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Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

amelius wrote: post #32
vageli wrote: post #26

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> Imho, if you're successful without working hard, you have "hacked" the system, and like any form of hacking this should be punishable, in this case e.g. by degradation. > If only we had a system where (special) judges were able to determine who works hard and who doesn't and from there decide who gets what amount of pay, and who deserves a promotion. We could actually have a fair society. Why should pay be based on…

Well, if you like you can replace "works hard" by "is efficient". Or something in between, depending on what you think is fair.

There is no "if you like." It's your statement, justify it.

Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by detaro »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #78
detaro wrote: post #44

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> it doesnt appear on the bill of material I've actually seen a few customers listing it as such (based on some sales estimate), but it doesn't seem common. Which is a bit weird, especially in cases where you can trade software cost for hardware cost.

One very good reason for putting firmware/software on the BOM is to ensure that the correct version is used in production. Whenever we do a firmware release, part of our process is to update the BOM of whatever product it's for with the firmware revision number.

Interesting! I don't really see that stage of the process as a software dev, but makes total sense that the production-stage BOM contains that.

Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by BurningFrog »

StavrosK wrote: post #73
xrd wrote: post #54

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After I wrote that, I thought: maybe lots of people think that slack is for that. I think you are right. But, I do also think that a crucial distinction is that most people assume water cooler talk isn't recorded. I have several co-workers who have said something in slack, then noted this is probably available to the boss, and then deleted the comment (who really knows if it is actually deleted and not available to t…

Are Slack private messages accessible to anyone? I've never heard this before.

They're still in the system and can at a minimum be subpoenaed.

If they're available to your local Slack admin, I don't know.

Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by avip »

StavrosK wrote: post #73
xrd wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After I wrote that, I thought: maybe lots of people think that slack is for that. I think you are right. But, I do also think that a crucial distinction is that most people assume water cooler talk isn't recorded. I have several co-workers who have said something in slack, then noted this is probably available to the boss, and then deleted the comment (who really knows if it is actually deleted and not available to t…

Are Slack private messages accessible to anyone? I've never heard this before.

It must be for compliance. It's called "corporate export".

https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-export-your-worksp...

Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by topcat31 »

Author here - thanks for all the comments and feedback. Lovely surprise to wake up to this on the HN homepage.

Some light additional context - this is part of my ongoing series "The Strategic Independent" which will eventually become a book sometime next year. All the posts in that series are catalogued here: https://www.are.na/tom-critchlow/the-strategic-independent

This post (and the whole series) is designed for independent consultants, free-agents and freelancers who have to navigate entering and exiting client environments often faster than full-time employees. Hopefully there's something useful in that context but many of these ideas could be applicable beyond that also.

Anyway - thanks for the love. If you have topic suggestions for future posts in this series would love to hear them! Thanks, Tom.

Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by StavrosK »

avip wrote: post #84
StavrosK wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are Slack private messages accessible to anyone? I've never heard this before.

It must be for compliance. It's called "corporate export". https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-export-your-worksp...

You only have that if you are on the Plus plan, and only after you upgrade.

Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by topcat31 »

topcat31 wrote: post #85

Author here - thanks for all the comments and feedback. Lovely surprise to wake up to this on the HN homepage. Some light additional context - this is part of my ongoing series "The Strategic Independent" which will eventually become a book sometime next year. All the posts in that series are catalogued here: https://www.are.na/tom-critchlow/the-strategic-independent This post (and the whole series) is designed for i…

Also - thank you Github pages & Cloudflare for keeping my site up through a HN bump.

Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by glitchc »

bigred100 wrote: post #22

In my opinion just look around and see what the successful people are doing. Putting your head down and working is what I’d do for developing my own technical or something else skills. I.e. studying. Nobody I’ve met who gets high success in an office job does that. I wonder if there’s not something to read into this a bit beyond my current abilities. Many people work on things that they consider somewhat boring, or a…

Except those people aren’t actually doing any work. Eventually the house of cards collapses on itself. The political system in the country is this philosophy carried to its logical, and extreme end. And what do politicians do nowadays? Mostly nothing.

Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by Nasrudith »

xrd wrote: post #40

Lots of comments here come off as very resistant to accepting the ideas presented here: that success at work is as much about the quality of your work as the effort made to connect with the humans in an organization evaluating the work. Improv is a perfect frame for this: entertaining but doing deep preparation for that entertainment. What I'm really fascinated by is how this can be translated to remote working. I do…

The real issue is the definition of "success". Climbing to the top of ladders by spoofing utility may work for their career advancement but to any whose paycheck doesn't depend upon it is clearly a pathology.

The jumping from sinking ship to sinking ship after gnawing at the baseboards success model is success for them and useless sociopaths like them only and actively bad for everyone else. Their fuck ups are /why/ they need to pay consultants in the first place!

Their methods are a plague on society which makes it abundantly clear why the status quo is fucked up and also why big players even can lose vs garage start ups despite their decades of experience and massive funds difference. While the start ups may be good and smart the vested interest's outright failures despite their advantages are more because they are frankly stupid than their rival's vast skill or genius.

If remote working stops the spread of this virulence (I suspect they will need to mutate their playbooks) then it explains the resistance among current management to not having to pay for office space.

Re: Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work

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Post by synthmeat »

mmanfrin wrote: post #61

Sincere plea to everyone who does frontend: please knock it off with the on-select rich media shit. I am a compulsive selecter (and I know there are others like me). I like to select text as I read and it's jarring to have annotations pop up on the side as I do it.

Are you a double-clicker or just selector?

I'm a double-clicker and I know of many others. I don't know many "selectors". In that spirit, they should just ignore double-clicking in whatever they wanna present for selections.

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