stanrivers

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by stanrivers 1y ago
I’m scared for what happens ten years from now when none of the junior folk ever learned to write code themselves and now think they are senior engineers…
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Sabotaging Your Workplace(butwhatfor.substack.com)
2 points by stanrivers 1y ago|0 comments
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CrowdStrike's CEO Has Known Failure–But Never Like This(wsj.com)
4 points by stanrivers 2y ago|3 comments
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by stanrivers 2y ago
> There's a prediction for every outcome Have never heard this phrase - stealing it!
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U.S. Home Prices Hit Record in June(wsj.com)
22 points by stanrivers 2y ago|6 comments
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by stanrivers 2y ago
I guess… how do we get people paid for reviewing? It’s an interesting point that the incentives are not helping us here.
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by stanrivers 3y ago
Oh interesting - is this in any way related to why the Israel flag went with blue?
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Increasing Returns and the New World of Business(hbr.org)
1 points by stanrivers 3y ago|0 comments
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How to grow old well, with Cicero(historyinvestor.com)
1 points by stanrivers 3y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 3y ago
“ It's to the point where every journal publisher and every editor will tell you, if they're being honest, that they have been and are continually being offered bribes. I would be very suspicious if someone tried to act shocked at
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by stanrivers 3y ago
I think this accountability is a good point… if someone told me absent any other information that a company had the issues Boeing has been having, then I would assume they get shut down or forced into a restructured management with hugely i
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Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous(butwhatfor.com)
165 points by stanrivers 3y ago|230 comments
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by stanrivers 3y ago
I think there is something very different about handwriting than typing. Like, listen to a lecture and write notes on a pad, and then go to the lecture the next day and type them on a computer. Then, wait a week, and take a test without rev
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The Missing Piece Meets the Big O(butwhatfor.com)
1 points by stanrivers 3y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 3y ago
The other thing that is important about reading beyond brain development is the learning of lessons / history / culture. I can't remember who the quote is from, but something like "He who does not read lives but one life
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A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison(butwhatfor.beehiiv.com)
3 points by stanrivers 3y ago|0 comments
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Suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots (2020)(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
144 points by stanrivers 3y ago|67 comments
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Planning the Attack on Pearl Harbor(butwhatfor.beehiiv.com)
2 points by stanrivers 3y ago|0 comments
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual – How to Destroy Your Organizations(butwhatfor.beehiiv.com)
263 points by stanrivers 3y ago|95 comments
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We Only Ever Talk About the Third Attack on Pearl Harbor(butwhatfor.beehiiv.com)
2 points by stanrivers 3y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 4y ago
This is amazing; really puts in perspective how hard it would be to say you know someone sent a balloon exactly to you, or that they didn't mean to... its something you could plan for (like this shows) and something that probably is ve
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What the Hell Is Water?(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
3 points by stanrivers 4y ago|0 comments
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Shel Silverstein and The Missing Piece Meets the Big O(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
45 points by stanrivers 4y ago|2 comments
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Planning the Attack on Pearl Harbor(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
1 points by stanrivers 4y ago|0 comments
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by stanrivers 4y ago
Nice Latin; that's something I never learned.
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by stanrivers 4y ago
I know, right? I don't loath him though... like, maybe I purposefully have chosen to not judge him, and maybe he is a bad person generally... but there is something human about the contradictions. You can hear in his writing the same t
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by stanrivers 4y ago
One of the things I like about Cicero is that he shows that event when one is not perfect, you can consistently improve yourself and others. Cicero was kind of a disgusting person, to me - he was very vain, easily influenced by popular opin
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On Old Age (2020)(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
17 points by stanrivers 4y ago|11 comments
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It is not the critic who counts(newsletter.butwhatfor.com)
2 points by stanrivers 4y ago|0 comments
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Introduction to Asiatic Quivers(youtube.com)
1 points by stanrivers 4y ago|0 comments

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