AmazingAtalanta

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Does anyone know exactly how they develop this listing of innovative companies? It seems like this was just a survey that I'm assuming they shipped out to certain people across industries. But how insightful is this actual list? It's basically just the biggest, most popular, highest market cap companies out there. Is Google really the most innovative company? I guess I can't help but give something like this a big eye roll, because it all depends upon what you consider to be innovative. I think people are also biased towards innovation that is technically based when you can have process innovation or thought/conceptual innovation. Overall, I'm just not sure that this tells you anything interesting or exciting.

AmazingAtalanta

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I have to agree that I think this has to do with hiring cheaper labor. I'm not sure whether they are immigrants or not has very much to do with it. I think that immigration probably helps to increase the labor pool seeking jobs in the US in the tech industry. I would imagine the more seasoned foreign engineers/devs/etc. probably would be less inclined to uproot their lives and move to the US. While immigration might be an issue, I think it's really just a problem with a desire to hire younger and cheaper labor regardless of whether they are US citizens or not.

There is still tech on the east coast, but it's nothing like the allure or salaries that are offered out in Silicon Valley. Actually, I feel like most of the really talented individuals from the east coast make their way out west unless they have some other non-job things keeping them rooted out here or they happen to land a pretty decent job at a fintech, adtech, etc. company out on the east coast.

But I see a lot of companies thinning their IT staff and the people who are most likely to go tend to be the >40 crowd. Probably because they are more expensive, management doesn't perceive them as being as "up-to-date," and there's less runway in their career. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if some of it is that they want less experienced individuals who will just do what their told and might be less opinionated about things. To me this causes a huge problem with system and application architecture, because you lose all of that expertise of years spent developing and dealing with different situations that I believe can give you a lot of insight into how things should be architected.

AmazingAtalanta

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Medscape published an article a few days ago (below) about this. I was under the impression that there was proof that Duke management knew about the fact that Potts-Kant falsified data. There was also evidence that she did not actually buy supplies necessary to even run the experiments:

>>According to court records, colleagues had questions about whether Potts-Kant had even purchased methacoline, a drug she said she used in experiments. Meanwhile, Duke was trying to control the message. A colleague told Thomas at the time that Duke's research integrity office did not want the case to "snowball," and that it wanted to write any retraction notices.

That would suggest there was no way she could have had the data. Even after they knew the data was bad (or probably bad), it was used by others as well was Potts-Kant to secure additional funding. I think the court couldn't definitively say when Duke became aware of the fraud, but I think they had enough reason to be concerned about the integrity of the data that they should have acted more strongly and been more forthright.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/910922?nlid=129046_3902...

AmazingAtalanta

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Agreed. I do not have a very strong understanding or experience with stoicism, but I never really considered stoicism to be some kind of resignation to your fate just because you can't control it. It is to actively embrace it and remind yourself that when you have successes or failures, those things were sort of "part of the plan" and you know the best thing is to trek on. I don't necessarily even think that an "unsuccessful" person would accept themselves as an unsuccessful person, but just know that they are on a path they cannot see, but trust that what they are going through is net positive for society, the world, etc.

AmazingAtalanta

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In university I studied engineering/science, but when I transitioned into the working world, I transitioned into project management. To me this article is somewhat click-bait promising to "just do these # of things..."

I guess it provides helpful tips or a more simplistic way to begin to manage your time better if that is something you are struggling with and feel overwhelmed with how to even start to improve it. But I strongly feel the thing that makes me a great project manager is that you know how much rigor is appropriate for a given project so you know just how much to spend time planning and how much you need to focus on execution.

And "Beware of Distractions" is a huge understatement. I think this area deserved a little more because, IMO, you shouldn't just be aware, you need to actively manage this. You need to set specific time aside to look at your email. You need to put your phone down and not surf the web at random times. You need to be deliberate with your time, especially if you have a lot to get done. This is where having a list of "tasks" or things you want to accomplish in a specified amount of time can be helpful, because you can prioritize getting through that before you go to your emails, texts, etc.

AmazingAtalanta

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I wonder if one of the biggest drivers of loneliness isn't necessarily that kids are spending more time on their phones or even that they have less face time with their friends, but that their social media can tell them more about what their friends are doing when they aren't together. First, everyone knows people curate their social media presence so that they look cool and that they are doing fun things. Second, if two of my friends in my group of friends hung out, I wouldn't necessarily know about it until after the fact. I wouldn't be able to see fun images of my friends or even people who were like the "cool kids" hanging out. Essentially, that limited the amount of FOMO you could experience because you just didn't have that ability.

I definitely think some of it also has to do with the level of control and protection we try to place on kids as well. It's just probably discouraging to kids or, worse, they sense their parent's fear that something will happen to them so they become afraid and ultimately pull themselves back from social interactions.

I wonder if kids also tend to feel more lonely because parents have also increased their smartphone usage. When I go out to restaurants, I feel like I am more likely to see entire families on their phones sitting around the table instead of talking with one another. That can't help either.

AmazingAtalanta

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Maybe a different way to think about it is not that the skill level of the team is low (because people aren't talented), but that at start-ups, you tend to have smaller teams or a lot more work is distributed across a fewer number of people. So if you are a young engineer, you might not have access to a good mentor at a small start-up. More onus will be on you to develop skills and learn things by researching and ingesting material outside.

At larger companies, they can attract skilled talent with bigger salaries and they will most likely employ more people on teams. While you might not necessarily work directly with someone who can mentor you, there is more likely to be someone in adjacent teams or in other departments who you could reach out to and learn from.

AmazingAtalanta

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It's interesting, because I believe as a child we learned a simplistic version of this in elementary school. The basic construct was the "I feel ______, when ______." Obviously, this was for child-level conflict resolution, so unlike the guidance provided in NVC it most likely left it open to making accusations ("I feel hurt when you pull my hair"). But it's possible that children might do better with that sort of directness compared to adults in more complicated situations.

But I have continued to use that approach as a manager and had never heard of NVC before I saw this article. I really appreciated the expanded guidance and a better way to plan the conversation. I also found the section on Consequences to be helpful as well. When you are in an authority position, I believe it is important to help people understand that there might be consequences to their actions or continued in-action.

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