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"Often, there are two company cultures. There’s the glossy, official, Comms Department-approved culture — and then there’s the real, lived experience of showing up every day and working at a place. If the difference between those two versions is large enough, the result is generally serious, sustained, employee-management resentment."


comms is often far detached from the reality, but surely most people learn this in their career.



That was a nice right up and very revealing of how things actually work hidden from the larger public.

Once I met Cory Doctorow at Judge Business School at Cambridge where he gave a very eye-opening lecture on DRM. Got an opportunity to do some small talk with him. It was very interesting.


Abstract:

Can the digital revolution lead to permanent memorials, or even a sort of Internet-based immortality?

By reviewing the nature of human intelligence, this article shows that an individual’s memory and ideas cannot operate directly without the human body in which they were developed.

Further, there is no meaningful way in which technology can allow indefinite access to our culture. However, our lives and actions do influence the thoughts and actions of those who are living, and the Internet can enhance this influence even after our death.


Reading this Ask HN post and one of your previous ones [0], you need to talk to a professional in the real world. Your problems aren't going to go away by reading random suggestions from people on the internet, no matter how well intentioned they may be.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21874635


I thought about this, but it seems very priviledged to "complain" about earning lots of money and not enjoying it as if I was 12 when people with real misery and pain are all around.


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