Nietzsche discusses this at length (the author mentions Jung, but Jung borrowed heavily from Nietzsche in this regard)…
Nietzsche believed that the best decisions weren’t the most rationale ones but the ones that were “life furthering.”
However he believed rationality is preferable to idealism. Therefore, best to first deal with reality, learn rationality, then make decisions with your feet on the ground
Let those companies that want to ignore 10% of the workforce go ahead. I'd say that's more idealist than complying with similar laws already enacted in other states as well.
California is a pretty huge talent pool to ignore, especially with Colorado already passing a similar law and many other states moving similar bills through legislature.
There is a worthwhile premise behind the title of this article. Success stories are generally fluff designed to rewrite history and control a desired narrative.
Most the real reasons for success are taboo, boring and too technical to talk about, e.g. "we got massive SEO traffic through user-generated content and 10x'd traffic in 2 months"..
One of his examples of the importance of not focusing on success is actually a success story; he just conflates the path to success with the content along that path. That might sound confusing, so consider two ants that go to find food. One ant does it by crossing over an area where a plane did not crash. The other finds food by going over an area where a plane did crash. They both report back the success story - a pheromone trail that describes their respective path to success. The content along that path and the path itself are separate things. Just because the content on the path to success involved reasoning with regard to a plane which just so happened to be crashed doesn't mean that communicating expected value of paths in general is refuted. Otherwise the point is self-refuting, since it argues on the basis of a path description which has positive expected value that path descriptions of expected value are inherently flawed.
Or, "I'm fully self-made. All I had was an introduction to the CEO of Sequoia by my father who happens to be a Senator and a small zero-interest loan, barely a million dollars."
I encountered a founder once who built his small empire from just an idea in a garage. How did the employees know it started as an idea in a garage? Because he started every speech at every company meeting by telling the story. But if you dug just a little deeper, you'd learn that this was like the fourth or fifth startup he tried. Every time one failed, he'd go back home, live off his family's wealth for a little while dreaming up the next attempt.
Yea, I could also be a pro baseball player if I got an infinite number of at-bats.
Bitcoin’s “killer app” and underlying utility is illegal transactions. Money laundering and drug purchasing. As long as the government allows it; crypto will have a base value in that.
While some might disagree, many historians associate Petrarch’s rediscovery of Cicero’s letters as the start of the renaissance and the end of the Middle Ages.
I’d recommend anyone study Cicero as he was a sole source for many of the “best practices” stolen from antiquity; his writings are the basis for the US government (for example)
To be fair, most micro service setups and tutorials have been overly complicated; however, let’s agree that distributed workloads and architecture are superior in a number of ways.
Generally, when people discuss going back to the “monolith” they just haven’t found the right distributed architecture.
Big one for me is logging, auditing, etc.. is always an afterthought. I am guilty of this as well, but really it should be the first thing you do, and do very well, in a way that is really convenient for everyone, before you think about anything distributed.
Nietzsche believed that the best decisions weren’t the most rationale ones but the ones that were “life furthering.”
However he believed rationality is preferable to idealism. Therefore, best to first deal with reality, learn rationality, then make decisions with your feet on the ground