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by vfc1 7y ago
It's not a cultural issue, it's human nature. You are being asked about your performance daily in front of your group of peers. This will obviously psychologically pressure you to finish things ASAP, so that you can say that its d
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by vfc1 7y ago
The use of unnecessary daily standups is an industry-wide practice that few teams escape, and it's important to talk about their general unusefulness and hidden costs. It has been proposed originally as an agile "let's do wha
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by vfc1 7y ago
And its because written tone is so easily misinterpreted that is important to be careful. It's not just about the intention, its also about the objective end result. Sure, you might not have intended to run over someone with a car, but
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by vfc1 7y ago
Well, the act of timing changes everything. it will affect the total duration as people will deliberately hurry up. That is actually a good idea, but it's the first time I heard about it. In most companies, this is not done. Also, it&#
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by vfc1 7y ago
That is why it's important to be mindful of what we are writing, trying to not write things that might be misinterpreted. Not think, tone can't be inferred from writing so I'm just going to write whatever I want if someone do
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by vfc1 7y ago
20 minutes is a lot of time, add that and at the end of the week you got around 2 hours, that's half a morning per week and close to a whole 8h day of work per month just on the time for standups. It's not just the time itself tho
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by vfc1 7y ago
Everyone has to spend at least some time thinking ahead of time what they are going to say, and you probably do too. Its the perception of yourself and your work from the eyes of the group that is at stake here, it's important and most
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by vfc1 7y ago
> its literally 10 minutes Literally, it's not 10 minutes. Count the time that you have stopped working and people are chatting waiting for the meeting, checking their email when they would not otherwise do so, not working on their
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by vfc1 7y ago
Because you have to think upfront what are you going to say. You might me interrogated in front of everyone else about something that you are doing, and will have to come up with an answer on the spot. This is obviously stressful, and psych
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by vfc1 7y ago
You can't put 10 people in a room for a meeting for just a couple of minutes, that does not exist. The time people spend before the meeting not working just chatting around waiting, the natural inertia of the group it takes time to get
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by vfc1 7y ago
You are just counting literally the time the first person starts talking till the last person ends, and even then its going to be closer to 10 minutes. If you add up the time people have stopped working while waiting for the meeting, the ti
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by vfc1 7y ago
It's an illusion, most people don't have a good sense of time. Just getting everyone in a room and waiting for the last person to arrive and everyone to leave, grab a cofee and start working again is at least 12 to 15 minutes for
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by vfc1 7y ago
I don't buy that, it's a convenient myth. There is obviously tone in written messages too. Tone is not only about body language, a lot of it is about the choice of words. Tone can literally be inferred by machine learning, check G
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by vfc1 7y ago
This is just not realistic, a standup of 7 or eight people will take minimum 15 to 20 minutes, from the moment that you leave your desk to the moment you get back. Some standups go off track, and if you count everything you are looking at c
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by vfc1 7y ago
I've worked in many teams that used standups, the general feeling was that they were utterly useless. Except for management, as standups are a simple way of keeping psychological pressure on developers and squeezing every last bit out
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by vfc1 7y ago
This is so true, Medium started paywalling free content a couple of months ago. This means people leading on your blog, wanting to read your content and being prevented to do so unless they pay Medium.
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by vfc1 7y ago
Look I'm not saying that stress does not play any role at all, but obviously the main cause is diet. I mean put people on Yoga classes and don't change their diet and see what happens.
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by vfc1 7y ago
You can't reverse diabetes and heart disease with stress management, but its a well-documented scientific fact that a plant-based diet can do that. By reversing, I mean stopping and reversing the progression of symptoms, not cure every
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by vfc1 7y ago
I hope Libra goes through, even with the Cambridge Analytica scandal and everything. It might lite a fire under goverments to take some action and create a proper crypto currency at the state or maybe even EU level for example, it's ti
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by vfc1 7y ago
Red meat is a likely carcinogen and processed meat is a known carcinogen. Oils in general, even extra virgin olice oil are not health foods (which is a common misconception). Beyond burguers are not healthy, they are junk food. Plant-based
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by vfc1 7y ago
> The danger in the constant back and forth of poor nutrition science being hyped up in the media, reversing last week’s headline, is that eventually the general population just gives up, and stops listening/acting on ANYTHING comin
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by vfc1 7y ago
Mutant animal meat raised in factory farms fed soy and corn and shot with antibiotics and hormones is not real food either, and that is 99% of the meat dairy and eggs out there. This is a straw man argument, because the perfect experiment w
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by vfc1 7y ago
This kind of stuff should be forbidden, but unfortunately, it's left to universities to regulate themselves. Some have guidelines that say don't take research funding from the tobacco industry and other industries, others don&#x27
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by vfc1 7y ago
I think that thought is removing responsibility from the individual, the thought of "I don't have to do anything, someone else will fix it". Society is not an abstract entity, its all of us, we are the society. The responsibi
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by vfc1 7y ago
Taking the whole earnings as a dividend is not advisable, because this means that you would have no salary and therefore no retirement pension at all. Governments usually incentivize entrepreneurs to have a reasonable salary, and to not tak
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by vfc1 7y ago
For this subject, it's really just a matter of opinion more than anything. I think if someone is commenting and has subject matter expertise, they should mention that ("I'm a doctor and happen to know that ..."), it&#x27
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by vfc1 7y ago
I'm pretty sure it's mostly cultural, and has a lot to do with the American Dream whatever it means. I think its this general idea that anyone can make it if they work hard, I don't think there is an equivalent notion in most
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by vfc1 7y ago
> we need to focus on the thing that has the bigger impact first Why is this, why wait to solve the fishing net problems before taking other measures? I see this line of thought a lot here in Hacker News, especially in topics related to
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by vfc1 7y ago
With a limited responsibility company, if it goes bankrupt its the company and not you personally. Any debts would only go against company accounts and not your personal bank account. I think the judge in some cases could still hold you acc
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by vfc1 7y ago
I don't think it's mandatory, but I had clients asking me this otherwise they would not hire. The reason is, if you work without a company, after a few years they could be forced to convert the freelancer to an employee, which usu

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