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Agreed. 3 things are interesting. How small the slight is. How big the effect is. Meta thing: how the slight is not the kind of thing most managers or executives, or even knowledge…

I think this is actually where the study is interesting. Because the “no duh!” Comments actually have merit on their face. But the argument is that these are tiny slights—not haras…

Ok actually you sound kind of awesome. The article is about how thoughtless, petty slights demotivate employees. You are talking about the opposite of thoughtlessness: doing someth…

I want to complain a little about the journalism (not) being done here. Because I read this article, and I read the (better, but still lacking) Bloomberg Law article it links/rewri…

I've been the SD in circumstances like this. And I'll say this is good advice, but there's the potential for a subtle trap in it. Sounds like you're in a fairly political org. Not …

I don’t know that there’s a single answer, but the replies here are in the neighborhood. Fees of some kind are the only revenue model, so you pick the ones that work for your use c…

I know this is a flip dismissal. But it illustrates one of my deeply held beliefs pretty well: there are things that are virtuous at small scale that are disastrous at large scale,…

(Father of children ages 7, 5, and 2.) 3 thoughts, ordered from most concrete and practical to most speculative. Concretely, how do I do this? My kids go to a Waldorf school. (wald…

A lot of good advice here. I'd add a bit more. I was similar to you out of school—ended up the lone techie in a small oilfield services company. How do you grow as an engineer? Go …

This. The headlines are "court sides with NRA!" which fits the ongoing "illegitimate court" narrative for progressives because the NRA is unpopular. (Partly owing to "ew! guns!" an…

Different things. The snark plays to individual psychology in the moment. When someone comes at you in a way that's demeaning and clearly states that they think you shouldn't have …

Agreed. I don't think the snark helps. Not my field, but my understanding of how these things work in big medical research factories: first few authors tend to be young researchers…

This. Lived and worked in Austin tech 7 years. This article is all about startup funding, plus it quotes one unicorn whose home base / frame of reference was Houston, not another t…

I’m undecided if this is wise policy or not. One of the things the article doesn’t consider, but makes me curious, is the ancillary consequences of this. For example, medicine in t…

I'll add a recent misfortune for a peer company: https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/judge-sanctions-faceb... Looks like the real powers in the US are losing patience with some …

Yeah my first thought reading this was… does this dude have kids? Because this isn’t how the parents I know think of it, and not how I think of it. But I also have income that give…

I think there's a meaningful distinction between "privatized prison" and "service provided to prison by private company." The trouble with privatized prisons is that the incentives…

I think there's a bit more to it than that. It appears that a significant chunk of the local online news market in these regions is only financially viable based on pay-for-coverag…

You have encountered a problem too big to solve alone, so your solution involves gaining the right allies and persuading them to do the right things. So, however frustrating this i…

Article sums it up as: there hasn't been a better WebMD because the costs of making one have been too high, but new advances promise to draw those costs down, so the author is foun…

Yes, there's inherently some stereotyping here. Any proposed detail will be subjective and find counter-examples. But for anybody who has crossed these lines, the core point is pre…

Values - status is built on the east coast by affiliation—to family, to schools and universities, to political groups, to elite employers. Status is built on the west coast in an a…

One note on small towns: most of the people there aren't transplants, so you get their culture with them. American cities have a reasonably standardized culture, courtesy of hundre…

Varies widely. Size of school, public/private, urban vs rural location, cost and availability of surrounding housing.

This is true, but it's on a sliding scale. I grew up in a town in Idaho, 100 miles from an interstate. I've lived in tech cities (SF, Austin) and now live in Ann Arbor. (Which, alo…