When viewed from the perspective the author is promoting, wouldn't "sitting out" really just be "not playing the game very well"? I have to say I largely agree with him in this aspect. Unless your self-employeed or work in a very small, extremely tight-knit team, I find it hard to believe you entirely avoid office politics. I say this because while from your perspective, you might be a nonparticipant, from the perspective of your peers who do partake in it, you're just not playing the game very well. They might see your inaction and instead feel that it's a lack of social skill, that you lack passion or concern regarding your work, or that your simply unpleasant to be around.
I'm not saying that any of these are the case in your situation. I just beleive the author is on to something here, and that by human nature, all of our social interactions are rooted in personal politics on an indiviudal level (i.e. separate from one's standing on government politics).
Depending on the circumstances, individual contributors that are good enough can often set their own personal requirements and get them.
Setting your own expectations and requiring that they be met isn't playing politics, it's just setting the terms of your employment that you require from your employer.
When working for others I'd rather flog myself and deliver bottom line excellence than have to cow tow to some low level managers whims or plans for promotion.
I remember a 10x engineer friend of mine (a better engineer and generally smarter person than myself) who when he was younger, on the first day of a new job was gotten onto by some HR exec about how he used the elevator, it was something boring, insignificant and not even wrong (so insignificant I can no longer remember the details) that he was "corrected" on, and in that moment he realized he could ignore HR on almost anything, they weren't going to fire him for some perceived, undocumented, etiquette breach, he's a high value employee.
The other scenario is the person "sitting it out" is being viewed as an ally/play piece of someone else who IS playing the game. Other people may even be saying they represent your interests in the games they are playing because you aren't speaking up for yourself.
If you aren't using your political capital, other people will use it for you.
How often have you heard "X person agrees with me about this" at the office?
Those who don't do politics can still have politics done to them. If you've never been in places where that happened to you, that's wonderful, but it's not something you can count on being true for your whole career.
On the other hand, a place where politics is not done to you is probably a healthier place, so if that's your current situation, consider well before you move on to another job.
This is amazing news. Apple will never voluntarily give up the licensing revenue from mandating Lightning chargers. This puts the onus on consumers, and makes it harder for people to switch ecosystems. A great example of productive regulation.
It's great news right now - but what happens when a newer better standard comes along and now these regulations keep us with the better than lightning but pretty problematic for a multitude of reasons USB-C? One can hope the EU will adapt appropriately, but I'm skeptical.
There's also the very distinct possibility that Apple will just do away with the port entirely, which IMO is also a loss for consumers.
> Following a mandate from the European Commission, the European Standardisation Bodies CEN-CENELEC and ETSI have now made available the harmonised standards needed for the manufacture of data-enabled mobile phones compatible with a new common charger
bullshit, fragmentation is a loss for consumers, having standard cable helps everyone stay on the same page and advance at the same pace, avoiding useless waste, and lets everyone reuse their equipment whenever they have to buy a new phone
the future is wireless anyways, so let's move toward that path with the less friction possible
Anecdotally my last pixel died because the USB-C connector wore out. I have an old iPad that once experienced similar use, and it can still hang upsidedown by the lightning connector.
But agreed, hopefully this all goes away with wireless.
Oh, so it enforces genderless language? So one mention of "guys" and, what, you're banned at least? Or does a swarm of federal agents show up at your house and drag you off to the progressive thought crime gulags? Oh woe are we, that we've sunk to such tyranny.
I mean, surely it's not just one slack bot for a single team that only encouraged (not enforced) gender inclusive language, right? It's gotta be something pretty extreme, probably cooked up by the woke Twitter mobs who've infiltrated our government!
This is the best take. You can see why universities continue to exist - the overwhelmingly wealthy people that hang out here lap it up. This is great West Coast dinner party discussion, while drinking an $80 bottle of wine.
Go to the rural South if you want to see this phenomenon in person. It’s not romantic.
That’s lovely but what if you live somewhere like KCMO or Columbus that doesn’t have established cab infrastructure and does have a ton of Uber drivers?
Alcoholism is ABSOLUTELY more common in the US military than the general population. That’s in a culture that disapproves of alcoholism - if anything I’d expect it to be much higher than 37% in Russia
That's a good point, and another reason why it's not really useful to use population-averages as a means to say something about averages of the military.
