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episiarchon Sam Altman's New Order Doesn't Include OpenAI's Chief Scientist

To characterize a fight over the essential mission of your organizational work as a "distraction to the general employees" is to reveal yourself as someone of no particular contribution.

episiarchon Who makes the most reliable new cars?

Use of signals is the single most important consideration in my opinion. Other drivers cannot read your mind. Using signals protects you.

episiarchon 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps

I can't see how any of this makes sense. There are not a lot more eligible men than there are eligible women. Interest in relationships is not constrained in any way to "guys". I think you have an alignment problem.

episiarchon The product manager role is a mistake

Right, "at most" they are acting as Maxwell's demon. Useless.

episiarchon Kafka is dead, long live Kafka

How do you replace ZooKeeper?

episiarchon If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity

Near me there is a preserved section of forest (in the middle of a suburban sprawl). It connects a senior-living apartment building to a Walgreens, nothing more. It's one block wide and two blocks long, just enough forest for a winding walkway to never see the roads on either side.

When you step into the walkway you immediately feel the cool and moisture. It feels magical.

episiarchon Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)

Lawns don't usually die in the summer, they go dormant. You can usually distinguish between dead grass and dormant grass by observing the color: dormant grass is yellow, while dead grass is grayish.

Texas lawns commonly use some form of bermuda grass, which goes dormant during the hot season (typically late July to late September). Some lawns will mix in a rye grass which shows bright green color during this same season to preserve the look, but obviously this compromises the growth of both types of grass.

episiarchon At this company, we are family

I have been intentionally toxic to my family for years, and only recently succeeded in having them cut me out of their lives.

The "unseverable" bonds of family have caused a litany of mental and physical problems for me my entire life. It's only since my "toxic" behavior finally exhausted their fidelity that I've begun to feel like myself.

episiarchon Have attention spans been declining?

I didn't even have the attention span to unpack your first sentence.

episiarchon Google search's death by a thousand cuts

In the fable it is not a golden goose. This is significant because killing a golden goose would result in golden flesh.

The (not golden) goose lays golden eggs. The recurring time-based nature of the eggs is the key aspect of the fable.