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I understand this is a jaded take, but it's not wrong. Open source entered a bubble because companies started requiring active open source contributions to staff+ engineering requi…

Great reply from someone else around generational shifts. That essentially answered this for me. To give a troll response: In the current context, I guess it means someone who does…

Agreed. If someone has a deep enough understanding of engineering fundamentals, moving bits is moving bits. It doesn't matter what use case is sitting on top of it. Also - Let's no…

We always seem to forget that the majority of US citizens identify as conservative or moderate. Personally, I'm middle-left and found the endless hordes of far-left mobsters to be …

If common interests aren't found during the unstructured conversation, the manager should be probing for commonalities during 1:1s and using them to spark the conversation. Once th…

The pandemic has made it more challenging. I've worked remotely for over eight years and managed teams for 4 of those years. Engagement feedback has dramatically shifted, with peop…

Social media consumption really falls into the same category as addiction. Some people can manage doing addictive things better than others. If social media is having a negative im…

This.

I can't say that I agree with this. There are the productivity "influencers" who say a lot of things but don't actually live it. There is a high correlation between being a product…

I've only actually worked for one company (1/5) that emphasized productivity and graded people on it. My default answer would be most of them. I would say the majority of tech comp…

It's easy to have the wrong mindset around productivity. If an individual thinks that doing more always leads to better results, they're going to have a bad time. I use productivit…

Putting the fate of our airline safety to the collective bravery of humanity seems like a bad idea to me. If I'm getting on a plane, I have no problems taking my shoes off and bein…

This has been the story for the last 8 years at minimum. There's nothing new here. They have still found a way to survive and grow during this time.

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, etc.. are user-generated content publishers. They have the right to refuse whatever content they feel like. This is the same as a newspaper r…