michaelborromeo's comments

I think “for many people” is more like “for a minority of people.”

For a few people losing weight is complex. For most people, it’s simple.

Eat less. Move more.

Saying otherwise is a cop out.

I think the world more or less understands that American politics oscillates between periods of conservative control and liberal control.

I don’t think the world has forgotten about America’s massive military or its massive economy.

To say Trump has “ended America’s standing” is extremely short sighted... Whether you like him or not, he has not changed in any material way the military or the economy or the political systems that form the foundation of America.

Imagine the world in only 10 years from now. 2030. Will the American economy still be intact and humming along? Will the military still be well funded? Will the political system still be the same?

Mythical man hour describes it this way too right?

But yeah I think the incentive structure helps determine outcomes like the one you describe.

Maybe a good way to handle having a team FULL of high functioning individuals is to break it up and have them each lead their own team eventually?

High functioning teams start with high functioning individuals.

After that it’s up to the group to not waste effort, not go in the wrong direction too long, avoid toxic behavior, and otherwise stay healthy.

But teams start with individual talent.

To get people to eat veggies, sure you can ban the production and sale of junk food.

I prefer to live in a world where both are available and the preferred solution is education about the effects of junk food.

If you ask Dr Fauci he’ll say let’s save as many lives as we can. Taken alone no one can argue with that.

His agenda is to save lives. Obvious.

So he will make as strong a case as he can to support the measures to save lives.

If you pay attention to him and only him it makes sense to lockdown until there is a cure or vaccine.

Now tell me, does that make sense for every single person? From age 10 to 100, rich, poor, healthy, sick, for several months or even a year+?

There are costs to Fauci’s agenda which he ignores because that’s not his job but also it doesn’t make sense for him to talk about the costs.

You think of an agenda as a bad thing but it’s not it’s just the thing someone wants to get done.

Facts by themselves aren’t political or have an agenda.

The decision to present certain facts, the other facts you compare those to, and the manner in which they are presented, however, invokes agendas and politics.

No matter how much people claim otherwise, doctors presenting facts have agendas. This includes Dr Fauci.

Being allowed to return to work or a business you run, being able to pay rent, feed your family, etc.

These are positive outcomes of lockdowns being lifted.

The danger in looking at this as a binary “opening kills people” is that you miss the trade offs and in doing so you miss the other nuanced policy options that sit in between complete lockdown and no lockdown.

The market reflects, rightly, that while the situation doesn’t look good for many certain fundamentals haven’t changed drastically YET.

For example, infrastructure is still intact, demand is theoretically still there just suppressed, capacity to produce is still theoretically there.

Unemployment is based on employers short to medium term outlook. I.e. Can I pay this person for a month and will the person be a net positive?

So the two measures differ and in weird situations like now we see how much they differ.

The pandemic is being used by both parties to push their agenda.

Your pessimism is another persons optimistic outcome.

You should be looking at one woman over those five years.

For companies, you are probably looking at multiple developers and if you do only have one opening then even if more than one is good there is going to be a best.

Underneath it’s “what’s good for facebook” but on the surface they have to paint it as “what is good for you.”

Or they could just say nothing.

Which is better?

I disagree that it’s almost impossible to win with what is essentially UI and UX challenges.

Part of it is subjective yes but a lot of the field can be measured and ranked in terms of quality and effectiveness.

I mean yeah they have an interest in selling more ear buds.

But after having used Bluetooth headphones for a while, going back to wired headphones was pure hell.

When you have an immovable object (can’t fire an employee due to law) up against an unstoppable force (economic pressure to cut jobs) you get actions that try to bend either of the above constraints.

In the end something had to break — either the company or the people or both.

No one forced these people to either work at the company or to commit suicide.

Yes their pensions were linked to their jobs but is quitting and losing your retirement better than death?

Or maybe they wanted to be martyrs and knew this would lead to a punishment for the executives.

Ok but then if one country doesn’t do this then another will.

It’s like nuclear weapons.

You cannot reverse or stop technology from progressing and you can’t stop governments from using that technology to build weapons.

How many wars did it take for humans to adopt a different “steady state”? And even now it’s not a real steady state.

Maybe we have more lessons (I.e mistakes) to learn from in space where billions die. Hopefully not. Hopefully we let the 20th century continue to instruct us.

You really want to go through life thinking you’re competent at something?

Honest feedback hurts but it’s how you grow.

And if people cared at all about interviewees they’d give some semblance of honest feedback rather than “no thanks.”

Both.

I haven’t done any actual tracking but others have.

There are studies linked at the bottom of this article: https://www.bulletproof.com/sleep/sleep-hacks/inclined-bed-t....

Sleep on an incline - use bed risers that raise the head of the bed 4-6 inches.

You’ll sleep better.

There's an awesome book by Kamal Ravikant that relates to the idea of self-compassion: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Yourself-Like-Your-Depends-ebook...