I like that this thread is going to become a bunch of invective where people who aren't libertarians are going to claim libertarian hypocrisy on subjects like (a) outing someone as homosexual and (b) suing a media outlet for what was effectively revenge porn.
Is it your honest opinion that all libertarians are supposed to be ethically okay with outing someone's sexuality or posting revenge porn tapes? If so, why?
About the lawsuits that he bankrolled that shut down a press outlet, he himself said:
"I strongly believe in the First Amendment" [...] "I believe journalists are a privileged group in our society. They play an important role in getting us information and in the system of checks and balances. But these were not journalists." https://www.engadget.com/2016-10-31-peter-thiel-silicon-vall...
It is my honest opinion that Thiel is a hypocrite and is a libertarian only if and when it's convenient to him.
In this quote, he's letting himself off the hook for undermining the First Amendment protection of the press, which he also did covertly, btw, by claiming that his targets were not journalists when they were.
I'm not saying they weren't scumbags for publishing what they did, but he doesn't get to have it both ways. That's the point.
For example, I was messing around with one today with my own resumé. It couldn't tell from responsibilities and results that I had done a job much more senior to the job title (long and probably common story). It wanted exact matching in job title to the job description, so "department lead" and "head of department" or neither, with the same responsibilities, were not interchangeable.
A human could pick that out from the context. So I think an ATS is going to be using the filters humans used to, plus failing to gather relevant info from context.
Aren't there places away from the conventional protocols where people still blog and the world is innocent?
I'm serious. I came across some of these communities nearly a year ago while reading about solar powered servers. And after I forgot how I found them, I've thought of them about once a month and wondered what the hell is wrong with me for forgetting.
They were incredibly neat and niche spaces, full of very idiosyncratic websites and things that had no commercial point. It was fantastic.
They exist and they're hard to find - but if you find one, you often find a few, and you can follow the chain as far down the rabbit hole as you want.
Of course you have the interesting side effect that you only get linked to them now and then, and often it's almost "invite only" for something that's entirely public.
I'd focus on looking at things that are blocking flow states. If you can enter a flow state, you may find you're working faster on average.
- Consider starting your day by hand-writing a bullet pointed lists of tasks or things that are stressing you, including life stuff. Writing them out helps you feel that you have control over them, and you no longer have them rattling around in the back of your head. Leave the list alone, it's not a to-do list. You'll focus more easily.
- Related: if that kind of works for you. Consider starting your day by writing a page or two in a journal, just about whatever's in your head. Once you empty that out and all the feelings around that stuff, it will be easier to get down to business and enter a flow state.
- Taking breaks is really important and taking frequent breaks when it feels natural works well, at least for me. Take vacation regularly.
- Get plenty of high-quality sleep. This is a big one. Once you start paying attention to it, you notice really quickly what a big impact sleep has on your mood, happiness, and output the following day.
- Use noise-cancelling headphones and playlists made for focus.
And remember to be kind to yourself.
In general, we focus on the things that bother us about ourselves when we compare ourselves to others. We don't pay attention to the positives. So you probably aren't seeing the sides of your work that make you excellent or how you contribute in ways other people can't.
> ruins press outlet that used too much free speech by burning them with lawsuits