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I think she contacted the FBI in the expectation that they would just do a preliminary, informal assessment of whether an investigation should be started, without realizing they would immediately start one upon her contact.
It's like when you call the police over a noise complaint and don't expect them to roll up guns blazing.
Fucking amazing. This was sitting right under my nose my entire life and I sensed it but didn't understand it. Now somebody finally wrote it down. I consider myself pretty courageous or at least indifferent to consequences (which may or may not be the same thing), but yeah that always seems to be the missing or limiting ingredient in every situation. Not that I'm biased or anything! Anyway this is going to be one of…
Maybe that's because you were enveloped in it. It's equally hard to see how weird your culture could look to others, until you actually visit some of those others and watch them operate, think it's weird, and then realise the feeling is probably reciprocal. For me a case in point was how a society could function without being very proscriptive, because where I live (Australia) where everything is that way. You will o…
The article starts with "This is one of my favorite USDS stories:" Such a hassle when authors just assume everybody is also in their bubble and know all thr acronyms. I'm not in or from the U.S. I have no clue what USDS is. Bad start to introduce me to your article.
The whole thing looks like a rushed rant written to get some views on Medium and not to share "favorite story".
Sorry, the story totally lost me after she was describing the interaction with the FBI. I did not easily take away some conclusion about what she had done wrong or what deep pile of shit she had just created for herself, or what on 2 paths she had just chosen incorrectly, or daringly? (The paragraph ending, "I trusted the FBI to be good at their jobs." The next paragraph jumps right to generalizations, and I didn't c…
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I think she's saying that it's odd to her, as someone who innately enjoys doing highly consequential work, that other people don't share in her enthusiasm. Similarly, coworkers must find it odd that she doesn't actively dodge such work or deal with it in a robotic, CYA manner, devoid of enthusiasm. Her realization about them and their realization about her are asymmetric in consequence. Even if she judges them it won…
Thank you, I had no clue what to get out of the story. English is my second language and sometimes it feels like a lot of people go out of their way to make their texts long and convoluted because it's cool. Same in my native language but it's another barrier to get through when it's your second or third language.
Distilling an intertwined set of thoughts down into the single point you are trying to make and then expressing that concisely and clearly is difficult and takes effort. When text is convoluted it's usually because the author didn't know how to do anything different or didn't try because they didn't realise it was necessary.
For those of us for whom English is a native language the problem is less, and I enjoyed the colour provided by the FBI story. You're right though that it muddied the waters of what was actually a coherent and interesting point being made. It is a useful lesson to me that clarity is even more important for non-native speakers.
Fucking amazing. This was sitting right under my nose my entire life and I sensed it but didn't understand it. Now somebody finally wrote it down. I consider myself pretty courageous or at least indifferent to consequences (which may or may not be the same thing), but yeah that always seems to be the missing or limiting ingredient in every situation. Not that I'm biased or anything! Anyway this is going to be one of…
Maybe that's because you were enveloped in it. It's equally hard to see how weird your culture could look to others, until you actually visit some of those others and watch them operate, think it's weird, and then realise the feeling is probably reciprocal. For me a case in point was how a society could function without being very proscriptive, because where I live (Australia) where everything is that way. You will o…
This is a big question that is unlikely to be an easy answer, but what can you tell us about how your previous organisation incentivised this behaviour and produced a productive culture? Also - how big was it (these things become harder to do the larger your org gets)?