KhanMahGretsch
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Comment · 7 years ago
I find it entirely appropriate that recruiting managers wear their biases on their sleeves, in this manner.
As representatives of the organization, you put its core values and culture at the forefront. You represent what the owners are really all about.
It is important for those with the ability and inclination to be part of "an association for superior IQ people" to not be placed in an unsuitable role, at an unsuitable company, given their rarity. Better for all involved, I would say.
Comment · 7 years ago
>From a practical standpoint, this research may ultimately lead to insights about how to improve people’s psychological and physical well-being. If overexcitabilities turn out to be the mechanism underlying the IQ-health relationship, then interventions aimed at curbing these sometimes maladaptive responses may help people lead happier, healthier lives.
Reading between the lines, in these cooling months, sent a chill up my spine.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks for elaborating so well on your initial premise, I think you bring up some good points about how this kind of interactive problem-solving can be an effective tool available to the interviewer. For better and/or worse, there's a reason why it's so prevalent now and controversial.
I'm inclined to describe it as a sort of interrogation technique, you're offering a stimulus (the problem) and aggregating a number of reactions to form an opinion, and open up new lines of questioning. Very delicate work.
I think problems arise when unskilled interviewers present an excessively obtuse problem to the candidate, then read far too much into their responses (this approach is also easily "hacked" by those who've memorised common problems of this ilk). To stick with my interrogation analogy, it's the equivalent of screaming in the suspect's face, noticing that they gulp before shifting in their seat and scratching their face, then deciding that "they must be lying".
Comment · 8 years ago
I think you've touched on a crucial point here about making the comparison "fair". In my view, I find the "trivia questions" approach to be an abdication of responsibility for the difficult, nebulous task of assessing a candidate's abilities. It gives you an objective measure by which to compare candidates... even though the measure itself is usually arbitrary and irrelevant.
Comment · 8 years ago
> What if you consider part of someone's job to be communicating concepts to people, possibly with the help of visual aids and diagrams?
Perhaps it would be more effective to have the candidate whiteboard a concept that they are already familiar with, be it a high-level engineering principle or a system/solution they have built in the past. Attempting to solve a problem you have just been presented with AND communicating the solution effectively is a big ask.
Comment · 8 years ago
"Be the first one at your daily stand-up, and run it like the Scrum master you know you are."
Surely a true alpha would declare that scrum and agile are "dead".
Comment · 8 years ago
One aspect of the protomolecule that I quite enjoyed was the manner in which Earth, Mars, and the Belt attempt to control and leverage it to assert their dominance or, at least, maintain a balance of power.
It speaks to the fact that once "Pandora's Box" is opened, technologically speaking, it becomes a fact-of-life that must be adapted too. Drone technology, for example, is a relatively new form of tech with potential to be used for productive AND destructive purposes, and there are no obvious answers as to how it should be handled.
Comment · 8 years ago
According to Aristotle [0], there are three types of friendship: friendship of utility; friendship of pleasure; friendship of the good.
I find this to be a useful framework for considering the varying kinds of platonic relationships one can have.
[0] https://stpeterslist.com/the-3-types-of-friendship-according...
Comment · 8 years ago
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Comment · 8 years ago
There are also innumerable CG videos on YouTube, targeting children, which appear to be algorithmically generated. Using a combination of popular kids characters (Elsa, Spider-man, etc.) and ostensibly canned animations, the results are often strange, bizarre, and even entirely inappropriate for the intended audience.
The phenomenon is referred to as "Elsagate"[0]; be forewarned, it's pure nightmare-fuel.
Comment · 8 years ago
Isn't "-man" an abbreviation of "human"? Justin Trudeau made a gaffe recently when an audience member referred to "mankind" and he erroneously insisted that she instead use the term "peoplekind". Surely "humankind" would be the term requested, if one felt the need to be pedantic.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think we can take that a step further and heap praise on women for choosing work that involve caring for children, the sick, and the elderly.
Long periods of crunch-time in tech/finance/etc. can be draining, but IMO the mental and emotional fortitude required to sustain a career as a care-giver is in a class of it's own.
Comment · 8 years ago
Entirely correct... but only for media outlets and advocacy groups I disagree with, of course! </sarcasm>
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm a little confused as to why you're being down-voted, save your audacity in being cautious about nutritional "experts" having a poor track-record in their dissemination of advice. Mere decades ago, the statement that a high-protein/high-fat diet is optimal would fly in the face of expert-opinion. It is not so many years ago that using trans-fat laden vegetable oil was considered "healthier" than using rendered fat.
You have stated in a common-sense way that ingesting huge quantities of sugar and trans-fats make you feel terrible, and ingesting leafy greens make you feel physically well; not that one should simply eat what their cravings tell them to. As sensitivities to certain foods can manifest themselves in different ways on an individual level, recommending that people pay close attention to the impact that certain foods have on their energy-levels, mood, and performance is sound advice.
Comment · 8 years ago
We’re catching up on the public-transport front!
http://uk.businessinsider.com/public-transit-ranking-cities-...