People "vacation" in radically different ways. For some people, a vacation is just spending all week at home playing video games. Others will just sped time at a B&B or visit family. For them, checking email is not a…
I don't think the problem is how many emails you will receive. It's how often you will be expected to check your email and how quickly you will be expected to respond. I mean, if I an on vacation in Hawaii, what if I…
Imagine having only ever used Windows as an OS. Then one day someone hands you a Linux machine. You try it for a day or two, but then go back to Windows. And then you wonder why your coworkers keep saying how great…
If it is simple as copying from the government, then why aren't you doing it too? Why not take the existing medicine and resell it to the public for half of what everyone else is charging? You would simultaneously be…
Suddenly forcing non-remote workers to switch to remote work overnight is not going to produce great results. By the time the workers get the hang of working remotely effectively, their bosses will have already decided…
If you don't know your own calendar, then I do not want to talk to you. I would rather talk to the person who knows and controls your calendar. They are the true source of power and they are the one who can actually get…
“We’d love to partner with Steve on getting his frameworks and templates from his books – The Four Steps and The Startup Owner’s Manual – onto our product. Can you connect us to him?” That sounds to me like the start of…
The title should be changed to: "You can only be a [mediocre, full-time] writer if you can afford it"
Completely misleading title. Retiring has nothing to do with it. The real point of the article is this: "Too much time spent with no purpose is associated with unhappiness."
I had this happen early on in my career. My entire department was unified and clearly articulated the problems we were facing and how we could improve things. The only result was that our manager was told to get us…
> Srsly stop working for shitty startups. I guess 99.9% of all startups are "shitty" then. > we would like the core team (first 3-4 hires) to share our passion to some degree. Perhaps naively we'd like them to become…
There is a difference between "encouraging" and "forcing". Should we force people to exercise?
> People don't always make the rational choice for long term benefits when there are short term gains to be had. Individuals, thanks to bounded rationality, tend to seek satisfactory solutions, not optimal ones. It…
> However, if it makes most people better off, and makes society as a whole better off, then maybe it's worth it for the government to force their most-successful citizens away from their selfish instincts to the…
In 1900, the average life expectancy for an American man was 48.3 Today, the average life expectancy for Americans is 78.7
If sharing wealth leads to greater wealth, then why is it necessary to try to take wealth (by force)? Why don't people willingly give up their wealth so that they can make more? If it is possible to make more wealth by…
> Taking direction or orders from a manager is only ever stressful if that manager doesn't take accountability for their decisions and directions. This right here. I will lead if you want. But then stop second guessing…
There are many, many people that love solving problems, but have no desire to get mired down into politics and power struggles.
I have never seen a "bad" manager exist under a "good" manager/director. Every single "bad" manager was able to survive and thrive because the environment was set up to encourage and reward the "bad" behavior. If you…
> It's driving me insane. It is sucking the joy out of life. Seek therapy. > If you aren't learning, or getting better at the craft, then you're falling behind, becoming irrelevant, and certainly you aren't going to…
Here are just a few: 1) All day interviews. Seriously, I've had an 8 hour interview. They served me breakfast, lunch and dinner. This was after several other rounds of interviews. 2) Expecting me to perform "free work".…
I don't know about that. I have been in the industry for decades, and it definitely feels worse (more abusive) today than it did 10 or 20 years ago.
> And yet here we are A two sentence post on HN is "making a fuss"???
Title of the article: "You don't need Libraries for internationalization (i18n) of Dates" Actual content: "... you might not need any of these libraries [moment, dayjs, date-fns] to have some basic Formatting and…
There is a difference between a "scam" business and a "failed" business. The scam business never had any intent on doing what they promised. The failed business planned on doing something, but for whatever reason, was…
People "vacation" in radically different ways. For some people, a vacation is just spending all week at home playing video games. Others will just sped time at a B&B or visit family. For them, checking email is not a…
I don't think the problem is how many emails you will receive. It's how often you will be expected to check your email and how quickly you will be expected to respond. I mean, if I an on vacation in Hawaii, what if I…
Imagine having only ever used Windows as an OS. Then one day someone hands you a Linux machine. You try it for a day or two, but then go back to Windows. And then you wonder why your coworkers keep saying how great…
If it is simple as copying from the government, then why aren't you doing it too? Why not take the existing medicine and resell it to the public for half of what everyone else is charging? You would simultaneously be…
Suddenly forcing non-remote workers to switch to remote work overnight is not going to produce great results. By the time the workers get the hang of working remotely effectively, their bosses will have already decided…
If you don't know your own calendar, then I do not want to talk to you. I would rather talk to the person who knows and controls your calendar. They are the true source of power and they are the one who can actually get…
“We’d love to partner with Steve on getting his frameworks and templates from his books – The Four Steps and The Startup Owner’s Manual – onto our product. Can you connect us to him?” That sounds to me like the start of…
The title should be changed to: "You can only be a [mediocre, full-time] writer if you can afford it"
Completely misleading title. Retiring has nothing to do with it. The real point of the article is this: "Too much time spent with no purpose is associated with unhappiness."
I had this happen early on in my career. My entire department was unified and clearly articulated the problems we were facing and how we could improve things. The only result was that our manager was told to get us…
> Srsly stop working for shitty startups. I guess 99.9% of all startups are "shitty" then. > we would like the core team (first 3-4 hires) to share our passion to some degree. Perhaps naively we'd like them to become…
There is a difference between "encouraging" and "forcing". Should we force people to exercise?
> People don't always make the rational choice for long term benefits when there are short term gains to be had. Individuals, thanks to bounded rationality, tend to seek satisfactory solutions, not optimal ones. It…
> However, if it makes most people better off, and makes society as a whole better off, then maybe it's worth it for the government to force their most-successful citizens away from their selfish instincts to the…
In 1900, the average life expectancy for an American man was 48.3 Today, the average life expectancy for Americans is 78.7
If sharing wealth leads to greater wealth, then why is it necessary to try to take wealth (by force)? Why don't people willingly give up their wealth so that they can make more? If it is possible to make more wealth by…
> Taking direction or orders from a manager is only ever stressful if that manager doesn't take accountability for their decisions and directions. This right here. I will lead if you want. But then stop second guessing…
There are many, many people that love solving problems, but have no desire to get mired down into politics and power struggles.
I have never seen a "bad" manager exist under a "good" manager/director. Every single "bad" manager was able to survive and thrive because the environment was set up to encourage and reward the "bad" behavior. If you…
> It's driving me insane. It is sucking the joy out of life. Seek therapy. > If you aren't learning, or getting better at the craft, then you're falling behind, becoming irrelevant, and certainly you aren't going to…
Here are just a few: 1) All day interviews. Seriously, I've had an 8 hour interview. They served me breakfast, lunch and dinner. This was after several other rounds of interviews. 2) Expecting me to perform "free work".…
I don't know about that. I have been in the industry for decades, and it definitely feels worse (more abusive) today than it did 10 or 20 years ago.
> And yet here we are A two sentence post on HN is "making a fuss"???
Title of the article: "You don't need Libraries for internationalization (i18n) of Dates" Actual content: "... you might not need any of these libraries [moment, dayjs, date-fns] to have some basic Formatting and…
There is a difference between a "scam" business and a "failed" business. The scam business never had any intent on doing what they promised. The failed business planned on doing something, but for whatever reason, was…