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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 4, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You're arguing in favor of a broad definition of tomboy, while I'm talking about something rather narrow.  From the linked meme in the OP:


    

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Sounds like a boy or young man to me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 4, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thanks, done.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 5, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Now I’ve got an urge to map the exact route by which he moved the goalposts, but I’m trying to cool down a bit before posting.




I'd be interested in reading this as I'm often baffled and fascinated at my boomer relatives' logic.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As a fellow male, I agree.  But most girls aren't interested in hearing your nerd flexes, they're trying to figure out whether you have basic social skills and whether or not you're a weirdo/loser.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's true.  Books and films on these topics makes instruments of Leftist moral education.  But IMO racism or mass killing of perceived enemies are not the ultimate sins (though they're certainly not good), so these sorts of books are grating to me.  I imagine a Leftist would feel the same about, say, The Passion of The Christ.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 7, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


when they have tasted success, you teach, adding "why" to "how" and praising their results




Can you elaborate on this?  Do you mean that instead of "Please do task X which includes items A, B, C, and D" you say something like "Please do task X so that we can accelerate our progress on task Y?"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 7, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thanks, this is helpful.


Delegation is almost done, I think.  I'll be fully out of IC tasks by next week, and from then on I'll only be working on low-priority tech work to keep my skills sharp (my boss encourages this).


I'm taking copious notes during 1:1 because I am indeed bad with kids' names and birthdays.  But more importantly I want to be able get into their heads as you describe and motivate them by findng cool career building opportunities and stimulating work for them.


What's your strategy for feedback?  I'm thinking of asking for written feedback quarterly in the vein of "What are two things I could be doing differently to better serve you and the team?" but also asking for opinions on individual during our weekly 1:1s.


Direct communication of deadlines and task assignments is something I'm not too worried about since I've never really felt guilty or awkward about it.  I've personally always liked terse, direct managers because it keeps the interaction short so that I can go back to what I was doing.  I think it also helps to know your people so that you can triage work to people who will enjoy it and anticipate pushback from people who might not.   Any potential pitfalls I might be missing due to my inexperience, though?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


We understand that it’s a very important part of your life, that you do not wish to have your faith shaken, and that overall it’s just not a conversation worth having with you.




I like your posts but this is pretty weak and it really cuts both ways. An uncharitable mirror-statement: "We understand that you atheists don't want your self-serving delusions shaken because it's important to maintaining your hedonistic lifestyle and you probably couldn't handle it, so we theists just don't bring it up."


The more charitable view is that theists/non-theists just hold to different, very defensible axioms and that unless you want to debate those axioms there's no point in having a discussion.  And frankly there is probably an incredibly massive amount of self-serving rationalization going on on both sides because we're all human beings.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Been trying since middle school, I'm just a shitty typist.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 22, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


using the CLI on PDF files




That might actually help quite a bit.  Thanks, I'll check this out.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
PM me if you think we'd be ideologically aligned.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think that the foundation of your post is okay but that some of your examples are weak.


I kind of agree with your veganism example.  I want to lose weight, but I really like eating what the rest of my family eats and mixing fancy cocktails at home.  I was conflicted about this for a while (How can I say I want to lose weight when I keep doing stuff counter to that goal?) but finally admitted to myself that no, I don't really want to lose weight if it means discipline in eating/drinking.  But unlike your example, I decided to stop claiming that I wanted to lose weight rather than persist in self-contradiction.  Why do most people persist?  I think a lot of it boils down to social signalling.  Being an unapologetic fat slob is seen as disgusting and low status, while being a fat slob who is "trying to make a change" is seen as slightly more sympathetic.  So for some people it might be worth enduring the cognitive dissonance in order to raise their own social status.


Your Muslim example I disagree with.  As others have pointed out, "Islam the religion/belief system" and people who profess Islam" are two different things.  I have a strong dislike for Islam, bordering on hatred.  In my own supernatural headcanon, "Jibril"  if he existed was probably Satan or a demon who created Islam as a twisted mockery of Christianity in order to lure away Christians, as a malignant tumor eating away at the mystical body of Christ (the community of faithful Christians).  BUT I have a Muslim coworker that I like and quite relate to since we are both practicing theists and parents (rare in a Silicon Valley tech co).  As far as I can tell, his Islamic beliefs really just keep him humble, encourage him to take care of his wife and son, and prevent him from eating pork.  Nothing objectionable there, so no contradiction with my distate for Islam.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 28, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Duly noted.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 23, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Conversation skills and general people skills are the most important.  You can turn a intelligent and curious sales person into a sales engineer, but it seems nearly impossible to teach a highly intelligent and skilled engineer people skills.


Straight up sales experience is great, if you have it.  Also, I'd play up times where you advocated for something within your company or with a client.  Bonus points if you can quantify the impact of your efforts.  More bonus points if you can describe successfully navigating a complex problem with a customer or another team -- what was the problem and how did you scope it? Who were the stakeholders and how did you identify them?  Did you define clear success/fail criteria to asses the results of your work on the problem?  How do you handle customer objections?   Are you good at asking questions to discover what the customer really needs (because often customers have misidentified their own problems)?  Any stories you can share that answer these questions will help you.


For the technical side, you'll just have to target companies whose product seems "crammable," for lack of a better word.  This depends on your technical chops. You have a CS degree, so I'm assuming you can probably figure things out on your own and teach yourself, if so there are a lot of companies available to yoy.  Sign up for a free trial of their software, play around with it, read the docs, see if it's something you can learn or whether you're in way over your head (but tbh you'll feel like you're in a little over your head no matter what -- that's normal).  Make sure you do the obvious stuff like reading the site's main homepage, the "About Us" page, etc.  You'd be surprised how many people show up  to interviews poorly informed about the company and/or the product.


I'd also at least skim "Mastering Technical Sales: The Sales Engineer's Handbook". It's no-nonsense and not as dry as it sounds. It will give you a good idea of the sorts of problems and questions that SEs have and give you an idea of whether it's something you want to do or not.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 21, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Dumb question but how does that actually work in practice?  Does the SEC or FBI or whoever beam out a list of naughty people to gate agent terminals at airports across the country, and if someone on the naughty list tries to board the computer shows a big red warning icon or something?  What's stopping SBF from driving to some rarely used Mexican border checkpoint and driving to the nearest Mexican international airport and then flying to [country without an extradition agreement with the U.S.]?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for November 23, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One option you might not have considered is technical sales.  You could leverage your CS degree and your ability to deal with/manage people here.  I'm a sales engineer about your age and make enough to send my three kids to private school if I wanted to.  I'm a mediocre programmer and have an irrelevant bachelor's degree.  I understand enough of the tech and can program enough to build demos and tools for customers, but that's about it.


If you've got people skills, you could try to work as an junior sales engineer (or regular engineer) somewhere and then quickly climb the ladder or jump ship to a better paying sales engineering role.  Good sales engineers are really hard to find since it's kind of a weird skillset.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think that's a reasonable explanation. Thank you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 14, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Have you been paying attention to Eastern Europe? At all?




Did you read my comment? At all?  Climb down off the righteous indignation.  I asked:




What's with the extreme Polish seething relative to other post-Soviet states?




Key point being "relative to other post-Soviet states."  Many Eastern European countries have unresolved border disputes.  So what?  That doesn't explain at all why I have observed Polish posters writing way more genocidal, warmongering stuff towards Russians compared to other former Eastern bloc nations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 24, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Fair enough.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I understand. The point I perhaps failed to make is that the point of diminishing returns for exercise is quite high IMO, especially relative to the amount of effort people put into keeping fit.  Put another way, very very few people are at the point where they wouldn't benefit from getting fitter, including people who exercise regularly.  I think you hit "completing a stamp collection" levels of marginal return when you're, say, trying to shave 5% off your half marathon time or whatever (probably before then, but I'm just trying to illustrate the point).


Edit:  I reread my post and I see that I didn't acknowledge that there is eventually a point of diminishing returns.  Oops.  I agree with you on that point.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 11, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think I have other little things like this, but if I can't do them they just annoy me slightly.  They're not compulsive, fortunately.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 11, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It makes me slightly irritated if they're not facing the right direction just on principle.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
First off, I agree.  I used to hear conservatives say things like "she shouldn't be having four kids if she can't afford them" or "you shouldn't have children if you're not prepared to raise them."  I don't hear it so much anymore.  But I think that's a good thing.


What does it even mean to be "prepared" to have kids?  Nobody is ever prepared.  Ever. "Preparing" for kids, so-called family planning, is just some shit that popped up in WEIRD countries since the pill came along.  The jury is still very much out on the entire concept.  And given our demographics the verdict does not look promising, at least from a societal health angle.


Anyway, what are the criteria?  How old do the parents need to be?  How much money do they need to have saved?  How big should their house be?  How far along in their careers should the be?  How emotionally mature should they be?  I guess all that depends on the bare minimum "quality of life" that one (personally!) thinks the child should have.  But that's just kicking the can down the road -- I can't think of anything more subjective than "quality of life" outside of outlandish situations like the Omelas kid.


So "nuts" to people who want to dictate who is and isn't prepared to have kids.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 12, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thank you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 12, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I accept that point and agree with you.  Regardless of whether or not it's actual "kidnapping," it is is surely very bad for the future of an independent Ukrainian nation.