writeinpencil

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   by writeinpencil 4y ago

   I like "the org chart is the asymptote," i.e. it's the best you could possibly do, and your reality will actually be worse. (see Casey Muratori)
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   by writeinpencil 4y ago

   I started as a philosophy major and switched to history and economics for this exact reason. My philosophy classes became incredibly disconnected from reality and ended up being endless arguments about frameworks and formalisms, but without
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   by writeinpencil 4y ago

   I don't agree. There is a good line in the book "Impro" about good and bad teachers. It says that we think of "good teachers" as providing a lot of some substance called "education" while "bad teacher
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   by writeinpencil 4y ago

   I'm a history/philosophy major who ended up as a programmer. Pure speculation but I wonder if another part is that history helps you think hard about groups of people and how to lead them / how they work together. I think it
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   by writeinpencil 4y ago

   "Above all, no zealotry." --Talleyrand