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As does your reply.

I'm quite skeptical that industrial-age measures of efficiency are the right way to think about education. Feinman's story about teaching in Brazil comes to mind: https://enlighten…

As an ADHDer, I think talks and discussion are way better than written exams. The most common treatments for ADHD are stimulants, but human interaction is a natural stimulant, and …

That is a statement of faith. Every bubble has its believers; that's why we have bubbles. There have been so many times somebody very smart has thought we were on the verge of the …

This sort of faux incomprehension does an excellent job proving Planktonne's point.

> You can tell someone in native on LessWrong by their ability to use incredibly obtuse language to say simple things. It's just in-crowd signalling. Do you have a sense of what sh…

Even setting that crowd aside, almost every time I see somebody puffed up about how "rational" they are it turns out to involve a vigorous avoidance of the values they're working f…

The last couple years I've been prototyping a not-for-profit pinball museum in Chicago. In the coming weeks we'll be opening 7 days a week in a 2900 sq ft space in the Loop: https:…

Your theory is that emergency room workers would think "make sure patient X gets operation Y" so unimportant that they'd just leave it off the board? I have more faith in them than…

It's also a barrier to interested users. I'm one. I am currently using 3 kanban solutions for different needs. I'm always looking for better solutions, but I'm not going to invest …

This is such an important lesson. To me so many things from the "agile" toolkit appear to fail in ways where people tend to blame the tools, but instead are exposing people/process…

Sorry, but I don't think that's correct. One of the big benefits of a physical kanban board is that the limited space means people only write down the stuff they really care to kee…

I think not having much documentation is fine, but please make the demo something where people can use it without logging in. E.g., they can click a button and just start messing w…

It could in theory, but purchasing decisions for tools like these are generally made by managers or executives, so they end up being optimized for what those people want. Or, more …

It has worked fine for me on a variety of software projects for more than 20 years. Here's a project I documented back in 2004, where we used physical cards: https://williampietri.…

> Do you seriously blame the death star technicians? The cooks at the death star canteen? I find that extremely hard to understand. You must be working very hard to not understand …

You are confusing pointing out that people are morally responsible for the their actions with suggesting "that someone should leave their job on ideological grounds". I get that yo…

What's this website? Who put it up? Those have always been good questions to ask, but especially these days.

For those interested in a keep-everything-hot approach like this, it's worth checking out the 25-year-old library Prevayler. Full ACID guarantees, and radically faster than a datab…

I read that as being his emotional reaction, not something he'd say in an interview context. This being an internet forum and all. What I think he's sincere about is not wanting to…

When I ask an interviewee a technical question, what I want is an answer that is correct technically. If I want them to give me a different kind of technical answer, then I think i…

Agreed. To me that's related to the question of minions vs professionals. If I go to a doctor and say, "Hey, please prescribe me a lot of morphine," the answer will be some version…

Just to be clear, I'm absolutely not kidding here. E.g., this is the kind of hiring process I favor: https://williampietri.com/writing/2015/slightly-less-awful-h... To rethink hiri…

Humans are primates, and primate dominance dynamics are going to be the default absent some conscious choice otherwise. Our whole executive/worker dichotomy is a descendant of the …

> Although it was originally intended to be cash it actually now is used as a "store of wealth" It's also terrible at that. Bitcoin is down by something like half off its peak. The…