110% agreed

I've always felt a level of entitlement around that. You (the business) want me to learn and get better. You get more value over time that way.

I think we're lucky that many companies have this attitude.

I've experienced the polar opposite in a Japanese bigco where we were given extensive material to learn (generally about the industry, or certifications), and it was very clearly understood that we were to learn the material off company time. As an American naturally I had an allergic reaction to this culture.

Friend of mine is a senior exec for the Fujitsu Europe. I met him doing the Haute Route, a two-week ski tour in the Alps.

He says the amount of persuading he had to do to the global execs that being off-grid for two weeks might have it's benefits almost made it futile.

I can't help but wonder if this attitude has inhibited japanese progress.

The simple answer is that they (mostly) serve different markets

They ipo'd last year

>>> Mr HashiCorp has gone way too far down the rabbit hole, by the sounds of it. It makes sense to set up a subsidiary when you have a larger group of staff in a single location.

Or when you want to do things like give them stock or healthcare or pensions

Dealing with real world data and applications means being liberal in what you accept.

If you're producing CSV files, then you can be more strict.

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

The original statement was about coverage of the breadth of the specification: if you're consuming data you need to accept everything the specification allow, but if you're generating data you should be producing as little of the specification's productions as you can.

This does not work when the format is mostly unspecified and the vast majority of what you'll find in the wild is a tire fire.

Kinda. It approximates cash flows for some types of companies. For others it doesn’t. Hard to generalize here. Ultimately the best measure of cashflow is cashflow. It’s a good normalized measure of a stable mature business, but it can overstate or understate the health of depending on the revenue and billings model. So, basically, YMMV

Get Quantum. Serious improvement

"Some days you are the dog, some days you are the tree / fire hydrant" is the canonical quote.

I would assume the fire plug is the name of one of the things that failed while he refueled. Doesn't quite go together in my head, but once you understand the original quote it makes sense. Some days you're on the giving end, some days you're on the receiving end.

At least where I’m from (Texas, where the story teller at least spent time), hydrants are called fire plugs. I’ve no idea why but that’s what I know them as.

The term comes from the history of firefighting: http://www.firehydrant.org/info/hist-fp.html

We've started using this for simpler decisions ala choosing a restaurant or a movie to watch.

The 5-2-1 game... You pick 5 things, she selects 2, you select the final. Or vice versa. Stops the back and forth and shares responsibility. It's literally removed the mental drain and occasional arguments about simple decisions. Sometimes we simplify it to 3-1, if the choices aren't available ... I pick 3 and she picks 1 or vice versa.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/5whgvh/lpt_if_...

The difference between doing that and talking to 3rd party integrators is the ability to compare across vendors.