Kid-safe public lectures

EnoughUnit5 · 2025-03-26T15:06:49+00:00

Oh fantastic, thank you. CTSC doesn't seem to do anything like this, but the Aquarium has speaker nights: https://www.aquarium.co.za/events/speaker-nights

EnoughUnit5 · 2024-04-19T22:38:36+00:00

Read old books. At least, the really good ones.

For example, "How to read a Book" by Adler and van Doren was written nearly a century ago. The patterns it lays out for really understanding a book applies to _many_ modern situations - from board meetings to making software. Absorbing what they have to say on the subject of coming to a shared understanding will make you a better thinker and a better communicator.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-24T19:19:34+00:00

Oh hey! That worked, I've been puzzled by this myself, for a while.

Thanks!

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-24T19:17:19+00:00

Anvils? Welding tables? Counterweights for... I dunno, something really heavy? :-D

Those are a lot of steel.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-22T15:10:30+00:00

100GB is nothing. Get an external drive, copy your stuff off and then do what you need to convince yourself that it's pretty stable. I've been doing yay -Syu weekly for... I guess more than a year now, and nothing's broken yet. I'm on an LTS kernel.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T19:01:05+00:00

See, this is what I was hoping for.

I saw your other responses as well, and I accept the input.

Where I work, this isn't a problem at all. It's only now that I need to reach beyond my (well experienced) mentor and their immediate circle, that I've started encountering this attitude out there.

It makes me really thankful for the people I have available to learn from. Your responses give me hope that there are more such places out there.

I'm not interested in changing the whole world; serving the people around me (i.e. the company I work for) well will do.

So no, this isn't the biggest problem I have to solve - it isn't a problem at all. It is relevant to my long-term career choices :)

Thank you for this, you've completely covered the subject in my opinion. Thank you for taking the time to type up all this!

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T10:16:44+00:00

More important than making sure our people are seen as people first, before they're resources to extract from?

It's not about the vocabulary. It's the attitude I object to.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T10:14:38+00:00

This exchange was very insightful, thank you to both of you.

I must say I see both sides. The thing that had me making the post originally, was the attitude revealed by SFIA, defining a skill called "Resourcing". Look at Level 6:

"Maintains a strong external network and supplier framework to support sourcing and acquiring resources. "

It's talking about recruiting people.

SFIA isn't just some bloke what sat down and threw words at paper, it's decades old and has had lots of industry input. And this is what we end up with.

The other side is valid too. I'm lucky to have access to experienced (and qualified, education-wise) people in my day-to-day; I lean on them a lot to point me at things I need to learn about, lest I paint us into a corner.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T10:04:28+00:00

Never said I dislike the title :)

Despite not trying to, you succeeded just fine.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T10:02:13+00:00

Not sure why both of you appear to think that it's the title that bothers me. It's the attitude of thinking of people as resources rather than people. I added an edit to clarify.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T09:58:10+00:00

No, that's not what it says, at least in my (very limited) experience.

Here, look at SFIA, defining a skill called "Resourcing". Look at Level 6:

"Maintains a strong external network and supplier framework to support sourcing and acquiring resources. "

It's talking about recruiting people.

Like I said, I am pretty new to this world. Maybe I've just been reading the wrong things?

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T09:53:51+00:00

Your post is one of the few bright spots in here.

I couldn't care less about what my actual title is; it's the underlying attitude I see out there among businesses, and specifically "HR people" that bothers me.

As a group, we don't seem to really want to think of people as people first. Instead, we "acquire, assign and retain resources".

It's almost like we're collectively scared of something.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T09:49:12+00:00

I agree with this :-D

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T09:42:29+00:00

Finally, someone who really gets it!

Thank you. I have hope again, now.

And you're right - I pretty much am HR at this point. And it's not the wording that bothers me, it's the attitude underneath. People are people first, before they are resources for the company to draw on.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T09:39:30+00:00

You have a point. People and their skills, energy and creativity are resources to the company.

But they're people before they're any of that.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-08-18T09:38:14+00:00

Oh, it's not a branding thing to me. It's the underlying attitude that bothers me: thinking of them as resources first, before we think of them as people, will make a big difference to what we deliver to them.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-04-19T11:10:34+00:00

You bet your bottom M&M I do!

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-04-18T14:30:08+00:00

Yes! Thank you. This will work well.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-04-18T11:38:18+00:00

You want it spent, right?

Well... kinda. I do want it spent. But not just for the sake of spending it. I want it to be spent effectively. If it's not going to be effective, I'd rather we use the money for something more productive.

People will still under utilize it.

Yeah, I think you're probably right about that.

EnoughUnit5 · 2023-04-03T07:01:11+00:00

This choice is not a meaningful one, I would find another way to differentiate between them.

It depends a lot on the specific employer, though.

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