GrayTextIsTruth
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> Jews wanted to have their own country because of thousands of years of persecution by basically everyone, everywhere
which would never have happened if they had been separatists in the first place. it took thousands of years to figure it out.
But you're saying that after persecution its no longer "toxic, exclusionary, and racist bullshit"? That illogical and steeped in slave morality. persecution is not a currency.
it sounds great, but I didn't mention why I'm leaving. Got laid off because the company is stagnating, been doing lay-offs since before the quarantine. Turns out a kick-ass culture is safer for job security since the market isn't going to give your company a break just because you want to chill.
But i think you can have a high-energy culture but still be healthy, its just incredibly hard to figure out.
I'm just leaving a company which has been experiencing stagnated growth for a couple of years and everyone I talk to says that the 100% remote strategy has played a role. My company just couldn't figure out how to get momentum or rally the troops and "light the fire" again.
It wasn't just the remote, but the typical baggage people adopt with remote. For example, it made the mistake of adopting "work when you want" kind of attitude because that was always the norm with 100% companies, which is terrible for a VC funded startup. It set the tone of "what did you cook for lunch?", "oh wow, look at your view of the ocean in portugal" instead of kicking ass.
Obviously not the only problem, but remote was definitely an extra layer of hurdles. A lot of problems would have been easier to address in a physical office.
EDIT: the sibling post that says its a "path to mediocrity" is pretty spot on. But maybe you're fine with your company being a lifestyle company, a "good enough" company. That's fine for some people.
why do people need to be consumed by the negative all the time? must everybody be an activist? what do you realistically expect people to do besides talk about it online? is this really the place to virtue signal?
Have you written about this? Sounds like an entertaining story.
you could increase train frequency during rush hour. One every 5 minute between 7-9am and 4-6pm.
Yeah, its just small drama compared to the real damage Google has caused. Its sort of tone deaf to include that in why Google is unethical. The SV bubble.
If this letter would have started with,
"I stayed at Google for 15 years even though I knew it was unethical. I'm a piece of shit. BUT I'm going to try and redeem myself..." then it would have been much better. Some kind of redemption arc.
The damage has already been done, man. You don't magically earn the moral high-ground for "quitting" after 15 years with an angry letter.
>immature state
Human nature IS an immature state. It’s our uncivilized base instinct. So yes.
> it is common practice for male executives to have female subordinates take responsibility when things go wrong
I’m gonna go out in a limb here and say it’s common for any executive to pass the buck to any subordinate. It’s human nature to not want blame.
My thoughts exactly. I doubt she has fans paying her, it’s just her VC theory that isn’t realistic.
> The Hurley debacle is getting most of the press these days
>...And, of course, we all know about Hurley by now
No I don’t. I even had to search myself and still don’t know. Just tell the reader, we don’t all follow surfer/skate news.
What happened to Hurley? They closing shop?
I had a friend show me this when I was a kid and I did it for a while. That engineer was probably raised that way and thought it was as normal as buttering toast.
Animals have immune systems too. It’s not a phenomenon unique to humans, as Anthropomorphism would suggest.
> they don’t like it
Who? HNers? I don’t care. I think it more that people don’t like seeing themselves as the virus or cancer, when we could easily change our behavior and we wouldn’t be.
So, holistically, it would seem like warming (a fever) or Coronavirus (anti-bodies) is part of the planets immune system, but humans are too advanced.
>what's hampering Silicon Valley innovation right now is the outrageous cost of living.
I wish a “remote hub” concept would become popular. Where you work remote but need to be close enough to come in once a week or for big meetings. This would allow people to move a little further away and would possibly allow areas right outside the bay to become an extension of Silicon Valley.
This is my experience and perception as well. I don’t understand people who think it’s always been some civil gathering.
I was going to build a mobile web app but I don’t like the way iOS handles button clicks on the bottom of the screen. The first click is ignored and it slides up your bottom menu bar, then you can click the button.
You don’t have as much control in the browser.
I’ve never managed a separate search database. How do you keep records in sync with your application database?
You’ve probably never had cancer either!
That’s what I was thinking but his LinkedIn shows he was at google for over 2 years.
Free market != capitalism
You can have a free market bartering chickens. Free markets are natural.
One of the reasons why I think 100% distributed, remote team might not be the best.
Which is why a middle ground where you work remote but within 1 hour of a “company hub” so you get to see you team a few times a month.
Ive been remote for a year and a half and I feel I’m not making lasting connections. It’s probably different for single folks but it’s hard to visit coworkers with a family.
Yes. I would be in better health gardening all day and building things with my hands. Probably have better mental health too.
Inequality is always seen as negative, but the best art, literature, anything are also products of inequality.
Diversity of skills and circumstance cause people to do great things.
It’s a universal truth, a law of nature.
Warlordism and human sacrifice are not.
> We all agree that inequality is bad
False
I don’t like blanket moral labels like “bad” and “good” used for things like inequality. It’s simply a fact of existence... it is what it is.
Can anyone speak to the quality of the articles? Thinking about subscribing using my company’s “education allowance”.
Could you elaborate on what makes these feel corporate? The design seems really modern and polished to me.
My initial feedback is to increase the truncation threshold for the Episode title. I couldn’t read half of them on my phone.