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by orzig 4y ago
Moreover: "Is his advice outside CS great _for me_?" He's exceptional, in a very literal sense, so your prior would have be be 'no'
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by orzig 4y ago
I can't match the near-unhinged brilliance of the above comment, but I'll add that many meditation traditions encourage serenity by inspecting the details of the ordinary instead of a constant grasping for new stimulation.
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by orzig 4y ago
I will just note I went to physical therapy for shoulder pain for a few months until I realized I just needed a less-firm pillow. Meta lesson: just try things!
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by orzig 4y ago
The world needs more people boldly experimenting, I commend you! (And be careful)
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by orzig 4y ago
I’m very interested in this but also want to understand a stark reality: Co-ops have existed in concept and practice for 100+ years but haven’t gone mainstream (representing <<1% of employers with no clear exponential growth) Why? Are
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by orzig 4y ago
My very favorite part of HN is when someone is like “I’m actually an experienced XYZer, here’s the inside scoop” usually for a niche industry, now for niche lifestyles. Thanks for the data point! Can you say more about the experience? Where
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by orzig 4y ago
Take it or leave it, Metta meditation is pretty squarely aimed at that. I’ve had only the tiniest bits of success, but trying a book/video/app is a ton cheaper+easier than therapy!
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by orzig 4y ago
someone says that after every scandal, and I’m open to it morally, but from an “actually improving compliance” standpoint: Is there any evidence it’s true?
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by orzig 4y ago
Coming from the data world, it will always be my bias, but I think there is a good case to be made for it being a good on-ramp from deep domain knowledge (which you have) with a gently sloping technical learning curve from “business analyst
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by orzig 4y ago
Trying to gently improve public discourse, I’d suggest that we don’t need to speculate when something is so easy to look up: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%24160B+in+2022+convert...
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by orzig 4y ago
I know much more about healthcare than the Navy, but it’s notable that they both have rigid stratification between roles. I could imagine that hampering operational feedback loops in normal times, and strategic feedback loops given the labo
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by orzig 4y ago
Let's get concrete: Q1'22 had 8.8k deals[0], which is 19% lower than last quarter. >> How many deals do you think they will report for Q2'22? << I'll start, disclaiming that I have no domain or specific knowl
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Haugen: Europe Is Making Social Media Better. The U.S. Should, Too(nytimes.com)
4 points by orzig 4y ago|1 comments
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by orzig 4y ago
I can only speak for Boston area, but I've been on teams who regularly welcome those with only 1-2 years of experience (even if it wasn't that relevant, as long as they had relevant schooling). I don't know if you consider th
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by orzig 4y ago
I also found the book unoriginal, but can’t ignore several people who report it helpful. So let’s move the conversation forward a step: does this book or any like it have (even slightly) rigorous evidence of positive impact? If the FDA want
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by orzig 4y ago
I agree, the impasse that I often see is between people who think a change must happen “now“ and those who think it should happen “never“. There is a lot of space between those positions, an optimal usually exists in there. It’s just like r
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by orzig 4y ago
I would say you are a hero – finally imposing a “cost“ on people who are not prioritizing unsubscribe functionality. As someone who just quietly blocks, I am happy to free ride on your crusade :-)
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by orzig 4y ago
But is it true? Any nation of 330M will have some loud arrogant people, but is “getting rich by doing nothing” uniquely American in aspiration or reality? I’d argue no - our aspiration is that we’re farmer cowboys, our rich all the more so.
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by orzig 4y ago
Good clarification: I use them in parallel. Checklists for every morning (and theoretically for pushing to prod, etc) Anki for both general knowledge (useful git flags, short code templates) and sometimes project-specific things (tagged wit
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by orzig 4y ago
Which I actually love - best part of HN is the pub talk
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by orzig 4y ago
In addition to the excellent specific comments here, I think basically everyone should be using Spaced Repetition (eg Anki). Also, written checklists. I actively update both 10+ years into my career and the ROI is huge for the 1% of my day
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by orzig 4y ago
As a counter-argument (yes, I’m the same person): I once spent 50 hours on a small website around some technical search terms with lackluster results. Two of the guides made it to Google’s front page, and I got about 100,000 hits across 4 y
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by orzig 4y ago
People are different. You find working quietly freeing, I find working in dialog with others exhilarating. A straw man of your post is: “Blogging is irrational for everybody”, for which there are many counter points in these comments. But I
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by orzig 5y ago
Not OP but in tech cowboy often means "taking unacceptable risks to increase velocity". In this case, shipping code without integration tests in Staging. whether that risk was 'unacceptable' is the difference of opinion
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by orzig 5y ago
I was at a company whose P/E was super high as we saturated our market. The CEO would publicly state that the price didn't make sense to him, and we tried to find more home runs. In the end, inevitably slowing (but still positive
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by orzig 5y ago
No need to apologize! It’s reasonable to have needs, and these make total sense. I’ve had success doing very long screen sharing while someone works normally. Let them forget you are there, in some ways it’s a lighter ask than breathing o
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by orzig 5y ago
Can't comment on the lawsuit part, but of the handful of people who were "it's an open secret you need to work around them" bad, only 1 was fired. Even if they can be convinced to leave, they'll usually stay through
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by orzig 5y ago
If you can't calculate the optimal design (for hiring, in this case) from first principles, what option do you have but empirical observation? And when steady-state performance takes at least 2 years to obtain, is it unreasonable to ha
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by orzig 5y ago
I think he does a decent job of discussing the psychology of it. I've been following this stuff SPAC/WSB through Bloomberg et al and they can't really put themselves into the headspace of the traders like this (or even get si
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by orzig 5y ago
I'm not 100% disagreement, but I'd love to see a little more evidence (or at least reasoning) for "The best of what works will win". To start, here's my counter-argument: We're almost exactly 6 years from the r

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