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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Not true. What statistics do you have here? I've been following Jonathan Haidts substack and he researches this extensively. https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill... He cites multiple studie
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I totally agree, but OOP said that they refuse to play the politic games. I don't see how you can be 1) a top performer, 2) refuse to politic, and 3) not work hard. I think that's a "pick two of these three" situation.
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
> A running joke On purpose??
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I'm confused why this is the top comment - how exactly can you be "one of the top performers" at your company while also "focusing on doing the least amount of work you can get away with"?? Surely 90% of the company
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I think you can say the same about most professions that are "big picture" ("individual picture" professions meaning teachers, doctors, EMS; folks that help individuals rather than larger trends). The reason here is simi
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Programming actually was my plan b. I studied chemical engineering, thinking I wanted to be a scientist or an engineer, maybe go to med school. I accidentally graduated with a minor, my major GPA was a 3.3 and my minor GPA was a 4.0, and th
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Reminds me a lot of Overtraining Syndrome (OTS), the condition where your body stops responding positively to the stress of endurance sports and essentially stops recovering quickly. A 20 mile run no longer makes you faster, instead the fat
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I have a lot of thoughts on this as well and I'm not sure. I definitely felt like my mental health got worse when I started therapy, but was it because my mental health was already doing worse? The times in my life when I've been
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Meditating every day before bed is the best lifestyle change I've made in the last year. I think it's as important as brushing my teeth twice a day. A few years back, I was almost killed in a shootout between two rival gangs while
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
n of 2, this has been my experience as well. I was almost killed in a shooting in 2021, and in 2022 I started seeing a therapist. Going into therapy made me relate to my trauma more, think about my trauma more often, and self identify as a
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I agree with the authors premise and argument but the data visualizations are not well done, and I'm confused about the conclusions he draws from them. For starters, it's unclear why he draws a line at 2012, when in many of the gr
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
It's funny though because you only need a short amount of discipline. Because after you use discipline for a while, it just gets way easier as it becomes a habit. Reminds me of this great Bojack Horseman clip - https://www.y
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
As an engineer who has worked as the hiring manager and directly looked through hundreds of resumes, I can say that with FAANG your resume probably would get pulled out of the stack. But maybe not. I found that, for better or worse, the onl
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Yeah but outside of (Manhattan and the expensive parts of Brooklyn) leaves like... not much of NYC? Most new grads do not choose to live in Queens, the Bronx, or Bed-stuy. Assuming you pay $200/month in healthcare, ~$1800 a month to ma
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I actually feel like this is a good argument for normalizing the fact that probably everyone has thoughts about suicide (as OP said, thinking about the implications versus considering). I remember a period of my life where I was strugglin
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Perhaps it's an issue with the survey, or those who answered Podiatrist when they're actually in their residency.
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I recently went on a 60 mile gravel bike trip with a rather large group (50 riders) in the PNW. It was ~May of last year, and a freak storm came out of nowhere over the mountain, while we were in a large national forest. We were all wearing
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I think the main difference is safety. Simplifying / IAMAPhysicist, but you can't get a runaway chain reaction with Fusion, and the reaction tends to just burn itself out if you shut it off. That being said, fission is already pre
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Curious if you have sources for this. I agree wholeheartedly that there are some difficult issues affecting men, socially and academically, but always struggle to back that opinion up with any meaningful facts/figures. As one of my fri
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Yeah I hardcore disagree with this. Partly my fault for saying yes too much, partly my work schedule, partly being in a weed out program that really worked you to the bone. Some semesters I was doing like 70-80 hours a week on average, spli
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I felt like this was a really solid explanation of some dynamics at play I've been seeing a lot of. Thanks for putting such succinct thoughts to it.
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
First job out of college, I was at a consulting firm doing software development for DHS (Homeland Security). I got a lot of flack from my friends and family for "working for the devil", but the work was actually objectively good f
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
My big tips for this - 1. Sign up for a local 5k race 3 months into the future, thus forcing yourself to train. 2. Set up all your running gear the night before. 3. When you wake up and don't want to run, tell yourself all you need to
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
I disagree. I think that the assumption of incompetence makes sense if you're also assuming that a tech company like twitter is different enough from a tech company (hardware focused) like tesla or space x, that the same operating prin
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NYC Salary Transparency Starts Today [pdf](www1.nyc.gov)
2 points by justsocrateasin 4y ago|1 comments
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
All companies with 1 or more employees in NYC are required to provide base salaries on job postings starting today. Supposedly NYC is going to start fining companies who aren't in compliance starting Dec 1.
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Yes but sometimes they do - at my last job at a large corporation I was paid 80% below the median rate for an engineer in my area/YoE/etc. - I threatened I would quit and showed them a counter offer that was 30% more than what I w
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Sounds like you should quit your day job and become a trader full time. If the market is as easy to beat as you say. It also sounds like you've been lucky so far. There are many periods over just the last 30 years where the "sure
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
> The income potential of these fields is known, so complaining about this, once in the field, is really just an irrational thing. Are we not allowed to complain about known things? If you get a speeding ticket do you complain about it?
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by justsocrateasin 4y ago
Very good point, that's a salary you can live very comfortably on. Seems like it just depends on the school district, but I'd say the authors main point, that salaries across the board for teachers are lower than they should be gi

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