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OP wanted to distance themselves as far from a bad economic environment as they could. For people early in their careers, working hard is the best way to grow their future earnings…

People without equity will work harder if they expect it to bring career or compensation growth. If it’s a great company, people will work extra hours to move ahead, knowing it wil…

> What I've seen with AI is that it does not save my coworkers from the pain of overcomplicating simple things that they don't really think through clearly. AI does not seem to sol…

An addiction is when our dependency an activity outweighs the net-negative effect of it. If there’s no net-negative, there’s no addiction. So yes, some people just enjoy working. O…

everyone talks about the alignment problem, not nearly enough about the accountability problem

I’m actually working on this now, starting with sleep quality and cognitive performance (memory/attention/fluency) as dependent variables. The vision is to have an index of protoco…

Regarding the “realism” proposed here, that leadership defines what shipping means: there’s a good faith and bad faith interpretation. The bad faith interpretation is that this is …

crazy double whammy: 1. US gov trying to break up your search monopoly 2. ChatGPT disrupting your search monopoly

The original post is a question about people’s beliefs, not a proof or a case for any one belief. Many believe in determinism, or at least the functional equivalent, and it poses a…

Thanks for this! I suppose for our purposes, both determinism and indeterminism create the same paradox of free will. Determinism gives every event a determined prior cause, and in…

> The problem starts in assuming “the portion humans operate in” is relevant or reasonable the question is whether humans have control over their actions. human operations are defi…

It’s a reasonable challenge to determinism, but quantum decoherence seems to make that opening smaller, no? It seems you can explain much of reality using determinism, especially t…

Given deterministic causality, where every event has a prior cause, it would appear that free will is an illusion. While it may seem like we’re choosing our actions, determinism im…

Exactly, foolishness is bravery without cleverness

Perhaps I should have clarified that “success” is relative. Success for someone born into poverty is different than someone born into royalty. I’m focused on the qualities we shoul…

I definitely agree with the idea that we choose to will something! I tried to get that across in the essay, but maybe not as well as I could have. What I meant between skill and wi…

Doesn’t your upbringing essentially manifest itself into your personality and virtues?

My favorite aphorism about luck is that you can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket. After becoming adults, luck rarely falls into our laps. We have to make decisions that …

What's the correlation between code quality and business success?

It’s a great analysis but I think it’s too either-or. If you have a monolith anyways then yes, why use a distributed systems solution like JWT? Completely agree. But if you already…