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by o_class_star 6y ago
Taking that classical principle of being the best looking in his friends' group a little far, it seems.
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by o_class_star 6y ago
Oddly, I found the people more believable than the cats. The people looked realistic about 70% of the time; the cats, never. I did pull one body horror: a little girl, with a background of flowers, and a petal-shaped wound in her cheek. Fre
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by o_class_star 6y ago
Precisely. These businesses exist to minimize risk, which includes personnel risk. Everyone should be replaceable, even upper management. (Which is to avoid the psychological costs of replaceability or of investing oneself into work one kno
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by o_class_star 6y ago
A lot of people at large companies are bored at work because a lot of work is boring, and because corporate life sucks. If you control for age-- notice that startups tend to prey on the young-- then I don't think small company work, at
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by o_class_star 6y ago
At that level, you don't get the salary your work "is worth", because we all know that's a fictional concept. Dollar value is only well defined for finished products. For labor, it comes down to relative leverage, and as
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by o_class_star 6y ago
Everyone works for someone else, but at a certain level both of organizational standing and (for lack of a better way to put it) moral fluidity, you become invincible. CEOs only answer to shareholders insofar as they're expected to del
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by o_class_star 6y ago
Our bodies weren't designed to eat the foods that people in rich countries eat, or to get so little exercise. There may be a similar problem with the way we work: a normal job may be as bad for us intellectually as white flour or suga
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by o_class_star 6y ago
YC existed to monetize the reputation Paul Graham earned by writing two very good Lisp books. YC today: no Paul Graham, and too many right-wingers.
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by o_class_star 6y ago
Yale Law doesn't have to use grades because it's the top law school and it can push 100% of its students. It's the same with top graduate departments, which have grades but rarely actually give anything below a B. Lower-ranke
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by o_class_star 6y ago
It makes sense. If a world leader claims that he won an election with 99% of the vote, we assume it was a fraudulent election. The thing is, in American capitalism, bosses want their underlings to think they have input and think decisions a
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by o_class_star 6y ago
As bad as these numbers sound, they're pretty typical for online and mobile advertising.
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by o_class_star 6y ago
Capitalism has replaced the community with the office. You don't know your neighbors, you see your extended family once a year if that, and it's almost impossible to make friends after age 30 because we live in a stratified world
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by o_class_star 6y ago
One of the scariest things a manager can say about his company, if you're thinking of joining it is, "There's no politics here." Business guys don't perceive getting what they want as "politics" but as the
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by o_class_star 6y ago
Office culture is pathological, but I think the extreme rejection-aversion people have is, within the modern world, least maladaptive in the office environment. We're built to overreact (relative to our modern context) to social reject
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by o_class_star 6y ago
How lucrative is substack?
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by o_class_star 6y ago
He's brilliant, and he explains complex concepts really well. I can't fault him for being a bit "over-neutral", for lack of a better way to put it. It's how economists are trained to express themselves and, more imp
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by o_class_star 6y ago
The theory is that it's better not to respond at that point, because if they change their mind in 3 months, they'd rather not have rejected you so they can say "sorry we were slow".
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by o_class_star 6y ago
The whole purpose of the "extracurricular" nonsense that is included in US college admissions is racial and ethnic screening. The original targets were the Jews but now it's the Asians.