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The job of a leader is to define the problem to solve. Meetings are a tool, not an outcome.

I'm not sure that ranking them makes sense. Like, there are absolutely places I as a manager recognized a win/win/win (company/team/myself) by doing something other than what the c…

Hopefully people know not to ask others for factual information (unless it's an area they're actually well educated/knowledgeable in), but for opinions and subjective viewpoints. "…

Also a missed opportunity for an obvious pun, 'plane educational failure'

> 'or be extraordinarily talented and hardworking' Maybe you meant "and possibly", since otherwise the 'or' there detracts from the point I think you're trying to make (that ludicr…

Or more succinctly - a quorum agreeing to a leader to serialize writes through is both less work than trying to get a quorum to agree on every individual write, and equally as cons…

Unless, of course, someone has already monopolized the pretty rock collection market with robots. That's really the threat; that all 'useful' labor will be conducted and collected …

And, of course, if you -do- agree to just let the money go, they won't actually charge you. So the people who can afford to lose the money (criminals) get to avoid a charge just by…

If you read the article you'd see just the opposite. People without any actual charge, or any actual evidence, who have had the state supreme court in Nebraska still side with 'law…

I was living in Georgia when CNN's building in downtown was hit by a tornado. They're not nearly as bad as in the midwest, but they certainly happen. Mind you, it's a perfectly rea…

During downturns the more sure opportunities are through my network, definitely. But I've still landed jobs during them just from searching (I've been lucky enough to avoid layoffs…

The US (SW and SE coasts mostly, though some of those jobs were for companies headquartered elsewhere), so yeah, can't speak outside of that.

I've had ~10 jobs in my career so far. 1 was via my network; the others were all just me searching. But that said, networking makes it far easier. I've seen people be brought in ev…

Could also be the increased income disparity, the huge leap in housing costs without associated pay increase, the obvious inability of the US to change the direction it (and the wo…

I set up everything to basically turn off at 6. Close the work laptop, and either set up time based notifications for everything on my phone, or a work profile (Android) that I tur…

I feel like San Francisco, and in general, the Bay area, is the sort of place a billionaire could rationalize maintaining a crew.

The parent wasn't suggesting a rental pilot, but a salaried, on call pilot. As in, "You. I have fully vetted you. I have spoken with you. I will pay you hundreds of thousands of do…

And not like you'd have to come in via the street like the poors . You'll have a helipad at the top, because what kind of billionaire would you be otherwise, coming in via street l…

It also misses (well, leaves out; not sure the intent of the comment) the fact that unions have been gutted heavily in the US compared to where they were a century ago. When the US…

Didn't read the article didja? Or even click and read the full title? The $750k figure is the amount of Mux's services they provided in 2021, that were (claimed to be) pirate strea…

Honestly, most of my work experience has been those mythical magic moments just led to a decrease in morale. As a remote worker I am not as invested in the company, and that's a fe…

It always struck me as strange that corporations rely on chance for people to connect and understand what other parts of the org are doing, to find synergies* and suchlike. That fe…

From the article - "but it also reduced the amount of feedback that junior engineers received (in the form of comments on their code)" Sooooo...literally just measuring how many co…

This is the main thing I've noticed - the people who talk about how there is something lost in how work gets done haven't changed how work gets done . You can't just move to being …