Those seem to back up this quote by the doctor from the article: "What’s going on in the patient’s [mind] is that the rituals of medicine... activates specific quantifiable and relevant brain regions that release these neurotransmitters. And they modulate symptoms."
For minor ailments for which there are no real cure (and are probably entirely psychological) building a new habit covers up the old one and subsequently cures the patient's pain.
People are often scared of testing their business ideas. Having this awesome idea of something that "might" work is a lot more pleasant than learning if it actually does. Most ideas fail right out of the gate - even the ideas of people who've had previous success. When I, or one my friends is excited enough to work on an idea, then the actual execution of the test is the easy part.
It would be interested to see how startups like SkySafe (https://www.skysafe.io/ - backed by a16z) respond to these kinds of incidents. I could see users of these startups wanting to create "no-fly" zones to protect assets of theirs such as powerlines.
I think as drones grow to become more common in our daily lives, the "Drone Security" industry will follow along.
This quote is telling. After listening to a lecture given by someone who is a master of their craft (even if I watch online), I can feel a sense of clarity whenever I'm doing the task they talk about. A master of his/her craft knows the craft so deeply that it's as easy as breathing. This is how climbing must be for Alex... though, sometimes everyone skips a breath. I guess his atypical Amygdala helps him get over that.
I think its a great differentiator for Apple. It'll help them sell products like the HomePod and other products in the privacy sensitive "smart home" space.
As someone who does a lot of learning online, I can see the usefulness of this! It'd be a lot easier for me to use if the filters on the side of the screen if they matched my search queries more closely. Currently, searching for "react.js vs. angular.js" leads to Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton being options in the "speaker"filter.
Thanks! I think you'll get a better experience if you filter to "Technology" first, if you're using it that way. I'd like that to be more seamless, but haven't found a good way yet.
The "autocratic" management style seems to be the biggest cause of this issue. I'd be surprised if members of upper management didn't have a sense of what's going on.
It reminds me of the events leading NASA Challenger disaster. The engineers and lower management employees were totally ignored by upper management in that scenario.
Though, I should mention, I haven't read any books about the VW scandal yet.
The "autocratic" management style seems to be the biggest cause of this issue.
Unclear. The author of the book takes that position. The author seems to be hostile to worker ownership or state ownership.
Companies with multiple classes of stock to deprive the stockholders of voting control can have a much worse autocratic leader problem. Google and Facebook are set up that way, of course. Here's the list of the 28 S&P 500 companies with restricted voting rights.[1] As a group, they underperform the full S&P 500. Some of those companies that aren't doing well face shareholder litigation. Viacom's minority shareholders did manage to get rid of Sumner Redstone, but he was 93 and really had to go.
For many decades, no big company did this, because the NYSE didn't allow such companies to be listed. (Except for Ford and Hershey, which predated that rule; they were grandfathered in.) It's still rare, but now companies can get away with it.
I thought the same thing with the groupthink at NASA.
It's hard to put in perspective just how badly NASA management screwed up though--probably much moreso than here.
I would bet 90%+ of HN user's great grandmothers would not make the same mistake. Of course they wouldn't--it takes a special case of narcissistic manager who can both get himself to the top and also tell his engineers no because he cant admit a mistake and would rather risk blowing up a space shuttle (and it happened).
