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So update the documents? I mean, you're clearly not describing a high documentation culture, you're describing a culture that underinvests in intra-organizational communication. I …

It was a smart acquisition for sure, but "ruthless business genius" is a bit of hyperbole imho. FB's market cap was in excess of 200B at the time and they were growing like crazy. …

If you have different goals competing for your limited time and energy (entrepreneurship, changing the world, building relationships, etc.) and you're not sure which to pursue, con…

When someone develops a distorted picture of the world and becomes an activist based on it, that's just as bad for society as if they had never activated in the first place. In fac…

The issue is absolutely bad government policy. The Reason article isn't very good but its premise is correct. I'm surprised to find myself saying this, but Truthout wrote a much be…

I wish people would give less medical advice over the Internet, even when it's well meaning. You're sort of right but the reality is that you can't just go find the root cause and …

The reason I'm still a bit skeptical about password-less authentication is because the cost savings opportunity is enormous. So enormous that it would be easy to lose sight of ever…

It may be, but I suspect that disadvantage is far outweighed by the benefits of genuinely listening to people.

What you're doing doesn't sound like ghosting. Ghosting is cutting off contact without warning or regard for the psychological consequences. It's very easy to not be a ghost, all y…

If we legally mandate this what will the consequence be for small businesses that can't afford the cost to comply? (Even if you mandate it for only the big players - what if there …

Can't stress enough how valuable this is for small business. Auto-importing and auto-classifying transactions from financial institutions completely changes the way that bookkeepin…

I remember feeling in the mid aughts like a bunch of marketing bros who didn't know shit about tech, were flooding into tech. They were what ruined it imo. They were incapable of h…

You just don't engage with them, or engage selectively. If someone wants to engage in bad faith, you politely end the discussion, and introduce distance into the relationship. You'…

It would be consistent with criminal monopoly behavior if Google's next step was to start charging us for submitting spam reports... watch this space

I believe the HN guidelines actually say something about this, but either way: I think there is tremendous value in interpreting other people's statements as charitably as possible…

They built Gutenberg because a significant and growing percentage of the user base was resorting to page builder plugins like Divi, Elementor etc. to create richer layouts than wha…

Honestly, an AGPL'ed, fully transparent, shareable, forkable and self hostable algorithm to do this is a whole new ball game. Where it will land us remains to be seen but compared …

This is like saying we should blame the smoker, the junkie, or the gambling addict. The latter is an especially accurate comparison because these companies turn their games into ga…

These have helped reduce my social anxiety (I used to have a lot, now I have almost none) : 1. Exposure, simply spend more time in public and around other people, the only way to d…

Elementary's problem is it has two inexperienced founders who aren't negotiating with each other very well, I'd hardly call it a meltdown, nor particularly relevant to the examples…

Are you saying that asymptomatic patients are equally likely to spread Covid as symptomatic patients? I don't think the study supports that conclusion. If you read the Conclusions …

If you're going to post conclusions based on a sample size of one family, I think it's fair for me to post conclusions based on the current scientific consensus: - Vaccines DO redu…

Lagrange is very good. It seems I can't set a custom homepage URL, I hope he adds that at some point. Can anyone recommend a good de facto homepage as a jumping off point for explo…

How much of this stuff works in b2b and higher ticket services, I wonder?