> Maybe improv classes or ... Some ppl have a whole life behind them with insecurities and bullying and traumas, and ... Itll be hard for improv classes for a week to have much effect compared to that But still it's an interesting idea, I suppose if the more shy ppl in the company got to do impro, that'd be good for the company (and them too)
If it has an effect it could be worth pursuing just to measure the size of the effect. If perfection isn't needed, "good enough" might be better.
Yes, and maybe practicing public speaking can make [those who otherwise might not say anything], participate more in meetings and letting others hear their good ideas
1. They don't keep an air of uncertainty on purpose most of the time, generally it's because a lot of businesses are uncertain and a lot of the time product/project managers don't have a good idea of what's going on! 2. Again this could be incompetence rather than cunning 3. Most great bosses and a lot of rubbish ones aren't great with positive feedback. Have you read Steve Job's biographies or Shoe Dog? Not much pra…
No I actually agree with you on all these points, Hanlon's razor applies to all of these which is why I made the last statement. However, I DO think there are managers and I've certainly run across them, that deliberately push on all these natural stressors to try to juice productivity.
Yeah, I had one of those, he was either a dick or a megalomaniac. Fortunately he emigrated so I'm unlikely to see him again!
As The Little Prince would say were he a coder: you are forever responsible for the code you write. Every new system an organization takes on requires maintenance, training, etc. This takes time from the coders and is frequently not taken into account.
My wife was reading our kids The Little Prince the other day when I was getting ready to leave for work. I really like that book. The movie they made for it is pretty good too.
Agreed. I’ve been developing at the same place for nine years. High growth company. You gain insight into writing maintainability that I don’t think is possible for folks that jump ship so often.
Yes, but what leads to anxiety? Toxic team dynamics. Google did a study and found the number one predictor of strong teams was a feeling of "psychological safety." > Within psychology, researchers sometimes colloquially refer to traits like ‘‘conversational turn-taking’’ and ‘‘average social sensitivity’’ as aspects of what’s known as psychological safety — a group culture that the Harvard Business School professor A…
I wonder if the same effect holds true if a team is made up of mostly confident/brash people, or if safety-to-project-yourself can be trained and elevated independent of any other aspect of social environment. Maybe improv classes or subsidizing employees to exhibit art or publicly perform music?
There are plenty of shy musicians and theatre performers. When you're on stage you've been explicitly given permission to perform a role, makes it possible for people to put their shyness aside
Maybe the improv world is different, I've never done improv (yet)
That is not what praying is about. A healthy prayer is a form of meditation, like "meditate on how you want your future to look like". It is a reconnection with the higher self. It is already an attempt to access something from within. It is a technique to understand thing about oneself, to build up internal structure and organize inner spiritual work. But if you base your conception of prayer on a sketch from Monty…
Whether it's intentional or not, saying something like, "That is not what praying is about," is inviting an ecumenical squabble. Prayer's about a lot of things to a lot of people. Regardless of whether you think a way that other people do it is correct or not, it still exists and is a thing. And offering strangers uninvited, prescriptive advice on how a religious practice should be done is a form of proselytization.…
It was probably an ill-constructed phrase, yes. I was trying to convey something like "there exists, shared by a large number of people (although not all), a definition of the word "prayer", such that it is functional, objectively meaningful
, deep, well-understood and consensus-based, which is deeper than the previously suggested definition, and which makes more sense in the context in which it was used". I don't know how to put that into clean words without inviting a squabble.
Depends a lot on your audience. In our case we were making a general consumer product, so we just advertised on Craigslist saying we were doing market research. You get a lot of dross that way, but my cofounder had a sophisticated screener questionnaire and ways to root out most of the goofs.
I've found CL hit or miss as well. It's good to hear that screening can work. I also pay a "stipend."
OP didn’t say he was afraid, but that it was unnecessary which is objectively true - I don’t personally have a belief in gods, you have a belief in a particular god but we can both get value out of acceptance and serenity.
The differences of opinion here on the topic of the necessity of the theological content suggest that it is not, as you say, "objectively true". Just because it is not necessary for you does not permit you to project your opinions on the rest of humanity.
You are moving the goalposts.
You get value out of peace and serenity, yes? So do I. I take you at your word that you believe in a particular god, I would assume you take me at my word that I don’t believe in any gods.
If both of those things are true, then gods are not required to take value out of the idea of serenity. The only way that this could not be true as if one of us are lying.
I love it too, but let's be honest, the devil is in the details, I think most people agonize because they dont really know if their problem can or cannot be solved with more action from them. I for sure accept the things I really know I cannot change, and work in those I clearly know are under my control. The anxiety comes from those things I am lost in the sense I dont know if I should push more or I should give up.
My next tattoo is representing "the devil is in the details". I've had so many discussions with people over the years where someone will say "why doesn't X company/government just do Y". Well, because it's very rarely that easy. Just use black magic, that'll solve all our problems right?
Good idea. Things are never as easy as they look from the outside.
Can I ask whose idea was it that you work in the restaurant? I love that and such people (who do like you do) I'd like to work with It was your idea? What did they say, they were surprised?
It was their idea, and I was a bit surprised, but it felt like the right thing to do and for once I was my own boss. The guy who's running the restaurant together with his wife is/was an engineer, he hasn't done any coding but he knows enough to be aware of the specification problem.
Nice clients to work with :-)
I'm curious about if you get paid / if you charge software developer rates when working in the restaurant?