Why You Should Give Up on Your Dreams

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> Ok, you want enough control to say that any meeting-inclined person cannot join the company.

Ah, I see what you're seeing. I wasn't saying that, but I was. Between the lines, I was saying that I just want control to fire people who bring global productivity down. The reality is that this is a cultural issue (not having meetings except when actually necessary). Thus when someone is literally causing unnecessary meetings -- which to be clear, (un)necessary here is defined by the culture and peers, not by "me" though I'd be a large influence on that in the beginning -- they'd get reviewed as such by their peers.

I guess what I'm actually saying, is that I want the ability to have real and meaningful influence in a company's culture -- not just technically but socially as well. I like places that don't take themselves too seriously, where you have the space to solve hard problems if you need it but access to resources when you do. I usually see places I've worked where there were "meeting-spawners" (people who will soak up hundreds of man-hours in a single day to arrive at a conclusion that could have been solved more effectively in a single email) where you can't get the space to solve actual problems because you have days full of meetings about problems you can't get the space to solve that only need a few sentences of input from you.

If you pursue the dream and achieve it, reality matches the story. To not match the story you must have not achieved it. I'm only responding to what you said, hardship doesn't factor into it.

Because once you examine it, it typically boils down to "well, ok, healthy X is healthy, but unhealthy X is unhealthy", at which point it's a tautology and totally useless advice, and probably serves more to promote a bias or an agenda than anything else.

But because people like platitudes, they omit the "if healthy elif unhealthy" part, and effectively lump the whole X onto one category that they feel more biased to, with a hidden 'caveat emptor' clause.

It's the same here.

Pursuing dreams is unhealthy -> Pursuing healthy dreams is healthy, but pursuing unhealthy dreams is unhealthy.

Vegan food is healthy -> Healthy vegan food is healthy, but unhealthy vegan food is unhealthy.

Exercise is healthy -> Healthy exercise is healthy, but unhealthy exercise is unhealthy.

Sex is healthy -> Healthy sex is healthy, unhealthy sex in unhealthy.

Liberals/Republicans are assholes -> Asshole liberals/republicans are assholes, non-asshole liberals/republicans are not assholes.

I dunno, it's just getting more and more tiring to have to filter all these arguments in this manner ...