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Interesting, I'll make a note to keep my GAS levels around 80.
Seriously, I think the answer to this isn't about intensity of feeling (although 100% is never healthy for anything, ever). It's about channelling the GAS into principles, tightening them up, and agreeing on what matters. Then putting that energy into being flexible about everything else.
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there's film of Tex Johnston's Dash-80 barrel roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk many years later, Boeing Chief Test Pilot John Cashman stated that just before he piloted the maiden flight of the Boeing 777 on Jun. 12, 1994, his last instructions from then Boeing President Phil Condit were “No rolls”. -- anecdote from https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-tex-johnston-barre... I wonder why "the suit…
A barrel roll is one thing to perform in a transport category jet, it is a ~1G maneuver when performed correctly. A loop is altogether different. My good friend Bernardo Malfitano, https://www.understandingairplanes.com/Bernardo-Malfitano.ht... , when he worked as a Structural Methods & Allowables engineer at Boeing, was also an aerobatics pilot on the side and put on a fantastic brown-bag lunch presentation entitled…
Gotta love the understatement there.
Book a flight from/to Germany with Lufthansa or from/to South Korea with Korean Air. They use the 747-8i and Lufthansa even the older 747-400 (delivery issues with B787 and B777). It is a nice plane and efficient between high demand routes of major destinations (e.g. JFKFRA). If you want spend more money, I recommend the upper-deck which is provides a private atmosphere.
Question: But I'm not wealthy?
Answer: Me neither. I had a nice talk with a complete stranger in the middle row in the Economy during the last intercontinental flight. No Champagne but nice memories.
If business: Lufthansa business-class seats allow for lay-flat but with older screens. I like them because use an open interior without the closed "office-cubicle" interior of other airlines. Look out of the window, drink champagne, eat a nice meal (or two...) or sleep.
PS: Booking the 747 keeps her flying.
Screenshot: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmcjrYXR934QZqBuMHioRdcZEmo... On small displays this is otherwise obstructed by a cookie popup that offers only an “accept all” button. What’s even the point of the popup then?
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I think it's more that most people are basically trying their best and that includes managers and top brass. Sometimes we get a glimpse when that shines through from the whole group.
I don’t mean to be negative, but most people certainly don’t try their best. Many are only working for the paycheck and don’t attach their sense of success to their professional output.
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It took them 2 hours and 40 minutes to complete the easter egg
More cynically: Roughly 2.4 tons of fuel, equating to 16.8 tons of CO2 emissions.
[0] https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-hea...
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MBAs instead of promote-from-within. Bringing along egotistical bean-counter superiority with typically vastly inferior performance. Seeing this trend in big tech has me very bearish - the non-tech MBAs just can't execute on long-term big bets that require the deep understanding/cross-cutting coordination that comes with career insiders.
Is the problem of outside MBAs their lack of deep understanding? Others here have argued that the promotion of outsiders erodes loyalty and passion of the workforce towards their jobs. I could imagine good outsiders who have the skills for long-term big bets are quite common. But then the erosion of the community inside the company could still foil such bets. As an aside, this alternative narrative seems more palatab…
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I think majority of jobs are low wage with no future prospects, and quite a lot of jobs have bosses or—worse—shareholders taking away the profits for their own private climate devastating opulence. Why would you work hard for these people? Why would you do anything more than the absolute minimum? I think this supposed American dream was only ever a ruse, a Hollywood propaganda. If it ever existed it only applied to a…
> Why would you do anything more than the absolute minimum? For personal satisfaction? You are going to be there anyway, you might as well do a good job. I’m not saying to put in more hours than contracted, but those hours should be high quality (or as high as you can make them, under the circumstances).
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> What’s even the point of the popup then? Complying with idiotic bureaucratic regulations. Nobody wants to be popping that thing up, but if they don't, they can get reamed by the EU.
They could just... not use tracking cookies. Then no banner is required. The real idiocy is every website wanting to hoover up data.