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My decades of working in very capitalistic companies has taught me two things: 1. Emotions are bigger factor than logic when it comes to business decisions. 2. We often assume wron…

In my personal experience, companies turn to these tools when there are organizational problems because it places the burden on the individuals instead of the system. Who has a lar…

Pros The environmental initiatives are wonderful and they've got a surprising amount of market traction. Cons Grove is a place where meritocracy-espousing libertarian men get toget…

The government doesn't tax anyone who dies. They tax the estate of the wealthy. Few people will be affected by it. There is plenty more you can read on the topic. The general idea …

You pay taxes on the gains. (Unless you purchases them through a Roth 401K/IRA where you don't, but those have tight limits on it.)

"you probably won't have to work as hard" For me, it was a question of: do I put in 40% to get 90% completed, or do I put in 150% to get 99% completed?

Sure, I'm all for teaching it. It would still face the same issues as other education topics. Use science as an example. It is taught in schools. And yet, we still have a strong an…

The other factor I'm not hearing in this conversation is that there is a third-party in why the Bay Area has so many high paid tech jobs: the VCs. I know of multiple startups orign…

> Look at this instead as a problem of knowledge distribution I personally found this to be helpful. I find it more comfortable to document and present internally to my companies t…

The plagues of Europe didn’t stay in Europe. They eventually came to the Americas where they wiped out most of the native populations. If globally connected people are so bad, then…

There are studies that found that companies earn more when their boards and management are 50/50 men and women. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-08/more-women-means-more... http…

I’ve noticed at two larger companies, that I worked at, with an open office plan the each executive would get a conference room just for the executive. They would decorate it, add …

I'm sick of tech being more scared of a man playing sound effects on CNBC than their thousands of paying customers.

I learned a lesson about opportunity costs while worked at an IT company. When I started, the company managed the IT for small companies, most being three to five people companies.…

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I don't see "retention" of talent in here but "recruiting" is. Is your team rapidly growing, or do you have high turnover? Recuriting is a costly activity compared to retention.

Jumping on here as this is a widespread issue in tech writing. "The first time you use an initialism or acronym in your document, the words should be written out with the short for…

The next question is, will they. I know of a town in Indiana where a surprising number of people don't get medical help. Some of it is money, but a big part is cultural. Indianapol…

No. You misunderstood the OPs premise. Everyone will come in contact with the virus. People under 50 years old (as recent reports have stated) have a high chance of survival. The d…

Now that you mention it, I use the second person of "you."

Assuming an older dev is also a higher level, they are likely to be dealing with many non-technical problems like project management and politics. As such, their big problems to so…

Much of the money is pre-allocated by propositions

What would you do with multi-threading in JS? I/O is already non-blocking which is a big reason for using multi-threading.

Only if they approve it and assuming the doctor takes your insurance. They may not approve it because you are out of network, they deem it not medically required or a drug that the…