Not the parent commenter, but Thank you fellow Internet stranger. With people speculating about re-incarnation and linking it with Quantum stuff (basically pulling things out of their cloaca), I had to scroll way far…
Ah, found a person of culture in my geographical proximity (relatively speaking)! Humans like you are hard to come by these days (or maybe that was universally true across the ages). Appreciate your practical…
This True Story sounds suspiciously specific.. as if you know this person (who went through with the self-sacrifice) up close and personal.. unless you are implying that this person is none other than... In either case,…
Apart from lack of interest in dis-incentivizing this behavior, two possible reasons come to mind - why managers like these exist: 1. (Nature) Some of them were just tuned that way since childhood. 2. (Nurture) When…
I empathize with her situation as I've been in similar situation at a Big 4 organization - An onshore manager (not my direct manager) from my team called me up at 2.30am (his afternoon time) during the first week of our…
I echo your sentiments - That's precisely what I thought after reading those same books. I've speculated that his excessively positive stance might be - in order to cater to an uber-optimistic crowd of humans (high…
To summarize both viewpoints in a single clichéd-but-true-timeless quote: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two…
From the abstract: >We fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning our best thinkers have discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways…
If someone had shown me this 1922 article a decade ago, I'd have labeled him/her as cynical. In the present day however, this article surmises so much of what I've experienced in the past few years. Another comment in…
Not the parent commenter, but Thank you fellow Internet stranger. With people speculating about re-incarnation and linking it with Quantum stuff (basically pulling things out of their cloaca), I had to scroll way far…
Ah, found a person of culture in my geographical proximity (relatively speaking)! Humans like you are hard to come by these days (or maybe that was universally true across the ages). Appreciate your practical…
This True Story sounds suspiciously specific.. as if you know this person (who went through with the self-sacrifice) up close and personal.. unless you are implying that this person is none other than... In either case,…
Apart from lack of interest in dis-incentivizing this behavior, two possible reasons come to mind - why managers like these exist: 1. (Nature) Some of them were just tuned that way since childhood. 2. (Nurture) When…
I empathize with her situation as I've been in similar situation at a Big 4 organization - An onshore manager (not my direct manager) from my team called me up at 2.30am (his afternoon time) during the first week of our…
I echo your sentiments - That's precisely what I thought after reading those same books. I've speculated that his excessively positive stance might be - in order to cater to an uber-optimistic crowd of humans (high…
To summarize both viewpoints in a single clichéd-but-true-timeless quote: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two…
From the abstract: >We fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning our best thinkers have discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways…
If someone had shown me this 1922 article a decade ago, I'd have labeled him/her as cynical. In the present day however, this article surmises so much of what I've experienced in the past few years. Another comment in…