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April 26, 2017 by linnposts.com
In the aftermath of the unprecedented protests on behalf of science that occurred across the nation last week, here is something I think is interesting…and it explains why Trump voters would do it all over again.
In a 2012 report that appeared in the American Sociological Review journal, the level of trust among Americans in science dropped a full 25% from 1974 to 2012.
That drop, the report said, happened because of the dramatic decline of trust in science among conservatives and people who attend church regularly.
The attitude among liberals, moderates, and others toward science showed no significant difference during the same 40 year span. The shift was only among conservatives and church goers.
That change becomes even more dramatic in light of the fact that in 1974 the percentage of conservatives who said they had trust in science was higher than among any other group.
Further, education does not account for the increased skepticism toward science among conservatives. Actually, just the opposite is true. College educated conservatives show more skepticism toward science than less educated conservatives.
The reason, the author of the report said, is that "highly educated conservatives are more fluent in what the [conservative] ideology means and its relationships with institutions. So they understand where the conflicts lie, what the value system is. In other words, they're more ideological."
Therein is the reason science is, relatively speaking, "on the run," or at least, on the defensive. For conservatives, ideology trumps science.
The report called this phenomenon "the politicization of science." Among today's conservatives, political beliefs determine the level of their trust in science.
According to the report, what tipped the scale for them was liberals using science to justify the expanding role of government in the marketplace.
Conservatives see that role as imposing government regulations on the market, and liberals see it as the government "protecting" Americans from exploitation and unsafe products and work conditions.
But conservative skepticism of science in regard to "big" government has morphed into a rejection of science altogether.
One of the critical issue where we see this happening is climate change/global warming. Conservatives reject out of hand the scientific consensus on the significant role humans are playing in damaging the planet with fossil fuels, with 97% of all climate scientists of any statue in agreement.
You can hardly get a consensus like that among scientists or scholars on anything, let along something as complex as climate change/global warming, yet conservatives dispute the consensus because, after all, 3% of all scientists disagree.
When ideology trumps science to this extent, conservatives speak and act in ways that can only be described as ludicrous, as North Carolina Republicans proved in 2010.
When the North Carolina's Coastal Resources Commission released a study that had undergone a rigorous peer review process that concluded sea levels along the state's coastline could rise by as much as 39 inches by the end of the century, conservatives were irate.
Real estate developers and major coastal business interests not only attacked the report, they launched personal attacks on the authors. Then, when Republicans gained control of the North Carolina legislature, one of their first acts was to pass a law that barred state and local agencies from developing regulations or planning documents anticipating a rise in sea level based on the report.
Comedian Stephen Colbert called what the legislature did this way: "If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved."
Colbert captured how utterly silly people can become when they allow ideology to override their capacity to think clearly and reasonably.
What all of us must accept, most especially conservatives, is that science is not our enemy. It is a neutral friend that gives us information and then leaves the responsibility for using it wisely in our hands.
Liberals can certainly go off the rails in the way we use science, but I think it is fair to say that in regard to great issues like climate change/global warming, conservatives have gone off the proverbial cliff.
Worse, they are trying to create a nationwide distrust of science that will have terrible consequences for future generations.
That is why I find myself so distrusting of conservatives. It's as if they don't care about the quality of life we will leave for all American children and grandchildren, and the children of the entire world.
The world is one, whether we like it or not, believe it or not. The quality of life here in the U.S. already depends on the quality of life around the globe, and that will only become more true for future generations.
Science can be used to make life better and more beautiful, or make life ugly and more precarious because of self-centered decisions individuals, groups, and nations will make.
I would have never imagined that a day would come when the science community would feel the need to march on behalf of our nation valuing the role of science in our lives.
But here we are, children and grandchildren watching what we do and listening to what we say.
When they reach our age, will they remember that we were wise enough to know that science is nothing more than the expression of the human yearning to know more than we know?
And will they remember us as being wise enough to know how to use science in constructive ways that gave them a wonderful world to live in and a wonderful planet to explore?
A phrase that was used by several speakers at the various marches for science summed everything else up for me: "There is no planet B."
Will future generations of Americans know that we were wise enough to act in ways that reflected the truth of that statement because we loved them too much to do anything less?
on April 26, 2017 at 9:51 pm | Reply RollieB
I've spent my whole life in the sciences, exploring how things work, trying to understand the world we live in. That a segment of our society choose ideology over science is shocking and disheartening. Come on people! Stay woke!
on April 26, 2017 at 10:19 pm | Reply linnposts.com
It IS shocking, Rollie. Who among us who have been around a while would have ever thought this is where our nation would be in the 21st century. We seem to be going backwards rather than forward.
on April 27, 2017 at 2:10 am | Reply Wally Emerson
I think that in many respects we, as a country, are going backwards, and will continue to do so under the current administration. Like Rollie, having come out of the sciences., I am a firm believer in the sciences and facts (real facts). Generally the facts within the sciences do not change, or at least not without rigorous experimentation and proof. I think that facts lend stability to life. I also think knowing something and believing something are two different things. I think everyone is entitled to their own beliefs ( as long as those beliefs are not harming someone else), but they are not entitled to their own facts.
Over my many years, I think I have seen a general dumbing down of American society. That scares me.
on April 27, 2017 at 3:59 am | Reply linnposts.com
It scares me as well, Wally, but it is a reality about which all Americans need to become concerned.
on April 28, 2017 at 12:06 am | Reply Robert Hatch
Monica and I went all the way to Elk River yesterday to see the independent film, "Neither Wolf Nor Dog", an acted portrayal of a Minnesota author's time spent with a Lakota elder learning of their culture for a book, of the same name, the elder wished him to write. In the many conversations we were reminded of the dignity of these humble people and their ingrained reverence for earth and nature, the sacredness in which they view all of creation and how they practice reverence in their daily lives by the way they live(d). The old man's description of the massacre of 300 mostly women and children, young and old, at Wounded Knee and his haunting question, "why has this happened to us?" was particularly gut wrenching. We have been to the cemetery there. One can sense a great heaviness in the atmosphere. When we left the theater I reminded Monica of what the late Native American activist and poet John Trudel said in a speech he gave in St Peter, MN. in 1912; that "you are the new Indians ", meaning ordinary white middle class people. All of this to say it is a twisted "mentality" most ordinary people face from those who see nothing as sacred. When such as these have power we all are truly threatened with genocide; as have been our red brothers. Our very lives depend on fighting these "minds" with everything we've got! Thank you for this post.
on May 3, 2017 at 3:41 pm | Reply linnposts.com
Thanks, Bob, for sharing the story in the film and what it says to us today.
on April 28, 2017 at 1:32 pm | Reply Robert Hatch
Correction: we were in ST Peter in 2012.


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Autistic advocate and recent college grad Justin Robbins talks with STS about transitioning from high school to college, including choosing majors, differences between high school and college STEM classes, and founding the first autistic club at Tufts University.
If you have questions for Justin, let us know in the comments.
You can also find more of Justin's work here and here.
Insightful post. I think a sense of community on campus such as your club would have been helpful as and undergrad and even now. A lot of conferences and workshops involve social activities that are drinks and huge crowds and small talk and I tend to do best 1:1 or in small groups.


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What I Miss About Working at Stripe
Nostalgia for another way of working
by Brie Wolfson
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Hello, Every readers!
When writer and researcher Brie Wolfson thinks back on her time working at Stripe, the thing that stands out to her is that people really cared about the work. Cared enough to do multiple passes on a piece of copy that wasn't working, or pull long nights sprinting toward a launch. Cared so much that they knew pieces of company documentation by heart, and that nobody wanted to be the first person to leave the office, even on Friday.
It's the kind of culture that Silicon Valley was once known for—a culture that, Brie argues, seems to have fallen by the wayside. There are reasons for that, of course—the current state of the world is making it challenging to give 110% to anything, let alone work. But Brie can't help feeling that something vital is being lost: a way of working that is, yes, extremely challenging—but also deeply meaningful for everyone involved.
Enjoyed this piece? Pair it with Sam Gerstenzang's Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe for another perspective.
In my first five years out of college, I worked at five different companies. The allure of Silicon Valley pulled me in, but after a handful of pretty meh jobs, I was starting to wonder what all the fuss was about.
Then, in 2015, I joined a random little payments startup in San Francisco called Stripe where things felt different.
The office was pretty quiet—people were cranking. Conference room whiteboards looked like something you'd draw in a cartoon about a convoluted math proof (those, I soon learned, were the payments flows that we all eventually came to know by heart). We were encouraged to write everything down and then share it to a Google Group that anyone at the company could subscribe to and read, whether it was a meaningful strategy document, personal musings on a topic, or a mundane email exchange.
The mission of the company, they told us, was to "increase the GDP of the internet."It was a little abstract, but we believed in it enough to recite it with pride. At meal times, people sat with whomever was around instead of pinging their cliques. Everyone stayed for dinner every night—in part because there was work to do, in part because chef Tony was cooking up something delicious, but mostly because there was no way I was going home before my neighbor was. Conversations often found their way to a whitepaper or book someone had recently read or posted in our inspiration Slack channel (I was surprised to learn that talking about the latest novel I was reading seemed as interesting as the whitepapers, even to the engineers).
When writing emails to customers, we were told not to use phrases like "thank you for your patience" (too presumptuous) or "as mentioned earlier" (passive aggressive). Sending meeting notes was a privilege, not a chore (documentation for the win). My colleagues chimed in on my work—because I asked them to, and because it made the work better, not because they didn't trust me. Once, the CFO called me after sending out notes from a "postmortem" I ran to remind me that we should use the word "retrospective" instead (it's more reflective of what we were doing and a lot less morbid). My work was meticulously but warmly critiqued by my peers and leaders alike, and my work got better and better because of it. You couldn't get through a single day without hearing the operating principles cited multiple times in the run of work. Employees could recite content from iconic company documents verbatim —sometimes years after they were originally published.
I'd heard the trope that company culture was up to everyone to build, but here we were actually doing it. Stripe was a Big Mood and we were all all in. On all of it.
It felt like magic, but there was deep thought, care, and intention behind everything. I had a tingly feeling that I was part of an organization that had cracked something about creating a great culture. Over my subsequent half-decade working at Stripe, the company 10x'ed in size and the impact of the relentless focus on doing great work together, and being stewards of company culture, revealed itself over and over again. My work kept getting better. My relationships with colleagues kept getting deeper. The benefits of becoming a better collaborator and communicator extended to my non-work life, too.
Inspired by what was happening for Stripe as a company, and for me as an employee and person, I started diligently taking notes on the things we were doing to build the company together. I became obsessed with reading and talking about how company cultures come to life (somehow my dinner invitations are waning…). I also raised my hand to play a role in many of Stripe's culture-shaping initiatives:integrating newly-acquired teams, drafting our first inclusion principles, standing up a company-wide planning process, interviewing candidates including prospective company leaders on their cultural fit, and creating a forum for Stripes to share their personal histories with each other. It all deepened my connection to my work and colleagues.
In 2018, my curiosity about culture-building turned outwards when I began working on Stripe Press, Stripe's book publishing arm dedicated to advancing ideas for progress. I talked to readers and writers, most of whom were contemplating how to bring people together to do great things, whether within the walls of a company or in society more broadly. I studied how ambitious organizations known for having strong cultures built theirs (think: Apple, Amazon, San Francisco 49'ers, DARPA, Bell Labs). I devoured hundreds of books, podcasts, and essays on the topic. Then, I started writing my own stuff on the topic and helping companies implement the tactics I advocate for.
After all that reading and talking, I can say with confidence that nothing great in this town is built without the whole team linking arms to build it together. And, that true collaboration makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts. And, that getting there requires working your butt off to do work you're proud of and leaning on and supporting your colleagues to do the same. At Stripe, we had all that pulsing through our veins.
There's no way around it:the culture was demanding. I spent many late nights working. I cried more than a few times after feeling like I let a user or a colleague down. My heart would beat out of my chest before heading into an exec review. There were many times that I had to grab a colleague for a calm-down lap around the office after we decided to yet again delay the launch I was sprinting towards to get that final pixel perfect. My imposter syndrome was through the roof. Once, my manager asked me to reconsider the vacation I had been planning because my team needed me. "If you go, who will cover your work?" I looked around at my colleagues who were also regularly working 15-hour days and decided to stay put. I'm proud of that choice. Call me masochistic, but I have to admit that it felt good to care about anything that much. And, to be around people who I know cared that much too.
Once a candidate asked me what my favorite period in Stripe's history was. I thought for a second. "This may be weird, but it was in 2015 when our API was facing major stability issues." She raised an eyebrow. I started squirming. "You look surprised," I continued, trying to regain some composure–I was selling her as much as she was selling me. "It's just that we learned so much about how badly our users needed us and everyone really stuck by each other and made themselves available to help in some really spectacular ways." I prepared to tell a story about how the sales team ordered a bunch of pizzas to the office for the account management and support team, when they realized we were going to be in for another late night. But she jumped back in. "I guess I am surprised. But it's mostly because you're the third person to mention that same thing to me today."
Lately, I can't help but feel like Silicon Valley has lost this culture. I don't hear people talking about work this way anymore. Maybe that's for the best. Maybe it isn't.
The shift towards remote and hybrid work isn't doing us any favors in the collaboration department. Coordination overhead is through the roof and colleagues are now literally and figuratively further away from one another. I know there isn't a single person on this planet that hasn't been deeply and existentially affected by the crushing weight of the relentless stream of dismal global events over these last few years.
I won't speak for anyone else, but I will say that this is the first time in my life that I'm not so confident the future's going to be as rosy as I once was. The reasons work life might not be number one on the priority list right now are not lost on me. But I am still nostalgic for a time when the gravitational pull of work was strong. For me and everyone around me.
I suppose it's not so much that I miss working at Stripe (and I am sure it's a largely different company than the one I left more than 3 years ago now). It's more about missing that universal agreement that it's really, really cool to devote yourself fully to your work. And to expect that from your colleagues in a way that makes you feel that "we're all really, really, really in this together" kind of way.
I have encountered many people who talk, write, and tweet about that kind of all-consuming culture from a place of dissatisfaction, mistrust, skepticism, exhaustion, and restlessness. I know some people are working hard. I know others aren't. I know people aren't feeling seen or recognized or like they're doing work that matters. Maybe you're one of them. I get it. I feel that way too sometimes. And I don't think people should cry or feel like impostors or skip their vacations regularly.
But I do think work can be a source of real meaning in life. But, we'll only ever get out what we put in. And in the case of work life, it is kind of a collective decision. Once your neighbor starts signing off Slack at 3:30 consistently, it's hard not to do the same. If your closest collaborators don't turn stuff around quickly, why would you? If there's no one in the room agitating for doing that extra copy pass to punch up that blog post, why not just ship the meh version and use the extra time for a jog or a drink with friends? The path of least resistance is right in front of us, and we are taking it.
I'm all for creating healthy boundaries that keep us satisfied and emotionally healthy—inside and outside of work. And of course I believe you can love something without it having to hurt. But I've never truly loved anything that didn't move me to my core. I can't help but wonder if all this effort we're putting into keeping work at arm's length is actually holding us back from being our best selves.
Because what I've learned from having the privilege of working in a place that asks for my best and helps me get there is how much it can unlock in a life. The benefits extend far beyond the skills required to get great work done. The really, really good stuff comes from looking back on something you created and thinking, "I had no idea I could do that." It comes from looking around and thinking "wow these people helped me, really helped me, get there." It comes from looking inside and seeing how deep and enduring those feelings of pride, satisfaction, and gratitude really are. And what happens when you have so much it gets to spill over to the other aspects of and people in your life.
A few months ago, someone complained to me that the new (very hot stuff) startup they were at had a "lgtm culture." Upon inquiry, they explained that no matter what they do or how good it is, everyone just says "looks good to me." "I know I should feel good about being a competent, trusted, contributing team member," he continued, "and my new colleagues are so, so kind, but at the end of the day I just feel like no one has any standards." He looked down at his coffee for a moment. "I'm afraid I'm never going to see my best work again."
Yikes. Now multiply that same phenomenon across every other person working and every other company. What is that going to do for our collective impact? What will that do to progress? Mega yikes.
I'm not exactly sure how we balance the realities of the world today with a working life that asks so much of us. But I do know leaning all the way out isn't the answer. I hope we find the right way through it, together. We certainly need the support of our leaders to get there, but I know from experience that anyone, in any corner of an organization, can play a meaningful role in building the organizations we want to be in.
And when we do, I think we've got a shot at transforming organizations into the incredible sources of community and self-actualization they should be.
Believe me, it's possible. And believe me, it's as good as you imagine it could be.
Brie Wolfson researches and writes about the ways great organizations coordinate and helps founders build more cohesive teams. Before that, she worked at Stripe (BizOps, Stripe Press) and Figma (Figma for Education).
@adventuring-sloth 6 months ago
The culture stopped because the equity-sharing culture of Silicon Valley leaders stopped. It used to be that equity was a very large part of a compensation package, partly because startups didn't have cash, but mostly to incentivize employees to work hard to achieve the company's success, knowing they'd share in that success.
Employees would be given very generous equity packages and as a result, many of the bottom line employees from the early days of the .com boom hit it big, with 6 or 7 figure payouts when the company was bought out or hit unicorn status. So they were highly motivated to work those 15+ hour days.
But the equity culture has changed for two reasons. The first is that the cash flow has significantly increased in the valley. After the first generation of millionaires and billionaires started up VC firms to find more unicorns, they began pumping their wealth into their investments. No longer strapped for cash, startups could afford to pay salary instead of equity.
However, this isn't the main problem, as there's nothing stopping a company from paying salary *and* equity. The real problem is that every founder in the valley now has dreams of being the next Jobs, the next Zuck, the next Bezos. Equity is hoarded for the founder, cofounders, and maybe a tiny handful of first gen employees. When I first moved to SV about 8 years ago, the first startup I worked at offered 15000 options vesting over two years. That's already a significant decline from the hay-day of high equity startups. My most recent startup offered me 5000 options vesting over several years. The next one will probably offer 1000 options over 10 years.
Usually when you bring this up to a modern valley CEO, they'll say something along the lines of "you should care more about the mission than about getting rich", which is a horrible attitude to have to attempt to gaslight your employees. They *do* care about the mission or they wouldn't have taken the job. There's still high demand for tech workers out here, none of us are desperate to just take whatever comes our way. We're able to be picky. If we chose your company, we want to be there.
The fact is that humans aren't one dimensional. We care about multiple missions. The mission of the company, sure. But also the mission of raising our kids. The mission of the volunteer causes we're involved in. The mission of other companies we've invested in. It's about work-life balance. At the end of the day, I care about work but I also care about life. If you want me to tip the scale towards work, you have to offer something more than just a noble mission. My life is full of noble missions.
Plus one hand washes the other. If you do take good care of me, that will come back to you, not just because I'll pull the extra hours, but because I'll be able to do so at lower stress levels. I'll be able to afford extra childcare so I don't have to worry that staying late at work means no one is watching my kid. I'll be able to pitch in on the weekend knowing my spouse is able to relax because we have enough to live off one income or that the house got paid off by a big equity payout.
For some reason, this still needs to be said to every generation of new CEOs: happy employees are productive employees.
Let me share in the financial success of the company and I will make sure the company is successful.
Eric Britton 6 months ago
@adventuring-sloth This hits the nail on the directly on the head. What you are willing to do as the "owner" of a company versus an employee is very different and it should be.
@teriminute 6 months ago
I see nothing but red flags in this post, unfortunately. It's clear that you love to be in the office, collaborating in person, and that much of the value you get from work happens in that environment. However, commitment to a job doesn't mean 15+ hour days and being told you can't take a vacation because your team needs you. That's a backwards value system, IMO, as one's personal relationships and time away from the office are just as important as working hard.
Stripe has a very chaos-driven culture and that trickles down to everyone in the org, and convinces employees they need to work harder/longer/more in order to combat that. That is probably the real issue that needs to be addressed (it's not even a secret as everyone spouts that proudly as.
There is no value in burnout. (Even if you love the long hours and all-around work focus)
There is no value in sacrificing personal one's personal life and relationships for a company (and yes, they get sacrificed if 15-hour days are the norm). And yes, your company would replace you in a heartbeat if they needed to.
It's better for everyone, if you work hard for the time you've set aside to work hard. And then, stepping away when it's time to recharge.
@hstan.bus 6 months ago
Intense work builds connection, community, and fulfillment there's no denying that. I've been through the pre-IPO do-or-die insanity. The ship-at-all-costs, Sunday launch war rooms. It sucked, but through those experiences I made some incredible connections. These kinds of work opportunities should be available for those who want them.
But then I burned out. I wanted to be around more for my partner and kid. And friendships built on reliving shared PTSD aren't the only thing I want in my life. So I left and joined a slower-paced company.
I learned that you don't have to kill yourself 10-12 hours a day to build something cool. You can have high standards and still move at a sustainable pace. You can still meet and connect with awesome people. And you can also make room for life outside of work. Consider the connection, community, and fulfillment people attain through "a jog or a drink with friends". Doing good, impactful work and prioritizing your health and relationships are not mutually exclusive exercises.
The radical shifts in ways of working took away a convenient work community and has forced us to confront questions like: Who are we really? What do we want? What makes us happy? Many in the working world are now more fortunate than ever to be able to answer that question with more autonomy than ever before.
I think it's time to realize that while "it's really, really cool to devote yourself fully to your work" it's also really, really cool to look at work as a means to an end and build a well-rounded lifestyle, filled with other professional or personal pursuits that you can devote yourself to.
@good.epic 5 months ago
@hstan.bus This times 1000. This essay is advocating plutocratic dystopia.
@nick.deshpande 6 months ago
What if you could love your work AND take your vacation? That would be cool.
vaguely feel 6 months ago
Wow. This is impossible for anyone with a family. Also if Stripe hadn't been successful woukd it be worth it? I dont think the equity amount was disclosed, but a healthy amount would tend towards a rosier picture.
@vivsha4385 4 months ago
@joshspilker Exactly. She doesn't mention equity which is the real driver (even if she doesn't realize it). Without it, everything she talks about is pointless.
Brittany Berger 6 months ago
As a disabled person who was always fired from cultures like this for "not being able to keep up," it's worth remembering who was excluded and discriminated against in order to allow that culture to thrive. It's good tech has gotten even just a little bit more inclusive and flexible.
@every.to_2221 6 months ago
Wow, that was so messed up. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Cried more than a few times? Cancelled your vacation? Would not leave before someone else did?
Masochistic, you nailed it.
@inlikeclint 6 months ago
Living to work sounds like a nightmare. Pressurised into not taking PTO, pressurised into working late continuously and at scale is to the detriment of your health, your colleagues, your future colleagues and all their families.
Get a life, then get a job that allows you to live your life. On your deathbed, will you still be so fond and gooey about 2015 when you worked like a slave for some job?
@Kwazii 6 months ago
This article conflates caring with prioritizing work and especially hours of work over every thing. The assertion seems to be that the only way to build great products is to block out everything in life. Then I guess by extension any parent should not aspire to contribute to building great products and only young college grads who can have dinner together every day should attempt it. I was hoping for a more thoughtful piece that digs deeper into working methods and specific things that stripes culture rewards to build great product. This unfortunate is just surface level conjecture
You did the work only because you were given equity - as someone else has pointed out in the comments. Expecting people to work for a salary and caring about "oh no! My API is letting people down!" is unrealistic.
If you're earning a salary and working like this, it's time to discover your true passion and build something for yourself.
Also: The list of "great" companies this author has listed are cults. Amazon? Apple? lol!
@matt.donahoe 6 months ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Great writing!
I've worked a little too hard and burnt out a few times, but it still feels great to work with a team that cares.
Thanks for putting that feeling to words.
ps: What's your favorite Stripe Press book?
@mveritym 6 months ago
I've worked on a team like this and I find it hard to untangle whether I truly miss the work we did or the bonds we forged. An intense work culture is one of the only opportunities you have post-college to make super strong friendships forged under pressure. That us-against-the-world feeling made me feel really connected in those weird early/mid-20s transition years.
I think we did genuinely inspire each other to do better work but I can't remember why we thought that particular work was so important to begin with. My sense is that many companies cultivate these intense bonded cultures to generate buy-in on work that otherwise isn't very intrinsically motivating. Once a company is more established that culture is less necessary.
Now I'm older my life is much more well-rounded and balanced but to be honest, I don't think I wanted that in my 20s. What I really craved was the sense of purpose and connection I'd always had through school and work was the only obvious outlet for that.
This essay perfectly illustrates one of the key pieces of the fundamental rot at the center of SV. Sure it's excellent if people are excited about their work and the work culture encourages high standards. And if there's a big crisis or a major launch there can be times when at least some folks have to put it some long days.
But if you cite everyone staying at work for dinner and the culture of it being absolutely terrible to go home before your neighbor at work as examples of the outcome of great company culture you're doing it wrong. You're part of the problem. You're advocating poisonous company culture and an oligarchic society. Your deep, physical, negative reaction to that message demonstrates only how deeply you've internalized dystopia as the end goal.
@standstoreason 6 months ago
Great article - reminds me of the type of people who worked with me at companies like Sun Microsystems and nVidia back in the '90s and early-aughts. Everyone seemed to care not only about what they did, and how that was perceived, many would help out others who were getting "stuck" or had issues of keeping up. Many of us would come in at 5 or 6am and stay until midnight; we also had our share of all-nighters.
Of course, back in the days of Blackberries we could stay "connected" all the time; in fact, Sun Micro was the first "virtual" company in that they had, in addition to their dozen or so campuses around SilVal, many drop-off centers where all you had to do was sign in with your "smart card" and pick up right where you left off. As the Supply Chain Director, I could be in Colorado one day and Scotland or Penang the next. Made no difference.
It was an especially heady time for me because I left "heavy manufacturing" in the NYC area to try my hand at high-tech out west. Even in the early 90's, I was an "old man" by then-SilVal standards at age 40. Learned many valuable lessons from my younger direct reports and I've always blessed the decision that I made in the early 1970's to learn about computer hardware and software and programming, even when most of my contemporaries were saying that computing wasn't going to be a thing...how wrong they were.

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Sayadaw U Paṇḍita (, ; also Ovādācariya Sayādo Ū Paṇḍitābhivaṁsa; 28 July 1921 – 16 April 2016) was one of the foremost masters of Vipassanā. He trained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition of Myanmar. A successor to the late Mahāsi Sayādaw, he has taught many of the Western teachers and students of the Mahāsi style of Vipassanā meditation. He was the abbot of  Meditation Center in Yangon, Myanmar.

Early life and education
U Paṇḍita was born in 1921 in Insein in greater Rangoon (now Yangon) during British colonial rule. He became a novice at age twelve, and ordained at age twenty. After decades of study, he passed the rigorous series of government examinations in the Theravāda Buddhist texts, gaining the Dhammācariya (Dhamma teacher) degree in 1952.

U Paṇḍita began practicing Vipassana under the guidance of Mahāsi Sayādaw beginning in 1950.

Career
In 1955, he left his position as a teacher of scriptural studies to become a meditation teacher at the Mahāsi Meditation Center. Soon after Mahasi Sayādaw died in 1982, U Paṇḍita became the guiding teacher (Ovādacariya) of the Mahasi Meditation Center. In 1991, he left that position, founding  Meditation Center in Yangon. There are now  branch centers in Myanmar, Nepal, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.

U Paṇḍita became well known in the West after conducting a retreat in the spring of 1984 at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts in the United States. Many of the senior Western meditation teachers in the Mahāsi tradition practiced with U Paṇḍita at that and subsequent retreats. The talks he gave in 1984 at IMS were compiled as the book In This Very Life.

Until his death at age 94 in 2016, he continued to lead retreats and give Dhamma talks, but he rarely gave interviews.

Method and style of teaching
U Paṇḍita was known for teaching a rigorous and precise method of self-examination. He taught  or Vipassanā, emphasizing Buddhist ethics as a requisite foundation. He was also an erudite scholar of the Pali , the Theravāda Canon.

Referred to by others
Judson Brewer a meditation researcher, uses Paṇḍita's quote to illustrate the difference between dopamine secretions and joy: "In their quest for happiness, people mistake excitement of the mind for real happiness."

Bibliography

References

Monasteries
Panditarama Shwe Taung Gon Sasana Yiktha
Panditarama Meditation Center near Yangon (archived)
Panditarama Lumbini International Vipassana Meditation Centre, Nepal
Tathagata Meditation Center, San Jose, California
Saddhamma Foundation
Panditarama Saraniya Dhamma Meditation Centre, Manchester, England

1921 births
2016 deaths
Theravada Buddhist monks
Burmese Theravada Buddhists
Burmese Buddhist monks
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Q: Make an array accessible to any subunit included using #include "unit.c"? How do I make sure a function from unit.c called from my main.c that needs an array declared in main.c functions properly?
Is there any way to declare variables globally across .c files? Is there a smart way to do it without using global variables?
Example:
#include <stdio.h>
#include "sub.c"

int main(void)
{
    int matrix[5][5];
    matrix[5][1] = 5;
    Range();
}

Now for sub.c:
int Range()
{
    printf("Your Range is: %i",Matrix[5][1])
}

Now the problem occuring is that now upon compiling there will be errors saying that
"In file included from main.c:
"sub.c:3:15: Error: Matrix not declared"

Or something along those lines.

A: So, several things:

*

*Don't #include .c files (that is, source code); this is a bad habit to get into.  For a small, simple program like this it's not a big deal, but as your programs become bigger and more complex, it will cause build and maintenance headaches.  What you want to do instead is define a header file that only includes the declaration of your function, rather than the definition (body) of it, something like the following:/**
 * sub.h - declaration for Range function
 */
#ifndef SUB_H  // include guards; prevents this file from being processed
#define SUB_H  // more than once for the same translation unit

/**
 * Changing the type of Range to void since you aren't returning anything, and you
 * aren't using the result of the function in your main function
 */
void Range( /* parameter declarations, which we'll get into below */ );

#endif

You'd then #include this file as #include <stdio.h>
#include "sub.h"

int main( void )
{
  int Matrix[5][5];
  Matrix[5][1] = 5; // this is an error; your array dimensions only go from 0 to 4
  Range( /* parameters, including Matrix, which we'll get into below */ );
}
and compile your sub.c separately and link the resulting object files together.

*Don't use global variables if you can help it; ideally, functions and their callers should communicate exclusively through parameters, return values, and exceptions (in languages which support exceptions, anyway, which C doesn't).  You should pass Matrix as a parameter to your Range function, along with parameters for the array's size, and any additional information required by the function to do its job.  Since you want to print the value of a single element, you should pass the row and column number of that element as well.

Now, here's where things get headachy - C's treatment of array expressions is a little non-intuitive.  Except when it is the operand of the sizeof or unary & operators, or is a string literal being used to initialize another array in a declaration, an expression of type "N-element array of T" will be converted ("decay") to an expression of type "pointer to T", and the value of the expression will be the address of the first element of the array.

If you pass the array as a parameter like so:Range(Matrix);
then type of the expression Matrix is "5-element array of 5-element array of int".  Since this expression is not the operand of the sizeof or unary & operators, it is converted to an expression of type "pointer to 5-element array of int", and the value is the address of the first row of the array (which is the same as the address of the array itself).  That means your Range function would be declared as something likevoid Range( int m[][5] )
orvoid Range( int (*m)[5] ) (the parentheses in the second declaration matter; without them, m would be declared as an array of pointers to int, which is not what we want).
In the context of a function parameter declaration, T a[] and T a[N] are both interpreted as T *a; that is, a is declared as a pointer to T, not an array of T.

Note that, since you passed the address of the array to the function, any changes the function makes to the array will be reflected in the caller; that is, if Range changes the value of m[4][0], you'll see that changed value in Matrix[4][0].

*
Since we only specify the number of columns in the declaration for m, we want to pass an additional parameter specifying the number of rows.  C doesn't do any bounds checking on array accesses, meaning you can write something likex = m[20][1]; without getting a warning at compile time or guaranteeing a crash at runtime.  So you need to do that bounds checking yourself, meaning you need to know how many rows the array has, in addition to the number of columns.  You would pass a separate parameter for the number of rows:code>Range(Matrix, 5);
meaning your function declaration would look something likevoid Range(int m[][5], size_t rows);

*One flaw with the above approach is that the number of columns in m is fixed at 5; this function won't be able to work on matrices of other sizes.  If you're
working with a compiler that supports variable-length arrays1, you can use a variable to specify the array dimensions, rather than a compile-time constant.  Since the variable needs to be declared before it can be used in an array declaration, you'd have to write the prototype asvoid Range( size_t rows, size_t cols, int m[][cols] );
and call the function asRange(5, 5, Matrix);
This will allow you to use the Range function on matrices of different sizes, such as:int M1[5][5];
int M2[9][9];
int M3[20][20];
...
Range(5, 5, M1);
Range(9, 9, M2);
Range(20, 20, M3);
Now, if you only intend for this function to work with 5x5 matrices, then hardcoding the dimension isn't a problem; it's only an issue if you intend to use this function for any sized matrix.

*
If you are using a compiler that doesn't support VLAs, you'll need a different approach.  Instead of passing the array expression as a parameter, we pass a pointer to the first element of the array.  We'll treat this pointer as though it were a 1-d array instead of a 2-d array, like so:void Range( int *m, size_t rows, size_t cols )
{
  printf("Your range is: %d\n", m[4 * cols + 1]);
}
and you would call it asRange(&Matrix[0][0], 5, 5);

* You're assuming the presence of an element at Matrix[5][1]; however, arrays in C are 0-origin, meaning that both dimensions are indexed from 0 to 4.  So to access the 1st element of the 5th row, you'd refer to Matrix[4][0].  Matrix[5][1] is outside the bounds of your array.

This also brings up the question of whether you're ever going to want to check an element other than m[4][0].  If you want the function to access any arbitrary element of the array, you will want to pass the row and column number as separate parameters; this, combined with passing the array's dimensions as parameters, gives you a way to make sure you aren't trying to access an element outside of the array's bounds.  So, your Range function would look something likevoid Range(int m[][5] size_t rows, size_t i, size_t j)
{
  if ( i < rows && j < 5 )
    printf("Your range is: %d\n", m[i][j];
}
and you would call it asRange(Matrix, 5, 4, 0);

* Which brings us to our last item (finally); don't use "magic numbers" in your code. Instead of splashing the literal 5 all over the place, define symbolic constants (preprocessor macros) to represent the number of rows and columns in your matrix.  For one thing, if you decide to change the array dimensions, you only need to update the constant definitions, rather than chase down every occurrence of the literal 5 and determining whether it's being used to check your array access.  Putting all of the above together (and assuming you're okay with Range only working with arrays of a specific size), we get:/**
 * sub.h - declaration for Range function
 */
#ifndef SUB_H  // include guards; prevents this file from being processed
#define SUB_H  // more than once for the same translation unit

/**
 * Since these macros are going to be used by both the main function
 * and the Range function, it makes sense to define them in the
 * sub.h file, as it will be included in both main.c and sub.c
 */
#define ROWS 5
#define COLS 5

/**
 * Prints the value at index i,j of m; if i or j are out of
 * range, prints nothing.
 */
void Range( int m[][COLS], size_t rows, size_t i, size_t j );

#endif
/**
 * sub.c - implementation of Range function
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include "sub.h"

void Range( int m[][COLS], size_t rows, size_t i, size_t j )
{
  if ( i < rows && j < COLS )
    printf("Your range is: %d\n", m[i][j]);
}
/**
 * main.c
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include "sub.h"

int main( void )
{
  int Matrix[ROWS][COLS];
  Matrix[4][0] = 5;             // assumes we know 4 and 0 are within
  Range( Matrix, ROWS, 4, 0 );  // the array bounds.
}
So, are you thoroughly confused yet?

1. A C99 compiler, or a C2011 compiler where the macro __STDC_NO_VLA__ is either undefined or 0.  Some C89 compilers may support VLAs as an extension.

A: Good programming practices dictate to use them as parameters, so the option'd be:
#include <stdio.h>
#include "sub.h"

    int main(void)
    {
        int matrix[5][5];
        matrix[5][1] = 5;
        Range(matrix);
    }

Where sub.h includes only the prototype of the funcion.
Now for sub.c:
int Range(int matrix[][5])
{
    printf("Your Range is: %i",matrix[5][1]);
    return 0;
}

A: You should have a header file which have the prototype of the function you need to call and include it. I don't think you include the .c file
You also need to pass parameter to the function.
If you need to access variables across files, you need to use extern variable.

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Who runs the show in Pak, asks Pranab
• Terror hits Mumbai: Coverage
• Kasab is from Pakistan: FBI
Hinting at the Pakistani establishment's backing to terrorists who struck in Mumbai, India on Saturday said such strikes could be carried out with impunity only when the safety of the "handlers" of attackers has been assured.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the lone terrorist, who was caught alive during the terror attacks in Mumbai on November 26, has given to investigators a "chilling accounts of his handlers."
"The impunity with which these attacks are carried out is possible only because of the safety the handlers have been assured," he said addressing a conference here.
Mukherjee said the attack on Mumbai was "cold and calculated murder" and the death of innocent people there were "not accidental or unintended as is sometimes referred to as collateral damage."
Seeking to nail Pakistan's denial that perpetrators of Mumbai attacks were elements of that country, Mukherjee said "the faces of terrorists have been seen across the globe."
While talking about the Mumbai strikes, he also referred to a similar attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul in July.
In an obvious reference to the clout of Pakistan military vis-a-vis democracy in that country, he said genuine democracy does not come about simply by holding an election
but rather through a process of democratisation that makes elected representatives accountable and also ensuring that there is no "de facto centre of power" that is actually "pulling the puppet strings."
"The pretence of democracy is not equivalent to democratisation," Mukherjee said.
India would not like to advocate how other countries should be governed but would certainly like to know "whom we should deal with vis-a-vis another government; in other words, who runs the show?"
Mukherjee's remarks come at a time when Pakistan is doing a flip-flop on the origin of the attackers who carried out the terror strikes in Mumbai.
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari [Images] had earlier admitted that the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage could be 'non-state' actors of his country but later said there is still no "real evidence" that the terrorists came from his country.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said the village of Ajmal Amir Iman alias Ajmal Kasab [Images], who was caught alive in Mumbai, was cordoned off and his parents were not allowed to meet anyone.
Pakistani security agencies and local officials in Faridkot have launched a cover-up since India made it public that Kasab belonged to the village in Punjab province and his father acknowledged to a Pakistani newspaper that the gunman captured in India was his son.
Zardari had earlier agreed to send ISI chief Shuja Pasha to India to help in investigating the Mumbai attackers but later backtracked claiming that the agreement was to send a Director-level official and not the Director General of the spy agency.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 13: Michaela DePrince performs 'Giselle' with the English National ballet at the Coliseum on January 13, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)Ian Gavan/Getty Images
This Ballerina with Vitiligo Turns Beauty Standards Upside Down
And she doesn't tiptoe around the issue.
Michaela DePrince has been showing people what she's made of all her life. The Dutch National Ballet soloist was born in Sierra Leone in the midst of a violent civil war, leaving her orphaned at the age of three. As if living through that trauma at such a young age wasn't enough, DePrince was also ostracized and teased by other kids because she has vitiligo — a condition that causes the skin to lose its pigment. But something clicked when, outside the orphanage, she found a magazine with a picture of a ballerina. Upon seeing this image, she knew that's what she wanted to do. "I needed to be that ballerina so much," she recalls.
When the orphanage came under threat from escalating violence, a near-death escape and long trek to safety brought her to a refugee camp. From there, she was adopted by an American family and left her war-torn homeland for the United States. Once settled into her new life, her adoptive parents enrolled her in dance classes and urged her to follow her dream of becoming a ballerina. Nearly two decades later, that dream came true when she joined the Dutch National Ballet. As the sole dancer of African descent in the company, DePrince quickly worked her way up the ranks to become a soloist.
Already a minority in a predominantly white industry, DePrince had to overcome the additional hurdle posed by her skin condition. While DePrince credits her adoptive family with helping her defy the odds stacked against her, she has made it her personal mission to inspire people of all stripes with her story. "Just knowing that I've helped somebody do something that they've always wanted to do — or helped somebody find the confidence they didn't know they had — that's amazing to hear," she says. "I'm just trying to show other people who have had different struggles, [that] the way they look, or the color of their skin doesn't matter. It's what's inside."
In that endeavor to inspire hope in others, DePrince recently joined forces with the apparel brand Jockey as part of their Show 'Em What's Underneath, Show 'Em Your Jockey campaign, which has given her an even larger platform to do just that. "The campaign gives me an opportunity to reach more people with my story and inspire others to feel confident and comfortable with who they are, inside and out," she says.
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DePrince admits that though she's had tremendous success, she still has to deal with her fair share of detractors. But she's not letting them get her down. "I even still get some hate mail," she admits. "But it doesn't bother me because I'm doing what I love, and it's sad that those people think that just because of my skin color, I shouldn't do something that's so beautiful."
Indeed, to be in such a prestigious position in the dance world takes a lot of grit and determination. And for DePrince, the results that come with such dedication are plain to see. "If you work hard, if you're doing what you love, that is what matters," she says. "That's what's been helping me every single day with dancing."
Michaela's life story proves that it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, or what people have to say about you. If you remain firm and dedicated to the things you love, there's no way anyone can snuff out your shine. Even in her moments of doubt (which we all have), DePrince keeps this in mind: "It's better to take the things you're going through and try to make them more positive. The most important thing is if you feel good, you look good, and that's what I believe."
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By Allison Hantschel	Athenae, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Blue Dog Tricks
I Do Not Mourn The New Republic
Mostly because of shit like this:
Now the left-leaning weekly has admitted that it was wrong to have backed the war based on the administration's claims that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
"We feel regret, but no shame. . . . Our strategic rationale for war has collapsed," says an editorial hammered out after a contentious, 3 1/2-hour editors' meeting.
"I wanted the editorial to be honest not just about the war and other people's mistakes but our mistakes," Editor Peter Beinart says. "We felt we had a responsibility to look in the mirror."
You know what would have been better than apologizing, Petey? NOT SUPPORTING A WAR THAT LED TO ALL THOSE DEAD PEOPLE, because they don't care about your fucking feelings, and boring on about your personal growth and how strong you are to consider your own failings is pretty much an invitation to throw rotten fruit at you in the street.
You had a responsibility to look in the mirror? Where was that responsibility when you were writing things like this:
The unhappy truth is that, if the Bush administration wins the war but betrays the peace, the political consequences for the president will be small. Once the fighting is over, the American press will turn its attention elsewhere, just as it has in post-Taliban Afghanistan. But the consequences for hawkish liberalism will be great. Having been played for fools, most liberal hawks will retreat to a deep skepticism of American power. They will end up on the decent, feckless left–in the company of those who sincerely condemn men such as Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam but have no strategy for toppling them except empty exhortations to people power. And that soft isolationism will likely retake the Democratic Party.
Support Daddy's fantastic new war or you'll look like pussies in the long run, fellas. And then nobody will be there to save the peoples of the world from themselves by dropping lots of freedom bombs!
(By the by, the only reason the president's political consequences were "small" was that THE POLITICAL PRESS OF WHICH YOU ARE A MEMBER decided holding Bush accountable would be awkward and rude. Don't act like things just happen when it's your hand on the cookie press, asshole.)
So that's the magazine I'm supposed to be all aflutter about now becoming just another morass of buzzwords and quizzes, a purveyor of We Supported Triangulating Bullshit and You'll Never Believe What Happened Next type of stories? Boy, will I miss its historical seriousness and the journalistic guts it took to cheerlead for a war based on nothing. This is a dark day for news indeed.
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Ah, well, these lamentations are just part of the self-hagiography that's been one of the magazine's most prominent features for many decades. Much like the Democratic Party, it's been running on a reputation that's gotten pretty threadbare by now.
Ever since the days of Walter Lippman, the magazine has had, at best, a sort of elitist, drawing-room centrism about it, while masquerading as an organ of the left and, at its worst, as a very nasty sort of personal megaphone for Marty Peretz. That it's now become the personal toy of yet another Phillips Andover cum Harvard cum Facebook "entrepreneur" isn't a surprise. It was an inevitability.
i never tried the new republic. i cling to my old washington monthly issues. i may be a fire-breathing democrat, but i am more a wonk. so i can't care.
gratuitous says:
Okay, sure millions of people were killed or maimed, billions of dollars were wasted, and the place is about 100 times worse off than it was before W.'s excellent military adventure (But boy oh boy, didn't he look swell strutting around on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln?). Who could have possibly known, though? If only there had been some responsible opposing voices, we surely would have lent them some credence, you know? Or maybe if there had been some people marching in the streets, like the good old days. Not a peep, though. Everyone we at TNR talked to totally agreed this was just the brilliantest idea ever.
And now you want to get all critical and stuff? Bring up the wasted lives, bodies, nations and money? Think for just a minute how terrible it's going to make the big cheeses at TNR feel? Monster!


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I just finished watching the first four seasons of "The House of Lies" on Netflix with my husband. It is smart, edgy and too close to the truth about how people might sound in some competitive corporate environments where winning is the only goal.
Maybe you haven't experienced that yourself in any way. Or have you on a smaller scale?
Imagine you are at a high end car dealership picking up your car after repairs. As you are paying your bill, the very friendly client care rep is explaining to you what they did to your car in a language that is filled with acronyms and industry specific language. As you look at your bill, you scratch your head wondering what the hell this all means.
The only thing that seems to be clearly and concisely laid out is what will go through your credit card.
You are smart, well read and pride yourself on being a good communicator. Your requests for clarification just confuse you more and you are starting to feel a little defensive for not understanding everything that's on the bill.
We walk away thinking that we might have been taken advantage of.
Did the representative trigger your emotional attachment to the car? Just like parents buy more for their kids than necessary, are you justifying expenses without really being clear on what you just paid for? After all, this car is an investment and you need to protect your investment. Right?
We've all been there in one form or another where we second guess ourselves and start mistrusting the other person. We walk away from these situations thinking that we might have been taken advantage of, but we can't really prove it.
How is it where you work?
Do we talk over people's heads sometimes to get the upper hand? We've all heard the saying "bulls**t baffles brains". That saying may come to mind when we are talking about our dealings with fast talking salespeople.
It is our responsibility to make sure that we are not guilty of triggering that very thought in people when we are communicating with them. Whether clients or colleagues, they mustn't walk away wondering if we somehow just "slipped one by them".
Its human nature that if we are not clear on what the person is saying to us, our egos get triggered and we can start feeling insecure. Conversely, if we want to increase our clients trust, we simply need to speak their language.
Clear and accessible information for the receiver are keys for a two way dialogue.
Isn't that car dealership experience similar to other communications? When someone is upset, and we make the effort to try to understand their point of view and use their own language, they suddenly feel understood and become capable of dialoguing.
But, if they don't understand what you are saying, or if they don't feel understood, their level of suspicion and mistrust escalates.
If someone is upset and you want to deescalate the situation; make sure you're not trying to sound smarter using $15 words when a clear $10 word is available. Keeping it simple is key to elevating trust. Not only do we improve the communication, we improve the quality of the relationship.
we also need to eliminate goobledygook from our language to decrease miscommunication and elevate trust.
If you would like a simple script on how you might ask someone to be clearer in the way they communicate with you, check out the one page cheat sheet that walks you through a four step script.
Smart leaders don't only delegate to others, they have a habit of quickly analyzing each situation as it crosses their desk. We need to stop and ask ourselves if that is really our problem to solve.
Yesterday, between moments of writhing in pain under my skilled physiotherapist's hands, the conversation, as it often does, turned to what we expect from our relationships.


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In those cases, conclude by providing an opportunity for response. You should, however, write your initials in pen beside your name in the heading. A government green paper which raises a policy option and is meant to open a dialogue on the proposal is more similar in tone to a briefing note than is a white paper.
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Initials Memo format does not include a signature block. The typical structure for a briefing note includes a description of the proposed policy; relevant background information; a discussion of key considerations including implementation concerns, financial considerations, stakeholder impacts, and possible unanticipated consequencesa summary of arguments for and against the policy and a recommended decision.
The closing paragraph is the place to spell out the bottom line to the reader. The concise, coherent and penetrating note is the final expression of all other talents. For example, "I will come by your office on Tuesday at 4: Study and use standard memo format to present your text; Use internal organizational tools such as section headings, topic sentences, transition words, and powerful punctuation marks to enhance the flow of ideas; Write with the same clarity, grace, and efficiency expected of you in any essay.
If your memo uses sources, provide the bibliographic information related to your sources on a References page as an attachment at the end of the memo—just as I have in this memo.
The Heading The heading has two parts: As in any essay, you must document the sources of your information so that your reader could find the original source of the information if desired. The Elements of Style. The summary is an effective tool for helping the reader decide how much of the memo to read.
The subject and purpose of the memo what prompted you to write it ; Any necessary context details dates, names, assignment numbers, etc. Paragraphs should not be so long that they are difficult to read.
Each time there is a new subject, identify it with a new heading. By simply typing the word "Attachment" as a closing notation, you automatically refer the reader to any attachment, such as a map, a set of calculations, spreadsheets, or a References page.
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Although a memo may be written to a group of people or with various audiences in mind, usually it is a highly goal-oriented communication between two people who need to share information. Because my advice comes in the form of a memo, you can use this document as a model for writing your own memos.
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Claire Barrera an artist, educator, activist and mother based in Portland, Oregon, and an artist in residence this month at Anita.
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Astorian artist Jessica Schleif leads the ongoing transformation of Tidal Rock Park, with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation and Precipice Fund. Her work is a reaction to the tensions and contradictions that continue to exist in the struggles between science, nature and human nature.
She will create an installation from invasive plants in the Anita windows titled "Immigrants".


What scientists spent much of the twentieth century discovering and describing was similar in a sense to the intuition of our ancient Sages of blessed memory. They too believed that life was formed from building blocks, and that these could be identified with a letter code, specifically with the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Talmud at Brakhot 55a, Rav Yehudah says in the name of Rav that Bezalel, the architect of the tabernacle in Exodus, knew how to combine the letters used by God to create the world.
אמר רב יהודה אמר רב: יודע היה בצלאל לצרף אותיות שנבראו בהן שמים וארץ. כתיב הכא וימלא אתו רוח אלהים בחכמה ובתבונה ובדעת, וכתיב התם ה' בחכמה יסד ארץ כונן שמים בתבונה וכתיב בדעתו תהומות נבקעו.
The Talmud was playing on its own combination, not of letters but of verses, comparing Proverbs and Exodus. In Proverbs we read that God employed wisdom to found the world, and in Exodus we read that God filled Bezalel with wisdom. And since the tabernacle was a microcosm, it makes sense that its architect needed access to the letters of creation.
The first book of Kabbalah is known as Sefer Yetzirah, the book of creation. According to Gershom Scholem it was written sometime between the 3rd and 6th centuries, arguably as early as the Mishnah, though traditionally it is ascribed back to Avraham Avinu. It opens with the claim that God creates the world with 10 numbers—the Sefirot—and with the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, called אותיות יסוד or elemental letters.
עשרים ושתים אותיות יסוד חקקן חצבן צרפן שקלן והמירן וצר בהם את כל היצור ואת כל מה העתיד לצור.
The thing about Hebrew letters is that while each one has its own name, and shape, and symbolism and story—alone they mean nothing. The Hebrew language has no single-letter words. The forbidden labor of writing on the Sabbath is triggered only once one writes two letters, הכותב שתי אותיות. You always need to combine them—צירוף אותיות—but when you do, there is no limit to their power. Letters arranged together summon forth sound and significance; they capture memory and fire imagination; letters allow for communication and creation. But they need to come in pairs or larger groups to form words and realize their great potential. The 22 letters of the alef-bet, when combined just so, create all that ever was, and all that ever will be. Words make wisdom, and wisdom makes the world.
And with this we come to you, our 22 talented and remarkable graduates. Six of you are about to be invested as cantors; 16 will be ordained as rabbis. When we met to plan this ceremony, you asked if the number of 22 graduates could form a theme, and so it shall. Each one of you will be called up to the bimah in association with a letter—like on Sesame Street, "This rabbi is brought to you by the letter Aleph." For each of you we have selected a verse beginning with your letter, and then turned it into an English blessing just for you.
But remember, that letters alone have limited power. You did not come to JTS intending to study alone. You sought colleagues and found friends. In the combination of your voices we have heard beautiful songs of prayer and brilliant words of Torah. As the bimah fills up with 22 of you, I ask all of us to see you not only as the wonderful individuals who you surely are, but as the powerful alphabet that has created and will continue to create new worlds of meaning.
In the book of Psalms (118:24) we read, נָגִ֖ילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָ֣ה בֽוֹ "this is the day anointed by the Lord, let us celebrate and rejoice in it." But in the Song of Songs (1:4) we read, נָגִ֤ילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָה֙ בָּ֔ךְ "let us celebrate and rejoice in you." There it is again, ב-ך, the number 22. We celebrate the 22 letters of creation, and we celebrate the 22 individuals who together form a gathering of angels, elevating our people, and honoring our Creator. Though each of you gives us joy, together you awe us.
There is a remarkable moment in the life cycle of DNA when the two strands separate, and the base pairs break apart. This separation is necessary for the DNA to be copied by RNA in order to replicate and grow. So too with you—after this day you will separate, going to new locations near and far, where you can form new bonds, replicate your unique message, and change and grow. You need not lose your connections to each other, but now your task is to seek out additional souls with whom you can share your gifts. At JTS you have formed a magnificent chain of meaning. We bless you as you go forward as new cantors and rabbis, and ask that in all that you do, draw upon the model of partnership that has been your blessing at JTS, and identify those isolated letters, combining them into holy communities, attaching them to the life of Torah and Mitzvot. Then the mystical code of creation will glow with new light, power and joy.
To you, your families, friends and teachers we say mazal tov—may God bless you on your way.
רש"י מסכת ברכות דף נה עמוד א אותיות שנבראו בהן שמים וארץ – על ידי צירופן, ובספר יצירה תני להו.
ולפי שבכ"ב אותיות ברא הב"ה כל עולמו כמה דתנינן כ"ב אותיות חקקן וחצבן שקלן והמירן, צרפן וצר בהם נפש כל היצור ונפש כל העתיד ליצור, לכן אותיות שיש בראשי התיבות ז' שבבראשית חשבונם עולה כ"ב, כנגד כ"ב אותיות.
דבר אחר נגילה ונשמחה בך, רבי אבין פתח זה היום עשה ה' נגילה ונשמחה בו אמר רבי אבין אין אנו יודעין במה לשמוח אם ביום אם בהקב"ה, בא שלמה ופירש נגילה ונשמחה בך בהקב"ה, בך בישועתך, בך בתורתך, בך ביראתך, אמר רבי יצחק בך בכ"ב אותיות שכתבת לנו בתורה בי"ת שנים כ"ף עשרים הרי בך.


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This week we decided to take a boat ride to San Cristobal, one of Galapagos major islands where you can find a lot of sea lions. We went on a trail called Tijeretas which leads you to a beach where you can snorkel and to a viewpoint. It was so cool to snorkel around the small reef and we even saw a sea turtle! You really get surprised how big they are.
We slept at Hostal de Laura and took a taxi to a volcano the next day. We didn't have so much time because we had to catch our boat home so therefore we got kind of nervous when we realized that we had to climb all the way up to see the lagoon we were looking for. It was done in no time though. Afterwards we continued to Galapaguera Center where they breed turtles for their survival. The species are endemic and important for the island. The heat makes it more exhausting than it should be but it was worth it (even if the nightlife there could improve).


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Corné Crous es una actriz, asistente de dirección, coordinadora de producción, gerente de producción y cantante sudafricana. Es más conocida por su actuación en Assignment, Oysters y Liewe Lisa y la telenovela 7de Laan.

Carrera profesional
En 2010, se graduó de la Universidad de Stellenbosch. Luego se fue a Johannesburgo y comenzó su carrera televisiva. En 2015, se unió al elenco de la telenovela 7de Laan e interpretó el papel de "Kim Conradie" durante cinco años. Después de dejar la telenovela, trabajó en distintas series de televisión y películas. Desde 2018, ha colaborado como directora de producción con varios cortometrajes y programas de telerrealidad como Agterplaas Geraas, Die Skatties S2, Stik-Stik So, Hoor My, Sien My, Soen My, Die Begrafnis y Oedipus: Die Musical.

También es vocalista de su propia banda, "Paper Plane City". En 2015, ganó una beca para estudiar cine en Nueva York y obtuvo un certificado de Acting for Film.

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Alumnado de la Universidad de Stellenbosch
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Actrices de Sudáfrica


Thanks to my inexpert pruning, the buddleia has plenty of convenient stubby branches to hook knitwear onto, such as the Tilted Blocks scarf that I finished last Saturday. Two balls of Silk Garden gave me 75" of scarf, or long enough to go around my neck twice and give me tails to play with at the bus stop. I do have a sort of plan for a hat, but I got interrupted by the other scarf in today's parade.
This gives a much better idea of the colour than the last picture. I started it on the 26th of February and finished it yesterday, so it took 12 days of fairly concentrated knitting. I really want to get it blocked this week, if I can find some spare floor. At least it's not a shawl (I sometimes think people who live in small houses shouldn't knit shawls). One end is much greener than the other, but I don't think that matters too much. I am a bit of a multi-coloured laceweight tart, and unpredictability comes with the territory.
One of my favourite books is 'The Egg and I', by Betty McDonald, and Radio 4 has a programme at 11.30am on Thursday looking at her work. Definitely sounds promising.


Originally built around 1750, this building has served as a colonial inn and tavern when the village of Yellow Springs was a fashionable spa. During the American Revolution, General Washington did indeed sleep here and visited the soldiers who were convalescing in the Yellow Springs hospital he commissioned in the village in 1777. During the 19th century, the building was used as a dining facility and dormitory for the orphans of Civil War Solders and the early 20th century saw this wonderful building used as a dining hall and dorm for the young artists of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Today The Washington is ready to host your special event. With over 2000 square feet in the main room, it can easily hold 150 seated guests and still have plenty of room for dancing. In addition, there are two smaller rooms can be used as a family lounge area and/or can host drinks and hors d'oeuvres that open out to beautiful outdoor spaces. The room is Air Conditioned with custom lighting to spotlight the key highlights of your event.