On Being A Senior Engineer
I think that there's a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while there are a good deal of books in the management field about "expert" roles and responsibilities of non-technical individual contributors, I don't see too many modern…
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Sharing for future bookmarking. This echoes some of what I've learnt, thought about more recently; engineering is often not about code but about communication and empathy.
Posted on 2016-06-20T18:47:18+0000
The Money Letter That Every Parent Should Write
A good, soulful letter can become a family keepsake and should include a list of crucial habits and the tangible things that have helped the family.
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Posted on 2016-06-18T21:07:01+0000
The War on Stupid People
American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth.
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"When Michael Young, a British sociologist, coined the term meritocracy in 1958, it was in a dystopian satire. At the time, the world he imagined, in which intelligence fully determined who thrived and who languished, was understood to be predatory, pathological, far-fetched. Today, however, we’ve almost finished installing such a system, and we have embraced the idea of a meritocracy with few reservations, even treating it as virtuous. That can’t be right. Smart people should feel entitled to make the most of their gift. But they should not be permitted to reshape society so as to instate giftedness as a universal yardstick of human worth."
Posted on 2016-06-18T01:49:48+0000
“But he does good work.”
Right now, my inbox holds media requests from Buzzfeed, Daily Dot, Guardian, Associated Press, and newly, La Repubblica, Italy’s largest…
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"When harassment, sexual or otherwise, requires a cost-benefit analysis, you have failed."
Posted on 2016-06-17T18:02:07+0000
A few months ago, I complained about the insane state of today's advertising…
A few months ago, I complained about the insane state of today's advertising and the evil that is VPAID ads… - Artem Russakovskii - Google+
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Posted on 2016-06-16T06:21:45+0000
Guccifer 2.0 DNC’s servers hacked by a lone hacker
Worldwide known cyber security company CrowdStrike announced that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) servers had been hacked by “sophisticated” hacker groups. I’m very pleas…
Orlando Mass Shooting Not Deadliest in American History
The massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando was a horrific tragedy. But it was not unprecedented – and it was not the “deadliest mass shooting in American history.”
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Posted on 2016-06-15T15:34:46+0000
McDonald's: you can sneer, but it's the glue that holds communities together
When many lower-income Americans feel isolated and empty, they yearn for physical social networks. All across US, this happens organically at McDonald’s
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"It isn’t just groups who use McDonald’s. For many of the poorest, for the homeless, and for people caught in an addiction, McDonald’s are an integral part of their lives. They have cheap and filling food, they have free Wi-Fi, outlets to charge phones, and clean bathrooms. McDonald’s is also generally gracious about letting people sit quietly for long periods – longer than other fast-food places."
Posted on 2016-06-15T00:55:01+0000
wstein.org
wstein.org
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The founder of Sage on why academia sucks for a full-time position writing software for research (even though that software is used by tons of academics)
Posted on 2016-06-14T05:38:03+0000
Was Someone Tipped Off To The LinkedIn Sale?
Some signs point to insider trading.