Agreed.
Fewer hours forces you to focus and work.
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Fewer hours forces you to focus and work.
It seems counter-intuitive but in the long run this mentality best serves the business.
"A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MJ3lGJ4OFo
1) A GMO wheat currently is used. It's called Renan. 2) Higher gluten flour is desirable for bread products such as pizza. I make my own pizza. The best pizza bread is made from high-gluten flour.
Another example: GMO Wheat contains an unnaturally high gluten content. Gluten is an irritant for everyone--some more than others. We have many people who are not really "gluten intolerant", but think they are. They are just sensitive to the unnaturally high gluten content in GMO foods.
"synonyms:rabble-rouser, agitator, political agitator, soapbox orator, firebrand, fomenter, provocateur"
A Demagog is someone who uses hate to bring attention to themselves. Would you call Mahatma Gandhi a demagog? Nope.
tl;dr - people over value loses, and undervalue gains.
If we have a coin toss game where head=5$ for me and tails=5$ for you, you will only play if the game is something like 70 / 30 in your favor.
Schools don't even know what they are doing. This should't be a surprise. It is a system. A system cannot understand itself.
Management calls it "cooperation".
Our school system preps kids in a way that is different than how we work. Or at least the best way to work.
Deming said this over 40 years ago:
"The present system includes competition between people, teams, departments, divisions, students, schools and universities. Although economists have taught that competition will solve our problems, we now know that competition is destructive."
Also, "yellow journalism" is nothing new. It's a big reason why William Randolph Hearst became a gazillionair all those years ago.
"Disruptive innovation" fail.
I called BS on Chris Dixon on this on Twitter and he blocked me. It was when he and Paul Graham were arguing that "not enough (good)engineers exist for startups, so we need to import more". I was arguing that plenty of great engineers exist, you just have to pay for it.
As your data set grows, unbounded variance grows nonlinearly compared to the valid data. As variance increases, deviations grow larger, and happen more frequently. This causes spurious relationships grow much faster than authentic ones. The noise becomes the signal.
Related: Overfitting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting
Overfitting happens when you try add too many variables to your training data. This happens because people think that by adding more data (variables), they can remove bias. What they end up doing, is becoming better at describing the data they have, but not the overall phenomena.
It's counter intuitive but mathematically true.
The original Treadmill Theory has been discredited--or at least fallen out of favor. Why? Because the original Treadmill theory is about people returning to the same baseline level of happiness. That's why the originators called it a treadmill - you don't go anywhere / change / improve / make progress etc.
That's why the "adaptation" analogy is preferred. After an initial rush of either happiness or sadness, you do return to a baseline...but this baseline is different that what it was before.
The reality, and summary, is this: nice things do make your life better. At first there's a rush of excitement over your upgrade. When that initial rush goes away, you backtrack a little bit, but still realize a life which is better than what it used to be. The inverse is true for tragedy.
For whatever reason, instead of the succinct description I gave, the author chose a long winded piece, added some charts with questional data, and slapped on a link bait title.
<shrug>
The author is also misquoting, or misunderstanding, Kahneman. Kahneman isn't talking at all about the treadmill. He's talking about what he called the "Focusing Illusion"-- a fancy way of saying "the grass is always greener on the other side..."
Relevant links:
"Beyond the Hedonic Treadmill: Revising the Adaptation Theory of Well-Being" http://www.factorhappiness.at/downloads/quellen/S9_Diener.pd...
Kahneman tried to explain the hedonic treadmill via with his own aspiration treadmill. He claims that he not only failed, but the data were opposite to his hypothesis.
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10056
Kahneman's paper where that OP misquotes Kahneman from:
http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/teaching/Schkade_Kahneman_...
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My questions: How does it make my life better. What can I do with this service, that I couldn't do before.
As others mentioned, the website is difficult to understand (for me at least)
Again, I'm not suggesting cost cutting. I'm suggesting a move from frivolous expenses, to those which help make the employees more successful.
As I commented before, Deming was all about training employees over firing them.
Instead, I'll just point you to Deming's work on management. He transformed Japan's post war economy into the powerhouse it is today. He's also responsible for the much of the transformation here in the USA during the 1980'ss & 90's.
Long story short: it's the goal of management to make workers successful. Re-training is the absolute best way of advancing the company.
It's here in this picture:
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/566edfb272f2c150028...
Notice how I phrased it. It's not cost cutting. It's about investing in employees. That is something the "best and the brightest" love.
Multiple rounds of layoffs destroy company morale. Better to do one big one, and then hire back if necessary.