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Filled it out, likely not to move any needles, but at least I did a thing. Thanks Casenjo for pointing out the survey.

I read it as Hashicorp Vault, but for all employees, not just (IT) engineers.

It's not a new phenomena [1]. I do not think "hospitals are incapable of keeping people safe from Covid" is the best expression. I think "encountering any humans bears increased risk in Covid times", regardless if those humans work in a hospital (although, arguably lower risk) versus a shoe store.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414085/

How do you know that "no humans involved"? Was there something that clued you in on the fact that the responses were not from a human being?

I’m sorry to hear that. In a certain way staying, then, means maximizing happiness (decent job plus consistent medical insurance >= new job)

A piece of unasked for advice: why wait? Honestly, life is too short. Go do what makes you happy.

Gotcha (saw similar reply elsewhere in this thread). Ran into a US-EU difference here it seems like.

In that case, paxys, I stand corrected and can see where the questions in this thread are coming from, indeed.

In my experience in Europe, an employment contract will state number of hours (say 36, 40, etc) and you need to be present and available for that time. These are non-hourly contracts (e.g. salary is expressed by month not hour). None of that has anything to do with productivity, to your/mine point.

Yes, your employment contract has likely a minimum number of hours of work stipulated (otherwise PTO etc becomes hard).

Look, i’m not saying it is a valuable way of looking at productivity at all, but the fraud aspect is reasonably clear.

So if it states 40 hours, you put in 40 hours. If you do nothing during those 40 hours, we can have a moral/ethics discussion about if and how you should change the situation etc, but at that point we’re outside of the fraud scenario in my opinion.

Does it not state a minimum amount of hours worked? If so, there’s a reasonable argument for fraud?

($x for y hours, but y hours were not delivered, only a fraction was.)

Just so I’m clear; I don’t think that works at all in a knowledge worker environment, but tell that to the judge?

To add to that list: I’d bet good money the Rijk’s ventilation and climate control is top notch.

The wording is slightly negative, but it does describe that side of the role well.

There are also positive aspects that hang in the balance. Personally (as a people manager) I appreciated the positive impact (coaching, career development) I could make to people around me in ways that are not easily replicated in other roles. And there are many others.

It’s just not private planes and Champaign.

Have a couple in random order:

Be intentional about who you spend time with, who you work with, who you serve, and who you listen to. (March 2019, Patrick McKenzie, @patio11)

Dreams don't work unless you do (April 2019, Sara Dietschy)

The failure mode of clever is 'asshole' (John Scalzi, 2010)

Just because you love the mountains doesn't mean they love you. (Lou Whittaker, Rainier mountain guide)

Show me your calendar and I will tell you your priorities. Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you where you’re going. (April 2021, https://kk.org/thetechnium/99-additional-bits-of-unsolicited...)

Feedback is nutrition. Everyone goes for the sugar and positive feedback, but you need your greens too. (Oct 2014, Morten Heuing)

Also differentiated in the article itself, FYI.

I hope this reply chain doesn’t grow in length, but I’m in the same situation (terminal), and father to two. I wish everything could continue as normal as possible while acknowledging that the situation has changed.

I think you should expect a little more diversity at 3am. For example, the FEBO in the Netherlands.

Basically be Shopify for Social Networks?

Per piece, as in per individual mask.

There’s a phenomenon for that called Baader-Meinhof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Yes.

Kästle TX93 skis, and no mountains open nearby to try them.

I think you're looking for Overton Window, actually [1]. Also, I'm waiting for the the last shoe to drop: showing ads even to users that have YouTube Red; it's only a matter of time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Funny, I had the same thought walking through Manhattan.

If you wish more competition to enter the market I'd argue for Apple to increase its prices (the higher margins the more competition).

You're arguing they lower their prices, and thats just going to cement their position.

Hey, while you are reshooting the pictures, have a look at David Hobby's material over at Strobist [0], especially the lighting 101 series [1]. Hope you find them as helpful as I did!

[0] https://strobist.blogspot.com/ [1] https://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html

Would love to simply not have a camera bump. After all the investments in (I)phone design, it’s the elephant in the room.

> I don't support trying to redress ills from over a century ago whether we are talking about restoring native reservations, or paying reparations for slavery.

This position assumes the ills from over a century ago have been fully resolved _right now_. Watching the news, that does not seem to be case.

(I try not to put these words in your mouth, you're stating "And strongly support fixing our ongoing treatment of them."!)

This doesn’t resonate with me at all: at those scales there are entire teams dedicated at tracking impact and outcomes of said spend on the advertiser side. Sure FB could lie about the metrics, but won’t be able to keep that up for long (matter of weeks).

Not sure if this blog post should or should not be written, but having seen many managers bootstrapping themselves out of individual contributor roles; you have to learn somewhere. Blog posts are just one avenue.

Yeah was thinking the same after reflecting on your message. Have to tweak the system for that a bit, but it's worthwhile.

For a while I was thinking of setting myself the rule of only using my own images to circumvent this.