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Oh? Well to be fair, the ugliest thing on the road is not strictly a car, and to call it a "truck" is both an insult to anything that actually computes, and to actual trucks – or anything else that fits in road lanes.

Well now, let's not get our knickers in a twist! The beatings will continue until morale improves.

You'd have a future in modern sculpture. ;-) Okay, sorry sculptors! I like the brute force of the bat/garbage symbolism that seems so fitting in this day and age.

Fascinating.

Management and leadership values, character, and integrity matter because it's unwise to assume there is some homogenous allegiance to customers behind the propaganda of putting the customer first. PE will and must squeeze for their margins as is their wont. They have learned it's unwise to draw attention to this.

Time to act accordingly.

I like this comment because it speaks to how we humans tend to not look (compare ourselves) down, but rather up. I don't strictly mean status, but...status. And the idea that one isn't reaching one's potential is clearly a source of ambition, for better or worse. The luck of you being you is a major part of this tension–how to play the "you" hand you have been dealt by the Divine Dealer of your particular Table.

Good luck, friends.

Your comment reminds me of advice I once got as a young person: small talk is an invitation to talk, and if you don't get traction with small talk, you're not ever going to get deep talk. So, hopefully the friendly vibe was a good start to build on!

Yes! And I recommend a post about "The Wealth Ladder" by Nick Maggiulli. A concept I love because I relate is the idea of how we are conscious about how much we spend on things, or we are not. Do you count the cost of a daily lunch vs. dining out at an "expensive" restaurant where you bought three glasses of wine? Does it even matter that you eat out, do you count the cost?

Great food for thought about one's attitude towards wealth: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/

No time for sadness? HA! War and suffering continues unabated, "surprise"!

No, sadness becomes part and parcel of...everything! At least nowadays: New awesome toy! Kid got bad grade. Fun vacation last week! Friend's daughter died. PR riding bike! Dad needs help with a thing.

To your point: Life is rich with living. And yes, friends without kids, etc. talk about and buy toys. Cool! But/and no offense, gotta go now.

Life is rich and richly nuanced.

We are building a religion, we are building it bigger We are widening the corridors and adding more lanes We are building a religion, a limited edition We are now accepting coders linking new AI brains

(Apologies to Cake. And coders.)

There is undoubtedly value in both the self-help advice and the self-reflection and self-assessment involved in deciding if the advice is for you.

That value likely will decrease with age and experience, but is still nice to consciously acknowledge and even reflect on, again after the lessons have been absorbed in whatever ways they have been absorbed, adjusted, or rejected.

Wherever you go, there you are. :)

I'm a manager too, but I'm also the new guy pushing the solution to a human problem: work management. SMAR, ASAN, MNDY, etc. Not only do people not want to be responsible for it (and in some cases simply be "not responsible"), not only is the internal solution "too time consuming", the only answer thus lands on hiring external consultants to implement and maintain massively-overkill-$olution$ in $aa$ like CRM, NOW, etc. which as you know, do not solve the same problems as the aforementioned SaaS.

"Now that I'm in management, I 100% get it." 100% and win or lose I am still going to fight it...

On the other hand, the poker apps encourage me to consider a career change. I regularly crush the "opposition" with my card-counting skills. World Series of Poker, I am all-in!!! ;-)

Put another way, we are all competing with professional entertainers now. Sink or swim...

Regrettably, humans come along and need to prove themselves, so here we are. Being human: it's a feature, not a bug. (shrugs)

It's in the title itself! lol

Brief anecdote: A friend hired an electrician to wire some things and he asked how the electrician's business was going. The reply was (paraphrased): We hired seven people two weeks ago, now only one is left because the rest either didn't show up, couldn't show up regularly, or couldn't focus on tasks long enough to get work done. We let them go because this is electricity. We are not going to pay for anyone's funeral!

Or Hollywood!

And, one doesn’t have crap being pushed at you while you’re trying to find your way, or businesses filtered out because…

I'm not sure that was the point of the poster's question about electricity, because I've heard the same assertion made by science writers and such.

Our current BFF, ChatGPT, says the question is about "charge" in that we don't know why particles have a charge. So what is a "charge" and why? Gravity is also presented as a thing we don't fundamentally (ontologically) know about. Interesting!

And not disagreeing with the desire to keep asking, nor with the desire to find a final answer. The author of the article puts it fairly well:

We don’t have philosophically satisfying insights into the universe at subatomic scales...there’s no straightforward explanation of what a bound electron actually does: it’s not orbiting the nucleus or spinning around its own axis in any conventional sense. Most simply, it just exists as a particular distribution of an electrostatic field in space.

"...gov't supervisors stopped publishing financial reports."

And you thought OKRs were bad! Ha ha ha, reports suck? Let's really make reporting consequential for individuals, like in China.

The irony is just that "reporting" is not a popular human activity, and why we have things like GAAP and try to enforce the rule of law...

Auto opt-in because again, we are what's for sale, not the software. And 'scuze me, gotta go check my gmail now...

Steel is real. And comes in colors other than black! :)

I'm a bit behind you in years, but/and am very comfortable doing things by myself or in small groups; I would say I even prefer being alone most of the time. As a manager in tech, there's plenty of human interaction at work!

I have been looking ahead and wondering about this however. Thx for sharing.

Wish I could post a pic of my Ferrari-red, "high end" Ikea KLAPPE office chair I'm sitting on right now, purchased 15 some years ago, still going strong holding me up. The floor demo, however, that had reached EOL, lol!

Okay, okay, it's not Ferrari-red but it is a nice red that has not faded in 15+ years.

I read this and thought, "Hey, cool name, I should start a consultancy called Cooler Heads!" Then such heads prevailed, and my bank balance remained the same. What did I do wrong?

Me too! It's okay, you can't do everything and people "should" appreciate others who don't do social.

100% and people in startups tend to have more of an ownership approach vs "not my job, nor in my job description" attitude. Not suggesting here that options are the answer, just echoing my experience in the small workplace vs large.

Consultants also provide political cover if things go sideways. Conversely, if the consultants operate well, the executive sponsor might be promoted and thus there is value delivered. But really the question is, "Are you working someplace where there is a culture of promoting from within?"

Yes! I am a "glaucoma suspect" meaning that short of going blind, I have the eye and eyesight degeneration characteristics that suggest I have the disease - no known causal factors. So I am treated with an expensive eye drop drug, rhopressa. In the fine print of the paper that comes with the drops is, and I paraphrase, a disclaimer stating the drug's active mechanism is "unknown."

But my ocular pressure is definitely 30% lower than when not using rhopressa! (shrug)