time_management

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by time_management 18y ago
Yet you also use it to denote people who seek status or money. I use "douchebag" for those for whom status and money are top-tier goals, and those who are willing to make ethical sacrifices in order to further their career and material we
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by time_management 18y ago
First order answer: No, douchebags are. It just so happens that douchebags gravitate disproportionately to MBA programs (although the majority of MBA students and business people I know are not douches). To present an undergraduate analogue
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by time_management 18y ago
Lexapro had no side effects for me, except for mild, short-duration panic episodes when I was going to sleep, mostly during the first week. (If you have anxiety, the first week of an SSRI is known to suck.) The first three nights I had to t
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by time_management 18y ago
I wonder, if the switch had been made now, it they would have switched to Clojure instead of Python. It's a lot closer to Scheme, and its connection to the JVM gives it a lot of practical power. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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by time_management 18y ago
Economics in this area is really hard. If you (or anyone) come up with a better system of screening individuals for positions, the world will be a much better place. Right now, we typically rely on things like resumes, experience, intervie
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by time_management 18y ago
So, by paying high salaries, firms hope to be able to take their pick of managers and get the most competent. However, firms have yet to show that they are able to determine the competent from the incompetent. So, at the moment, most firms
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by time_management 18y ago
No. It's more like this: there's a massive prestige cost in paying lower than "market", and a benefit to paying more. It's actually much cheaper to overpay executives and at-pay or slightly underpay junior people, which is what most "presti
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by time_management 18y ago
You also need to consider the role of blind, brainless optimism. People overestimate their chances of making it to the CEO level in large corporations, unaware of just how much the game is rigged against them, especially if they didn't inhe
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by time_management 18y ago
I disagree strongly that the connections are the source of the value, at least for undergrad. You're assuming that everyone who goes to an elite college is rubbing elbows with the wealthy. In reality, the people who are able to utilize coll
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by time_management 18y ago
This was my point. It's an unanswerable question, because the costs and benefits are too individualized.
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by time_management 18y ago
Terrible article. The author put his foot in his mouth to talk up a numerically successful 24-year-old taken by the old to be an emblem of our generation, even though most within our generation just wish the guy would go away. This is going
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by time_management 18y ago
I noticed this when I worked on a trading floor. Even though the amounts of money being discussed were very large (a good trader could send millions across the table in one transaction) the game always seemed sterile to me, but to the trade
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by time_management 18y ago
I'd tend to agree with you. The point values were based on the commonality of the letters in common use, the idea being that it's harder to come up with appropriate words with letters like Z, X, Q in them. The letters' commonalities may be
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by time_management 18y ago
Word games are an example of a genre of game that becomes utterly different at expert/professional levels than what it is at the amateur level. For amateurs, it's a game of vocabulary, whereas it's more of a strategic game at professional l
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by time_management 18y ago
Is an elite college worth $150k?
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by time_management 18y ago
If he does this, there's a chance of him getting fired. It doesn't send a good signal.
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by time_management 18y ago
Honestly? Unless you have your exit pretty well hammered down, you should try to save your job, even if that means having uncomfortable conversations or going over your boss's head. You say that your friends have "enough extra work to keep
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by time_management 18y ago
"Recruiting", in this sense, just means encouraging them to apply. These colleges want lots of applications, because it makes their acceptance rate lower, and they'll occasionally find a diamond. That's already common knowledge. On the othe
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by time_management 18y ago
You must have been a very impressive applicant to have gotten into Princeton without a campus visit in 2000.
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by time_management 18y ago
I'm so-so at this skill; I'm much better than when I was 22, but not great. I'm not at the level of proficiency where I could enter a large, elite firm at the entry level and become the CEO's protege within a month... and most rich kids can
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by time_management 18y ago
I only visited Princeton after I was admitted. I applied blind. When did you apply? It must have been in the '80s or '90s, because these days it's pretty much impossible to get into the Ivies without a campus visit on record (or two, pref
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by time_management 18y ago
$18-30k works, which would be about 15th-percentile once students, pensioners, and part-time workers are taken out. I'm talking about the level at which a person is definitely poor, but not in abject poverty. In upstate New York, that level
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by time_management 18y ago
But the real thing I noticed was that all these folks talked to their professors differently than I did. I was intimidated and afraid of them. I told myself that most of them were jerks, when in reality I was just really insecure about my
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by time_management 18y ago
Poor would be minimum wage or below. So food stamps, free school lunches, 3 pairs of pants. So if he's poor enough that the college can brag about admitting him, he gets in, but if he's run-of-the-mill economic 15th-percentile, he has no
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by time_management 18y ago
Names of the colleges, please? The great majority of colleges have yields well below 50 percent, Right, but regardless of whether the yield is 20% or 70%, colleges care immensely about maximizing it. Higher yield means less uncertainty ab
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by time_management 18y ago
I didn't talk about the influence of yield rates because at no point during my two years in admissions was a decision ever made on a kid based on whether or not we thought they'd matriculate to our school. This simply did not happen in my
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by time_management 18y ago
My meals and conversations with the students there were astounding. Right. Very wealthy kids become very good at impressing people early on in their lives. If there was a "poor kid" who had incredible credentials AND didn't sound like a
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by time_management 18y ago
Either way, the "g" kids aren't going to bring home the bacon. This is how things work now, but you are at least in a position to change this, admittedly in a very small way. Why aren't you trying to bring about a world where the "g kids"
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by time_management 18y ago
I've often thought that America's goofy and somewhat unfair admissions system is actually a blessing in disguise. Most countries have only a handful of excellent colleges, and the vast majority of the bright people end up at a small number
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by time_management 18y ago
Elite colleges can't ignore kids who might go on to run the free world someday. They could try to fight the current world order, though, instead of admitting some Skull and Bones cocksuckers who go on to destroy the country and world econ

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