jjmorrison

A CEO is supposed to do 1 thing -> generate more profit $ in the future.

How he/she does it is up to them. It's not up to you or I to judge if they are doing the right things. Just check if they are accomplishing their goal.

Racing is a great manifestation of this. Drivers often claim bad luck for being hit by another car. But the best drivers just seem to rarely have bad luck.

Knowing how to keep yourself out of situations where unlucky events may happen is just as important a skill in racing as driving fast.

Yes. And yes "You can't judge because you were never a CEO" is a silly comment to make. Take my point as a shorthand for "this person has neither experienced what that job is or bothered learning what it is".

This person has clearly never been CEO. There's like a hundred thousand CEOs in the US. Adam Neuman doesn't make a trend.

If there's one sure fire way to fuel polarization, it's to hide dissenting view points.

If there's one thing we need more of right now, it's the patience to listen and have a conversation. Turns out telling someone they are dumb and wrong, doesn't make them go away.

Lol why is this post marked [flagged]?

I keep seeing this article posted on HN and then deleted...

Seems as much a rocket scientist as anyone.

I am so excited to be in this version of the multiverse.

As much as I disagree with the article, this is just the engineer's version of it.

I think you would find it really interesting to try running a company or even a team. I think it would help you see your prior managers in a different light.

No, management means 1 thing: productivity.

Many of these principles may work, but they are not the goal.

The biggest confusion I see in new and experienced managers is the point of their job -> maximizing their teams productivity.

It's not clear from the article that the author has realized this.

Well I can say in my experience firing people is such a pain nowadays that I feel a need to be a lot more careful in hiring. I've seen a bit more than half of fired employees come back with some form of discrimination lawsuit threat after being fired.

This is a wild thing to read. I'm not a political expert, but this seems philosophically landing in the world of marxism. Is that vaguely true? Some of this rhetoric has been tried and shown to be incorrect to unfathomable harm so many times in history.

It's the opposite - Google is a giant, humanity-fucking ad platform. That can't really change, so any changes that come is just gonna be placating the employees so they stop complaining and keep building the giant, humanity-fucking ad platform.

Might feel a bit better, but if you really care, quit!

Google employees unionizing is super hypocritical. If you disagree with the big evil monopoly, then leave and give up the crazy salary. Can't have it both ways. As long as all the smart people stay there, they'll keep being the big evil monopoly. Best case is more placating and pretending.

But clearly not because of Biden printing money...

Chrome on iOS 15 is super busted. Surprised they still haven't fixed it.

This person either did not read that memo or read what they wanted from it. It makes no claim of individual inferiority or superiority.

This is what the google / facebook monopolies have done to silicon valley culture. People want the least amount of work and accountability, but feel entitled to every promotion, bump, perk in the book.

At the end of the day, to pay these salaries, the company needs to drive performance and growth. Keeping a company alive is super hard - it's not your safety net.

I also refuse to buy anything that ends in ".99". And I also refuse to buy any product with advertisement because those manipulate me too.

How dare Apple not work the way I want them to!

Avoiding pain and hardship is hardly a way to discover life.

The only solution is to censor everything.

Dr King would have, and always did use love. Not hate.

Collective action is not hate, and change doesn't require hate. Mobs today act out of anger and hate. And that creates more anger and more hate.

It's hard to love people that you perceive as evil - but wow is it ever powerful when you do. Daryl Davis is such a great example of this as another user pointed out.

It's really a beautifully simple and true statement. Hate simply cannot fight hate. Maybe some people are not meant to change in this lifetime. But if anything can help them, it's love. I really believe that. There should be consequences to actions if we want to incentive certain behaviors in society. But consequences don't require hate or even anger.

Hitler may not have been destined to change. But what Daryl Davis does is show these people love. And if you've changed the lives of 200 KKK members - believe me, you've seen it all. You'd be hard press to cherry pick only the nice 200 KKK members.

He's right. Mobs don't do good in the world, no matter if you agree with their position or not.

"Hate can't fight hate, only love can do that"

Somehow we all think we're better at this than MLK was. No matter your beliefs, shame and hate won't help teach a different way.

I'm Canadian FWIW.

Terrifying...

I've done MDMA assisted therapy and it's been completely life changing. It has the impact of doing a decade of therapy in a day. The lasting effect is not from the drug, it's from the ability to learn and understand so much more about yourself so quickly.