suttree's comments

Reminds me that the reasoning behind austerity came from an Excel calculation that didn't include all the relevant rows :~/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/18/uncovered-e...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22223190

https://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how...

My approach to this is giving companies a place to start these kinds of discussions with people - https://www.somewhere.com/for-companies

Not people analytics or people ops, but a way to talk about how you think about and approach work.

Totally agree, the hard problem in all of this isn't people analytics or people ops, it's people. Dealing with them is hard because we're all so different.

I would humbly point in the direction of Somewhere.com

That's the feeling I'm getting as a result of this. I think it's great that Instagram took a long time before they launched this, and I'm not sure what tools people have in order to report, block and hide ads, but it's clear from this experience it's something the community wants.

Personally, there's no "may" in it. It's all about the people, and what you can do for them. Technology like the internet is just a distribution channel, a few to reach people who aren't nearby.

I could talk a lot about how we're different from LinkedIn, and how looking pretty as a website is a hindrance at times, but we're less about what you've done and more about how you do it.

For a lot of people things like job titles and descriptions are out of sync with what we do, and we don't really have any good tools to show or share our work. Developers have Github, designers have dribbble, but for everyone else there's not a good tool out there.

But, I hear you on the YASN problem, and we're not solely a social product as a result of that.

For actual careers advice from real people, not the looking-back-from-my-yacht type, try https://www.somewhere.com.

Yes, I'm the founder, but this is what we do best - asking questions about work and getting responses from people who are right there, right now, e.g.

https://www.somewhere.com/provocations/latest

I got bored of London, worked in SF for a while and enjoyed it there, but had no chance getting a visa.

I got back to London (could never really afford to live in the city centre) and then moved to Berlin and loved it. But, you can get too comfortable in some places, so I'm back in London again, but I miss Berlin.

Never go back though, if I had the chance I'd move on to somewhere new in Europe for sure. London's great though, more diversity than many, many places, and that's a huge reason to stay.

Very cool - small thing, there's a spello in the footer "We have helped place candidates at top technoogy companies and startups." Bigger thing, software jobs are pretty much all jobs, or do you mean tech jobs? Either way I like it, nice one!

"Engineering hiring isn’t a filtering problem. It’s a sourcing problem." Yes and all hiring is a sourcing problem, when it comes down to it.

There are so many recruitment companies are out there on the horizon, especially in London right now.

It's a big space to dive into and a lot of people assume that they can tech their way out of it, but it takes a lot more than a fancy algorithm and a joint dislike of shitty recruiters to be useful.

"Good use of bulleted lists"

Sigh.

That's a very reasonable opinion, fair point.

Just leaving this here:

https://www.somewhere.com/suttree/sparks/30629

The Isolator device looks amazing, better than headphones.

Is it just me or does reading an article on LinkedIn about people lying at work feel like a recursive loop?

Seems like now might be a good time to repost this:

https://medium.com/@somewhere/how-i-learned-to-relax-and-sto...

Dealing with overly confident people = learning how to clean up the mess when it goes wrong, because it's hard to to win once things turn into a persuade-off.

Do anything and everything you can to slow the conversation down, to give yourself time to think, to delay decisions, and never be afraid to change your mind once the dust settles.

Sure, it pisses people off, but at the same time it takes guts to go back and say "no, we got it wrong". Decisions don't have to be final until you're happy with them.

More long-term, brand building, augment your resume style:

https://www.somewhere.com

disclaimer, I'm the founder ofc.

I taught myself to code by post/mail.

I didn't make the smartest choices when I was young(er), but I turned that around, found a career, ended up co-founding a company and making a cool game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nethernet) then started a new company to help people figure out wtf they can do with their lives (https://www.somewhere.com).

Saying that though, the stupid robots I built, the side-projects and the articles in Hack Circus mean just as much.

Of course, pride comes before a fall so, yeah, cheers.... ;)

Yes, this. You can see them struggling to fill out the graph with more data, in the belief that more is better, but it's certainly not richer.

Of course, I'm conflicted, building a cultural graph at www.somewhere.com rather than a social graph - I think those days are over.