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It's the "every problem is a nail" statement in slightly different guise.
I'm totally being pedantic, but it doesn't work—so I was wondering if it was a direct quote from someone in particular.
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I mean, ALWAYS 9-5, in addition to whatever it takes to get the work done. One or the other can be totally fine but it leaves little room for wiggling with comp time.
Ah! I understand your comment now, by > obsession with 9-5 and whatever else it takes You mean an obsession with "working 9-5 ALONG WITH whatever else it takes", not an obsession with "9-5" and a separate obsession with "whatever it takes".
- Salary and coming to work are anti-patterns
- People expect perfection from a team, but readily accept mistakes of an individual
- Every job is easy, lest one should be held responsible
- With every person leaving the company - even after all the documentation, KT and handholding - a large chunk of knowledge leaves the company (or say wisdom); pretty much everybody is irreplaceable
- It's extremely hard to get your idea across. If you want your idea to get accepted, sit with one person at a time, before revealing your big idea. People still would not understand it, but they would accept it when discussed, again, in a group
- It's easy to work if there is a trust among the team members
- If you have KPIs and OKRs in your company, be ready for cross-functional conflicts, the introduction of time-wasting processes, and ultimately erosion of all the trust - giveth number, taketh soul
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It's the overall uselessness of life, being lied to about rules of society while brutal, cruel natural law is in effect, like people getting ahead by lying, bullying, kissing up, schmoozing, murdering, having sex with etc. and one's competence doesn't matter at all, unless it's for increase in work/punishment. It leads to nihilism, suicides and murders as "nothing really matters" and is quite common in 50+ and lower-…
HN pill - There could be an app for everything, every activity, and every device could be connected to the internet. Your life is a SaaS subscription. The least valued tech company should be worth at least $1bn. In all honesty, this pill stuff is crap.
Yeah, but a depressing one ;-)
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resource is also more specific than people, that doesn't obviate it from being dehumanizing.
Resource is less specific, not more.
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The forces of chaos certainly seem to be in the ascendant in the West. A British woman makes thousands a month taking her clothes off online and selling her bathwater to perverts etc., yet if I call this out I'm liable to being labelled a dinosaur, misogynistic, hateful, etc. etc. In today's society possessing what were once considered traditional morals is liable to leave one at best socially isolated and at worst d…
There is a very good reason for that - "traditional morals" frankly are full of horrifying things accepted without comment and harmless things called the great Satan. Wars of colonialism, soldiers paid in plunder and rape, massacre of those only trying to defend their besieged home? Fine or even righteous when we do it. When others do they are foul invaders. Meanwhile, anything remotely lurid or new culturally is tre…
Personally I'm more worried about this, which I suppose makes me a hateful bigot: 'Asian grooming gang free to roam streets because officers were told to 'find other ethnicities' to investigate, detective claims '
The insane amount of work that goes into QA of consumer electronics. I also now viscerally understand how China has a stranglehold on world manufacture of electronics. The concentration of skill, infrastructure, and related industries in Shenzhen or other Chinese industrial cities is unequaled in the USA. We have utterly given that up to Asia. Back to QA: I learned what "DPPM" means: Defective Parts Per Million. A mo…
Today it seems the Six-sigma fad is over and everyone is trying to be lean and agile, even in businesses that need fat and slow to management complexity.
That physical manufacturing seems like some form of wizardy to people now just shows how containerized our product ecosystem has become, people can press buy now on amazon with no understand of how the thing was made.
I kind of forget that NPI (new product introduction) engineering is second nature to me now after nearly a decade of training, but to being able to robustly deliver a designed and manufactured physical product seems hard to many.
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The insane amount of work that goes into just manufacturing. The United States prides itself by having high-value functions like design, while offshoring manufacturing. But manufacturing consumer electronics is no longer simple. We have given up on manufacturing these electronics completely.
> We have given up on manufacturing these electronics completely. I don't think it was the American people so much as it was the CEOs who were pandering to Wall Street in their quest for ever-increasing shareholder value.
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Let me be frank. If you are a plutocrat, you are at fault. You are at fault because you have the ability to redistribute your wealth which you know was unfairly gained. No amount of work by a single person can generate the wealth possessed by the top 0.1%, for someone to be that rich you had to have people work for you and you have to exploit their work and take an unfair share. That is reality. The people who benefi…
For your first part, define "unfairly". A billionaire or multimillionaire might be benefitting from many advantages in life that others didn't get but this does not negate their capacity to organize capital and labor in a way that creates a business which otherwise wouldn't exist in the first place to give jobs to all those workers. This is not something just anyone or some collective of workers can pull out of a hat…
You cannot manage a big income without creating or supporting some number of jobs, so there is no virtue on it.