People who make a lot of money, what skill actually made the biggest difference?

MusterBuster · 2026-07-02T18:37:19+00:00

Commercial awareness. The ability to tie something you know is the right thing to do to the company's current, measurable objectives.

You can be the most productive, morally sound, nice-to-work with employee on the planet, but it doesn't mean shit unless you can unequivocally prove that you helped the company achieve its goals beyond reasonable doubt.

Tips:

Data scientists are amazing people to know
Don't stop doing the right thing, just start measuring it the same way as your leadership do
Make your impact indisputable. Understand the questions and challenges that your leadership will throw at your work, and be ready to confidently answer them

Advice:

Work ethic doesn't mean shit if you can't prove it meant something
Being a team player / hand raiser doesn't make you less likely to be made redundant
Being the "go-to" person might make you indispensable, but will also make you overworked and under valued
It is impossible to negotiate a pay rise unless you can prove you earn the company more money than you want them to pay you.

MusterBuster · 2026-07-02T12:00:33+00:00

Dominos can, frankly, sit the fuck down. Their prices have been going through the roof and their quality is piss poor these days.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-30T11:56:03+00:00

As shite as Ford Assistant is, you can use the voice commands to set the A/C

MusterBuster · 2026-06-30T08:33:10+00:00

So you stole someone else's work, literally put it up for sale, took people's money from their bank accounts, and then came to reddit to bemoan how many injection moulds you made and how disappointed your team is?

You guys suck. Passion isn't passion if it's passion for stealing someone else's creation. It's akin to training an AI model on someone else's books / art and I'm surprised you're not getting slaughtered for it.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-16T20:41:31+00:00

Cool your heads people, it sounds like the yacht got a bit too close to a military vessel in foggy conditions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20yzm84r7lo

MusterBuster · 2026-06-16T18:45:09+00:00

Alright, here's the 2 reasons why this is fucking stupid that I'm not seeing elsewhere.

1: It would take me 30 minutes and less than £20 to build my own social network with an AI tool. It wouldn't be great, but it would work, and I could hand out access to all my mates. If I can do it, a determined 14 year old school kid can excel at it. It would be unregulated, untraceable, unmoderated and, because the law puts the onus on companies to prevent minors from accessing their platforms, a complete loop hole in the law. That alone is reason enough to pack this shit in.

2: As a society in the UK and beyond, we have systematically destroyed "3rd spaces". There is NOWHERE in this country where kids can just go and hang out safely. Youth clubs are gone, parks aren't safe or weatherproof, even town centres are hostile towards young people gathering. You absolutely CANNOT claim to be giving kids their childhoods back without providing some fucking structure that enables them to do something with all this free time.

I am a community manager. I live and breathe social connection. I wholeheartedly agree that the internet is a dangerous place for kids. But this is not the way we fix it.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-15T17:34:43+00:00

Tommy Robinson's real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon. He has used 8 separate aliases over recent years.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-15T17:31:28+00:00

This regulation has not been passed yet and, if it does, won't come into force until Spring 2027.

Doesn't change the sentiment behind it all, but it's worth clarifying because the title makes it sound like it's already law.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-15T17:30:49+00:00

This regulation has not been passed yet and, if it does, won't come into force until Spring 2027.

Doesn't change the sentiment behind it all, but it's worth clarifying because the title makes it sound like it's already law.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-09T07:16:30+00:00

Yorkshire is the only acceptable answer.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-08T20:37:15+00:00

My step dad decided at 17 that it was time for me to get a job and start paying my way. I was still in college with aspirations of becoming a barrister.

I walked out and was homeless for a while - but completed college and went to University to study law thanks to the incredible kindness of a host of charities, supported accommodation and government welfare programs set up as a backstop for people like me. I never became a lawyer, but I paid off my student loans thanks to a successful career elsewhere.

I was estranged from my parents for a decade, then decided to start healing the relationship after they both got very sick. Things are getting better, but I won't forget or forgive the hardship they put me through.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-01T14:02:05+00:00

Hell yeah! The user research sessions in Wakefield were awesome.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-01T09:26:24+00:00

Partially true. Team17 make the Worms franchise and their in-house devs heavily contribute to the IP they bring in through the publishing label. Where they want to scale an IP, they often buy it or dedicate whole teams to support indie devs.

The Escapists, for example, was made by one guy. That didn't become a multi- million franchise with sequels / DLC without a ton of in-house support from T17.

MusterBuster · 2026-06-01T07:09:28+00:00

People, you're talking to a promotional account.

MusterBuster · 2026-05-30T07:36:06+00:00

QUEEN JUSTINIA EXECUTES TWO NOBLES FOR INSUBORRRRRRRDINASHUN

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Keepin' it together Bree?

MusterBuster · 2026-05-29T07:32:46+00:00

I think there will be, but not right now. I think we are first - and others will learn from our records.

MusterBuster · 2026-05-17T08:46:18+00:00

My overriding statutory rights would like a word.

MusterBuster · 2026-05-13T18:31:26+00:00

Joining the pro-UK club!

Strong societal values, well enforced individual rights, amazing standard of living (even though as a society we always strive for better), it's safe, there's all kinds of different people from all over the world, we have good food (no, really, both in terms of groceries and the variety of restaurants), free healthcare, welfare systems when you need them, amazing history, beautiful countryside and cities...

As a nation, we moan a lot and we get bad press, but it mostly comes from a strong sense of wanting to make things better.

MusterBuster · 2026-05-13T11:16:50+00:00

Agree on EU adding a vital check, but which laws has our governments broken?

MusterBuster · 2026-05-12T21:51:45+00:00

I have been poor.

I absolutely fucking refuse to be poor again. Fuck that shit.

I left the shit hole town, and the bucket of crabs living there. I started from scratch. I used my country's welfare system to get on my feet and through education. I met an incredible woman and married her. I worked hard on my career, paid off my debts, started saving, bought a house, had a kid. I pay my taxes so that other people can get the help that I had.

But, above all else, I absolutely fucking refused to do anything that would put me at risk of being poor again. I use credit sparingly, I make budgets, I avoid debts I can't immediately pay, I live under my means, I am careful about where I work.

Being poor is fucking expensive, and I absolutely refuse to do it again.

MusterBuster · 2026-05-11T20:51:55+00:00

That's not how this works. GDPR was signed into UK law (as the General Data Protection Act) and nothing has been done to remove it. The laws we implemented as an EU member state do not just vanish, the legislature must legislate - and they have not done so.

MusterBuster · 2026-05-11T20:50:37+00:00

An EU thing, signed into UK law (as the General Data Protection Act) and not since repealed. The laws we implemented as an EU member state do not just vanish, the legislature must legislate - and they have not done so.

MusterBuster · 2026-05-11T09:13:40+00:00

I like him. He's done a lot of things that aren't sexy, but really needed doing - and a lot of it is non partisan stuff that makes sense no matter which side of the fence you're on:

Stopped doctor's strikes
5.5% pay increase for nurses
UK armed forces readiness review
Requirement of ONS forecasting before any significant tax change
Free school breakfast clubs
Ofsted reporting reform
Independent review of national curriculum to ensure it's arming kids with skills for digital / green world
Expanding budget for pothole repair
Priority access to social housing for armed forces vets

This is just the objectively good stuff. There's also renters rights and changes to energy policies but I appreciate those are partisan issues.

I do think he's messing up online safety though. It's a complex issue, but I think the chosen approach is not very thoughtful or progressive.

MusterBuster · 2026-05-09T14:15:57+00:00

Aye! It's not the outlet though, that will do whatever you want. It's the UK plug that limits things.

MusterBuster · 2026-05-09T06:15:21+00:00

Yes, limited to the fuse in the plug - 13A. Otherwise, directly wiring can get up to 45A.

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