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echoangle · a year ago

I always wonder what gives these people the drive to continue. Maybe I’m lazy and lacking vision but if I were worth 2B, I don’t think I would go to the office every day just to get accused of mismanagement when I have to lay people off. I would take my yacht to the Caribbean and slack off.

searchableguy · a year ago

No idea about what big CEOs feel but for me, I would absolutely continue working even if I was a trillionaire someday. What matters and drives me would be impact and influence I could have on society. Have couple billions? Throw them on things I care about and keep getting more to throw at the same.

searchableguy commented on The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age thewalrus.ca/collapse-of-... · Posted by u/pseudolus

jakubmazanec · a year ago

> a server tells me her manager won’t give her the Saturday-night money shift until she has more followers

Does this really happen? Or maybe just in the USA?

Why would I, as a customer, care about server's follower count? Is it somehow correlated with their performance?

searchableguy · a year ago

I sometimes get hand written note to review and mention the name of the person who made my food on food delivery app.

searchableguy commented on Moral implications of being moderately successful computer scientist and a woman sigops.org/2024/the-moral... · Posted by u/thread_id

jauntywundrkind · a year ago

But I don't think it injures you. And I see why it's harmful to classes of people where there is a really some likelihood they don't fit in, unlike most dudes.

searchableguy · a year ago

I have been told I look like a software engineer or a maths teacher all the time.

I'm fairly sure it has nothing to do with how I dress or look but simply because of stereotypes associated with Indians. If I was whiter, people would say fitness coach.

searchableguy commented on Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay fortune.com/2024/04/12/kp... · Posted by u/safaa1993

theandrewbailey · 2 years ago

A lot of business executives fall into the demographic that heavily invests into commercial real estate, which is facing some substantial depreciation. Telling everyone they need to get back to the office would help to keep those prices up. To everyone else, they have no incentive to keep fighting traffic every day (and paying for it) to go to an uncomfortable place full of maybe awful people.

searchableguy · 2 years ago

The simplest reason is lack of effective communication, team bonding, and morale.

People behave differently behind a screen even if incentivised by money. This becomes a problem at the scale of big companies.

Eg - without body language, tone and context - everyone needs to be extra charitable to avoid miscommunication or distrust. This might cause people to be overly defensive in their approach to communicate.

searchableguy commented on Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/spxneo

vishnugupta · 2 years ago

> There are plenty. Lots of Indian developers collapse due to corruption tangles or inability to secure financing, for example Jaypee Wish Town in NOIDA [0] or the New Chandigarh project in Punjab [1]

Builders scamming isn't infrequent. But surely the scale is no where near that high to be comparable with Chinese ghost towns[1]? From where I am, Bangalore, I do come across a buildings half constructed or abandoned, but that's completely different from whole towns half/fully built but totally unoccupied. What am I missing here?

[1] https://interestingengineering.com/culture/chinas-ghost-citi...

searchableguy · 2 years ago

There are abandoned city projects like Amravati, Lavasa and others. The scale and reason behind ghost cities in India is different. Most stop construction mid way due to financial or regulatory constraints.

searchableguy commented on Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/spxneo

sho · 2 years ago

> Props to Alephnerd and others

Be careful with some of the comments, and commenters, here. Just yesterday Alephnerd was confidently proclaiming there are no tuk-tuks in Thailand anymore. This is just.. completely, easily provably false and it's baffling why anyone would make such a claim. Source: me, who lives there. Fact-gathering methodology: looking out my window.

I would take anything from these commenters with astounding tales of the "inside scoop" with more than a pinch of salt. When there's a story with a bunch of mostly unverifiable claims, and the part that is verifiable turns out to be total nonsense, it makes me more than a little suspicious about the rest of it.

searchableguy · 2 years ago

> Just yesterday Alephnerd was confidently proclaiming there are no tuk-tuks in Thailand anymore.

That's not true. He claimed there are no tuk tuks outside of tourist centers. Tuktuks are mostly used by tourists and getting phased out by the government as they are deemed unsafe.