j4yav

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   by j4yav 3y ago

   Not disagreeing with you, but noting there are still a lot of companies that raised so much cheap money they can basically run for 200 years, barring investor pressure. Typically they raised at such high valuations they may never achieve a
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   by j4yav 3y ago

   Thanks! Your kind words just made my whole day. I appreciate that even when people disagree they can be civil.
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   by j4yav 3y ago

   I'm still not convinced yet that more meetings makes better software, but I appreciate that you have shared your position so passionately and I feel like I learned a lot.
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   by j4yav 3y ago

   Imho you'll find that a middle manager who spends his days in meetings by himself wishing he could fire the "toxic" people who didn't come is non-essential, but I'm happy to leave that journey of discovery as an exe
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   by j4yav 3y ago

   I'd be willing to bet that the most recent mistake during a deployment that an aerospace company made didn't result in many people dying. Maybe the last one you read about in the news, but that biases the selection a bit. That sai
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   by j4yav 3y ago

   Agree to disagree maybe. But consider trying an experiment - take notes so anyone who wasn't there for whatever reason, intentional or not, can read them later, and don't threaten to fire anyone or insult them as being toxic who d
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   by j4yav 3y ago

   Even smart money follows the herd.
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   by j4yav 3y ago

   There's always a good case for slowing down and adding more rules. You can even build a whole career out of it, and if you do it right you'll be harder to remove than a tick - simply ensure anything that might threaten you require
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   by j4yav 3y ago

   I enjoy working at companies where things get written down so you don't have to be at the meeting, unless you specifically want to participate in the real-time discussion.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    Any company of under 200 with a middle management layer who enforces meeting attendence through the threat of firing and executes a formal performance review process should be considered de facto sociopathic imho.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    To be fair to the journalist who wrote the linked article, they showed the spike and years previous to covid.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    Oh no, what will become of my beautiful performance management reviews
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    Alternatively, skip all the meetings anyway and then fire your middle manager. Or, if that fails, go work for a company that values your time.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    A simple video letter from every living human explaining how we think he's a really super cool and funny and handsome guy should get the ball rolling.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    Yeah, perhaps not engineer the time and moment in a predictable fashion, but instead just maximize your kismet per square meter.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    I thought these mainly existed in LA to wake everyone up every night and make sure everyone knows who is in charge
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    Nice, good to know they eventually added it.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    You can definitely engineer the chance for interesting things to happen by surrounding yourself with interesting people in interesting places, and it's highly recommended imho to do so.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    I was there, AOL was certainly not the internet. It's an interesting article but it seems to cherry pick a bit. AOL was like a huge BBS that gave its users a limited portal into the internet, and only on a very limited basis starting
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    Things used to be decentralized well when I think back to the early days of the internet. When I think about why, its because links were expensive or unreliable - what centralization brought was a kind of predictability and ease of use. The
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    Neither of those need you to rent anything to throw around either, though, as far as I know.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    Why would you need to rent a tennis court to throw balls with your kids though?
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    It is refreshing that they weren't able to get away with it, anyway.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    I think you can not be an investor and like the gambling aspect. And I personally wouldn't consider gamblers investors.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    For those unfamiliar with the Houthis or why they might be doing this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movemen...
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    There's a strong contrarian trait here, for sure. Also, if you look at the usernames in these situations it's often one or two people replying to literally everyone.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    I've been here for about ten years - even in that short period of time it already feels like a different climate, especially in winter. They are totally mild now, more like the spring or fall than the winter of even a few years ago.
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    I can assure you, books work
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    Thanks! Indeed I've always paid cash for any new cars I've bought. But I still don't see how companies that provide leases are able to purchase a car, lease it out for cheaper than the cost of a loan to people who couldn&#x27
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    by j4yav 3y ago

    I literally can't think of anyone whose taste in music would be more suspect