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#2One common answer for many questions comparing past to present : "More regulations"
This is not necessarily a bad thing, but often it is becoming a nightmare of labyrinthine proportions to navigate, which hinders new entrants.
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#3> How do people decide to make major life changes? Most days, people don't decide to change their lives in big ways. On a few days, they do. What's special about those days? How much is it about the stimulus versus their own inner state?
A recognition of self was what it took for me. Changed my life situation pretty recently for the better after a realization following a personal conversation with a close friend. The realization undermined a lot of my assumptions about how I was living my life, but it took substantial input and questioning from them for me to understand it; it was akin to pulling a thread and unraveling a tapestry, so to speak.
Can't say this is true for everyone, but it was for me.
tl;dr a bit of both.
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#4Regulations are out of control. We need VERY limited govt. Societies thrive when govt gets out of the way.
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#5“ Is Bloom's "Two Sigma" phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it?
Educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom found that one-on-one tutoring using mastery learning led to a two sigma(!) improvement in student performance. The results were replicated. "
Does anyone know if this also true of learning & development in companies? For example sales training or training
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#6> How do people decide to make major life changes? Most days, people don't decide to change their lives in big ways. On a few days, they do. What's special about those days? How much is it about the stimulus versus their own inner state? A recognition of self was what it took for me. Changed my life situation pretty recently for the better after a realization following a personal conversation with a close friend. The…
Can you elaborate on the "recognition of self" bit?
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#7One common answer for many questions comparing past to present : "More regulations" This is not necessarily a bad thing, but often it is becoming a nightmare of labyrinthine proportions to navigate, which hinders new entrants.
huh? there’s plenty of colleges to choose from and yet costs go up every year.
to me it seems like a distortion caused by a Federal Gov that guarantees payment to universities in the form of federally backed student loans.
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#8There was a thread on this back in 2018, although I think this page has been updated since then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18105129
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#9One common answer for many questions comparing past to present : "More regulations" This is not necessarily a bad thing, but often it is becoming a nightmare of labyrinthine proportions to navigate, which hinders new entrants.
huh? there’s plenty of colleges to choose from and yet costs go up every year. to me it seems like a distortion caused by a Federal Gov that guarantees payment to universities in the form of federally backed student loans.
Subsidized corn is not rapidly and consistently increasing in price.
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#10> How do people decide to make major life changes? Most days, people don't decide to change their lives in big ways. On a few days, they do. What's special about those days? How much is it about the stimulus versus their own inner state? A recognition of self was what it took for me. Changed my life situation pretty recently for the better after a realization following a personal conversation with a close friend. The…
Can you elaborate on the "recognition of self" bit?
I'm being deliberately obtuse, but in essence I recognized that I was mentally working around growing in a certain area rather than tackling it head on.