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Remove the law, and all that remains is a jungle, where the strong domineer the weak.

Excellent perspective. Organisations are similar to individual human minds in structure, but scaled. They will make mistakes, just like people do, but also correct themselves over …

*200 year old

A more stark example is that of Newton. A true philosopher, by hacker news standards he'd be considered a misguided madman, since he spent 2/3rd of his life on "unproductive" topic…

That's fine, my focus is on mastering software engineering (rather than text editing) :p

VSCode/IDEs and Vim need not be mutually exclusive. I tend to rely on vim emulation within my vscode, chrome and in other applications. Usually, all I need are the basic vim modali…

Say I want to learn QT Programming, machine learning libraries, etc. I am not aiming for deep understanding at the get go, but I want to get usable output quickly, as I dig deeper.…

Rickover was near the top echelons of US navy for ~60 years, as far as I know. Definitely, he knows a thing or two about burnout and turnover. He executed many, many sophisticated …

However, Rickover was deeply against non technical people managing technical people in the organization. One is reminded of the Newton quote: "Errors are not in the art but in the …

I'd say: No, not at all! Read about Admiral Rickover. He built the first practical nuclear submarine in the world, for the US navy, in record time of 3 years. He cleared bureaucrat…

I for one consider social methods part of the problem solving process. Knowing who knows what, and who can help, and asking for help the right way is key to getting better at probl…

I recommend you dig deeper into Buddhism to grasp how flexible & responsive the religious leaders are to scientific advancements. A book from Matthieu Ricard, an ex western scienti…

Thanks for sharing additional context, wasn't aware of them!

I have a question for experienced/skilled FOSS maintainers. Are there any good ways to convert those who comment/suggest into contributors? I feel like instead of simply dismissing…

In buddhism at least, developing compassion is seen from a skill-building perspective as far as I know. Most human capabilities have to be amplified through deliberate study from o…

I tend to use the human potential framework. As a human being, I have a potential capacity to do sophisticated things or to merely operate at the level of an animal. Developing cap…