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I've said it before, but these kinds of articles/blog posts always read as a justification on the part of the author for not working more.
This entire piece is written from the perspective of someone who sees their job as only a way to make money. That person might look at me and say something along the lines of "look at him, wasting his life away spending time at work." To me, though, he is the one wasting his life spending even a few hours a day to do something he would not do for free. If you don't absolutely love your job, quit. And if you absolutel…
I don't absolutely love my job. I mean, I'm pretty happy with it. It's satisfying. Not "absolutely love," though. You know what I do absolutely love? Having a roof over my head at night. Not starving to death. "If you don't absolutely love your job, quit" is a great sentiment if you live in a utopian fairyland where you can comfortably support yourself knitting sweaters or playing video games or whatever it is you mi…
"Working for free" after 40 hours never resonated with me. It comes out of hard fought labor battles, but an assembly line is difficult to relate to when I'm eating free snacks in my comfy Aeron chair and working on things that generally interest me. I think the biggest issue here is misaligned expectations between boss and worker. Personally, I've always gone into a job understanding what it was going to take to be…
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> How would you convince a Solipsist that there is an objective truth? I can't. But let me quote Bertrand Russell from "An Outline of Philosophy": Solipsism (the theory that I alone exist) is a view which is hard to refute but still harder to believe. Solipsism is not really believed even by those who think they are convinced of its truth. A solipsist would have no objection to jumping from a cliff, would he? But he…
Why would a solipsist have no objection to jumping off a cliff? Just because you believe reality doesn't exist outside your own mind doesn't mean you can't die.
Next time you are on an airliner think what kind of "work ethic" you'd like your pilot to have. One who puts in 80 hours a week, or a "lazy" one who only works 30 hours per week. (Note that FAA actually limits how many hours a week an airline pilot can fly. I think the number is close to 30).
Surgeons? Nope.
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Why would a solipsist have no objection to jumping off a cliff? Just because you believe reality doesn't exist outside your own mind doesn't mean you can't die.
That's not the point. If you really are a solipsist, why would jumping off a cliff have more probability of leading to death than not jumping (because the cliff doesn't really exist)?
All solipsism says is that you can't be sure reality exists outside of your own mind. You can question whether or not you would be dead outside of your own experience, but you'd still be dead in your internal world.
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I mean yeah if you don't care about understanding the nature of existence, the distinction doesn't matter. If all you're concerned with is making useful predictions, there is no point in quibbling about the subjectivity of experience. My point is simply that just because the scientific method leads to useful predictions that doesn't make it objective truth nor does it invalidate the importance of subjective experienc…
>if you don't care about understanding the nature of existence, the distinction doesn't matter Okay, I think I understand your position now. (Though I'm not sure if the lack of belief in objective truth is as common as you claim.) Sorry be so persistent but I have to ask: suppose you do care about the nature of existence; how do you tell if it's one or the other or which one is more likely?
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Feel ownership ? Do you mean that you receive shares immediately when you join?
:) I meant ownership in terms of features / products. The money becomes a non-issue after a point. To answer your specific question: Yes. You do receive shares / sign-on bonuses and these amount to be very big. But they usually have a vesting period though.
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New, from Labor Union! WEEKENDS! Two whole days off from work every week! You buying yet?
Us Europeans think your 10 days of holidays (vaccinations) a year is crazy in the US. But then you do seem to get paid a lot better in the tech sector.