(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best business culture books

TL;DR Wall of text, Warsaw specific info on salaries and renting flats, some cultural advice, Poland = Great.

I see there's some really good advice but usually from people outside Warsaw and Warsaw is really quite different from the rest of the country. I lived there for 10 years so I'll offer some hints.

As an American graphics designer at a decent company, you can easily make around 8000 PLN before taxes. Being an American and having experience from there will give you the upper hand if you apply for a job at an international company. I don't exactly know what tax rules apply to non-Polish citizens so you have to figure that out for yourself but it's around 5500 PLN if Polish tax laws apply. Anyway, applying for a graphics design job will get you much more money than teaching English, simply because there is a lot of people already doing that. I think you can expect somewhere around 4-5k before taxes so not really worth it in your position.

Renting a flat is quite tricky. Warsaw is big and public transport quality varies depending on the place you're at but is usually very good. Assuming your husband will be working in downtown (Śródmieście), you'd want to rent a flag in Śródmieście, Żoliborz, Ochota, Mokotów, Wola, maybe Wilanów or Praga Północ (avoid Praga Południe, they sound similar but are very different). Avoid northern and southern outskirts because you'll be stuck in traffic and overcrowded buses that will take an hour to get you to your workplace. Targówek, Bemowo, Białołęka, Bielany, Wawer should rather be out of the question. Ursynów goes both ways because metro (subway) is there so if you can rent something near a stop then it's ok but sucks otherwise.

You might be used to long commutes from the US but it's entirely possible to spend 40 minutes a day or less on commuting both ways so don't waste your time.

Someone has already mentioned gumtree.pl for renting a flat (renting a flat in Warsaw is here). szybko.pl is also very popular in Warsaw. There are two ways to rent a flat, either directly from a person owning the flat or through an agency. If you rent through an agency, you'll have to pay them a hefty amount for doing simply nothing since you yourself found the ad. It usually amounts to around 1 monthly rent. Landlords will also expect an upfront security payment of 1 monthly rent, as a sort of insurance for anything you might break in the apartment while you stay there. You also need to know that a lot of apartments are rented without the furniture, even if it's there on the photos, you need to look in the description. I assume you don't speak Polish so this might be hard for you. In this case, I would suggest contacting an agency, like metrohouse - I know this one caters to English speakers but there surely are others and asking them to find offers that might be interesting for you could be a good solution. You'll have to pay for that service of course but if you find an ad on a website yourself and it's from an agency, you'll pay either way so that's an option to consider.

Rent prices differ tremendously. You can have a big apartment in an unsafe neighborhood for dirt cheap but you won't be happy about it because it's far, far away from any civilization and well, unsafe. You should be able to rent something really comfortable for around 3000 PLN or less a month, with furniture and all the home stuff that you need (dish cleaner, fridge, sometimes a tv, also washing machine; be aware that each apartment has its own washing machine but we do not usually have dryers). Utilities are usually paid separately and will amount to ~300 PLN a month if you don't have children, this includes electricity, water, heating. You will need an Internet connection as well, in most of the places it's cable provider UPC, you can get Internet without the TV if you want. It's not expensive, 30 Mbps will cost you around 60 PLN. One more thing to remember is parking. There's a paid parking zone in downtown and extends to other places too so if you get a flat in that area (here's a map, everything in red and blue is paid parking zone), you will either need a parking garage or work something out with the landlord (it's possible to get a pass for your car if you live in the zone but it's quite some paper work to do so be clear about it with your landlord if you need it).

Overall, you'll need around 8500 PLN after taxes to live comfortably, including your student loans. That's not really that much for two people but might be a lot for only one. You said your husband got a good job offer so I'm assuming it's somewhere around that. 3000 PLN for flat and utilities, 2300 PLN for your student loan and ~3000 PLN for very comfortable living.

Now about how it's like in Poland - I'm Polish so I might be biased :) Warsaw is also quite different from the rest of Poland so I'll offer two views for you. You'll be OK in Warsaw, it's a really nice city, a lot of people speak English, even at local shops. The food is great and quite cheap, although some things might be expensive to get, like good steak. I really loved the city itself but it depends on what you like, and some people hate it. It's a fast paced, crowded (not as much as LA or NY of course, but still) but very active. If you enjoy partying, you'll find it more difficult than in other more tourist friendly cities (Cracow, Wrocław) but there are a lot of great clubs, pubs and restaurants around downtown. There's a lot of great things to see there but that's for another post, you can also get a lot of info on the Internet. One nice thing is that you're only around 6 hour drive (by car or train) from the Baltic sea to the north or Tatry mountains to the south. Even closer are the Mazurian lakes (north-east). Poland is quite a beautiful country although obviously not as diverse as US. It's only as big as New Mexico, and considerably smaller than California (Texas is twice its size). In three hours (by train, longer by car) you can get to Cracow which is a very well known tourist destination, a lot of things to see here and around the city (Auschwitz concentration camp museum, Wieliczka Salt Mine and a number of things in Cracow itself).

As I said, Warsaw is quite different from the rest of the country. In small towns and villages it's possible you won't find anyone speaking English so if you're lost and want to ask for directions - tough luck (less of a problem now with GPS and Google Maps). They will be also far less tolerant. You didn't mention race but it can be a problem if you're not white, even in Warsaw but obviously less so than in smaller cities or towns. But generally everyone are quite friendly, unless they do not look friendly and first impression won't usually fail you here. Even if they don't speak English, everyone will try to help you out, maybe they know someone who speaks it and they'll call them and pass you the phone so that you can ask questions or something.

Someone else mentioned the weather so you should know already. It's way colder in winter but around the same in the summer as LA, here's temperature and humidity comparison between Warsaw and LA for the past 5 years.

One more thing I wanted to tell you is to be aware of cultural differences. Americans are often seen as obnoxious and for a good reason. Yelling at restaurants and laughing loudly so that the people in the pub across the street can hear you will make other people want to stab you with a blunt fork multiple times. Keep your voice down around other people. "Customer is always right" is not always the rule, just because you're paying for something doesn't mean you get to boss or badmouth the clerk. Be polite. Sorry if this offends you but I have really seen numerous Americans behave this way. Also, tipping rules are not as strict as in the US, you should tip waiters, pizza delivery guys and taxi drivers but not hairdressers and in general, it's not 100% mandatory. If you're not happy with the service, you don't tip. I generally suggest this book, it's about business interactions but a lot of it translates great to everyday life. It's not about Poland specifically so you might find it interesting for other reasons.

In general - the opinions I've heard about Poland, and Warsaw in particular, are almost always positive, including from Americans. Not only from tourist point of view, also expats claim Poland is great. If you want to try something else, it can be a great experience for you. If you both get jobs, you will live very comfortably with a lot of expendable income (for Polish standards) but you won't save any substantial amount in USD simply because we don't make nearly enough here ($30k a year is a good salary in Warsaw and great elsewhere). Our beer is cheap and girls are beautiful (though that may, or may not, be relevant to you) so come along!

cthomas343 :

Hey Joel, I read the manifesto back in 2011, and have been following ever

since! Question about the last couple of ultras. You had several races in the

span of a few months, and I'm curious how you were training during that period

to keep from over-training injuries and to stay freshish for the races?

joelrunyon :

Yeah - I did the last 5 in about 3 months and 4 of those in 6 1/2 weeks or

so. Australia - Jan 1st Antarctica - Jan 21st Thailand - Feb 4th Finland -

Feb 17th At the end, I was basically using each race as my "long run" before

the taper. So the Australia race was a good training run for the Antarctica

race. After that, it was mostly some short stuff during the week, some

additional strength work and a longish run on the weekends (10+ miles) to

make sure everything felt good. [(I talk more about this prep on Jason Fitz's

podcast)](http://strengthrunning.com/2017/07/take-

run-7-ultramarathons-7-continents/) I was trying to make sure to do mobility

work + stay loose while traveling - which is almost as tough since I spent so

much time in airpots.

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ld43233 :



Mr. Runyon Your name tells me you are doing what you are meant to do. Keeping

running for those problems. Any idea when the schools are going to be built or

has the construction already started?

joelrunyon :

They're matching them to communities in need right now! I think we'll have

some more details on the dates this fall & (hopefully) have a few started by

the end of the year!

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LittleRowBoat_ :



As a Guatemalan, I came here to say THANK YOU! What was your favorite Ultra

Marathon?

joelrunyon :

I love Guatemala :) Antarctica was probably the most memorable! I really

enjoyed Finland though - as bad as it went and with all the issues I ran into

- it definitely has the best stories.

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auditoryfatigue :



Hi Joel! How much would you say willpower plays a role in what you do, and what

are some ways that you've strengthened your willpower/self-discipline over the

years? Thanks, and keep up inspiring work!

joelrunyon :

I think willpower + confidence tend to multiply each other. I have a hell of

a lot of will power but after I got hurt (the first race) and had to deal

with some business stuff, my confidence was shot. At some point, I closed my

eyes and said I was just gonna go for it - consequences be damned - and then

once I commit to something, I follow through (it's a personal commitment to

myself). I definitely feel like I have confidence that if I commit to

something, I'll have the willpower to finish it out.

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sparselogic :



When is the next WDS bungee jump?

joelrunyon :

This is a great question. We've done it 3 times so far. Interested in #4?

: sparselogic :

:

: Hell yes!

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:: joelrunyon :

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:: I'll look a few things up! They did rappelling this year right across

:: from the hall. Thought it would work in well with our "plummet" theme :)

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::: sparselogic :

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::: <grin> Yeah, I had to think of the previous 'plummet' events while

::: watching folks rappel. I'd still rather jump. (source: wearing my 2012

::: Plummet shirt right now)

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:::: joelrunyon :

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:::: 2012! Yah...we're gonna have to update that one...

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answednesdays :



Hey Joel, What kind of advice you would give someone who wants to travel more

and make income in a way that doesn't require being in a physical location?

(i.e. freelance and online)

joelrunyon :

Get really good at what you do. Figure out how to sell those services

outside of your normal 9-5. Become indispensable to your company. Talk to

your boss and tell them that location freedom is important to you and you'd

like to take a pay-cut/hour-cut and be able to work remotely a bit. If they

say no, then you have your services on the side that you're selling already

so you won't be in such a deep hole. My buddy Chris Guillebeau just put out

a book on building your side hustle last week which is a good read [if you

want to get an idea about this](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MT0J7KF/ref=dp-

kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)

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taylorjacobson :



Hey Joel - How has your personal relationship to the concept of "doing the

impossible" evolved since you started? I know that at first it was about

living your life in a new way, and you've clearly internalized that new way.

What has that morphed into? Is there a new phase you're in now? Thanks!

Taylor

joelrunyon :

When it first started off, I wanted to get a job NOT at UPS. Now it's much

more focused on how do I grow my business in the way that I want to and how

do I continue pushing myself physically in new and interesting ways.

: taylorjacobson :

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: What's next physically?

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:: joelrunyon :

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:: Planning for the Fire & Ice Ultra + the Red Bull X-ALPS

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ihavenocluetbh :



Thanks for doing this AMA! Truly impressive and inspiring!! My 2 questions are

basic: What do you eat after running such great distances? What is your go to

snack when you are craving for something sweet? Good luck in the future dude!

joelrunyon :

1) Whatever the heck I want :). My go to post-race food is a massive pizza

(1,

2,

3) 2)

Justin's peanut butter cups. bonus: My current vice is red bull

(although they haven't sponsored me...yet). [If you read this Red

Bull.](http://gph.is/1sD5pjj)

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Wow sorry about your loss but congratulations about your inheritance. The thing is, this is a big deal and both of you need to be ready for the internal mental change that needs to come with such a sudden increase in assets. Most people who win the lottery go right back to their original comfort zone because they just didn't know any other way.

You now have enough money to afford a really good financial advisor (and it will be worth paying for a good one). If you and your husband can get on the same page, meaning that neither of you really know how to handle this much money, then you can agree to both out your trust into a third party expert. This person is better equipped to tactfully tell your husband that $2.5 mil cannot simply sit in a savings account, and will give much better advice for how to invest it than you personally could either. And they will know how to honor a pre-nup without making it a trust issue.

You are a team, so don't let money get in between you, and remember that you need to trust your husband to be the captain and to handle big decisions with the finances. This being said, you can make it your mission to help you both get educated about wise ways to invest.

Edit: Also, I highly recommend you both read the book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and even attend the free Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar. Best thing my SO and I have ever done for our financial success and really helps couples get on the same page. Wish they taught us this stuff (and TRP!) in school instead of all the other BS.

English isn't my 1st language.

Ok so vyvanse is a stimulant. It the little brother of Adderall but you can't abuse it because the neurostimulant isn't in the pills. The pills work as a catalyze for you liver to produce the right amount of neurostimulant for you brain.

So if you have a lot of protein when you take your pills you will get a better boost of energy.

First month are like heaven. Limitless like... until it come to a point where you feel all the secondary effect. Depends on your body but me my skin was so tight, my teeth was sensible and I had to drink a lot of water...

Those effect are not strange to an overdose of amphetamine ... vyvanse is an amphetamine.

I stopped using it because the benefits didn't outweight the drawback.

I was put on concerta since then.

But a pills ain't a magical remedy you need to work on yourself and to understand ADHD.

ADHD is like diabetes ... instead of your blood lacking insuline you're lacking dopamine receptor.

This video will start you on understanding more ADHD/ADD : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDliT0GZpE

I recommend reading : Healing ADD form Dr. Daniel G Amen.

But don't purchase is home healing kit it's retarded as fuck. His home healing kit are for stupid mom who put there kids too early on ritatin or think that because her boy's can't stand still and prefer to play videogame they must certainly have adhd.

Get a good psychologist. One that work with other ADHD people. I'm followed by one and it's like my self-development mentor. He's there to help you even if you need to pay him but it will help you. I see him really like on of the only person that I can talk about the struggle that I have with being productive or dealing with emotions. Like this subreddit instead of talking about sexual strategy you talk about self-development)

Clean your lifestyle.

Videogame or everything that come close to instant gratification when you day is just starting it's a no no ... especially at the beginning of your treatment. Your Dopamine is like your willpower. It isn't infinite. An ADHD person don't have a lot of it or can't produce at a faster rate. Everything that is instant gratification is your worst enemy in the long run. As said in the video : You're the most high-tech rocket on the planet earth with the most powerful computer... but you have no fuel. You can't move....


But you will say ( especially under vyvanse ) but dude i'm super productive I found all the info I needed for my paper way faster than before ... or some shit like that... You will start being productive at being unproductive. I was able to teach myself a shitload of thing about dieting/nutrition/fitness ... but I forgot to do my school assignment... I was productive at being unproductive.

What was the most useful to me at that point was getting good grades not reading about nutrition, that can come after I've done my task. It's like taking a shit but not pulling your pants down ... you get thing done ... but not in the logical order.

How do you know you're moving in the right way ?

Be accountable.

Start scheduling your life. Put the big rock 1st etc... This will give you an idea : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNmIxkyHd8

Be A-C-C-O-U-N-T-A-B-L-E

Ex : I keep a pen&paper log for my gym session ... multiple time I thought I wouldn't need it ... 2-3 day later I found myself skipping gym day. There is something that push me to go back and get stronger in writing down the number I just lifted.

It will develop a good quality that men's of today lack : Rigorousness and discipline.

The think is to have the habits of scheduling your day and start doing what you scheduled when it pop-off on your phone/agenda/computer/what ever. I had the bad habits of scheduling my day but pressing ''snooze'' on the even that keep popping up.

Summary : By scheduling you have more control over your life. More control = less anxiety and less screwing around. We ADHD can't see the consequences in the future. We have a great skill to see the big picture but don't feel it. I'm sure you are like this when you start a team project ... you wait before everything fit in the big picture before starting the 1st step ahaha. 2nd great skill is : You can be overfocused ( on the wrong thing ) and achieve thing faster than everyone else. By scheduling you gain control day by day instead of doing a sprint at the end. Life is a marathon.


2nd worst ennemy : " I don't feel like it"

I still struggle with this one.

You're weapon : you need to trick your brain.

Need to study or start the research for a paper or w/e ... ADHD have a problem with estimating time ... When people ask me how much time it will take me ... I DON'T KNOW ... It will take the time that it will take ...

So to trick my brain I schedule 15min ... yeah just that

What it will do :

• 15min is a short amount of time, it will control your anxiety before doing it because you brain can always say : I will do 15 min and close the book that's it
  
  In 15min you will have time to understand the problem you have in front of you. You will have the good informations to guess how much time it can take you to achieve your task, information that you didn't have prior to that. In 15min your anxiety will rise and plateau. That feeling of not being able to finish something and feeling of being overwhelm by the task will seem much smaller now. You gain control of the #1 survivability skill that your ancestor gave you : Connecting the dots.
  
  When the hunter saw the footprint on the grass he connected the dots between seeing the footprint but not seeing the prey, and estimating that there was something there and it's now gone. You're brain connected the dots from previous experience and future outcomes and came up with prediction... what we call instinct/guts in some case.
  
  When you start nothing you're in an illusion of control. You can't have feedback if you're not doing the actions and it's much simpler to imagine the outcomes. That is where procrastination gain is power, in the illusion of control. Much simpler to learn about stupid shit on reddit than to learn what you saw in class. The same "pathway of neurone" (By that I'm illustrating the fact that you brain gain the same satisfaction, you're brain is always developing himself) are used but one give greater outcomes than the other.
  
  You become stronger by Feedback Analysis Further reading on that : Managing Oneself by Peter f. Drucker
  
  
  BUT BE CAREFUL !!!
  
  Do not become Rigid ... this is where discipline come into play.
  
  Rigidity in a lifestyle come from having your standard way to high. You need to hit the ball before scoring home-run.
  
  What do you do if you didn't start where you needed to start ? You reschedule in the hopes that the next time you will feel better and be more prepare or you try to use the rest of the time you schedule and try to use it as much as you can ?
  
  I struggled with that and I still do but I have a better control over it.
  
  I found myself skipping gym session because I didn't feel I would be able to do my Strength Set and after my Hypertrophy set ... so I didn't go to the gym...
  
  One is better than zero.
  
  Now when I feel exhausted or my anxiety is too high I say to myself : OK just go there and do your Strength set and call it off. So I go there do my set and.... magically my brain is in the right mood and I finish what I needed to do ! MAGIC ... not just science.
  
  Note : The program I'm using is 5/3/1 from JimWendler.
  
  In summary : Once your task is scheduled but you don't feel like it or there is an ''emergency'', Try to at least start something or do the One thing that give you the best outcomes. In my exemple : Strength is what build muscle, hypertrophy are just for aesthetic so I needed to at least do my strength set. Lower your standard so you don't feel overwhelm but the anxiety and start ASAP the task you needed to do.
  
  I lost my line of thought will post this for now and come with everything I feel is missing.
  
  I tried to write for an ADHD person and for a normal person. My english isn't perfect but everything seem fine.
  
  TL:DR : Hey you weaktards there isn't a TL;DR. Feel the pain of reading a wall of text or maybe you're just not that interested in learning more about ADHD and you can go back touching yourself over GW or liking Cat picture over imgur.
  

Not the best week in terms of raw performance, but a very good week in terms of re-assessing where I'm at and reconnecting with goals. That process seems to recur every 4-5 months or so.

**BODY**

Lifting: After posting last week about leaving my personal trainer, I switched back to 5x5 to explore lifting heavy again.

Despite lifting VERY light for the past 6 months or so, ego still flares up when deciding what weight to put on the bar. I de-loaded to half of where I left off with 5x5 (my PR continued to go up for a few months after that. After so long of not lifting heavy I wanted to build in A LOT of room to build back up.

So, starting quite low in order to build back up and focus on maintaining form. Fun so far; I much prefer 5x5 in general because the workouts are shorter/more to the point.

After some recommendation I've been adding in pull ups and curls to the workouts as well, just super setting between the two after finishing.

Diet: had a few days where I ate off plan this week. One was on a date night with the wife - ordered my first ever Baked Alaska and GOOD LORD, I REGRET NOTHING - FUCK

Memorial Day I had a plan in place for a cookout and did not follow it. Lame.

Doctor: Finally going to see a doctor after many years away. New doc, had first appointment this morning. Liked him, young but very thorough. Fit as well.

My goal is to go back over all my cardiologist data from 6 years ago and reassess my atrial fibrilation. Once that's done, going to get a very thorough heart check up (heart attacks are very common on both mom and dad's side) and just make that a regular thing.

**MINDSET**

I would say slightly weaker than last few weeks.

Noticed myself being bothered more by sexual rejections, not wanting to initiate, etc. Nowhere near as strong as it was, and I'm more aware of it, but I've lost a bit of the OI I was enjoying.

Things are bad ----\> I give up, develop OI -----\> things improve ------\> I get re-attached ------\> lose OI ------\> things are bad

\^\^\^ That's the cycle right there. It's getting less intense over time, though.

**RELATIONSHIPS**

Sex twice this week. I'm doing more initiating during the day, but not any more or less successful than initiating in bed.

I've been thinking about our sex life; I've certainly gotten it to a better place than I ever thought possible (1-2 a week on average). But of course, now my goals have improved.

I'd like to be rejected much less, but I can't force attraction and have a lot of room to grow. I can keep working on that myself.

Something I've largely ignored is my own sexual performance/leadership. I've never had trouble giving my wife orgasms (classic nice guy behavior, "she has to cum!"), so it never bothered me much.

But I definitely rely on a very small collection of positions/techniques, etc. My wife is also very closed off about what she likes, sexually, so there's nothing coming from her. I like to be more dominant in bed, but my wife has not been terribly open to that outside of a small number of instances (doesn't like being told what to do, etc).

Outside of the attraction question, it's up to me to lead the relationship here. I also think I could stand to broaden my repertoire; I can settle into a rut unless I'm pushed.

I have a couple books/etc on sex saved to the HD that I never really explored; think it's a good time to look into that stuff. SGM and a few others.

If I want more variety in our sex life - which I do - I have to create that variety.

**BUSINESS**

Starting a new side biz, which is always fun - that's the exciting part.

Also joining a high level systems training with someone who owns several businesses but doesn't work in any of them. Going to increasingly remove myself from my current business while building side incomes.

**READING**

Measuring what matters

https://www.amazon.com/Measure-What-Matters-Google-Foundation/dp/0525536221

All about OKRs. Very interested in using this in my businesses (and in personal life)

Some Enneagram books - I find the enneagram pretty insightful. Don't really believe in "personality types," but I've gained some insight from this system. I'm a 9, my wife is a 6 - want to get a bit deeper into understanding how she copes with stress/problems.

If he was initially resistant to going to school, it sounds like the sweatshirt was an excuse, not the actual reason. You may want to explore that further with him; as others have said, your counselors should be able to help with the situation.

But to address the part of your post about your response to him: You allowed him to shift the focus of what was bothering him. If you can step back and be objective about the situation, you'll see him trying to push your buttons (rudeness and disrespect) and can counteract that by not responding to it.

This may sound far-fetched, but there's an old business management book, designed to be a quick and easy read (although it takes a long time to figure out how to implement the ideas, like any other good system) that might help you get a handle on your own reactions: "The One Minute Manager".

What I noticed about it when I was learning to manage employees, years ago, is that many of the techniques are also good parenting techniques, particularly for adolescents. Kids are particularly good at shifting responsibility back to the parents, simply by acting out or pushing hot buttons. My SAH mother was an excellent 'kid' manager, and I recognized some of her techniques!

A later book which built on the principles in the One Minute Manger was called "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey"](http://www.amazon.com/The-Minute-Manager-Meets-Monkey/dp/0688103804) which is even more appropos of your situation, since it highlights all the ways in which lazy employees try to con their managers.

Assigned tasks are the 'monkeys' which employees try to get the manager to do for them; the book highlights the ways in which managers fall for the ploys, and provides counters. But step one is recognizing what's happening at the time.

Take the sweatshirt issue (ignoring that there may be something else at the heart of this behavior, but just assuming there wasn't). He stood in the rain and got it wet and dirty, right? Why wasn't it his responsibility to wash and dry it, if he wanted to wear it the next day? He had a problem, his solution was to turn it into your problem--and you let him. But he's just being a kid and doing what adolescent kids do, which is see-sawing between growing up too fast and not growing up at all.

Your parenting job right now is to manage him past this behavior, and maybe treating him like an "employee"--someone capable of responsibility--is part of the answer. Of course, hugs and love are an acceptable part of this workplace!

Good luck to you!

This is actually already on the minds of a lot of HR people at top companies. IMO, it is more about employee satisfaction at the company, with salary being part of the mix. Gallup did this huge survey using 12 questions to measure employee engagement. They said that if an employee answered with 5s on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being totally agree) to all of these questions, then that was one of the best indicators to company performance. Now, they're peddling this product to a lot of companies, and in my opinion (which counts for nothing), it works.

Read the book First, Break all the Rules, which is written by, surprise! The same guy who developed and is selling the survey.

• Do you know what is expected of you at work?
  
• Do you have the materials and equipment to do your work
  right?
  
• At work, do you have the opportunity to do what you do best
  every day?
  
• In the last seven days, have you received recognition or praise
  for doing good work?
  
• Does your supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about
  you as a person?
  
• Is there someone at work who encourages your development?
  
• At work, do your opinions seem to count?
  
• Does the mission/purpose of your company make you feel your
  job is important?
  
• Are your associates (fellow employees) committed to doing
  quality work?
  
• Do you have a best friend at work?
  
• In the last six months, has someone at work talked to you
  about your progress?
  
• In the last year, have you had opportunities to learn and grow?
  
  I'm bored.

I think it all relates to one-another. You don't need schooling to be successful, but as a young adult, schooling is usually your primary responsibility. Your habits and intelligence begin very early on and I can almost think back to the things that influenced me to be the person I am now.

Just know that it's never too late to change your life. So, if now's not the time for you, then don't fret but maybe make some changes or read books from entrepreneurs. I've heard this book is good. I also like Mark Cuban's book.. I read a lot of informational blogs and articles online though. How people perceive you and respect is earned.

I think it's all important. At least for me, the busier I am with real responsibilities and goals, the better I do at all of them. So, doing well in school while creating something is probably the best recipe for success. On the other hand, student loan debt is a really bad trap most young adults fall into now.

In the end, if you're a hustler about the things you do, you'll find success. Entrepreneurship is more a mental stability game than anything else. I'm glad I had a decent job and consistent paycheck while I tried to do the entrepreneurship stuff. I wasn't a very good employee though.

EDIT: I think the most important thing is to also have "heros" or someone you really look up to. For me, that was my brother. He was naturally very intelligent, so even though I didn't keep up with him in school, I always had his influence for high accomplishments & goals.

Yes... but it's complicated; to answer this would require a few pages. I recommend Steven Brill's "America's Bitter Pill". Or you can read over the Time article that lead to the book here. He does an excellent job laying out how hospitals are getting obscenely rich and how we got here. I strongly recommend the book.


Marcia Angell, former editor for New England Journal of Medicine, covers the pharma end well in "The Truth About Drug Companies".

She outlines the peverse incentives out there for pharma companies. Say you have a drug that is about to lose it's patent protection (meaning generics cannot be sold), why not get a 6 month extension granted for it by testing the drug on children? Maybe kids need Viagra right? How about a 6-month extension for pediatric oxycontin?
Maybe you've used up the pediatric patent exclusivity extensions. Why not simply take an existing drug and create a market? Sarafem is great for PMS, nevermind it cost 10x more than generic fluoxetine (Prozac) and that the only ingredient in it is fluoxetine.
I mean why spend hundreds of millions of $ on actual new drug research when you can simply make a time release version of an ancient drug? Focalin (methylphenidate ER) saved people from the horrors of having to take Ritalin (methylphenidate) twice a day and Daytrana (methylphenidate transdermal patch) saved people from the horrors of having to swallow a pill once a day. Oxycontin was marketed as a less addictive alternative to Oxycodone IR/Percocet. All Purdue Pharma did was take an old existing drug, oxycodone, and give it a time release. That way instead of patients having to take 15mg every 6 hours, they could take 30mg of Oxycontin every 12. Truly a miracle right?

Anyway I've already said more than I intended and am not writing in a appropriate tone for this sub, so I'll stop myself now. I strongly recommend the books linked above.

TL;DR: The conflict over "power users" is due to the fundamental anonymity mismatch created by a site that creates usernames, tracks user involvement but permits no user identification or community beyond 15 characters and two scores. If you care to learn more, read on. If you don't, the following will bore the shit out of you.


I've given this a lot of thought. I've been fortunate to befriend an extremely intelligent social media guru (in the academic sense, not the SEO sense) and the reading list I've gotten off of her has been illuminating as fuck. The following theory owes its creation to the following books:

You are not a gadget

Predictably Irrational

Reality is Broken

The Starfish and the Spider

Further discussion can be found here and here. I realize it's pretty goddamn rude to front-load a conversation with a bibliography and footnotes but I want to emphasize that this is not something I treat flippantly. I have never had as much influence over the behavior of the world as I feel we all do at Reddit and the behaviors we see and experience are, in my opinion, a new social ground that deserves study. Using the 10/10 rule, I believe that public forums such as Reddit are likely to become the preeminent form of communication in the future and wrapping one's head around the foibles and failings of the medium while it still remains the domain of the early adopter is an investment that will pay off in spades going forward.

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      First off, the statement "everybody wants to take the idols down a notch" is indisputable truth, for varying values of "everybody." I would say that messages of support are far more likely to come in via PM and that messages of disparagement are far more likely to come in via public forum. The end result is that "take the idols down a notch" is a socially-condoned behavior while "worshipping the idols" is something that will generally get you shunned. The exception is when Reddit at large is busily worshipping you - post something that Reddit loves and people saying "I love this redditor" will get upvoted. Even then, however, the number of PMs of support you get is generally 5x the number of public accolades. The prevailing culture of Reddit is very much aligned with the (apocryphal?) Japanese proverb "The nail that sticks up will be hammered down."
      
      The reason this attitude prevails is due to the tripartite nature of Reddit and the incongruities it causes. Reddit is, at once and simultaneously,
      
      

• A news website
  
  
• A video game
  
  
• A social site
  
  No one place can be all three of those things without friction.
  
  From a "news" perspective, Reddit could be compared to, say, Gizmodo. The difference is that Gizmodo is a top-down, conventional news site where a select few insiders produce content for a sea of outsiders. The boundary is obvious there - if your name is on the article, you're a for-pay employee. The criticism heaped upon Gizmodo is entirely appropriate because they're journalists. Letters to the Editor date back to the Revolutionary War. Reddit, however, has most of the same characteristics as Gizmodo, minus the editorial wall. So whereas "yell at the name you recognize" is a tradition well-served and understood in the world of journalism, in the everyone-as-editor world of Reddit "yell at the name you recognize" tends to concentrate the insults from those who contribute the least on those who are contributing the most.
  
  From a "video game" perspective, Reddit might as well be Farmville. We see each other's scores growing and when someone else's score grows vastly faster than ours, we're likely to presume they're cheating (particularly when the rules of the game are largely secret and passed down amongst users primarily via folklore). Reddit is also one of the least-rewarding video games ever created, as there are no multicolored sprites or triumphant marches played when a comment or submission scores well. As such, the "hipsterism" of Reddit promotes attacks on those with high karma because, after all, only nerds would spend so much time on a video game that can't even hold a candle to Pac Man. Finally, scores on Reddit are highlighted prominently and are an intrinsic part of the "game" even though the scores hold absolutely no value. Reddit puts "players" in a gold-farming frame of mind without giving them anything to spend their gold on.
  
  Reddit falls apart the most as a "social site." Unlike standard PHPBB communities, you can click on a username and learn exactly nothing about them on Reddit. You can't even see what their top contributions have been. Reddit awards users with a "trophy" for verifying an email address - which occupies the same lofty perch as producing the top daily comment or top daily post on a site with 500,000 users. Reddit is barely removed from the 100% anonymity provided by 4chan - with the exception of the "power users." The fact that we borrowed the term from Digg (where it meant something) and use it here (where it totally doesn't) only makes matters worse, particularly when combined with the poorly-understood mechanisms of Reddit's anti-spam filters. Most Redditors presume that they get a "posting too fast" warning in any given subreddit because they lack the karma to bypass the filter. When I mention it, people are usually flabbergasted that I run into the same problem, despite having a top 20 or 30 combined karma score of all time.
  
  And it's the anonymity mismatch that causes the biggest problem, in my estimation. Ask any redditor to name 5 reddit accounts other than his own and he'll have a hard time. Of those he remembers, dollars to donuts they'll be names that he either a) sees a lot or b) really pissed him off in a flamewar at some point. The rest of it is entirely too anonymous to remember. Probably half of p-dub's comment karma comes from people upvoting him so they could say "do your homework." Probably 3/4ths of L3mm1w1nkz's comment karma comes from his signature "PS I am a shithead." Gimli_the_dwarf, despite having a lot to say and extremely insightful posts, is going to be remembered for "And my axe." This is why novelty accounts flourish on Reddit - they're easy to recognize, easy to remember, and easy to reward.
  
  The flip-side, of course, is they're also easy to punish. The reason Randall doesn't post as xkcd any more, if I had to guess, is that as soon as people decided that xkcd wasn't indisputably funny people jumped on him. That's why so very many of the names that were prominent on this site a year ago are now gone - the opportunities for interaction are so very rare that -
  

Missing:

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds:
http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds/dp/051788433X

"Amazon.com
Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first published in 1841--shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas.

In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else
http://www.amazon.com/Perfectly-Legal-Campaign-Benefit-Everybody/dp/1591840198

Amazon.com
Most Americans would agree that they are duty bound as beneficiaries of our democracy to pay taxes, and the majority of us do pay—-exorbitantly. But what about those who do not pay their fair share? David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, here reveals how fairness and equity have eroded from the American tax system. Johnston describes in shocking detail the loopholes our government provides the "super rich"--from private individuals to profitable corporations—-to hide their wealth, to defer or evade tax payments, and to pass the bill to law-abiding middle-class Americans. The loss in revenue "imposes a severe cost on honest taxpayers" through reduced services, increased federal debt, and a weight on the middle class that threatens to impede its ability to achieve upward social mobility.

Admitting the extreme complexity of our economy and by extension our tax code, Johnston points out that the very wealthy do, of course, pay taxes. However, because of shelters that allow them to understate most of their income, they pay little more on average than most Americans on the dollar. This is regressive, and unquestionably favors the superrich. Johnston includes examples of outrageous corporate malfeasance (such as companies that establish off-shore tax addresses) and exposes the tax benefits of the particularly loathsome practice made famous by Jack Welch, in which thousands of wage earners are laid off while a handful of executives are granted hundreds of millions of dollars through deferred compensation, company stock options, and lucrative retirement packages, all at stock holders' xpense. In addition to these offenses, he describes the tax evasion methods of those who simply defy the law and are emboldened by a beleaguered IRS that is too underfunded to serve as an effective deterrent to tax cheats. Johnston calls for a complete overhaul of the system. But because those who most benefit from these laws comprise the "donor class" that supports the government power structure, our prospects for reform remain very bleak. --Silvana Tropea

Two books I recommend reading. I'm pretty young and yet have been very successful in my career so far. These have helped me quite a bit:

http://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin/dp/0307704076

http://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372916346&sr=1-1&keywords=7+habits+of+highly+effective+people

A summary of some tips:

1. Never ever complain. If you don't like something, always phrase it this way: "I noticed that X isn't adding value to our organization/team/etc. Instead, I propose we do Y, for these reasons: 1, 2, 3. This will result in Z."
   
   Tell this to your manager and colleagues, and you will look like a leader, not a complainer. Ideally, you could even start working on it before you propose it to people.
   
   
2. Do emotional work. Most people think a job is just doing what you're told, but this is only a small piece of it. If you can figure out a way to bring passion, organization, leadership, creativity, etc. to your job, then you will be seen as a stand-out employee.
   
   
3. Make other people be effective. This is straight from "The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People," and really this is something you should adopt in all your life, not just work. Change your perspective so you are thinking about how to make your manager better at her job, for example. Thinking in this way shifts the focus away from your problems, and helps build relationships between you and your peers, which is the foundation of moving ahead in a career.

What you'd like to do is start a business. Starting a business is hard. You're missing the forest for the trees here. Learning the skills well enough to take on jobs is the easy part. Finding jobs that will pay for those skills in exchange for money is the hard part.

I like Side Hustle's approach.

> In my country, the sites for small businesses are not too developed, so my main idea is to make/upgrade sites for local shops/restaurants/gyms/tattoo salons, etc. Nothing fancy or special, just 1 or 2 pages per month, to get some money.

You and literally millions of other people have had this specific idea, and the nice thing about designing websites is anyone, anywhere can do it. You're competing with people half a world away in that particular market :)

If you'd still like to chase this, learn the popular CMSs and eCommerce platforms, create a website/portfolio, and market the ever-loving hell out of yourself. You could try Freelancer, 99designs, and UpWork -- these sites can be good for "kitchen money".

> The other thing is that I really love maps, stats and data visualization.

You can do this full-time for the right business. Working in Excel, slinging pivot tables and your favorite data visualization library. Unless you're living in a country that's absolutely devoid of commerce in general I guess -- "Europe" generally doesn't have this problem.

I am reading a book right now called "Managing Oneself" by Peter F. Drucker. It's super short (60 pages with huge margins and large font). I think it might be worth your while to read. In it he talks about people exactly in your situation. He would postulate that maybe you're much better in a sub-management position than a management position. He would also postulate that it's not so much about "advancing your career" as it is figuring out where you fit in and how/what you contribute. In other words, perhaps you took this current job because you felt like you needed to advance your career because that's what people do. But the advancement of a career does not necessarily correlate with happiness.


I hope I don't sound like I am telling you this is the way it is. That's not my intention. Your situation just reminded me of the book I am reading and thought it might provide some alternative perspective and insight for you.


Good luck!

> If someone could build a prototype, find investors, and bring it to market then I'd be thrilled with 5%.

Well, that's actually within the range that people get paid for licensing their ideas to companies. They do all the work and take all the risk, and you receive a royalty. If you're interested in this, you should read One Simple Idea by Stephen Key. It's a great book that explains everything about the licensing process. I've met the author in person, and he's a fantastic guy. Very generous and truly loves helping people.

I feel like a woman when my advice, intuition, and expertise are valuable to myself and others; when I have energy for the day- looking good and well rested; and (probably most importantly) when I have my eyes on what I want for myself- not how I compare to others. I'm in a transition, myself, leaning more toward the adult side of things. Sometimes I fall back into an "it's not fair" trap, judging people around me, and I have to pull myself back into adulthood. Complaining is the ultimate un-classy/elegant thing to do. This will sound VERY cheesy, but I highly recommend the book Well Being. Keep in mind that this is coming from a trivia-playing, beer-drinking, sailor-mouth woman who didn't own makeup before her own wedding... but I'm very happy with myself!!! Good luck, girl!

If you move (relocate) more than 50 miles in the year: $5,000 tax credit.

You can in fact set up trusts, also the above mentioned dependent care and health savings plan accounts. Also if you have children 529 plans (which can be used for "anything in the benefit of the child")

From my own tax reductions: Do you know you can register as being a farm operator without actually owning a farm or any animals? Legally? And get a huge tax deduction with farm related tax subsidies? My wife trains horses and we managed to avoid around $30k in taxes because of things like this.

Honestly if you want a good into into how to avoid paying taxes (most of what is available to billionaires are also available to others, we just don't know about them), check out Perfectly Legal It's based on the author's original Pulitzer Prize winning articles on the U.S. Tax Code.

Yeah.. navigating a classroom full of 13 screaming two year olds for hours on end... just a bit stressful..

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I remembered in a book I read, I think it was this one- (Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements ) that in a study, people who defined themselves as "successful" or as having a good overall "wellbeing" were those who loved their jobs. That statement was an eye opener for me.. I had no idea some people actually enjoyed their work everyday. All I ever knew was existential dread... The book is definitely a good read if you're interested. It's what got me thinking about my work, and inspired me to look for a job I could actually enjoy, the teaching one.

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I'm sure you will find joy in your work again, perhaps with the switch of a job. Surely the right one is out there. Relevant and engaging work is not always easy to find, and the search can quickly become exhausting. But sometimes, given time, the right job will find you.

Planner with 6+ years' experience, and a master's degree, chiming in.

Make sure you have some tangible skills, like GIS. Also be prepared to move anywhere in the country (or world). I.e., be as flexible as possible, because, as someone else said, planning is a bit of a niche market and there aren't a million jobs in any given locale. Get as much work experience as possible while you're still in school and can afford to work for free or close to free.

While you're at it, get a book (like this one) on how to write a resume and make it look good (and keep it to one page). Do something to stand out. The market is, in fact, flooded with job-seekers and you need to make it both easy to not throw your resume away, and easy for the hiring manager to want to give you a second look.

Another idea: if there happens to be some sort of natural disaster when you graduate and are looking, there are always going to be jobs with state and federal money assisting in the cleanup and rehabilitation. E.g., after Sandy, I saw lots of (temp) community planning jobs in NJ and NY helping with community revitalization.

One final thought. If you don't want to be flexible and know exactly where you want to work, you can, first, tailor your education towards that end. I knew a guy who did that and got his dream job right out of grad school. Second, you can move to that area and go to all the networking events and really target your applications (geographically). Accept something less than what you want initially just to have some stability and build a resume in your chosen location, and never stop looking for the next thing. Expect to change jobs a lot. Everyone else will.

Very interesting article. Whenever this topic comes up I think about a couple books. First, Break All The Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths. These books outline what makes a manager great and how the greatest managers identify, motivate, and retain the most talented people in their organization. Interesting read.

For software maybe look at Passolo or Catalyst. Haven't used either, know they're pretty popular. Maybe there's something newer, IDK

https://www.sdltrados.com/products/passolo/

http://www.alchemysoftware.com

LISA is defunct but LRC is still around https://www.localisation.ie

You also want to look at Terminology Management

http://www.cotsoes.org/sites/default/files/CST_Recommendations_for_Terminology_Work.pdf

OAXAL was designed for this sort of thing but I don't think anyone used it much.

IRL advice -

Hire someone bilingual w/native language being + residing in the country that's the localization target (don't have a Spaniard "localize" something for the Latin American market or vice versa). What country is the target? I know people in Poland, some of the Scandanavian ones. Usually it takes a team to do this correctly. You never automate translation/localization unless it barely matters.

\> business scenarios

Fair chance some of them will be offensive, unintentionally hilarious, or just not make any sense cross-culturally. Watch out for any gestures. OK sign means "You're an a--hole," for instance in about half the world. Also, in a lot of the Islamic world male-female interactions differ and it's considered a slight to shake with the left hand rather than just mildly odd/rude like in the US. Skirt length is an issue in parts of Asia. And you have to avoid anything with kings in a few countries and bones in mainland China. Also, things in the Anglosphere that are business concerns often just aren't elsewhere, so they may just be irrelevant.

Most regulations and agencies are also nationally, so that usually will be re-done. Anything HR related should just be done locally. EU member countries on the continent (as well as some former Communist countries) have an impenetrable morass of laws that you will probably need to hire a local bureaucrat to untangle. The US has pretty much no workplace and employment laws compared to most of the first world.

Read Kiss, Bow, Or Shake Hands - not the authors, no relationship.

https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Bow-Shake-Hands-Bestselling/dp/1593373686

> Should we separate OKRs and Performance Reviews?

Absolutely, that's a foundational premise of OKRs. You should read the book Measure What Matters, it explains what OKRs are, how they came to be and how to approach using them in your organizations.

To the point the other poster made, you absolutely should be setting "aspirational" OKRs, that's another foundational premise of OKRs. You should have stretch OKRs and you should be targeting ~70% completion. OKRs are not a task list and they are not a performance evaluation. If you're hitting 100% of your OKRs you're setting them too conservatively. Again this the process.

If anyone is really interested in implementing OKRs you really should spend some time understanding them. Obviously it's going to be up to individual leaders to decide how best to implement them, whether you want stretch OKRs, etc. but I'm going to use a "no true scottsman" here. OKRs are being pretty widely adopted in progressive orgs these days and it's pretty well documented how they work, you're either doing OKRs or you're not regardless of what you want to call the process.

I was able to find alternate shoes for my interview outfit. I don't love them as much, but they'll work--they're these, but in mauve/light pink. I like them.

Tomorrow I need to read Brave New World for book club, flip through this book for my interview, and do overall interview prep. Ugh. Since I have a lot of reading to do, I am instead watching The Great British Bake Off. So charming!

Obvious answer you know will come up is save some of if. Even though long term savings are very good, being young just start working on saving up a healthy chunk of cash.

Depending on your personality, you may also have to budget some play money. What I mean by that is if you're the type of person to either 1) never spend your money on enjoying life or 2) can't keep yourself from blowing money. Set an amount you spend for pleasure that you have to spend each month, no more and no less.


The book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind has a really good breakdown for how to split up your money: https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Millionaire-Mind-Mastering-Wealth/dp/0060763280

Sure, scientists are wage slaves, but they are also above uncredentialed workers in a very distinct hierarchy. Professionals are expected to assign their creativity to whatever benefits their bosses/owners, but do this without direct supervision. They internalize the logic of capital to a much greater degree than a nonprofessional worker who is simply expected to follow orders. Disciplined Minds is a brilliant analysis of the professional class with a focus on science and the academy. The audio book version is free.

If you you're looking for help learning yourself, I'd recommend starting with the following books:

• Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs -- learn how to deal with the numbers and evaluate if a company is doing well
  
• The Beginner's Guide to Saving & Investing for Canadians -- learn the basics of investing with specifics for Canadians
  
• How to Win at the Sport of Business -- more inspirational but a good read
  
  From there look for topics in the specific type of business you are looking to run or the type of markets you're interested in.

Out of the books I read, these were my favorite.

• Meditations
  
• The Effective Executive
  
• Managing Humans
  
• The New One Minute Manager
  
• How To Win Friends and Influence People
  
  I suppose these focus less on "leadership" so much as management. But they are all helpful when it comes to thinking about being a leader.
  
  I also can't stress enough the importance of being introspective, and taking the time for self reflection. It's crucial that you be able to take a look at yourself, and see how your actions affect others. How you make others feel. Things like that. I know that's not particularly helpful, but I guess all I can say is do whatever makes the most sense for you to make yourself a more empathetic human being.

What it really sounds like is that you need a whole mindset change. I would recommend starting off getting some education (either college or self-taught) and develop confident mindset. You've taken the first step with seeing that you have a issue and asking for help.

There's a few books I can recommend: Think and Grow Rich, I Will Teach you to be Rich, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind.

Even if money isn't your goal, these books help you discover what you should be focusing life on.

Now it's all about doing it.

Just a few points:

1. they are "patentable", every innovative pharmaceutical or biotech product is.
   
2. oncology business is already pretty big, they don't want to destroy or shake too much this booming market. That's why development is pursued to treat and not to cure.
   
3. the majority of people expect to have magic pills for everything when actually everyone should be more or less capable to be their own doctor, meaning to have common sens when it comes to being healthy.
   
   You should read "the truth about drug companies"

There are classes in hospitality and resort management. If your parents are serious they and/or you should be taking them. Community colleges and even four year colleges offer degrees in this sort of thing.
Campgrounds are a huge industry. There are professional organizations dedicated to it. Find out about them and join.

You MIGHT have luck contacting Stéphane Deschênes of Bare Oaks. He runs a first-class place.

Read this book. (And several of the others on that page.)

You are dipping your toe into a deep career field. Good luck.

I always give this book recommendation, but honestly it helped me sooooo much. I got my most recent job with the advice from this book (one that I thought I had absolutely no chance of getting) and it has some great tips in there. The hard copy is a bit pricey, but if you have a kindle or somewhere to read kindle books, that one's not so bad.

Best of luck!

As far as other sub-reddits, there isn't really a good one dedicated to management. I'm subbed to r/business, r/consulting, r/management, and r/smallbusiness (this one might be the best for you because there are a lot of posts asking how to deal with small teams and difficult employees).

Really basic: One Minute Manager https://www.amazon.com/New-One-Minute-Manager/dp/0062367544/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506001797&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=one+minut+emanager

Story Factor: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Factor-2nd-Revised/dp/0465078079/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506001667&sr=8-1&keywords=story+factor

Honestly, there's nothing better than on-the-job experience when it comes to management. You might want to follow up with your boss and ask the same pointed question, "my team seems to be growing, do you have any recommendations of books that could help me become a better manager?"

For what it is worth it really doesn't matter. You are going to make the best choices for yourself for whatever circumstances you will find yourself in. I would say that if you expose yourself to a wider array at this point you have the ability to discern what you like (still a student). Job market wise you can choose what you would like as a career. Be a sponge

Thank you for sharing your opinion and beliefs. Real freethinkers read EVERYTHING, including research papers and books. Some might call it challenging, I suppose, because I agree that there are no shortcuts. Have a nice day.

"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine"

Dr. Marcia Angell, “Drug companies & doctors: a story of corruption," NY Review of Books, 56 #1, 15 Jan

https://www.amazon.com/The-Truth-About-Drug-Companies/dp/0375760946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1400820070&sr=8-1&keywords=drug+companies+corruption

Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives

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This book would answer yes. It's been a while since I've read it, admittedly. But what really stuck with me was the idea that school, in the case of the book it was graduate level schooling, selected for people that were willing to submit to the demands of the institution and the individuals that made it up regardless of how absurd those demands were. Graduate students aren't exactly known for loving their lives as they have to deal with committees, panels, advisors, and a multitude of other factors that each hold a part of the key to their future, not to mention themselves. If those parts of the keys don't line up, then a graduate student will fail.

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From a critical standpoint of capitalism, a benevolent perspective is that self-discipline gives individuals the opportunity to make sure the part of their own key is fashioned to reduce as much friction with the other parts to increase the chances of that key lining up. But, even so, every individual exists within a social context that will go a long way to determining that individual's future just as much, if not more than, the individual's own actions. Hence the focus on collectivizing in modes of life that collectivists have. Success isn't about achieving something as an individual. So, while self-discipline is still useful from the anti-capitalist perspective, it's not quite as useful as picket lines and strikes and whatnot.

Good for you bilbobillikins! A couple of books that helped me make the transition were - High Output Management and First, Break All the Rules. Apart from this there is a great series of podcasts where Mike and Mark talk about various challenges and have a great perspective on how to deal with typical situation that managers would face. You can find them at Manager Tools website.

Get really good at what you do.

Figure out how to sell those services outside of your normal 9-5.

Become indispensable to your company.

Talk to your boss and tell them that location freedom is important to you and you'd like to take a pay-cut/hour-cut and be able to work remotely a bit. If they say no, then you have your services on the side that you're selling already so you won't be in such a deep hole.

My buddy Chris Guillebeau just put out a book on building your side hustle last week which is a good read if you want to get an idea about this

we have to build robust, redundant, online-to-offline-and-back networks of rapid communication via trusted networks. trust being in the meat space & heart space that exists between people, not trust based solely on some level of upvoting or amazon.com reputation system or what not. that type of crowd sourcing for importance is part of it, but cannot, should not be all of it. too open to manipulation.

befriend 3-5 online berners closely enough that you trust eachother to connect via other channels. ask each of your network to spread out that way as well. We have to become the Starfishes to thwart the Spiders in the media.

give this book a read.

honestly I am just starting to try it out too, so I don't know all the answers.

but yeah, a provisional sounds like a good place to start

I read a book called the truth about drug companies and I highly recommend it. Medicine for profit creates a world of designer maintenance drugs. Why cure something when it's more profitable to create life long dependence! Plus, we can repackage the same drugs over and over as "New" and hike up the price. We've "improved" the formula by changing it just enough to legally call it new without actually improving anything.

More money is made by keeping people sick as opposed to actually helping them. It's counter intuitive to what we think medicine should be.

off the top of my head:

Meditations, with The Inner Citadel as a reader

Letters from a Stoic

A Guide to the Good Life by Irvine

Do The Work by Pressfield as well as The War of Art by Pressfield

Managing Oneself by Ducker

Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl

What Predicts Divorce by Gottman

Nicomachean Ethics

Models by Manson seems to be popular on reddit

So Good They Can't Ignore You by Newport, as well

I'm currently reading Triumphs of Experience by Vaillant and find it insightful.

Absolutely! Here's a short list of non-magic books that I commonly see recommended to magicians.

Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud

Purple Cow - Seth Godin

Delft Design Guide - multiple authors

An Acrobat of the Heart - Stephen Wangh (shouts out to u/mustardandpancakes for the recommendation)

In Pursuit of Elegance - Guy Kawasaki

The Backstage Handbook - Paul Carter, illustrated by George Chiang

Verbal Judo - George Thompson and Jerry Jenkins

Be Our Guest - Ted Kinni and The Disney Institute

Start With Why - Simon Sinek

Lots of common themes even on such a short list. What would you add to the list? What would you take away?

Get ready to pounce and downvote me but yes, this is how I feel, especially after reading this book. The fact is, many (not all) of the drug companies, especially the big ones, spend more on their legal teams and their marketing/sales than they do on R and D.

Legislation passed since the 80's has made it a priority for big pharma to spend more time and money maintaining patents than actually developing new drugs. Also, I have many friends who work in big pharma, a number of whom have told me to my face that they would NEVER use the drugs sold by their own companies.

I wish there were more of a collaborative open/source type environment with drug manufacturing. But there isn't and there's way too much money involved. Big pharma and Washington are bedmates and fuck the rest of us.

For the record, the above book was written by a doctor not Jenny McCarthy.

> He's what you get what you forget that tv isn't real life.

Damn this is astute. Isn't it funny that it's practically a requirement to be a celebrity to run for President now? Now we're going to have an Oprah Presidency? I want off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

> You don't just throw away your shoes because they got holes in them if you can't afford new ones.

This is exactly the feeling I had as I watched the party throw itself under the Trump bus.

> It's the ' trickle down' mentality all over again

Wow. This is an outstanding analysis. Seriously Trump just copied the Reagan thing. Liberals are suckers for bleeding heart types promising handouts that never come and Republicans are suckers for strong guy business masterminds that never actually bring the jobs. The american public has GOT to stop falling for the media propaganda and clearly manufactured 'tropes' (I think with the alt media though we are on are way; traditional media is collapsing.) I have a feeling though this is a LOT bigger then Trump; I think the corporate interest hand and hand with wealthy foreign players have almost the entire GOP by the BALLS.

We are in this weird political age were the only reason people are getting into politics is for all the side profit (dirty money, crony capitalism, book deals, bribes, sweet retirement jobs lobbying or broadcasting etc.)

> the only thing you're going to feel trickling down is billionaires pissing on you as they have been for decades.

This is why I've become a strict libertarian. I think poor government laws and welfare fuck up economics but I also think crony capitalism and regulatory capture fucks up enterprise capitalism. You can't fucking run a hotdog stand in this country without 2 layers a year of permit application and a 100k of startup and knowing one of the legislators.

I think David Cay Johnston has also been writing about this economic stuff as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch-Wealthiest-Themselves-Government/dp/1591842484/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Not specific to IT, but a good read with universal applicability:

Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423145844/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_vg7FybM4XF4NB

Not a Webinar but this book is supposed to be excellent:

https://www.amazon.com/Be-Our-Guest-Perfecting-Institute/dp/1423145844

Thinking of users as Customers rather than annoying users also goes a long way to creating a culture of service. Taken from "The Art of System and Network Administration. It's worth reading as well.

This is a common myth, often used to support their refusal to disclose their actual spending ratios and extortionate profits. Most medicines are researched through publicly funded universities (via NIH grants and other taxpayer supported institutions), and then licensed to Pharma companies.

A large amount of industry spending on drug "development" these days is actually me-too drugs and off-label usage for existing drugs.

Dr. Marica Angell's book is older now, but still a very good resource for understanding a lot of the stuff Pharma does.

Different cultures perceive what we (Americans) might interpret as concrete agreements to be loose understandings. It's not about values, it's about a cultural understanding of what something is. I have colleagues from India who massage the truth about minor, typically inconsequential facts because it's perceived as easier to glide over these things than discuss inconsistencies. I don't fault them, but it's important to know that this might happen when working in that environment. I'd like to see the contact we signed with Foxconn. I'll bet our negotiators thought everything was settled but left certain parts (like what will be produced at the plant, education levels of core employees, etc.) on the table due to inexperience.

All I'm discussing is in Kiss, Bow, and Shake Hands if you want to look in to it further.

you're not alone.

books that have helped me: http://www.amazon.com/Somebody-Around-Insider-Secrets-Hired/dp/0312373341

Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them by Cynthia Shapiro
Link: http://amzn.com/B003K15PC4

No one will ever tell you they have an issue with you. No one likes confrontation and they figure if you don't know the imaginary, unofficial rules of Corporate America, then you don't belong there anyway.

HR is not there for you. HR is there to keep the company from getting sued. Makes friends with someone and ask them to give you honest feedback about how you behave/come across and any insider tips on the culture at the office. It's the only way to survive.

I've never been at a job more than a couple years. Edit: mostly because I don't do politics and butt kissing and get so bored I stop doing my job.

You can buy his ebook which is just an aggregation of his blog posts. Super cheap but fun read:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI

You think that, but you should read Linchpin. Great book about making yourself indispensable.

Despite his silly name, Clay Shirky has written some fascinating articles about the Internet's effect on culture and content, probably the most insightful of anyone I've read. There's one about cognitive surplus, which unfortunately I can't find because he's since written a book called that and reviews of it are drowning out the rest of the results! Here is the TED talk he gave though. Here Comes Everybody is also a great read.

Hm. I hope this is in the arena, but Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody might be of interest to you!

I think he's taking a lot of those ideas from the book "Disciplined minds". However, that book is only looking at people who went to graduate school. I remember hearing Chomsky giving positive comments on this book in the past.

I can make a few general points, yes;

• The people who do go guildless tend to do so for their own reasons - meaning having someone "above" them doing the organizing simply doesn't appeal. That makes any attempt to recruit moot, because they're unrecruitable.
  
  
• That unrecruitability generally ends up in one of a few categories; inconsistent schedule, willfulness in terms of play objectives, a preference not to get invested in the community of a game, personal/social issues such as anxiety, or (very very rarely) not believing any group is good enough for them.
  
  
• When you do come up with a value proposition for them, it needs to perform perfectly without exception. They won't develop loyalty to the model, so a single incorrect payment or bad raid will instantly prove your failure, not their own, and they'll go back to pug life instantly, likely blocking and never providing feedback on why or what happened.
  
  
• The managers of this kind of group tend to be very well-meaning, but that actually makes it harder. A "why can't we all do it together?" attitude, especially about distributed play like mercing, becomes either hard to maintain or frustrating to people who just want to do their own thing.
  
  Granted, this experience comes from competitive gaming rather than PvE, and it's not specific to merc work, so perhaps your mileage will vary.
  
  But "organizing the unorganized" is not ever a thing one person can enforce or structure. There's actually a huge amount of sociological work in this area with social media being what it is. (EDIT: Book recommendation, "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky - it set the bar for this kind of thinking.)
  
  The outcome of this is that if you're going for this model, you need team players who haven't found a team and don't want one. That's a heavy, deep contradiction that I just can't see getting mass behind it.

This sounds like a good recipe to become the next Mark Cuban.


http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI

Sounds like you need to learn about Rockefeller Medicine...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6J_7PvWoMw

Then read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/0375760946

Thanks.

tl;dr Drugs are so expensive because everyone along the way gouges the process as much as possible. If anyone is more interested about this process they should read the truth about drug companies by Dr. Marcia Angell

>Saying “sponsored science” and big pharma are skewing all the facts is a conspiracy theory like the originating tweet.

Nah. More like the sober reality of an informed person.

>“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”

https://ethicalnag.org/2009/11/09/nejm-editor/

Care to address the downfall of medical science?

Is evidence based medicine icon Peter Gotzsche making it all up?

>The "evidence tells us that it is likely that the DTP vaccine increases total mortality in low-income countries."

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dtp-vaccine-associated-with-increased-rate-of-total-mortality-in-low-income-countries-says-peter-gotzsche-in-new-expert-report-300902971.html

https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844

https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/0375760946

but the science is settled, right?

Well, I read Perfectly Legal by David Cay Johnson, and he gives some pretty good examples of the 1% not paying the correct amount of taxes. That book made me angrier than anything I'd ever read.

Good read here Amazon sells it! https://www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch-Wealthiest-Themselves-Government/dp/1591842484

>Pro tip: Point to current economists (many of whom agree with you), not people who died two hundred years ago.

Ronald Reagan's economists?

David Cay Johnston?

Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Jeff Schmidt
https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857

An anarchist physicist from UCI who was fired for writing an amazing book about the subservient role of the professional to oppressive hierarchies and institutions. Chomsky signed a letter with a bunch of other intellectuals supporting him. Howard Zinn said he's been "waiting a long time for someone to write this book" and Thomas Frank gave him a shout-out in his book Listen Liberal (also a good one http://listenliberal.com/).

I cannot express enough my gratitude to you for typing out this reply. This has been eating away at me, and my search will continue.. a book was reccomended to me,

http://www.amazon.com/Perfectly-Legal-Campaign-Benefit-Everybody/dp/1591840198

Although I am currently unable to purchase it.

Book recommendation for you: Disney Institute's Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service

Read The Starfish and the Spider. (or at least the summary: http://www.amazon.com/The-Starfish-Spider-Unstoppable-Organizations/dp/1591841836) It will likely explain what ISIS' strategy is. This is a far more tricky situation for developed countries than, "let's just use our more advanced technology to extinct them all!"

"The powers" really need to take time tore recognize what they're dealing with or it may just end up like another Vietnam.

I've heard very good things about this book: http://www.amazon.com/First-Break-All-Rules-Differently/dp/0684852861

> Do you have a source for your first claim?

Yes: Me. Other than me, this book covers a lot of it: http://www.amazon.com/The-Truth-About-Drug-Companies/dp/0375760946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368808202&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Truth+About+the+Drug+Companies

I'm not saying pharma companies don't do any research, I'm saying that the majority of the research done leading to basically all pharma developments is done by people other than pharma companies.

doctors with years of training

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>No wonder 3 former editors-in-chiefs of the New England Journal of Medicine (widely considered the premier medical journal) from the 90's and 2000's eventually left the journal and came out with books such as these.
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>" It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine." - Marcia Angell, former editior in chief of NEJM
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>Picture of the 3 books http://1boringoldman.com/images/angell.gif
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>The Truth about Drug Companies: How they deceive us and what to do about it by Dr Marcia Angell
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>On the Take: How medicine's complicity with Big Business can Endanger your Health by Dr. Jerome Kassirer,
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>A Second Opinion: REscuing America’s Healthcare by Dr. Arnold Relman

I highly recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Perfectly-Legal-Campaign-Benefit-Everybody/dp/1591840198

I am currently reading the book, "One Simple Idea", and it has sections on how to generate ideas. I highly recommend it.

Get your hands on What Does Somebody Have to do to get a Job Around Here to help you on your search for a new job

One Simple Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work https://www.amazon.com/dp/1259589676/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_W-NQCbB252MCA

ever read the 1 minute manager series?

https://www.amazon.com/New-One-Minute-Manager/dp/0062367544/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2WJQE87R7QGXRWYJPM2V

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basically, you build them up, correct them, and build them up. sandwich approach.

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What do your parents want you to do, long term? take over the business, or have your own career?

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I would think of yourself as a owner of the business, and I expect others to think of you as their eventual boss. vs co worker or just another employee.

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> Just what the heck is this shit?

professionalization... theres a good book about how the process convinces you to do things you would consider ridiculous or even contrary to your values

Major drug companies don't even produce drugs. They get what colleges discover which isn't very often. Or they tweak something that the patent has run out on and call it new to keep the profits rolling in. So I suspect they don't want to actually have to compete in a market that they haven't got complete control over. That market is too competitive by nature.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0375760946?cache=d10a4131915aa7f899b2e3e4059cb3c2&pi=SY200_QL40&qid=1413214004&sr=8-1#ref=mp_s_a_1_1

Here's McRaven (the former head of JSOC) thesus

BIG PDF WARNING

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA493691

Here's his book:

http://www.amazon.com/Spec-Ops-Studies-Operations-Practice/dp/0891416005

Might want to checkout the ranger handbook too:

http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/ranger.pdf


These books are good too:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Accidental-Guerrilla-Fighting-Small/dp/0195368347/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345805419&sr=8-1&keywords=accidental+gorilla

http://www.amazon.com/Starfish-Spider-Unstoppable-Leaderless-Organizations/dp/1591841836/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345805440&sr=1-1&keywords=starfish+and+the+spider

Corporate Socialism is just a similar term for Corporate welfare. Read David Cay Johnston's Free Lunch if you haven't already. I got nothing against corporations by the way. I want to start one!

I'm all for the flat tax, but to be fair, the problem is not really with the IRS. Congress sets aside special money - and creates a congressional mandate - to audit people who receive the Earned Income Tax Credit - even though the potential fallout of fraud here is much less than the fraud that small business and partnerships almost certainly perpetrate. Auditors have very little discretion to call off an audit - they just follow the rules.

>That's why she's living with her parents. To try to make a life in our shimmering city without relying on welfare, food stamps or other public assistance.

If she's living with her parents, she may very well not be entitled to claim the children as dependents. And that has nothing do with the IRS - it's how Congress writes the tax laws and the US Tax Court interprets them.

If you're curious, read Perfectly Legal. The tax-auditing process is somewhat rigged against the poor but it has nothing to do with IRS and everything to do with Congress.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI

The picture linked in my view has the cover of his book.

Edit:https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Sport-Business-Can-ebook/dp/B006AX6ONI

http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/0143114948

https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professionals-Soul-battering/dp/0742516857

Aqui explica um dos motivos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEPMGhBaioo

Editado: e para uma explicação bem detalhada tem: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/0375760946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501599172&sr=8-1&keywords=marcia+angell https://www.amazon.com/Overdosed-America-Promise-American-Medicine/dp/0061344761/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0061344761&pd_rd_r=CVFSQNC32QB2VFKGGBAC&pd_rd_w=Qm3wb&pd_rd_wg=gtytp&psc=1&refRID=CVFSQNC32QB2VFKGGBAC https://www.amazon.com/800-Million-Pill-Truth-behind/dp/0520246705/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501599308&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=the+100+million+dollar+pill https://www.amazon.com/Take-Medicines-Complicity-Business-Endanger/dp/0195300041/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501599376&sr=1-1&keywords=on+the+take

Adjust demeanor and appearances as required. It's called marketing yourself. Presidents do it. In fact, there are entire books that aim to teach you just that.

You dont know who Dr Peter Gotzsche is, do you? His book is extensively cited.

Here is another book on the subject, by a former editor of the NEJM.

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375760946/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_uZvYBb52HA0KE

I can relate to this a lot, I love philosophy and I jump around different clicks all the time.

To keep it short I went on a goal setting course set up by my employer and so many things popped up that made me realise I don't achieve anything because I don't set out to achieve anything.

If you have a sat nav that couldn't tell you where you are and you didn't know where you want to go it may have all the maps in the world but its useless.

Take half an hour out and actually write down where you are now and where you want to be and what's you need to do to get there.

Start 2016 off with a goal a month and stick to it, the only person stopping you achieving it is yourself!


Edit: Actually, heres a simple book to read, its only 52 pages and can be read in a day, it should help you kick start your planning! http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/142212312X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=142212312X&linkCode=as2&tag=finafreebefof-21

A friend of mine highly recommends this book I don't, because I read it, and it made me baby-punching angry.


Note: Brujahrage uses the phrase "Baby-punching angry" as a hyperbolic device. Brujahrage, reddit, and most sane people do not actually advocate punching babies.

Well anyway, you're right with your broader criticism. (Not sure about USA being worse than Europe. I don't know much about how things are in Europe.)

For more: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/0375760946

Put it on some words is very difficult I suggest you read Secrets of the Millionaire Mind and all the Robert Kiyosaki's books.

A big problem with repeal of the AMT is that it opens up a host of new loopholes allowing those who owe a lot of tax to avoid paying. This New York Times reporter follows the issue and his book on how the tax system deck is stacked is eyeopening.

Maybe you should look at the pharmaceutical industry.

To say science is worthless is nonsensical. Money has corrupted the scientific endeavor. That's a fact jack? Don't believe it? Read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Truth-About-Drug-Companies/dp/0375760946

And where do you think these "climate scientists" are working?

I believe the farmers. The guys who get shit done. Not the fear mongers' employees.

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2014/Q4/study-farmers-and-scientists-divided-over-climate-change.html