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#3 is big as I'm not a security or IT person, but have had a big burden placed on me with regard to security. The biggest factor is work that was once done by internal employees in…

The "new contract" vs old sounds like internal problems where I work. We'll have a contract signed and everything is OK for a couple years. Then someone goes ham on inventing an ap…

I think he was broken by "Games for Windows Live" on PC. They had to integrate it in Gears of War, and I think a lot of the industry saw it as Microsoft trying to steer the PC into…

I do think the net result of this wad bad. I remember before this decision, I worked somewhere where people could take longer to be promoted as a temp, maybe even 2 years. I don't …

I never used GTD, but for ~15 years have used a mail plug-in for task management, deferrals, etc. I have two main issues in recent years. There are now more requests that are 1 tas…

I have about 20 AI influencers blocked which cuts down the noise a ton, and of course this one showed up. I think they are all created Nov 2022 or later, or were previously "here's…

I don't know that they hire to inflate the share price. In good times, I have felt like that some R&D projects exist just to say "we have people working on it" for investor calls a…

I wonder if some of the lack of teenager tolerance has to do with larger congregations of teens due to social media. When I was young with no cell phone it was a non-trivial exerci…

Yes once upon a time 24-hour news meant 25 or 30 different news stories covered in a an our. Now it seems like 5 or less stories in a day, and most of it is panels and "experts" sp…

That's kind of my concern as well. I feel like there is already a decline in thinking, but currently I can at least tell that it's the case.

This guy had it in his newsletter in February: https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart/status/1628779894183272452

I never thought about it, but that is so true. It also seemed like it was roughly the peak of bad DRM as well as trying to curtail resale of console games.

I think the source was this: https://www.resumebuilder.com/1-in-4-companies-have-already-... Now I would ask, what "business leaders" would fill out a random survey for a resume co…

Sounds about right. I know someone who's company hired VP that was ex-McKinsey, and then they hired a bunch of ex-McKinsey staff. * offshore more dev internally * about 12 months i…

Based on my experience bloat causes more bloat. People get hired to work on fringe projects/products, those people cause work for other staff that are already at 100% capacity on h…

This does fit with layoffs I've went through. Decide who to lay off first, and then the framing is done later. My guess is the sex/race/etc metrics of the layoff "looked OK" by coi…

I believe they are Brazil. Also a month or two back there were claims that a member accidentally doxxed themselves a couple times, and they were in Spain.

>To me there is nothing more alarming than the corporate overlords invading my home. I've worked from home for a while and pre-pandemic it seemed to be fine. However, I started to …

I don't mind if it's something that does actually require more discussion. However, pre-slack there used to be a certain type that would never read e-mail, but instead would call 5…

>"Extremely online" people have found an endless spring of resentment, fear, and totalitarian thinking welling up from some place inside themselves, an ancient and primal source th…

I'm not sure it's just speech. I have worked with Canadians for a while, but the past 2-3 years they seem to be more controlling/authoritarian even in the corporate structure. I am…

I work for a company that I consider pro-vax, but they are not requiring vaccination. My guess it is for liability reasons, and they will probably defer to local regulations. I'm v…

I've worked at home for a few years now, and don't ever want to go back to the office unless: - Commute is sub 10 minutes - I get an office with a closing door In 20 years, I've ha…

I'm at a constant balance of 2 months of vacation because it's actually stressful to take more time off. Typically I stay up way too late before/after vacation trying to get everyt…

I'm only part way through the book, but agree with this assessment. I know I try to create ways of automating or semi-automating things to not be in e-mail or slack. The problem I …