cateblanchett

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Fatherhood Is a Psychedelic Experience(mrmarket.lol)
3 points by cateblanchett 3mo ago|0 comments
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by cateblanchett 3mo ago
Really enjoyed this article, I like your writing style. Re: your pro-specialist argument - "Specialists cost more because you either need to pay more to hire them, or you need to pay for the time it takes for somebody to become a speci
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by cateblanchett 3mo ago
i don't think employers are going to see this guy's personal blog post and try to change company policy based on it lol. calling it a 'disservice' is hyperbolic. however, i agree that the title is a generalization
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by cateblanchett 4mo ago
it's funny because sometimes i daydream about just 'Leaving Society' and living on a farm, as i imagine many do who have no idea what that kind of life entails. my father grew up on a farm too and he very intentionally fled t
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by cateblanchett 4mo ago
RIP to TV networks and other media entities having free online computer games. Clone-a-doodle-doo and code of the samarai were my games. ESPN also used to have great flash games. they had one where you'd skate on the roofs of houses an
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Things are about to get zany in tech(malloryloar.substack.com)
5 points by cateblanchett 6mo ago|0 comments
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A personal theory of meaning in a frictionless world(katemonica.com)
3 points by cateblanchett 1y ago|0 comments
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by cateblanchett 3y ago
i really want all remote companies to consider offsites a necessity
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Companies Should Hold Offsites(tremendous.com)
5 points by cateblanchett 3y ago|2 comments
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Stupid and Lazy(stupidandlazy.io)
2 points by cateblanchett 4y ago|1 comments
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
Ideal, ideal, ideal, Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, Boomboom, boomboom, boomboom,
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
the article is more nuanced than that. it's not saying liberalism is bad - it's saying it needs a refresh. specifically, a more progressive refresh.
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
I hate bloat and feature-soup as much as the next person. But market forces will always push companies to keep adding more and more to otherwise simple products.
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Deep down things in a time of panic(hedgehogreview.com)
4 points by cateblanchett 4y ago|2 comments
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
Anything by Douglas Rushkoff. I particularly enjoyed Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. Another good one is Irrational Man by William Barrett. The only truly comprehensive look at existentialism I've re
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
love john berryman, shout out john berryman
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
well to want to be 'liked' is to put yourself at the mercy of someone else's opinion of you. and to seem 'interesting' without saying much is to elicit intrigue - or mystery, so you want to seem mysterious.
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
i just dont entirely agree that cleverness should be classed as 'bad'. cleverness is entertaining. it's ok for things to just be fun.
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
i think there's an unconscious impulse to try to seem either servile or mysterious in conversations where you want to be liked or seem interesting. so it makes sense that people assume reticence to speak is a better tactic than talking
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
the most unintentionally meta essay ever written
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Ask HN: What's Your Favorite Quote?
3 points by cateblanchett 4y ago|5 comments
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
Tremendous | Full-time | Fully-remote |Senior Software Engineer | Job description here: https://www.tremendous.com/careers?gh_jid=4244578004 Tremendous is an org of 50+, fully-remote, bootstrapped. We're an incentives
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
jacqueline du pre: daniel barenboim - elgar cello concerto. it's a half hour long and it'll get you in the zone.
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
it's based on the documentary 'the salesman', but you don't even need to see both. they did a perfect job of parodying.
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
US treasury department regulations prohibit US companies from working with people and companies in Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine. Unfortunately, IP geolocation is accurate only to the country level, so US companies have no choice but
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
so the worst of both worlds
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
doesn't Amazon have a similar structure, tho? i don't know what it's actually like to work there (anyone who does feel free to chime in) but i've interviewed and from what I can tell they put a heavy emphasis on document
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by cateblanchett 4y ago
i personally can't retain any information in meetings, and i've honestly watched meeting recordings back to take notes on important info that i totally glazed over at the time. this wastes a total ~121 minutes on average, based on