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Patrick Berzai retweeted
If I ever wrote a thinly disguised novel about life among in a mid-upper class suburb, and what women would say about their husbands at the weekly Friday night private cocktail party for the "wives", you might become a misogynist. I almost became one myself.
Patrick Berzai retweeted
The years of our Lord, 1984, 1985, and 1986 provided us with so many songs that featured “bouncy bass” and timely synth that we have not yet recaptured.
Have we forgotten how to build it?
Nostalgia, as Yogi Berra said, ain’t what it used to be.
youtu.be/zpdQQoc-gkk?is=u6Hp…
Patrick Berzai retweeted
This is my favorite song about roller skating.
Btw, I’ve always been a big fan of roller derby, both in Boston (the Wicked Pissahs and the Brooklyn Bombshells) because those ladies are Godt-damned (to borrow Denzel) athletes!
youtu.be/MNCdMfVYr2w?is=BDP1…
Patrick Berzai retweeted
So did the Soviets invent Workday?
By the user interface alone I’d guess “yes”.
Patrick Berzai retweeted
I told my recruiter to send me all the resumes. No filter at all. He said it would be a lot of resumes. It was 50. I ended up hiring a very intelligent person who would have been filtered out for experience, and he was a star
Patrick Berzai retweeted
Oooh, I know! Let’s make a morality out of an MC Escher painting! That will please everyone!
Patrick Berzai retweeted
Reminds me of the guy about a decade ago who took the resumes of his top people, including his own, submitted them anonymously to his own HR department, and had all them rejected as unqualified or unsuitable without interviews.
There was this guy who was very qualified for a role and was essentially being poached from another company. The job was already his but it had to be done officially through the hiring process. So the boss went to HR, said "make a listing with this specific criteria, and look for this guy's name."
HR rejected and ghosted him anyway so he got a job somewhere else. This is how bad things are. You can literally have the experience and know people on the inside and management guarantees you the job, but HR will still throw your resume in the trash.
Now imagine what it's like if you're just some guy.
Patrick Berzai retweeted
Startup tech and corporate tech are not the same job.
One is paid to “move fast and break thing”.
The other has a $32bn contract that treats unapproved changes as a material breach.
Explainability, repeatability, and risk reduction aren’t process. They’re the product.
The thing is. The world ends up changing at the pace of and because of the latter. They are the bottleneck.
All new stuff does, because of how exciting it is, is add a tonne of tension to this dynamic.
The world is led not by Muse but VMware
And for 20’years this has bothered me enormously and now I find it reassuring – at Afghanistan
Patrick Berzai retweeted
I think HR is the pinnacle role of when competencies markets are replaced by identities markets.
We are witnessing Apex administrator.
Behold!
Homo Bureacratis.
Patrick Berzai retweeted
I think “right and wrong” are lapsed categories.
I prefer “competent vs anti-competent”.
Personally I think it puts the world in better focus.
Patrick Berzai retweeted
Every single person you meet in your daily life is fighting a hidden battle that you know nothing about
Send them a Zoom meeting link for an 8 AM call on Monday morning to finish them off
Patrick Berzai retweeted
Corpos think that they can't find qualified talent domestically bc leadership stopped paying attention to how psychopathic their HR staff has become. There's not a talent shortage, the great workers are just refusing to work for you after HR abuses and disrespects them
Patrick Berzai retweeted
Most people think Putin just woke up one day and wanted to do a war. Explaining the facts is useless. People are too deep in the virtuous identity formation of “I’m a good person” that “Slava Ukraine” and “democracy!” gives them no matter how many Slavs die in a brother war.
Patrick Berzai retweeted
Negative in-group preference by liberals flipped around 2012 and has accelerated so much that now the negative in-group preference is even greater than other groups positive in-group preference.
The extreme end are your book people. I work in ads. They’re the same.
Patrick Berzai retweeted
Bureaucracy is the tool of the noblesse de robe (credentialed, compliance class) to constrain the noblesse d’epee (the kinetic competence class).
Pure bureaucracy, in my view, is violence.
Patrick Berzai retweeted
If you have to explain why something is funny, it isn't. If you have to explain why something isn't funny, it is.
Patrick Berzai retweeted
"He was irresistibly tougher, sweeter, gruffer, and more talented than everybody else."
@RealMikeWilbon pays tribute to NFL legend Mike Ditka on @PTI 🧡
Patrick Berzai retweeted
.@paytonsun on Bears legend Mike Ditka: "Anytime that I needed him, he was always there."
Patrick Berzai retweeted
Mike Ditka is being celebrated today for having a Pittsburgh Guy attitude. He was the kind of guy liberals have been whining about for the last 40 years or so. Any guy over 50 (maybe 60) who grew up in Western Pa thinks Ditka is what a guy is supposed to be.
You know, a man.
