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Anecdata to counteract the file drawer effect: I read a little bit about grounding, shrugged my shoulders, and spent a week exercising barefoot in the backyard (I had previously done the same exercises with shoes on). No noticeable impact.
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Thanks, it is too rare that we hear perspectives like this
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Legitimate question, thanks. Two married to each other. One over 40. Last living in a nicer part of town than otherwise due to husband, but actually looked for non-teaching jobs and couldn’t find higher salaries so stayed.
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Honestly asking: How are the kids doing? Is there a positive impact from the arrangement?
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Can you point to an area where a teacher with 10 years of experience, working full-time, earns less than an entry-level position? Teacher contracts are mostly public and you can use $15/hr for entry level, shouldn’t be hard to find and
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This is the best reply so far. In the US, things (good and bad) vary dramatically between school districts, but everyone talks about “teachers” as this monolithic group. In the Boston area it’s absolutely possible to exceed $100,000 salary.
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I’m sorry to hear that, but to counter-anecdote: Four of my family members are teachers at various levels. They all have strong frustrations but money (either in terms of perception or paying the bills) has never been one.
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> Surveyed lawyers said they experienced burnout in their jobs 52% of the time https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/surveyed-lawyers-rep... If our goal is to shovel new people into the system as quickly as o
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That is awesome for a cohesive, high functioning team. I worked at a company with some obvious (to everyone else) under performers, and as much as I wish they had not been a layoff, I would have been pissed if some of the nicer members of t
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Agreed, and the opposite is true: I started at a small public company which had stopped growing and become profitable. It was targeted for a hostile takeover by PE who thought it could grow more. To their credit it did, and (to the extent y
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I actually really love that idea. Thanks for expanding my mind about what is possible, maybe I can find a way to use it in human systems I do control
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Zero correlation is a strong claim. Would you actually predict that a randomly chosen American (whose opinion you distrust) would be all-around more competent than half our actual presidents? Not just the current or last one depending on
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Could you be more specific about who you don’t trust, and how you determine truth?
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Seconded. I am feeling the enthusiasm of people on this thread and I am really curious - if this could really make me as happy as it makes them I’m totally game, but I just don’t see where it would fit into my workflow. Can some people give
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Zooming way out, it’s an interesting case study in innovation. The military must be the largest and longest tightly-controlled organization of humans in the US. They certainly have spent time thinking about this issue. But the marketplace (
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Certainly a combination! Here’s a study I think every child should be taught, where they created artificially compartmentalized worlds for new music. They found: 1) many songs had almost no downloads in any world. They were “truly bad“, and
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> TL;DR: The top #1 Google result for “blockchain production users” (and related queries) lists 34 individual “real world blockchain” projects. One would expect some actual functioning projects that have an impact on every-day consumers
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> January 2021 disclosure by James C. Duff, who at the time served as secretary of the Judicial Conference of the United States, of "an apparent compromise" of confidentiality in the Judiciary's Case Management/Electr
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I think the most scientific response would be to take 10 minutes to try it. I hypothesize you will feel something different than you did in the 10 minutes prior. If you're being skeptical of a stronger claim of what these techniques
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Did S&P 500 jump on the news?
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My company gets an absolute a glut of applicants who did a Boot Camp or even Masters program into science, and rejects most before interviewing. We’re not Google either, in pay or prestige. So I’ll strongly object to your characterization b
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Thanks for sharing your experience from the other side! I agree and would add that my manager gave me the impression that I was really talking to two entities: The manager (who really doesn’t want to do a candidate search) and Corporate. Pe
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You’re absolutely right, there are uncertain challenges associated with the benefit. But I am reminded of this study where people were challenged to flip a coin when making life decisions, and the random half who took the leap were (more of
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This highlights really important factor in all discussions; employees can be in a very different life situation which naturally leads to different priorities. Congratulations on yours!
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This is exactly right, when I left my manager was pretty clear about this with me. I think he valued me as much as any potential external offer, but he has to sit in front of a compensation committee whose very goal is to regress everybody
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I can provide both anecdotal and academic data: Because companies have imperfect reading on worker productivity, and are also trying to balance other priorities when determining pay, high output workers are consistently underpaid, called Wa
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A16Z is obviously well known, but are they respected? I naïvely assumed that they would have access to enough expertise and deal flow to avoid the most absurd losers, but a few examples in the last few months have made me question that. An
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Sorry I only have a minute, but: search for the thread a few days ago about personal trainers
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I super respect your thoughtful principles. the focus has clearly paid off!
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That’s a great point, thanks. One collection-of-anecdotes from my company is 3x in the same role (10x was from the article), which might actually equate to a similar standard of living (with huge fuzziness given the different amenities of t

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