org) productivity has increased. Listening to him is like listening to some membe
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"Productive" is code for obedience. When ever someone talks about Productivity they are measuring how many people in the population are obedient and fit into domination based hierarchies. Those that don't throughout history a

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