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New comment by mediego in "Language and Personality"

mediego — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:40:55 +0000

That last bit about his wife acting different in Paris interesting to me for a different reason. I’ve noticed that certain cities seem to affect my personality in different ways. For instance in NYC I feel I’m more assertive.

New comment by mediego in "The Surprisingly Sunny Origins of the Frankfurt School"

mediego — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:32:00 +0000

_Anti-Oedipus_, is fairly critical of Freud, as the name implies. To refuse to engage with a subject is intellectually bankrupt.

New comment by mediego in "IKEA launches secondhand marketplace to compete with eBay"

mediego — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:41:11 +0000

Not OP but I have some Kallax book cases (3x4 arrangement) that are 4-5 years old. We moved house 3 years ago and they’re still going strong.

New comment by mediego in "What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane"

mediego — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:05:55 +0000

I’m going through something like this, though in a _much_ lower stakes industry. On one side, management always seems to say the right thing to counteract my fears of mediocrity. And then months later a major problem needs fixed in production. I guess I’ll keep going like this until a problem is big enough that it can’t be fixed.

But they treat me well. And my last job was in a different industry that’s known for treating employees badly. So I stay. Again my job is very low stakes but it still eats me up, I can’t imagine how these engineers feel.