I only read great literature, classics, history books my whole life. This year (Aged 48) I decided to pepper in a "fluff" book or two. I forced myself to read something I normally wouldn't. I read "The Situation" (Jersey Shore) and Mathew Perry (Friends) "auto" biographies. I actually had some profound insights about depression and substance abuse from those two. Of course, I don't recommend you read either, but if you never read "airport fiction" or "pop biographies" it might prove interesting.
When I had an IC role, I would recommend tech projects and execute them w/ my team (we can solve "problem X" with "tech stack Y"). I also had a lot of agency in creating solutions for tech proposals. When I had the director role, I made sure nobody wasted time. I would qualify deals to chase, recommend strategies and core competencies to pursue (AI and Cloud yes, Blockchain and Quantum no). Now, in my VP role I try to get people good at making these strategy decisions (we should follow shipley for capture, etc.). Also, a LOT more relationship capital building and external COMMs at the VP level.
Great summary, and sort of highlights how charisma is very frequently useful for deception. That's why the advice that people should "go learn to be charismatic" is very different from "learn social skills / be easy to work with / don't be a dick".
Influencing people is certainly a necessary skill to some extent, but if you're actively working on becoming very good at it, then you're not really worthy of trust almost by definition. Better get good enough so that other people can't recognize it. Check out my best-selling new book "How to lie effectively and ensure your political machinations are never fully recognized as such"
I laughed at the title! My friends and I say the original quote way to much, even 25 years later. (From "Fast and Furious - Vin Diesel says "I live my life a quarter mile at a time.")
Executive Summary of Article: "new data now reveal what many of us suspected for at least ten years: stereotype threat does not replicate, and it does not undermine academic performance in the ways we thought."
The Stereotype Threat: "individuals who are part of a negatively stereotyped group can, in certain situations, experience anxiety about confirming those stereotypes, leading paradoxically to underperformance, thus confirming the disparaging stereotype." for example, if you remind a woman of the "Women are bad at math" stereotype, they will perform worse on a math test than if they are not reminded of that stereotype.
I think so. Along those lines, did the underworld learn the lesson from Bernardo Provenzano (who got caught due to reliance on a Cesar Cipher) and step up their encryption?
Interesting! Now that you mention it, I did buy a .luxury domain for this purpose - a Gemini server. I also bought a .ski to have a domain with my (polish) last name.
It's great to be able to get silly domains for projects, back to the old days of IRC vanity hosts, but can you imagine seeing a link to something like jackets.luxury and going "yeah that seems legit, I'm definitely giving them my card details"
Yes that is completely normal and the my younger relatives would not even think twice.
In the TikTok and Instagram community people are spending billions not only on random domains (like tiedyeshirts.xyz) but often to venmo or zelle listed on profiles. My sister and thousands like her send money to faceless profiles to buy mystery boxes.
By that logic, would you pull out your credit card if you got linked jacketsluxury.com? .luxury is about twice as expensive as .com so I'm more suspicious of .com sites than of vanity TLDs.
I think there's a generational divide here, the older people seem to distrust more recent TLDs for some reason while younger people don't really care about them.
To be honest (not a troll comment) I loved the idea of Juicero - easy pressed juice service. Before, I had to source, buy, clean, peel and chop veggies and then clean up the mess. They just gave bags of veggies ready to press. I tried to buy one. Since I live on the East Coast I had to put my name on the email waiting list. I realize the gadget itself became a poster child for over-engineered Hubris, but again, I like the idea and would definitely pay a few hundred bucks a month for the service (if it delivered on promises).
Any chance scientists can make a drug for humans to have this benefit? This could help in tense relationship building/ repair. You get the social bonding of pounding alcohol w/o the negative effects of drunkeness.
If there was such a drug you wouldn't get the social effects: these hornets don't get drunk at all, they metabolize the alcohol too quickly for it to affect their brains. It's not like they get a euphoric buzz without the social impairment :)
I witnessed this when I spent a month inside the offices of a large Japanese company in Kyoto. In that month there were three different dinners out for the whole office, all of them involving alcohol.
One of the engineers told me as an aside, because Japanese culture frowns on contradicting or questioning one's superiors, social drinking was a tacit mechanism where people could express their doubts about project direction and such without repercussion, as another part of the tacit rules were that what someone said while drunk shouldn't be held too strongly against them. Even after a few sips people would get more boisterous and the buttoned-down civility would drop. I didn't speak much Japanese so I can only imagine what was being said, probably something like "Boss, I'm not too confident that spending so much time adding the suchandsuch feature is worth delaying the project, but I'm just a junior engineer so I don't know what I'm talking about, hah hah. Kampai!"
I've been on antibiotics for a week, so I haven't been drinking, but we had some alcohol-free beers left over from a party. They're all IPA-flavored, so they taste authentically awful!
Non-alcoholic beers have gotten really good in the last few years. In the US, Athletic Brewing Company is doing great stuff. I haven't tried their IPA, but their lagers and lighter beers are surprisingly good and an adequate substitute for the "ritual" of beer drinking.
I've tried their light beers, and didn't particularly like them.
Weirdly, even though I hate IPAs, I think I liked the alcohol-free IPA stuff better. It feels more "authentic", I think - likely because I don't drink IPAs, so I can't tell that something is off without the alcohol.
FWIW, drinking alcohol won't interfere with most modern antibiotics. The exception is metronidazole and related compounds, because they interfere with aldehyde dehydrogenase (leading to a buildup of toxic aldehydes, an intermediate compound in alcohol metabolism).
So why have I always been told not to? I swear I remember reading that antibiotics and alcohol, combined, stress out the liver, but apparently that's not the case with Amoxycillin?
Anyway, I guess it's probably for the best to limit my drinking anyway. Except for Saturday at the party, which we shan't speak of, nor of Sunday morning.
"IPA-flavoured" is a bit dismissive. Alcohol-free beer is not flavoured water, it's beer that's had its alcohol removed. Non-alc IPA is an IPA with extra steps!
I meant to be dismissive in a joking way - I dislike the taste of IPAs, but they definitely taste Like Beer to me, even once the alcohol removal process has taken place. Athletic's light beers, though, taste off in a way that really doesn't work for me when I'm in the mood for the social aspect of drinking a beer, but not for most of the mental and physical ffects.
There's Kava or Kratom - I've not tried them myself but I have heard good things about their ability to ease social situation like alcohol without alcohol's side effects.
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