octygen

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   by octygen 8y ago

   Leadership and decision-making through Banner Saga. How to be social through New York Nights and Miami Nights (mobile games). Anthropology/History through Civ... Obviously :)
2. 62.▲
   by octygen 8y ago

   The problem is that this extra day will allow them to think of/execute their own plan... but I need them to be part of my plan and have the weekends JUST be for rest.
3. 63.▲
   by octygen 8y ago

   1. Stretch the lower back every day. I "programmed" this dude's workout into a free Android tool called Flexible Interval Timer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdCJrWNO7O8 . All my coworkers love it too. He h
4. 64.▲
   by octygen 9y ago

   This happened to me too. I find the quality of the boss/leadership mitigates this for me. A good leader can make a job into something you love if it can be aligned to what you want to do. I try to attain this utopia with everyone on my
5. 65.▲
   by octygen 9y ago

   I see a lot of synergy for Disney acquiring Cirque. For example: 1) Disney just built PandoraLand... Cirque has a new show based on Avatar: Toruk. 2) Disney is an entertainment megacorp whose weakness seems to be live entertainment... enter
6. 66.▲
   by octygen 9y ago

   As my psychotherapist put it yesterday: people that seek self-esteem in an unhealthy way are vampires. "You have to become your own bloodsource" she said. When you seek self-esteem in an unhealthy way, you do things to get approva
7. 67.▲
   by octygen 10y ago

   Kinda like real life.
8. 68.▲
   by octygen 10y ago

   I honestly find coursera and edx are by far the best use of my time too. Structured learning with a beginning, an end and a few individuals (professors) that specialize in a field. I'm doing things that ARE actually in my field (simila
9. 69.▲
   by octygen 11y ago

   When I was at Disney back in 2011, we used this daily for a year: https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ If you have a good tech architect running a meeting this tool is great to create sequence flows on the fly. It's al
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    by octygen 11y ago

    I'm extremely sorry to hear about your relative. My mother was going through S3 colorectal earlier this year. Two tips: 1. Quackwatch.org - the work this retired doctor has done filtering the BS across the Internet is astounding. I eve
11. 71.▲
    by octygen 11y ago

    Here's a different angle. I'd recruit ex-AM employees. Their business model is brilliant even if is basically illegal! Imagine what they could achieve in an organization with even moderate ethics! The users? That's another st
12. 72.▲
    by octygen 11y ago

    Dune and the Foundation series are by far my favorite SF series. The reason? Both have unparalleled universe depth. To today I still recite the Dune fear prayer to myself once in a while, I still think about how the Foundationeers used tech