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by squokko 4y ago
Agree that companies can disappear up their own asses but the value of great management is very high. Satya Nadella at Microsoft for example has been worth hundreds of billions of dollars to the shareholders. Guys that good do not grow on t
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by squokko 4y ago
Yes, I am talking about very large (Fortune 500) companies
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by squokko 4y ago
> As a businessman, I can attest that making my customers angry is very unprofitable. Are you in the news business? https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Left-%20and%20Ri...
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by squokko 4y ago
It’s not your responsibility to live someone else’s life but it is the responsibility of senior decision makers to set policies that broadly benefit the populace even if they hurt some people. Is it your responsibility to heal the sick? No,
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by squokko 4y ago
Depends what you want. If you want to make maximum comp as an IC, job hop early on and then settle in and collect cash. If you want to be in senior management the tactics are much different.
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by squokko 4y ago
I would say that yes, my job isn’t to hire the next CEO of the company, but the organization places constraints on hiring that eventually yield this. For example, the entire in-office culture vs WFH may be a way of identifying “straight sho
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by squokko 4y ago
Literally none of the managers and higher levels that I've ever worked for have been job hoppers. They haven't all been lifers, but like a new job every ~5 years kind of thing, which in this industry is not a "job hopper.&quo
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by squokko 4y ago
Maybe at some companies that I don't know. At the larger places that I've worked, the CEOs have had 1-5 jobs over ~20-30 years before becoming CEO.
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by squokko 4y ago
As a former hiring manager of software engineers, I can shed some light on when (and why) I don't like to see short tenures. 1) In a large software engineering organization (1000s of employees), knowledge of internal issues becomes a m
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by squokko 4y ago
Different people are different. You're seem to be highly socially functional. There are a lot of people who aren't, and have no friends, and whose only exposure to social interactions are at the office. These people are at much hi
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by squokko 4y ago
This is not even remotely true. Making your customers angry is a much more profitable media strategy than "pleasing" them. All studies have replicated the consumption of more news with more negative emotions because "if it bl
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by squokko 4y ago
They're for-profit organizations, for mission to come before money would be highly aberrant.
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by squokko 4y ago
The Strategic Pizza Reserve idea is centralized and obsolete. Instead there should be a decentralized Web3 pizza reserve policy where people store a few pizzas in their freezers for situations where they are needed. Policy compliance can be
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by squokko 4y ago
YouTube didn't get sued early on because it didn't have any money to sue. After it was acquired, it was sued, and the current system is the agreement that Google and the rights holders came to (which has been incredibly profitable
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by squokko 4y ago
They did legislate the problem away. Sure, Spotify and YouTube play a part in the reduced music piracy today. But it also helps that all of the music piracy sites have been killed, and the only ones left are shady enough that you fear malwa
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by squokko 4y ago
No, you can't decide that you can afford $10 million for concrete so that's what you'll spend. You figure out what it costs, then you figure out how much money you can make from the building, then you decide whether you can b
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by squokko 4y ago
You need to understand the engineering to set a sensible budget. What should the concrete budget be for a new 50-story skyscraper in New York City? You'd need to know quite a bit about the specific building and the construction market
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by squokko 4y ago
Of the thousands of US workplace deaths per year, I wonder why this workplace injury (serious, but not fatal) gets an entire article? Hmm...