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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This is a major part of the problem in these debates. People don't measure or argue from what they can't see. We often imagine issues as scalars, when more often they are a single knob on a complex machine, most of which is invisi
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Bean counting is happening in your organization whether you like it or not, it's just a question of whether it's visible to you. I would much rather have it be an explicit part of the development process where the developers get s
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
You sure aren't. One of my buddies worked with an older woman who owned a bunch of self-help-y type business books, they were talking one day and she said, "You know, I noticed we all owned a bunch of these and it wasn't cha
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Fwiw I have no dog in this fight, but I am personally very skeptical of chiropractors. Nevertheless my doctor said he might actually prescribe me to see one for a long term (decade+) back and neck issue. His exact words were "normally
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
If you can find a shop that really, truly commits to XP/Agile/Lean/whatever, I recommend it. It's hard to find, but it is so much better and more productive than the JIRA ticket factories.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This is why economic thinking should be a part of every team's process. One of the major problems with technical projects is that many people can give an estimate of their value but only the developers can give an estimate of the cost—
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
The fact that our political discourse is laundered through a medium that encourages the meme-ification of everything and thoughtless, emotional responses is a disaster.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
That's widely accepted as part of personality theory. The idea is that you have some "base setting," not that you will literally try anything (or refuse to try anything). It should also be noted that personality is one aspect
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Other models actually did settle for higher numbers of factors, but higher numbers were usually found to have categories that could be reasonably collapsed into one of the Big 5. Fwiw, my understanding is that most psychologists believe tha
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
The book "Personality" by Nettle gives the best layman's summary of the Big 5 model I've found. What I particularly like about it, beyond the summary of each aspect, is the way he frames it in terms of evolution and why
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Epoché
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Happily, Hume himself would probably agree with you! The guy was even skeptical of his own skepticism.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
I think that's part of it, but I suspect it has more to do commercial enterprises being more competitive due to their greater resources.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This bums me out so much. I would love to work on medical research and I love data pipelines, so something like bioinformatics R/Python seems ideal to me, but I make significantly more than that as the manager of a software team in an
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to say anything suggestive of that old myth that he was bad at math. My point was exactly what you were saying: he was thinking about and studying these things under his own direction at first.
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
You may not be in school any more, but you can still study whatever you want. I went the other direction: studied humanities in school, taught myself programming once I was working as a professional because I found it intriguing, and now I
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by planet-and-halo 5y ago
This might even be rooted in human psychology. "The Master and His Emissary" and other books about neuroscience argue that we have brain functions specialized for focus and other brain functions specialized for context. Activating
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
Totally fair, and there's certainly a lot of irrational skepticism. Nonetheless, this is people's health. They're allowed to be protective of it, and it's still true that we have no long term studies because they simply
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
I'm vaccinated, but it's also remarkable to me that people think that not taking a drug developed on an emergency use basis with no long term studies is somehow irrational or ridiculous. Some reasons are clearly silly, but being n
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
I'm going to suggest "How to Live," a biography of Montaigne with several rules encapsulating his philosophy of life. One of them is "read voraciously, and forget most of what you read."
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
Conscientiousness—the ability to make and follow a plan—is also a major dimension of personality psychology. Some people are just way less planned and focused by nature.
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
Less known but even more applicable to software is "Principles of Product Development Flow." I learned about that book from the talk "Architecture Without an End State" and it's one of the most thoughtful things I&#
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
I mostly use pen and paper, but I systematize it. The most important thing I've learned came from "Getting Things Done," which has the idea that you should separate capture (have some kind of inbox to drop ideas into quickly)
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
The way McMurtry articulates this "turnabout" is great (you can find it on his wikipedia page). I get his point—the characters suffer immensely, and you would hope the reader could recognize that it wouldn't be the best world
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
- The Master and His Emissary - Personality (Nettle) - Lonesome Dove - A First-Rate Madness - Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Dune - At the Existentialist Cafe Currently working on "The Hot Zone."
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
Peaked for the United States, which represents something like 25% of world economic activity. That's also accounted for the in the book. You're right about certain long-lived problems like CO2 because of how long it takes them to
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
That's not true, according to the book. Both the US and many foreign countries have peaked in their consumption of many important resources. Feel free to argue with the book's research, but I found it compelling.
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
The point is that overall demand for many specific resources has peaked. Feel free to argue with the book's research, but here's the thesis: ------- "In recent years we’ve seen a different pattern emerge: the pattern of mor
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
For a somewhat encouraging counterpoint to this statement, check out the book "More From Less." It describes a lot of positive trends including decreasing demand for many resources whose extraction is damaging to the environment.
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by planet-and-halo 6y ago
As one of these people, totally agree. I don't really have people I sympathize with over this stuff (except a few friends with whom its a minor topic of conversation) or anything I'd consider a culture. Mostly I just deleted my ac

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