clairity · HackerTrans

4 years agodiscuss

yah, i bought 100 flat black hangers a few years ago (~$15 at ikea back then) so i could hang all of my casual clothing (rather than folding, which is more time-consuming). the flat ones allowed me to hang like 50% more stuff in the same space. my fancier clothes go on wooden hangers (also ikea) so they have more room to breathe.

clairity

5 years agodiscuss

that’s actually the more responsible thing to do vs. trying to power through (something i’ve been guilty of doing in my younger days). it goes without saying that the ideal is not being sleep deprived at all, but our lives are rarely ideal.

clairity

5 years agodiscuss

cheers, a vivid and lucid description of the dynamics.

i’ve been thinking along these lines in relation to business and economy, toward a conclusion that our economic policy should be principally geared toward encouraging medium-sized ($10-50MM) and focused businesses, which provides plenty of reward and economies of scale while avoiding the corrupting forces and negative externalities of behemoths and conglomerates. same with personal wealth - encourage people to get to ~$2MM (where you can easily live comfortably without working again) but progressively discourage (not prohibit) wealth accumulation above $10MM (e.g., make wealth be put to work harder and in more provably positively-externalized ways to accumulate further).

clairity

6 years agodiscuss

you might want to consider temperature as a possible culprit. a lower temperature is a signal to the body to curl up and sleep, and a consistently cool (relative) temperature keeps you in that state. when we wake up, our bodies ramp up our metabolism/temperature to rouse us out of slumber. i know i'm ready for sleep when i impulsively reach for the sheets. with two people, a dog, and only a cracked window, the temperature might be rising above your sleep signal during the night (i wake up often in the middle of the night and can literally feel the heat rising as i gain consciousness).

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7 years agodiscuss

i would add that managers are coaches, not players, in that their work output is generally not meant to produce product (in the larger sense of work product, not just the company's offering) but rather make the producers themselves better.

so one easy way to be (viewed as) a bad manager is to forget that your focus should be people, not product. it is absolutely your job as a manager to ask about and know the motivations and constraints of those you manage, including probing no's like that.

clairity

7 years agodiscuss

i think you're getting the trust causality somewhat backwards. people don't simply fall into trustworthy or untrustworthy buckets, but rather it's mostly context dependent (with rare exception; e.g. sociopaths). a trusting environment can reveal the latent trust inherent in the team members.

and trust takes time to build, so it's often not something you can just hire for (unless maybe you hire a whole team at once).

teams also require a blend of skills blanketing the problem domain, diversity of thought and background, necessary resources, clear goals, and the autonomy to make decisions toward those goals.

clairity

7 years agodiscuss

good idea! your ad tag is exactly the type of compromise we’ve been asking for since the web (and online ads) became a thing: first-party-served ads with only basic first-party analytics and clear delineation of the ads. unfortunately competition happens around targeting, segmentation, and conversion, which pushes us way past that.

clairity

8 years agodiscuss

> “But what's most surprising is that in an industry where everyone seems keen to copy even Apple's worst ideas (no headphone jack, notches) only a few are copying some of their best.”

this is not surprising at all when you consider the ability to add crapware was a key differentiator for carriers of android relative to ios. ios threatened to disintermediate carriers out of phones, reducing the carriers’ value in the value chain. as iphones became popular, carriers glommed onto android to combat that threat. they continue to do so to keep apple at bay and maintain control over the phone.

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