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Alternately, it assumes that the risk matrix of an executive also includes:

1. Their reputation. How much less likely is it that a board of directors would think twice before hiring them to be a steward of shareholders' assets?

2. Their egos. How much less likely is it that people will be willing to invest time delivering projects whose value can be wiped out by poor risk management in the same way that SVBs has?

One of the difficulties of public relations is communicating to multiple audiences at once. One of Docker’s audiences are the paying customers who outside that 2% and would want some assurance that if docker makes errors, those errors are smaller in magnitude. This statement seems like it is aimed at assuaging the worries of that audience. Is it good practice? I do not know.

I find that silly songs are pretty essential for actually doing it. Calendly is good for scheduling phone chats with friends while you do annoying tasks.

Also the Reader’s Digest New Complete Do-It-Yourself-Manual is pretty great.

It is possible for a normally-reasonable person to have a moment of panic and say something foolish.

Also, it doesn’t get very cold or hot there, in comparison to Chicago or Atlanta.

Find where you spiral and focus on changing some of your attitudes to remove the cycles of spiraling.

An example of spiraling is:

1. “I should be achieving <unreasonable expectations>”

2. Shame about not being productive enough to achieve those expectations.

3. Numbing your emotions by getting distracted on web forums.

4. GOTO 2

To break this, don’t imagine you’ll go cold turkey. You’re human and will stumble. Instead, have ways to break the cycle and stop it from starting.

1. Have more humility. Don’t compare yourself to others especially characters on a stage like Jeff Bezos.

2. Give yourself power over your negative emotions by putting a label on them.

3. Use your body to process feelings. Specifically when you notice yourself feeling shame, do some pushups while imagining children playing on you like a jungle gym.

4. Do something you’ll feel grateful for having accomplished.

It might be that at this point the solution to inflation is to let things settle and get more efficient after the significant disruptions we’ve seen.

> Is this true for all decisions by the school board?

No.

You also need to be comfortable enough with yourself to hear the other person's real honest thoughts and feelings.

Why would violent resistance be effective at this point? That seems likely to result in Syria or Libya at best.

Speaking uncharitably (and ignoring vast theological differences…), the folks talking about violent overthrow seem pretty naive. ISIS was bad enough when they didn’t have the Zagros mountains to hide behind.

Because

1. Any political movement will attract people who are hungry for power-for-power’s-sake or to inflate their own ego. Naiveté about this is malpractice in the same way that US naïveté about Chalabi was malpractice.

Iranians who are naive to the point of self-deception will be as misleading as those who are willfully deceptive. Discernment without undue cynicism is necessary but hard.

From the perspective of the US/UK, Iran and Iraq are pretty culturally similar. They are strangers to us. Lets not pretend to be more anthropologically/politically knowledgeable than we are.

2. We don’t have access to reliable intelligence. It is wise to be humble about our ability to sort fact from myth from falsehood.

3. If we want this to succeed, then we want marginal (in the sense of “swing voters”) and civic-minded Iranians to switch to supporting this. Those Iranians will have “CIA-backed coup” as a historical memory so it is worth empathizing with them.

Ah, then CNN could do a better job translating. "death to" and "down with" have pretty different meanings.

> A voice shouted "Death to the Islamic Republic"

This sounds like a source of fear that is likely to motivate people to seek security and stability. I imagine it would remind people of the threat they've been told their community faces from the countries which created Stuxnet, and the weapons carried by Saddam Hussein's army, and the 1953 coup against Mossadeq.

I imagine it would motivate Iranian men to stand together to serve as protectors of the stability of their community and to tolerate the flaws of their leaders.

I imagine it would stand in the way of freedom-loving Iranians trying to create an alternate vision of Iranian civic virtue.

https://lawcomic.net/ — goes into digressions about english common law and also the history thereof.

A warning on this topic: it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking you know more than you really do.

I'm still wondering if there is good evidence that crypto is useful for Venezuelan economic refugees. I imagine such evidence is hard to find publicly because removing the obscurity would raise the probability that a friend of Maduro uses it against such refugees.

When I call myself an intellectual, it is mostly a form of pride or vanity.

As a boy, I read Ender's Game and Zhuge Liang's commentaries on The Art of War. As a man, I like to imagine that I now know enough to keep the whole world safe from catastrophic war. It is a comforting illusion.

I would never tell someone about this at work and especially not at a python conference.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/two-people-fired-over-pycon-don...

Arguably the war in Ukraine was influenced by the unrest against Lukanhesko after his poor handling of covid-19...and by Russians thinking that was yet another example of NATO attacks against their security.

How much do you charge to run training sessions on how to write better comments?

Part of the problem is that caring for someone requires their cooperation or else it is exhausting. Caring for the least cooperative people requires even more resources.

To illustrate this: If you lived in a 3-bedroom apartment, how would you personally feel about taking on the task of housing someone off of craigslist in exchange for them promising to pay 1/2 of your rent?

How would you feel about doing that for someone recently convicted of larceny or arson or selling fentanyl?

DRY is the easiest rule to tell if you are following, so it is one that people are inclined to follow.

Right. It also requires overcoming problems of trust and trustworthiness.

Doing the work to restore that trust is the work of justice.

The truth is more likely that a single VC's opinion carries limited information and you'd need to both do more building and talk to more people in order to learn a more certain answer.

In fact, notice the words of the VC: "I'm not sure..."

Also, lying is bad.

> incentivizing prisons to actually rehabilitate

Parenting is hard. Parenting someone who is already an adult is harder still. Beyond incentives, they might not have the resources to rehabilitate the prisoners.

My hunch is that this is a third of the reason why politicians give “politician answers” to things that most people believe are straightforward yes-or-no questions.

Turning off overhead lights around 9pm and getting sunlight in the morning. This gave me a consistent sleep schedule. Sleep is mental strength.

Excellent turn of phrase

This calls for a marketing person with more experience in branding. I’d aim for meaningful metaphors.

Cute names are fun for the people creating them and writing code. They are stressful for the people trying to make sense of code and maintain a product under a deadline. The question is, which matters more:

A. Having fun yourself over the course of a week.

B. Getting a job done and helping your coworkers get their job done over the course of years.

> talk about the problem space your idea is in

Converse about the problem space. Remember that you have two ears and only one mouth. Listen to your users more than you talk