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narcindin | 4 months ago | on: Ivy League psychologist: 'Bring your whole self to work' is bad advice

Bring your whole self to work, at this point, is the term you use to criticize this policy, not to describe it.

Maternity leave is a version of BYWSTW. As are PRIDE/ethnicity related activities as work. Should we jettison those?

I agree it can and is taken to far, but I'd prefer to read an article about actually navigating an office with different types of real people. For example, for example, thermostats preferences, volume preferences, "we a family/team" vs "just a job" preferences, etc.

narcindin | 1 year ago | on: Five Geek Social Fallacies (2003)

I would say this would have been nice to know ~20 years ago, but umm, it came out ~20 years ago. Ah well.

Perhaps I had to learn my lessons the hard way regardless

narcindin | 1 year ago | on: Why Triplebyte Failed

> (I won’t talk about Magnet much here, because the proximate reasons for its failure are pretty simple: we ran out of money and the market fell out from under it. It might have - smart money says probably did have - other means of failure, but we didn’t last long enough to find them in any great detail.)

This has the same voice as patio11. Did he start this style? Is it new? Who else talks like this?

narcindin | 1 year ago | on: Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red tape than NYSE or Nasdaq

The Texas electric grid is 25% cheaper than New Yorks: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

Texas produces more electricity than any other state, in fact more than 2x as much as the 2nd place state: https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=TX (ctr+f for 'Texas produces more electricity than any other state')

Texas is the #1 producer of renewable energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_renewab...

Texas's energy position is enviable, and shows a state leveraging its natural advantages rather than coasting on them.

narcindin | 2 years ago | on: $750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people

I am happy for Las Angeles to perform a widespread trial of this kind of initiative. Attract people to Southern California that might be homeless elsewhere, help them get on their feet via $750/person/month, then they will get off the subsidy and contribute back to the community!

If it works I will encourage a similar system in my hometown. If it does not work then I'm glad we did a trial run first.

Note: I'm paywalled from reading the article, how many people did they give the money to and how long was it?

narcindin | 2 years ago | on: Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office

+1 my best office was a 15 minute walk through a upscale shopping area, into a cramped room alongside my teammates and boss with a great view of a large pond.

All of our desks were pushed together in the middle of the room. The _room_ itself would switch from chat mode to quiet mode.

Though I think the quietest member of the team would have preferred a solitary arraignment, I can only speak for myself.

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