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> Management is the difference between your work seeming like its a valuable contribution to a bigger picture, or that it's a pointless sisyphean exercise in futility cynically driven by profit or ignorance.

Wait, this one is an objective property of the product you're working on, right?

As a kid I really enjoyed the Winnetou stories by Karl May

I second That Which Is Seen by Bastiat, nice and short intro to economic way of thinking

But without mortar, you'd just knock it over with one clumsy stumble, right?

Who claims that "humans are the most evolved of 'all' animals"? And what do they mean by "most" evolved?

Without this information it's hard to answer the question why they're saying that.

Sounds weird, but someone actually did exactly that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x594yMPSFqk

I understand that fashion is a pure coordination game, so you would expect every website to look the same, but man, this style of illustration that is absolutely everywhere gets annoying very quickly. (Or is it just me?)

> Additionally, the bill makes it unlawful for a large employer to ask employees whether or not they qualify for federal benefits.

…But then how would the employer's tax department know how much to pay in the proposed tax?

On the contrary, I think most other industries do this (i.e. hire people based on mostly insane criteria).

I think programmers are more reflective and analytical than people from other industries, so programming as an industry gets a lot of flak from the inside, but I really believe it's no better anywhere else.

"Half of programmers can't program! What's wrong with this industry?" Half of everyone is completely and utterly incompetent at whatever they're paid to do, why do you think we're special? Programmers just happen to notice these things.

"The interview process is broken!" Yeah, so it is everywhere else, programming is just the only industry where someone would possibly even care about whether something is insane or not.

'Tis my two cents.

Awesome, but man, that name really needs some work. It sounds like I'm asking a two-year-old whether he's been on the potty.

I'm also in the Harry Potter generation; I was 8 years old when the first book came out. I remember my grandma recommending it to me at the time. It sounded like "kid stuff", so I didn't pay much attention to it and went back to reading Asimov.

I finally read this "kid stuff" years later, in my mid-twenties, and I liked it very much!

I don't read fiction much anymore, but when I was a teenager, I reread both The Hitchhiker's Guide and Youth In Revolt a few times

If you read one thing and one thing only, it should be this. It's overwhelmingly long, but it's really, really, really worth it.

Everything has been written about multiple times, don't worry about it.

If your blog is the first place where a reader runs into a particular information or insight, they will find it valuable, even if chronologically, someone else wrote about it first.

There are like three people in the world who have original ideas (the only example I can think of right now is Robin Hanson), but the number of people with successful blogs is much higher.