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by mitchellst 8mo ago
Agreed. 3 things are interesting. How small the slight is. How big the effect is. Meta thing: how the slight is not the kind of thing most managers or executives, or even knowledge workers generally, would care about. (As evidenced by the s
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by mitchellst 8mo ago
I think this is actually where the study is interesting. Because the “no duh!” Comments actually have merit on their face. But the argument is that these are tiny slights—not harassment, not pervasive toxicity. By definition it’s the kind o
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by mitchellst 8mo ago
Ok actually you sound kind of awesome. The article is about how thoughtless, petty slights demotivate employees. You are talking about the opposite of thoughtlessness: doing something that takes effort for you, going out of your way to stre
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by mitchellst 2y ago
I want to complain a little about the journalism (not) being done here. Because I read this article, and I read the (better, but still lacking) Bloomberg Law article it links/rewrites, and I still have no idea what's happening. Th
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by mitchellst 2y ago
I've been the SD in circumstances like this. And I'll say this is good advice, but there's the potential for a subtle trap in it. Sounds like you're in a fairly political org. Not my favorite environment tbh, but if it&#
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by mitchellst 2y ago
I don’t know that there’s a single answer, but the replies here are in the neighborhood. Fees of some kind are the only revenue model, so you pick the ones that work for your use case. Two other thoughts, one speculative/general and on
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by mitchellst 2y ago
I know this is a flip dismissal. But it illustrates one of my deeply held beliefs pretty well: there are things that are virtuous at small scale that are disastrous at large scale, and vise versa. In society "othering" out-groups
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by mitchellst 2y ago
(Father of children ages 7, 5, and 2.) 3 thoughts, ordered from most concrete and practical to most speculative. Concretely, how do I do this? My kids go to a Waldorf school. (waldorfeducation.org) Is it expensive? Yeah. But, among many oth
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by mitchellst 2y ago
A lot of good advice here. I'd add a bit more. I was similar to you out of school—ended up the lone techie in a small oilfield services company. How do you grow as an engineer? Go get a job at a company that does that. It won't be
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by mitchellst 2y ago
This. The headlines are "court sides with NRA!" which fits the ongoing "illegitimate court" narrative for progressives because the NRA is unpopular. (Partly owing to "ew! guns!" and partly owing to other, unrel
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by mitchellst 3y ago
Different things. The snark plays to individual psychology in the moment. When someone comes at you in a way that's demeaning and clearly states that they think you shouldn't have the position you have, that's a bad way to st
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by mitchellst 3y ago
Agreed. I don't think the snark helps. Not my field, but my understanding of how these things work in big medical research factories: first few authors tend to be young researchers (maybe med students or even undergrads) trying to matc
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by mitchellst 3y ago
This. Lived and worked in Austin tech 7 years. This article is all about startup funding, plus it quotes one unicorn whose home base / frame of reference was Houston, not another tech hub. Austin was always a great place to build a tec
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by mitchellst 4y ago
I’m undecided if this is wise policy or not. One of the things the article doesn’t consider, but makes me curious, is the ancillary consequences of this. For example, medicine in the US functions this way. In practice, bad outcomes are ille
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by mitchellst 4y ago
I'll add a recent misfortune for a peer company: https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/judge-sanctions-faceb... Looks like the real powers in the US are losing patience with some of the low-level legal tomfo
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by mitchellst 4y ago
Yeah my first thought reading this was… does this dude have kids? Because this isn’t how the parents I know think of it, and not how I think of it. But I also have income that gives me choices— the option I chose is “employ a full time nan
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by mitchellst 4y ago
I think there's a meaningful distinction between "privatized prison" and "service provided to prison by private company." The trouble with privatized prisons is that the incentives are all wrong. (Those incentives b
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by mitchellst 4y ago
I think there's a bit more to it than that. It appears that a significant chunk of the local online news market in these regions is only financially viable based on pay-for-coverage arrangements with moneyed interests. So, I agree, lob
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by mitchellst 4y ago
You have encountered a problem too big to solve alone, so your solution involves gaining the right allies and persuading them to do the right things. So, however frustrating this is, remember first always to be kind, to your team and to you
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by mitchellst 4y ago
Article sums it up as: there hasn't been a better WebMD because the costs of making one have been too high, but new advances promise to draw those costs down, so the author is founding. Costs might be a factor. But revenue is a bigger
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by mitchellst 4y ago
Yes, there's inherently some stereotyping here. Any proposed detail will be subjective and find counter-examples. But for anybody who has crossed these lines, the core point is pretty undeniable: regional cultures are distinctive. Not
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by mitchellst 4y ago
Values - status is built on the east coast by affiliation—to family, to schools and universities, to political groups, to elite employers. Status is built on the west coast in an anti-establishment way, mostly prizing creativity and individ
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by mitchellst 4y ago
One note on small towns: most of the people there aren't transplants, so you get their culture with them. American cities have a reasonably standardized culture, courtesy of hundreds of daily direct flights to each other. Small towns a
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by mitchellst 4y ago
Varies widely. Size of school, public/private, urban vs rural location, cost and availability of surrounding housing.
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by mitchellst 4y ago
This is true, but it's on a sliding scale. I grew up in a town in Idaho, 100 miles from an interstate. I've lived in tech cities (SF, Austin) and now live in Ann Arbor. (Which, along with Chapel Hill, is basically the definition o
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by mitchellst 4y ago
Reading down the answers, lots of people are confusing two things: marketing emails (mostly from e-commerce sites) versus content-driven newsletters. Open rate and CTR on marketing emails is very low and their production quality (cost) need
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by mitchellst 4y ago
A data point: Amazon has Amazon Smile, where 0.5% of your purchase price will be donated to a charity of your choice. You use it on web by going to smile.Amazon.com. On the app, though, you can enable it… but only if you enable pushes to yo
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by mitchellst 4y ago
Exactly. Feedback works in the context of a relationship. Employment arrangements—peers and managers— are relationships. Hiring pipelines are interactions, not relationships. If you don’t have an ongoing relationship with someone, you can’t
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by mitchellst 5y ago
Hiring manager of hiring managers here. This thread is full of managers pointing out it's hard to work without the tests and IC's who don't have much empathy for the constraints managers are under. Basically, getting a job fo
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by mitchellst 5y ago
The argument is less about central authority than standard process. You don't have to use the official NPM registry. The point is that having a pipeline for modules with established conventions and automated means of audits and visibil

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