Very interesting to see this at the top of HN literally just after reading "Human Capital: a Horror Story" https://amgreatness.com/2019/11/27/human-capital-a-horror-st...
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#12An interview with D'Arcy Carden (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3639013/) about her stand out performance on The Good Place (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955642/) was the first I'd heard about "Yes, And...". Got me curious about improv. Previously, I equated it to standup comedy.
D'Arcy Carden: The goal is to make the other person(s) look awesome.
I wish I could tell younger me to study improv, to hear this nugget of wisdom, before joining the work force. Might have saved myself and everyone else a lot of heart ache.
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#13This article is about as insufferable as most improv groups.
Yes! And about as annoying as a manager whose job is to talk about work without actually doing any.
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#14Thanks for a great article. I want to share this with some stressed colleagues, but I doubt they'd appreciate it.
Many people in America take the theatre seriously, and thinking of it as such would be detrimental to their self-image.
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#15Very interesting to see this at the top of HN literally just after reading "Human Capital: a Horror Story" https://amgreatness.com/2019/11/27/human-capital-a-horror-st...
Good lord, what a schlocky piece of propaganda this is.
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#16This article is about as insufferable as most improv groups.
True. And the corrupt morals beneath that facade of optimism are depressing. What a world are we creating!
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#18Very interesting to see this at the top of HN literally just after reading "Human Capital: a Horror Story" https://amgreatness.com/2019/11/27/human-capital-a-horror-st...
That piece is really bizarre and poorly written. It feels like they're trying to shoehorn a bunch of right-wing talking points into a piece about corporate boringness. This quote is laughably bad:
> The male toilet has disappeared overnight. Now there is an “All-Gender Toilet” and the door is decorated in rainbow hearts.
> You go through three stalls before you find one that hasn’t got a used tampon floating in the basin or discarded on the floor.
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#19I unfortunately recognize several of these as being true from my five years at BigCo. Is this advice true of a (tiny) startup as well? Work should speak for itself when the survival of a company depends on it, right? I'd like to know if it's the same on the other side.
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#20Second City, a well-known improv club/school offers workshops to teams focused on exactly these concepts. My team went to one of their workshops in Chicago a few years back, and while it was not world-changing, at was eye-opening.