SummerlyMars

>Many people take medication as a gateway to develop those skills and go on to do quite well in life.

This is important. When I went on anti-depressants (for pure-o OCD), my intent was to get some breathing room and learn to manage my symptoms better.

I've definitely been able to do that, but it's lead to a few cases of thinking 'hey, I should be able to stop taking these now', which have all gone poorly for me. I think I'm better able to cope now if I don't have access to medication, but I won't be stopping again any time soon, it's too risky for me.

It reminds me of a grocery store parking lot that seemingly prevented car key fobs from working. There's a link to the explanation in the article, but it's about as light on details as the BBC article, unfortunately.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/carstairs-westview-co...

Thank you for posting this. The significance of this statement was lost on me until you pointed it out. Going by MathOverflow, it's slightly more complicated than that, but it's pretty close.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1384917/relation-be...

I was familiar with this quote due to Terry Pratchett, which made me wonder where it originated. It doesn't appear to have been from Churchill[1], so the irony gave me a chuckle.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

Here you go, it's pretty wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrZJ5C_Nwg

I'm not a car guy, and I don't know about the differentials, but don't continuously variable transmissions allow for this? I'm guessing they're not in common use on race cars, but in principle, shouldn't they allow for a 3.01 ratio?

I'm deeply uncomfortable with this as well. I've struggled with my mental health and had days where I could barely drag myself into the office. If this were implemented at my company, I would have spent the better part of a month beginning these meetings with 'well, I'm experiencing near-constant despair.'

Afraid of guarding? My mental state is my own business. I may choose to share it with my manager or my coworkers (in fact, I have), but to have it become a required part of a meeting? No. No. No. Especially on a remote team where I just don't know the other people. This is not the right way to build rapport.

It's telling that so many of the comments on this post at the time of my writing are negative. Please heed them.

And please keep in mind that as the team lead, or manager, or whatever your role is, there is a power imbalance. People will not have an easy time saying no to this activity, even if they want to.

> You really just want power.

How do you know this?

> Why, what value do you think the comment had?

I can't speak for the op, but I found it an interesting bit of trivia. Sure, they could have googled it, but if they had, I wouldn't know about the origins of this poem. And thanks to the replies, I now know what a 'person from Porlock' means. Reading that comment was a win for me. If the person was jostling for status (and I don't see a reason to think that), well, I still benefitted.