There’s a grifter born every minute.
American who’s lived and worked in Europe for a decade. Were I returning to the U.S., I would brace myself for: Bogus management cargo cult culture. All of those junk books you see at Hudson News and similar when…
From your friendly shills at the American Enterprise Institute. You know they’re scared if they feel the need to ignore clear and present dangers to write this distraction.
Trillions of flies eating feces doesn’t make it haute cuisine.
Don't forget bankrupting municipalities and states by misallocating untold sums of money toward road construction and maintenance and not investment in human capital: schools, healthcare, and other high-ROI public goods.
America is the land of precarity and privation.
Entirely. Credential signaling leads to mediocrity. In my opinion internal mobility between departments and roles improved in the last four years, except for the untouchables. I didn’t even go to that great of a…
Back in the mid-2000s at Google, there was some degree for advancement from data center roles, even as contractors, to full-time jobs — even up to fully-fledged engineering jobs (SWE and SRE and NetOps) — if you were…
Indeed. FATCA is an extreme annoyance and makes Americans persona non grata in a lot of countries. Try getting a bank account or opening a mortgage as an American permanently abroad or an accidental one. (I wish beyond…
See what the professionals have to say about good planning: https://books.google.ch/books/about/Suburban_Nation.html?id=... https://books.google.ch/books?id=pkmluwVdwx0C&source=gbs_nav...
It's intrusive. It's paternalistic. It's not discrete about being a man in the middle.
> You're correct, this is America. You can work hard and build something. America is intentionally setup NOT to give you anything, but to make as many opportunities as possible open to you. That's why people brave…
The two are not mutually incompatible.
There’s a grifter born every minute.
American who’s lived and worked in Europe for a decade. Were I returning to the U.S., I would brace myself for: Bogus management cargo cult culture. All of those junk books you see at Hudson News and similar when…
From your friendly shills at the American Enterprise Institute. You know they’re scared if they feel the need to ignore clear and present dangers to write this distraction.
Trillions of flies eating feces doesn’t make it haute cuisine.
Don't forget bankrupting municipalities and states by misallocating untold sums of money toward road construction and maintenance and not investment in human capital: schools, healthcare, and other high-ROI public goods.
America is the land of precarity and privation.
Entirely. Credential signaling leads to mediocrity. In my opinion internal mobility between departments and roles improved in the last four years, except for the untouchables. I didn’t even go to that great of a…
Back in the mid-2000s at Google, there was some degree for advancement from data center roles, even as contractors, to full-time jobs — even up to fully-fledged engineering jobs (SWE and SRE and NetOps) — if you were…
Indeed. FATCA is an extreme annoyance and makes Americans persona non grata in a lot of countries. Try getting a bank account or opening a mortgage as an American permanently abroad or an accidental one. (I wish beyond…
See what the professionals have to say about good planning: https://books.google.ch/books/about/Suburban_Nation.html?id=... https://books.google.ch/books?id=pkmluwVdwx0C&source=gbs_nav...
It's intrusive. It's paternalistic. It's not discrete about being a man in the middle.
> You're correct, this is America. You can work hard and build something. America is intentionally setup NOT to give you anything, but to make as many opportunities as possible open to you. That's why people brave…
The two are not mutually incompatible.