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The church door was open, that simple. Many conversions lately?
I walk by countless open doors. I only enter the ones that I have some interest in. This door contains other people, who you claim to have no interest in.
Not that it matters, but why did you choose to start proselytizing?
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I walk by countless open doors. I only enter the ones that I have some interest in. This door contains other people, who you claim to have no interest in.
No interest in spending a lifetime of service, happy to waste time with them [and usually without] . Guess I don't need to be so selective ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Not that it matters, but why did you choose to start proselytizing?
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No interest in spending a lifetime of service, happy to waste time with them [and usually without] . Guess I don't need to be so selective ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Not that it matters, but why did you choose to start proselytizing?
I responded to an assertion that I viewed as faulty. It was never illogical or inconsistent for me to do so because I never claimed to have no use for other people. You said a life in a vr that has no effect on the world sounds fun. I never tried to claim that. I am responding "bullshit". As in, merely being here, expressing something to other people instead of just thinking it to yourself belies that claim.
I replied for much the same reason, calling bullshit. It doesn't mean anything.
Anyway, keep up the truly good work. I will admit you're a better human. I'm not beyond admitting selfishness, I just never claimed consistency.
When Jeff Hodges gave a presentation of his "Notes on Distributed Systems for Youngbloods"[1] at Lookout Mobile Security back in like 2014 or 2015, he did this really interesting aside at the end that changed my perception of my job, and it was basically this. You don't get to avoid "politics" in software, because building is collaborative, and all collaboration is political. You'll only hurt yourself by avoiding lev…
I used to work for a software company that literally had "no politics" as part of its DNA. It was in the company handbook, it was in our values, people would say it when they talked about what it was like to work at the company. Hell, whilst I can't recall any specific instances, I guarantee that I said it and probably many times[0]. But, of course, it was never true. It might have felt true - certainly superficially…
Companies are all about making money, and politics is one way to achieve that. Saying "no politics" is like asking employees to not care about money, it is not going to happen, and there is an implicit "but it doesn't apply to me".
This is not a great take. Politics shows up as a failure to construct an aligned organization. There will always be some politics, but it should not be the most significant thing going on at a company. In a well designed org, it tends towards zero. In a positive sum environment, with incentives aligned with the shareholders, everyone is trying to make the business more profitable, and the "more" that everyone wants c…
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I responded to an assertion that I viewed as faulty. It was never illogical or inconsistent for me to do so because I never claimed to have no use for other people. You said a life in a vr that has no effect on the world sounds fun. I never tried to claim that. I am responding "bullshit". As in, merely being here, expressing something to other people instead of just thinking it to yourself belies that claim.
Do you have just a single hobby? This is shitposting, not meaningful impact on the world (lol) . I'll play VR later if you're so worried. I replied for much the same reason, calling bullshit. It doesn't mean anything. Anyway, keep up the truly good work. I will admit you're a better human. I'm not beyond admitting selfishness, I just never claimed consistency.
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Do you have just a single hobby? This is shitposting, not meaningful impact on the world (lol) . I'll play VR later if you're so worried. I replied for much the same reason, calling bullshit. It doesn't mean anything. Anyway, keep up the truly good work. I will admit you're a better human. I'm not beyond admitting selfishness, I just never claimed consistency.
So... you can express your opinion and it's a reasonable thing to do, but when I do the same it's not a reasonable thing to do.
I might have fallen asleep if not for this thread; truly awake for too long. But there I go, overly participating again. Oops. Count this as your good deed for the day. Tribe remains whole, or something.
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I am sure you could have came up with a legit use case for AI
You come up with solutions to use cases. Inventing a use case to justify a solution is backwards and by definition not legitimate.
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Politics involves understanding the hierarchy though. And understanding when you are overruled. If the hierarchy is saying "it's time for GenAI", you have the option to participate in a way that raises your profile and positively influences the company (involving politics), if you hate GenAI so much you can leave, or you can stay silently and opt out of the process. These are all choices. Personally I'm fine with my…
I will repeat again, this is in direct opposition to the author's thesis: "It’s the loud person who’s wrong getting their way because the quiet person who’s right won’t speak up." Given that, I'm not sure what your message is in response to. I will say that 'learn to parcipate in the hierarchy' and 'everything is a choice, just quit!' are hardly solutions at all, and read more as truisms. I'll add that I'm not sure w…