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Anecdotally I've seen it quite a few times. In most cases, mentorship and the environment play a role in how successful you can be as an IC versus as a manager, and even within the same organization, the IC culture versus the Managemen
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At the very least we can recognize that "market value" and "aesthetic value" are two different things. The only thing you are really measuring when looking at the economics of art is the "market value" so the o
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I agree. A lot of discussion and these philosophical quotes about living tend to want to inspire you to rebel against your nature. Think abstractly. Think rationally. Make the right decisions (for some value of "right"). But peopl
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This is the thing that many people in this discussion are missing. There are many many many bad managers out there. Maybe this thread has all the good tech managers in the industry who would never do anything against their employees interes
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> I have no idea how to do this for shorter work weeks at equal pay though. It's going to be a very tall order. Even with WFH and demonstrable positive effects on productivity metrics almost across the board - there are still compan
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On record meaning 142 years of history. Sometimes people conflate "on record" with "ever since humans were around" but on a species scale 142 years is basically no history at all. Not to say that climate change isn'
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"After becoming the greatest chessmaster of his time, Morphy retired from chess at 22. He then had a rejected marriage proposal, failed legal practice, and died at age 47." Put another way, after abandoning chess at 22, he lived a
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Climate change as a crisis is perfectly threading the needle between human apathy, inability to invest in long term changes, and happening too slowly to provoke a reactionary response. We build social infrastructure that is incredibly resis
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Exactly right. Put another way, Viasat is saying "I will lose money because my service is worse, and I will be in a disadvantaged position because we followed the rules and the FCC allowed SpaceX not to . If ther
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See also: https://www.forbes.com/sites/elvaramirez/2021/06/01/study-no...
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I think there is a bit of a disconnect recently with how people think companies "should" be governed and how they actual are these days. The tech boom has put, at various points, incredible power in the founders hands to dictate t
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Things in mathematics are definitionally true. That's the whole system of axioms and proofs. Pi is pi because of our axioms. If you define things differently, pi doesn't have to be discovered at all.
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I can see how some small aspects of this policy could make sense objectively. Having a URA target + needing a pipeline to feed that at scale certainly makes sense - notwithstanding the proven misguided approach of having a URA target to beg
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I never understood the secretive nature of these Amazon "devplan" / "FOCUS" lists. If an employee has a performance issue, they should know. Period. If they are on a formal list, they should know that too. The only
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I like the contrast of your reply to the original post because it really highlights the two general types of developers - product focused developers who use technology as a tool to focus on the customer and technology focused developers who
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Employers are also human, and prone to the fallible traps of responsibility that befall many people managers and executives, including but not limited too: * not trusting your team to do their work and by extension questioning whether they
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If you want to live a nomadic disconnected lifestyle (with limited access to "technocratic" things like health care and education), you can do that almost anywhere, including Western countries. Again, the central aspect of this to
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"Bubbles of comfort" are not unique to Western countries, that is true. Every country on the planet offers a subset of their population a great life style, the only variable is how much of the country actually gets a) to partake i
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> The basic life script we all seem to have in western society seems pretty awful when you think critically about it. On the flip side, if you step outside the bubble of comfort that Western society generally affords people, you'll
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From what I understand Snapchat has more daily active users than Twitter and also a user base growing much faster.
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Those examples aren't really "the rich". Business tax cuts benefit shareholders, and globally there has been a race to the bottom to pit locations against each other to try to drive profit margins. These things have largely a
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> Orientalism is the term coined for the Euro- or America-centric views of the Eastern Hemisphere Somewhat ironically, the "Orientalism" you are referring to is an American-centric interpretation, which doesn't really have
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I'm not sure if this is standard for SEC press releases, but why do they include details such as, "he was a school teacher" and, "he owed gambling debts"? I've always suspected the SEC investigations regarding