hudsonjr

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by hudsonjr 1mo ago
A lot of western people start operating in emerging markets to save on labor costs but then get crabby when there is a ton of bureaucracy and it's much harder to operate in compared to the US and EU. Then they will have local people in
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by hudsonjr 2y ago
#3 is big as I'm not a security or IT person, but have had a big burden placed on me with regard to security. The biggest factor is work that was once done by internal employees in trusted areas is now outsourcers and contractors, some
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by hudsonjr 3y ago
The "new contract" vs old sounds like internal problems where I work. We'll have a contract signed and everything is OK for a couple years. Then someone goes ham on inventing an approval matrix and other policy/rules to
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by hudsonjr 3y ago
I think he was broken by "Games for Windows Live" on PC. They had to integrate it in Gears of War, and I think a lot of the industry saw it as Microsoft trying to steer the PC into being a MSFT only device. There was not much bene
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by hudsonjr 3y ago
I do think the net result of this wad bad. I remember before this decision, I worked somewhere where people could take longer to be promoted as a temp, maybe even 2 years. I don't know that this was exploitive, it was usually a mix of
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by hudsonjr 3y ago
I never used GTD, but for ~15 years have used a mail plug-in for task management, deferrals, etc. I have two main issues in recent years. There are now more requests that are 1 task in the requestors mind but are actually 5 to 10 tasks of v
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by hudsonjr 3y ago
I have about 20 AI influencers blocked which cuts down the noise a ton, and of course this one showed up. I think they are all created Nov 2022 or later, or were previously "here's a list" hustlers and pseudo entrepreneurs.
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by hudsonjr 3y ago
I don't know that they hire to inflate the share price. In good times, I have felt like that some R&D projects exist just to say "we have people working on it" for investor calls and such. In bad times, those things can g
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by hudsonjr 3y ago
I wonder if some of the lack of teenager tolerance has to do with larger congregations of teens due to social media. When I was young with no cell phone it was a non-trivial exercise to get a few friends to coordinate to meet and go to a mo
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by hudsonjr 3y ago
Yes once upon a time 24-hour news meant 25 or 30 different news stories covered in a an our. Now it seems like 5 or less stories in a day, and most of it is panels and "experts" spouting vitriol.
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by hudsonjr 4y ago
That's kind of my concern as well. I feel like there is already a decline in thinking, but currently I can at least tell that it's the case.
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by hudsonjr 4y ago
This guy had it in his newsletter in February: https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart/status/1628779894183272452
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by hudsonjr 4y ago
I never thought about it, but that is so true. It also seemed like it was roughly the peak of bad DRM as well as trying to curtail resale of console games.
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by hudsonjr 4y ago
I think the source was this: https://www.resumebuilder.com/1-in-4-companies-have-already-... Now I would ask, what "business leaders" would fill out a random survey for a resume company. Additionally there's
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by hudsonjr 4y ago
Sounds about right. I know someone who's company hired VP that was ex-McKinsey, and then they hired a bunch of ex-McKinsey staff. * offshore more dev internally * about 12 months in, lots of things breaking, so move from offshore to ou
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by hudsonjr 4y ago
Based on my experience bloat causes more bloat. People get hired to work on fringe projects/products, those people cause work for other staff that are already at 100% capacity on higher priority work, so additional staff are hired.
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by hudsonjr 4y ago
This does fit with layoffs I've went through. Decide who to lay off first, and then the framing is done later. My guess is the sex/race/etc metrics of the layoff "looked OK" by coincidence, and someone wrongly thoug
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by hudsonjr 4y ago
I believe they are Brazil. Also a month or two back there were claims that a member accidentally doxxed themselves a couple times, and they were in Spain.
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
>To me there is nothing more alarming than the corporate overlords invading my home. I've worked from home for a while and pre-pandemic it seemed to be fine. However, I started to have issues when everybody could do every part of th
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
I don't mind if it's something that does actually require more discussion. However, pre-slack there used to be a certain type that would never read e-mail, but instead would call 5 seconds after the e-mail and want to be walked th
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
>"Extremely online" people have found an endless spring of resentment, fear, and totalitarian thinking welling up from some place inside themselves, an ancient and primal source that you can read about in sociology or cultural
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
I'm not sure it's just speech. I have worked with Canadians for a while, but the past 2-3 years they seem to be more controlling/authoritarian even in the corporate structure. I am in the US, and I am more "here is the o
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
I work for a company that I consider pro-vax, but they are not requiring vaccination. My guess it is for liability reasons, and they will probably defer to local regulations. I'm vaccinated and everyone I know is, but I cringe a bit at
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
I've worked at home for a few years now, and don't ever want to go back to the office unless: - Commute is sub 10 minutes - I get an office with a closing door In 20 years, I've had that combo for maybe 18 months. I lost it w
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
I'm at a constant balance of 2 months of vacation because it's actually stressful to take more time off. Typically I stay up way too late before/after vacation trying to get everything done. I've also noticed unnecessary
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
I'm only part way through the book, but agree with this assessment. I know I try to create ways of automating or semi-automating things to not be in e-mail or slack. The problem I have is that people just direct their reports to e-mail
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
I am wondering if this comes from "visual" mangers and execs. I used to have an exec that would try to drop big off the top of his head projects on me as he was walking by my cube. I'd usually say, "I'm right up aga
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by hudsonjr 5y ago
I've been WFH for a few years and liked it. I did not like it because of the COVID baggage: * At home schooling * More people needing help at odd hours (nights/weekends) * Lots of normally well adjusted folks stressed/angry
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by hudsonjr 6y ago
> Democratic Decision Making I'd question whether it's wanting "democratic" decision making or if the group wants a great role in decision making, perhaps beyond that which it's numbers justify. I say this as I w
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by hudsonjr 6y ago
I feel much the same way (work at a large company). I feel like Slack is a battle royale of one person's time versus another. - What incentive is there for anyone to ever spend a second searching for anything when they can just DM or

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