- Self paced learning and choosing how to spend your time
- Need to collaborate with your peers on scarce resources (everyone can't read the same book / solve the same challenge at the same time)
- Small classes, no one could get away with anything/bullying
- Responsibility for completing the weekly plan yourself and being rewarded for hard work ("the diligence light is well lit" sticker you got when sharing your weekly progress - sry poorly translated Swedish"
Three years ago I booked a flight to San Juan (SJU), Puerto Rico by mistake. I was supposed to go to San Jose (SJO) in Costa Rica.
I will never forget the moment I read "SJO" in the email realizing I should have booked a flight to "SJU". Then going into Google, and typing SJO to find out where I was actually flying. I was prepared for it to be in Asia, Africa or anywhere. Luckily, Puerto Rico was just a small detour to Costa Rica (flew from Europe) :-)
Big, incumbent non-SW company (Kodak example) being challenged by start-up
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Big, software incumbent (Salesforce) with massive developer resources being challenged by start-up.
Maybe the strategies need to change - perhaps increasingly partnering with the software incumbents (if you can't beat 'em, join 'em).. Maybe someone can add some insight..?
This is a good start, "Money as debt". Saw it in university and since then you will never take financial markets seriously. And all the "stimulus" we see is just pushing the can forward. You will start to see through a lot of lies.
Absolutely, unfortunately taylorism did follow suit into the world of knowledge workers.
In some hostile work environments like banking this is everywhere. Don't leave before your manager, eat lunch at your desk, look busy and stay in the office as long as you can
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How about turning those into open source projects? Especially across public organizations who could develop the systems together if they just knew they shared the same needs
I've heard from someone selling security products that some companies prefer to pay ransonware to a hacker, instead of investing in building up their defense and paying for security products
Same here. More often than not, there's people in HN who have experience with a topic and can add perspective (and hopefully an impartial view).
More than ever, we need to tone down the clickbait, put it to perspective, and understand if it's something we should give attention to. HN does this in a quick manner