> tying OKRs to bonuses
Goodhart's Law: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."
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Goodhart's Law: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."
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> I don't know why this rung is needed but delete it and see what happens for yourself
Did not fuck around; did not find out.
I can't really see it totally replacing WiFi though. It's hard enough to get a TV remote to work outside in the shade - getting higher-bandwidth IR-based WiFi to work outside in the sun seems... ambitious?
Isn't this about people getting upset over Rockstar removing cars they didn't pay for though?
Visiting the UK (from the US) it was pretty clear that the social boundaries were different, but the general nature of the game was the same - we're both guess cultures: you have to figure out what to say and how to say it.
In the Netherlands, conversation seemed much more unguarded. It's hard to describe but it's similar to a concept in the US of someone "having no filter" - basically, less verbal softening of uncomfortable/taboo subjects and more willingness to engage with them.
I actually find the Dutch way very refreshing in some ways. Soliciting critiques (e.g. "how does my new haircut look?") is a largely pointless exercise in the US because there's strong social pressure to say "it looks great" whether it's true or not.
I do wonder though if the Dutch way of making friends (as adults at least) has to be wildly different than in the Anglosphere, given how big a role those subtle social cues play here.
I ran into this last year - storing them as UUIDs works great, unless all of the drivers for the language you're using (Go, in my case) try to cast/validate those bytes as a UUID before you can access them.
Some languages (e.g. Go) make this easier than others by allowing two versions of the same import to coexist, but this is why we broke up our Django monolith a few jobs ago.
I watched probably half of the movies I've ever seen during my last summer of college because the house I lived in didn't have air conditioning and the second-run theater 3 blocks away did.
Gradually? That's roughly what's happening in Denver right now - nobody's been building anything but luxury castles for years, but we saw our average rent drop last quarter for the first time since the recession.
Reason? There were 11,000 more units available than there were this time last year and there are 40k more on the way, so apartment managers are having to think about vacancy rates instead of myopically focusing on profit per unit for the first time since... probably the recession again.
https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/25/apartments-metro-denve...
I get why it doesn't (the problems it would cause for Uber and DraftKings immediately come to mind) but the more sketchy advertisers there are who want to track my location data, the more I want that data to be garbage.
Then there's the fact that Russia is a top 3 worldwide producer of half of that list.
It's hard to come anywhere close to software money as a licensed EE designing the electrical things, let alone as the one building them.
It's also hostile to the practitioner if they last long enough at the same company.
I end up reinventing my "clever" (until I forget the context at least) hacks more often than I care to admit and I'm not actively trying to sabotage my company.
In my area of the US for example, gas costs 32￠/therm, which equates to 1.1￠/kWh.
Electricity on the other hand costs 6.4￠-10.9￠/kWh (depending on time of day), and while a third of it comes from renewables, another third of it comes from coal, so it ends up being net worse for the environment than just burning the gas.
[0] https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.19.5:src/...
This is great advice in general but regular 1v1s give you a forum to proactively ask employees how things are going, which can help you detect problems quieter employees are having that they might not be willing to raise themselves. Some people are conditioned not to complain, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're happy.
The time scale that success is defined on is important here.
The root of the issue seems to be that manager types don't view profit as the market's reward for making a good product; they view it as the product itself.
If a product's quality is sufficiently high to begin with this can be great.
Once quality dips to the point where it softens demand though, it can be the beginning of the death spiral [0] (tl;dr: when production chases revenue downwards and the company suffocates under its fixed costs), and market perception/demand lags cost-cutting product changes so the causes and effects can be very difficult to link through financials alone.
[0] https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-is-the-death-spira...