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https://statscalculator.com/ Side project I made after leaving a large company; a free statistics package that bridges the gap between Excel and actual coding (R, Python). In the c…

Empirically, I'm getting about the same results from my 1 page and my 2 page CV, based on call back rates, funnel progression, and interviewer comments. Go ahead and use two pages …

My recruiter invites have been dropping at a exponential rate once I passed age 45. LinkedIn is apparently a fairly efficient platform for age discrimination.

Yes and No. Most paintings don't have (much) value. Behold my latest work, the brown ring of quality... do I hear... 5 cents? A few paintings have value, primarily due to the fame …

Simple English Translation: We cannot trust any publicly posted claims about product performance, since they have effectively been cherry-picked by the marketing / legal team. Bad …

And most of these tests are basically bullshit, in terms of real world impact. What's the contest here? Who's most desperate, most willing to sacrifice their life and health for pe…

It started well and devolved into a bitter rant about the universe. So... here's some perspective from a career on both sides of the table.... (manager and engineer) - For many tea…

You're assuming: a) the risk can be neatly packaged and mitigated b) the cost of appropriately mitigating that risk wouldn't preclude running the business. Long tail risks exist in…

(No offense, but this is about as non-hypothetical as it can get. This was my reality in the recent past)

A good question. Here's an attempt at a reply.. - You're trying to retain 5, not the 50.. the other 45 are objectively not-critical to the enterprise (in the sense we could elimina…

My point is frequently your world descends into a flaming pile of shit unannounced. Go ask the career restaurant workers how the year is going. Go ask the tourism guides and travel…

Is that before or after you learn that the typical severance for the people in question was less than a week's pay? So when it was "your turn", you're going to get tossed in the st…

In that event, most of the people in question will accept an offer from a competitor with greater assurances of financial security and return to loot and pillage what's left of the…

Find better executives :)

Not everyone is equal in that analysis. And in a financially constrained endgame, you have to make choices about who to keep and cut. Cutting that senior sales executive will cost …

I'm keenly aware of the disparity. However... - If we do not keep the highly paid senior sales rep, we're going to have no customers and thus... everyone gets canned. - They are ob…

Eh, you're not getting just how deep in the shit we were. Sometimes you can't give everyone a pony. There simply wasn't any money. That's the essence of running in financial distre…

"very few businesses are the product of a small subset of its people" Hate to break it to you but that is EXACTLY what is going on here. Some people have EXPONENTIALLY more impact …

That doesn't work in small organizations with no bench strength. The next person is line usually isn't qualified. It rarely works in large ones. Especially for an abrupt transition…

I've actually helped manage a company in financial distress. Here's reality: - First, most executives have little impact on the specific event that put the firm under. (I was a sen…