Why stop with the executives? Why not throw the shareholders into jail --- they approve the selection of the executives and benefit from whatever malfeasance you are targeting.
Has anyone visited these sites in the last few years? (The field trip was in 2006.) Has construction, road repairs, etc. obscured many of these? I know of a few roadway offsets in the immediate Bay area that have been "fixed" and are no longer visible.
"...you'd want to work for..." This is a misleading framing. The private equity firm only wants to make the deal work financially and only for them. Anything else is secondary. You shouldn't be thinking about their respect, wanting to work for them, or anything beyond the deal terms.
Phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, and boiling sulfuric acid: I should have paid more attention in chemistry lab. This is a neat project and answered a lot of questions.
Depends on what you learned during that "ton of experience programming." My only regret was that I had, but stupidly ignored, the MIT course notes that preceded publication of SICP. I didn't realize what I had missed until many years later when I sat down to work my way through SICP. I coulda been a contender.
I'm working on a code base with lots of #define. I replace them when I'm doing maintenance nearby, but you can't change them blindly: some bit of code may be inadvertently depending on the 0-artifact or something similar. "Science progresses one funeral at a time."
For now this might be a project for Fields medalists, like Tao and Scholze, who have the leisure to spend 10x the time on a proof. I recently talked to a post-doc in a top-ranked math department, and he doesn't know anyone who actually uses lean4 in their work. For early-career people, it's probably better to trust your intuition and get the papers out.
If you read the article carefully, you'll see clues to why this developer can make it work in spite of conventional wisdom:
1. He picks his buildings carefully. His projects are "market rate", so he has to work out the conversion cost, inventory yield, and rental rates to find good candidates.
2. He includes rooms without windows and labels them as storage, work-from-home offices, or something else that does not need a window to be legal. But (wink-wink) he fully expects that these will be counted as bedrooms by potential renters.
Economy was not really a consideration. The project developed two different bomb designs (plutonium and uranium) in parallel. They tried three different paths to fissile material: gaseous diffusion and electromagnetic separation for uranium and reactors for plutonium.
Geezer alert: forecasts look amazingly good to me. When I was a kid in the Pacific Northwest, it was routine to miss major storms until they hit land. We didn't have satellites, oceanic buoys, etc., and I remember the TV weather guy saying things like "we've had a report from a ship at sea..." and proceeding to make wild guesses.
The "facts", huh? Like other transactions with fees to a third party, the form ("seller pays") is not the same as the transfer of value. The seller knows the commission will be paid and considers this in setting the price, but the buyer provides the money to meet the price. Absent the real estate commission, you would expect the price to end up somewhere between the seller's net and the buyer's gross. Other examples: taxes on cell phone bills, airline tickets, and W2 wages.
Different languages had different pools of readability reviewers, so the expectations varied, but readability reviews were generally constructive and helpful. I was thrilled to have Ian Taylor review my go code.
The non-readability reviewers were usually on your team, so there was social pressure in both directions. You wanted to learn and conform to the team's norms, and the reviewer couldn't be a total jerk about their comments. Everyone was generally on their best behavior.
Long ago a coworker told me about his summer job where the computers were at another site. Twice a day a courier would take your card deck to the remote site and pick up any output from your last run. If you were nice to the courier, you could get him to look at your output and possibly save you a half day by fixing simple errors and immediately resubmitting your deck. His co-workers weren't fast coders, but they rarely made mistakes.
"If it is perspective in travel sketches that interests you, then don't waste time on classical anatomy." Mild disagreement here. I'm personally more interested in landscape drawing and painting, but for practice I turn to faces and figures, preferably life drawing. It's much harder to tell whether your perspective drawing is a little off than to sense that there is something wrong with the proportions in a life drawing or a Bargue exercise.
A friend of mine similarly brought some older poultry books back into print (https://www.nortoncreekpress.com/wordpress/poultry/). In his words: "...we discovered that the more recent poultry books were not in tune with the needs of small farmers, while older books were. We read several hundred poultry publications, eventually choosing three to bring back into print..."
Can your boss tell? If they can, then you have no problem. If they can't, then you have a problem.
This is the other side of "I'm so much more productive with WFH". Everyone who values WFH should be asking themselves how they will help their company measure productivity. Over time companies will find new ways to manage productivity, possibly by restructuring work to make measurement easier even if the tasks have to change or by reducing labor costs to make unit productivity less important.