* many people think it’s the best English novel of all time (worth seeing what they’re seeing)
* bragging rights
* personally, I found it like going to a different world. It’s equal parts emmersive, foreign, and familiar. There’s moments it’s a slog to get through and moments it’s a page-turner. In the same way The Beatles Get Back was so great because it actually felt like being in the studio, reading Ulysses isn’t like reading a story, it’s like being in a different world.
I’m representing what I see as the general consensus amongst my echo chamber and am curious what’s outside it, if anything. And I don’t cross the street when a homeless person is ranting.
Depending on the currency you deal with and how it is acquired, it could turn out to be calculated more effective not to have accumulated the currency in question to begin with rather than to donate it afterward, which does amount to a somewhat indirect approach.
You would have to do the math for your own particular situation.
I have no idea what the situation is at Stripe, but there are some trends that explain this experience in the larger environment right now.
Recruiters are extremely hard to find. Comp has soared. Many have left old jobs to go to new jobs.
Generally, people rely on recruiters to manage the communication with candidates. Very high turnover leads to very high rate of things being dropped.
Compounding this, hiring great engineers is extremely difficult right now. So recruiters have a list of 10,000 things to do. It’s not ok that recruiters might be less effective in candidate management for no-hires, but it makes sense.
Finally, add on top of this that candidates are being less respectful of company time as well. Candidates are ghosting and not responding like never before. The market and the remoteness of the experience are turning hiring from a human activity into a transaction, on all sides.
> Finally, add on top of this that candidates are being less respectful of company time as well. Candidates are ghosting and not responding like never before.
Managers started this trend so I don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for those who suddenly find themselves on the wrong end of it. Even kindergarteners understand you should treat others how you would like to be treated. All of these “busy” managers who don’t like being ghosted better have also ceased ghosting candidates before complaining about the practice.
Many squat racks and benches come with safety features to prevent that kind of failure. Don’t let that fear stop you from getting a home gym. To avoid really bad situations just always have a safe solution to “what if I can’t finish this rep“. Separately, you’ll get regular injured at some point doing something totally safe. But that just comes with the territory.
It’s interesting - I shared this article with someone I know who has mentored people and they had the same feedback re: saying thank you. I guess it’s pretty common for people to ask lots of questions and get lots of advice and not say thank you?
Maybe we're over-stating a rare problem. It does stick in the mind. Really the point is, its freely given and its value is beyond price, in the sense it doesn't demand monetary reward, but recognition.
I would add that as a Mentor I found some of the questions really quite confrontingly hard. "what should I do with my life" is really hard. "my wife is worried I have a persisting health problem" likewise. You have to know when to say "seek competent input from a trained physician"
Oftentimes, what people really needed was an active listener. But I do like a good homily. We're all playing roles here.
* bragging rights
* personally, I found it like going to a different world. It’s equal parts emmersive, foreign, and familiar. There’s moments it’s a slog to get through and moments it’s a page-turner. In the same way The Beatles Get Back was so great because it actually felt like being in the studio, reading Ulysses isn’t like reading a story, it’s like being in a different world.