Today’s richer nation plunder poorer nations through skilled migration. You may have heard of it as “brain drain” - the plunder of people who know modern science, and the techniques of industrial production.
Industrialised nations maintain their place in the world by having other, poorer, countries subsidise the raising and training of doctors, nurses, engineers and accountants.
If you know them, they know you too, and they are sharing with you for a reason. But if you’re unsure how best to support them - ask this:
“Would you like me you think through potential risks and pitfalls, or are you looking for emotional support?”
If they answer the former, go right ahead and challenge them. If the latter then share your hopes for their success. Sometimes they know they have blind spots and they need your help before investing too much effort in the idea, sometimes they just want to share their enthusiasm.
The article suggests the 100% lottery fee goes to BAH, but I found out part of it goes to the BLM.
"Of the $9 [lottery fee], $5 ultimately goes to Booz Allen and $4 goes to the Bureau of Land Management, which manages the site, a BLM spokesman said."
You can get into the iPhone or Android and copy the SQLite database to your computer.
The images can be tricky - some form of reference to the image in your phone, hard to put together; otherwise the messages in all the chats are in the database, navigable by a SQLite client.
Speaking from personal experience porting messages from iPhone to Android.
My experience is, written communication don't exist until I've mentioned a summary of it in a verbal communication.
Some people are not comfortable to express their annoyance until it crosses a point of no return. You have to proactively seek to bring out their disagreements, and resolve them.
Until you've experience in resolving a number of conflicts with the persons involved, to the extent you understand them on a personal level, you have not achieved trust. In that case, reducing verbal communication produces fuel to create an environment of mistrust and suspicion.
Build an website for NIMBY's to see where proposed nuclear power plants and wind farms will be built, make it easy for them discuss with each other and to participate in the projects' consultation process.
The other states haven't finished counting either, they have a large margin for one candidate, so the remaining uncounted votes are extremely unlikely to changing the leading candidate.
In swing states however, the probability of uncounted votes
changing the leading candidate is much higher, which is why the news is focusing on them.
It pays your rent, puts food on the table and you haven't found alternatives yet, I don't see your current situation as wrong on your part, especially if the alternative is to starve or live jobless on government benefits. I hope you will find a situation where you're more comfortable in the future, and all the best.
Intelligence isn't the only requirement for any particular role.
e.g., S., finance, is asking questions about the team's progress as if we were doing waterfall, unhappy with missed dates, when our team was agile.
Our director, quite confidently, says to us: "There's a disconnect here, I'll book in 15 minutes with S. and get it fixed up.", as if it's not a big issue. She does not do programming at all.
On the other hand, my ability to implement a red-black tree on the whiteboard would not have helped with this situation.
Previously I've been in startups where the managing director, who was a PhD, and much smarter than I was, who could not resolve the smallest of conflicts safely.
In a large company, it's not possible for a single person to be immersed in all of the products and projects.
Therefore, any decision on resource allocation to different projects must necessarily involve input from people who are a few steps removed from what's actually happening.
Interesting, this adds to a thought I had a couple of weeks ago.
We can see the past, but we can’t go there, like an observer inside event horizon looking out, they can see light coming in, but can’t leave.
We can’t see the future, but when we are going there, like an observer falling into the event horizon. They can’t see what’s inside, but they can fall inside.
As we experience time, it’s like we are falling into a black hole made of time.
I've been in it. My work was heavily criticised, my technology choices invalidated, other's choices foisted on me. I was moved into silo-like work. A particular colleague liked to criticise colleagues in their absence, and I was part of those he spoke about - backbiting. This created a sense of exclusion.
This all started when we got a new engineering manager who I didn't click with. I wanted to stay until my tenure was long enough, and to leave with a respected reputation. Here's how I handled it:
1. If there's a tenth of an ounce to learn from the heavy criticism, learn it, improve on it and thank the colleague.
2. Being pushed into technology I had little experience in, I was worried it affected my reputation of competence; I worked hard to learn the new technology, learn from my company's existing code and industry best practices, and pushed to implement it as best as I could. That I worked in a silo meant no one's work depended on mine, and I had time to polish and test to push my work better.
3. When my colleagues report their work in my presence, if there's any part of it that demonstrated competence that I understood or had something to learn from, I pointed out specific aspects that made it good.
More than a year on, this has paid off. I am in a new job using the new technology my colleagues gave me a opportunity to learn. Learning from criticisms really helped me with improving how I deploy design patterns. My relentless struggle to maintain positivity in the face of hostility repaired relationships with some, and built on them with others. This gave me strong references and recommendations. The new job I got paid 20% more, at a time when there was a sudden flood of layoffs due to the coronavirus.
Industrialised nations maintain their place in the world by having other, poorer, countries subsidise the raising and training of doctors, nurses, engineers and accountants.