His politics got worse as he got older, but the early works by Mario Vargas Llosa are some of my favorite things I've ever read. The green house, the time of the hero (la ciudad y los perros), and conversation in the cathedral.
He's a relative of the Allende family. He spent his childhood as a refugee after the US installed Pinochet and his family had to flee Chile. Idk why his anti imperialism would shock anyone.
I liked it, even if the characters weren't great. I liked book 1 in kind of a detective/mystery novel kind of way. The first book is very different from the next two, which is where I think the series really starts to address larger questions. It's still kind of flimsy and the characters might get worse, but I like some of the questions and hypotheses about the universe that it addresses. It gets into a more philosophical approach to the universe and how other species may interact with each other, mutually assured destruction, and how the human race would react to a sword of Damocles hanging over our head for 400 years. It's told from a Chinese perspective as well, so it was interesting to me to see how he thinks these might play out as opposed to my assumptions coming from a western perspective.
I think the dark forest hypothesis as an answer to Fermi is reasonable, and I like a lot of the big picture ideas.
But yea, it's not really a character driven series.
Isn't this what Glassdoor started as? I remember it was a place to look up companies, find out how they tested employees, get interview tips, get salary ranges, etc. Then it got rid of anonymity and sold out and now it's just propaganda for the companies that it initially meant to review
Work is transactional. I show up, they pay me. What else would it be? This is not how I view my life outside of work, my relationships, or my friendships. But work is 100% a transaction.
Missing time with your family for work is an awful precedent to set. A lot of people don't give a shit about their work and don't care to let it take away from their life.
If I am interviewing, I'm going in with the mindset that I am selling my body/mind to the highest bidder for 8 hours a day, every day, for the foreseeable future. Any time outside of that, I am not thinking about the employer at all. If you and your company aren't the highest bidder, you aren't worth my time.
Ah yes, "nobody wants to work anymore, and I know that because these entitled college grads decided to work a different job instead of the shitty one I offered them."
If people are going through the effort to take an interview (usually multiple rounds) and go all the way through the process until an offer is made and then still don't accept the job, then that is 50% on the hiring manager not being upfront about working conditions, pay, and other benefits throughout the process and 50% on the company for not offering adequate pay and benefits that match the work. This is 0% on the person who had their time wasted by the interview process. They were obviously worth more than what they were offered as evidenced by receiving a better offer somewhere else.
The issue I have with Hoopla is that you can't read on an ereader as far as I can tell. You need to read books through their app on your phone. I much prefer e-ink so I avoid Hoopla if I can
I knew this was Madrid! That whole row of bonsai in the botanical garden is impressive. And they have most labeled with age and origin. Really fun place to walk around.
I think that's the point of the tweet. Wasn't there a big part of the campaign where they were calling her out for being a fake doctor? Like, they were insinuating that she was lying by calling herself "Dr. Jill Biden" when she didn't have an MD. This seems like an extension of that - "see, she's obviously not a real doctor because she didn't diagnose this cancer earlier"
If you're good at math and good at explaining math, then statistics/analytics is a good way to go. You'll probably need a degree though.
Pharma/medical device companies, especially in new development need people to run the numbers from their experiments and then communicate to the higher ups and the business people "what do those numbers mean?"
Consulting for new drug development can be stressful, but it's interesting as you're constantly learning about new treatments and therapies.
Any stats/analytics field should be similar. All of the business grads know that numbers and data are important, but they need someone to interpret them and explain to them what they are seeing.
His politics got worse as he got older, but the early works by Mario Vargas Llosa are some of my favorite things I've ever read. The green house, the time of the hero (la ciudad y los perros), and conversation in the cathedral.