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TL;DR: A front-loaded New Hire grant vests more in earlier years than later years, with annual performance-base grants replacing the New Hire grant over time. Higher performance builds compounding upside.
Front-Loaded Vesting: Why Your Tech Offer Looks Different Now
But Feynman’s brilliance was not solely due to his natural cognitive abilities. He relied on a method : a simple technique for seeing the world through the lens of open-ended questions, which he called his “favorite problems.”
Tiago Forte • 12 Favorite Problems: How to Spark Genius With the Power of Open Questions
Noble intentions and lofty rhetoric about justice and equality are not enough. The kinds of policies and interventions that benefit people often sound bad. Those that hurt people often sound good.
Dan Williams • On becoming less left-wing (Part 1)
The opposite of agency is learned helplessness. If people believe that we can’t do very much to stop the world’s problems, it’s unsurprising that they’d be terrified to bring children into the world. But this seems like a mental trap that we can, and should, teach people to resist falling into. As Clare Coffey writes in “Failure to Cope ‘Under
... See moreNadia Asparouhova • Cultivating Agency
The normal course of politics is various coalitions of elites and populace, each drawing from their own power bases. A normal political party, like a normal anything else, has elite leaders, analysts, propagandists, and managers, plus populace foot soldiers. Then there's an election, and sometimes our elites get in, and sometimes your elites get... See more
Richard Hanania • Why is Everything Liberal?
On PKM influencers:
- Do not trust anyone whose only apparent output is producing PKM-related content. They are trying to sell you the PKM fantasy.
- Of those who do produce something genuinely valuable with the help of PKM, do not believe that simply doing PKM will make you that kind of person. Just because an essayist uses PKM, don't think learning
reddit.com • R/ObsidianMD - Is the Concept of Personal Knowledge Management Flawed?
Changing the scale of these simple thought experiments adds complexities that completely change the calculus of the scenario
Erik Hoel • EconTalk on Apple Podcasts
It’s important to note that the concept of a field cannot be broken down into something which has a material or mechanical analogy. Sometimes, physicists think of a field as the aggregate effect of exchange or virtual particles which are governed by a quantum field theory, or the effect of the curvature of space time, but it’s important to note... See more
An Intuitive Guide to Maxwell’s Equations
In a free society, at one or another point in your life, you’ll actually have to form your own opinion about something. You’ll do better at that if you have some practice forming opinions. When experts have strong opinions on something, this is a good opportunity to practice your opinion-forming skills, see whether you get the same result as the... See more