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Do not bring your whole self to work(nytimes.com)
7 points by lkrubner 4y ago|3 comments
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Obviously I would never write about a client, especially after I signed an NDA, therefore I've never written anything about Hertz and I never will (not that Hertz was ever a client). But I have written about my experience with a compan
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It is limiting the way researchers presume the burden of proof has to go the other way. The extreme case of this is with homo erectus being found on Crete, but we are not allowed to suggest that they knew how to build a raft. No, we have to
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The opposite is also happening: I'm increasingly classified as a "promotion" when I write to my friends. I wrote to my close friend Natalie and I was like "Did you see my email?" and she said "No" and went
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It's the result of the 2 party system. From 1860 to 1932 the liberals and the conservatives belonged to one political party, as is common elsewhere. After 1932, racial issues, and civil rights issues, brought the liberals together with
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This story is especially clear and dramatic (and well documented) but I've often thought this happens in every generation: the people who lead (businesses and nations) when they are in their 40s and 50s are often people who boldly go o
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I just this week bought "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann.
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The only research that has been done on this found that on Twitter the conservative voices were amplified more than progressive voices: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/27/twitter-am...
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You write “Blaming technology” in response to a comment that does not mention any technologies. You might want to examine what your preconceptions are, that you would see “technology” in a comment that does not refer to technology. You were
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Is your Clojure/Netty solution open source?
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HTML is what killed email. The younger generation hates email in part because they associate email with spam, and spam email only became a large business because of HTML email. Plain text email could not easily be used for advertising, nor
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I've read books about "Agile development" and I've read many, many articles about it, and I've read many conversations here on Hacker News on the subject, and I've engaged in many conversations with co-workers
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It's important to remember that this same problem haunted historiography for at least 2 centuries, if not much more. At least from the 1700s, and lasting well into the 1900s, historians considered themselves the historians of events, r
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by lkrubner 4y ago
"rather than inflating a c-suite executive's bonus for the umptieth time." The point is, if they are being paid 30% or 40% more than what I get paid when I am at a poorly funded startup (that is, if they are getting paid what
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by lkrubner 4y ago
$350K does not strike me as a lot of money for top executives at an organization as large as Wikimedia. In 2022, I've got startups (30 to 50 employees) offering me $225,000 to work as a software architect. At a larger organization I wo
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The only practice that I've found to be reliably agile is simply having more one-on-one meetings and less large group meetings. Large group meetings tend to waste time for at least some of the people in the group. Often, if you get 8 p
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Anyone interested in the wave of democracy that swept the world in the 1960s and 1970s and early 1980s, 4 small books, together regarded as a classic, are "Transitions from Authoritarian Rule" and the 4th volume (a small book that
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These were global issues, not USA issues: "the rise of government economic planning across the global south and its threat to corporate autonomy at home, and the challenge to the material basis of organized labor’s power in the old man
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For anyone who wants to see large organizations, and governments, move fast and get a lot done, then it is important to recognize how obsolete some of these older systems of voting are. All of the older systems, from before the year 1900, m
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Secretaries. The corporation of the mid-20th Century was run by an army of secretaries. They allowed for an important kind of flexibility. They've been replaced by software, which is more rigid, and which does harm because of its lack
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Part of me wants to write a point by point rebuttal of this, but I’m not sure it would be useful. There are many, many assumptions in this work that would have to be teased apart before the good ideas here could be discussed on their own. I
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I notice that, nowadays, startups are emphasizing "work/life balance" much more than they used to. I'm sure part of that is because of the pandemic, which created strange new realities, where companies that had previousl
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A currency depreciation naturally leads to a reduction in imports, since the imports become more expensive.
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I’ve a dear friend who became a doctor. She had to take on $380,000 in debt to pay for school. Even with the good salary she has as a doctor, she will need many, many years to pay off the debt.
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> your own deeply unexamined prior It’s often a deeply examined prior. The people I know who are the most doubtful about software are the engineers with more than 20 years experience. They have spent most of their adult lives thinking ab
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Peter Drucker, perhaps the greatest business guru of the 20th Century, once remarked that innovators are often disappointed by the manner in which their innovations become popular. In his 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Drucker
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"If you are a medical professional and have been trained in a “civilised” country you probably know next to nothing about the primate Homo sapiens and how they survive in the wild." But what is "wild"? Consider: https:&
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Absolutely. That used to be much more possible back around 1993. The limitations of IPv4 are certainly a contributing factor.
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"given that free actually has a cost in terms of privacy, attention" Why? You're assuming your conclusion. A different protocol can have different starting assumptions.
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"for such an expensive proposition" We need something cheaper than what we have now. People gravitate to walled gardens like Facebook because setting up their own systems is too expensive. "No doubt there's some unnecess

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