adactio / collective

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  1. Transmission #58: Ostrich McMuffin - Goodstuff FM

    Huffduffed from http://goodstuff.fm/transmission/58

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    —Huffduffed by samkap

  2. In Our Time - The Sun

    How was the Sun formed, and what do we know about its structure and the processes going on inside our nearest star? With Carolin Crawford, Gresham Professor of Astronomy and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Yvonne Elsworth, Professor of Helioseismology at the University of Birmingham; and Louise Harra, Professor of Solar Physics at UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

    —Huffduffed by Clampants

  3. 97: Love Rug — Unprofessional

    Provided and powered by the wonderful people at Squarespace. Content copyright © Unprofessional, LLC

    http://unprofesh.com/blog/2014/7/3/97-love-rug

    —Huffduffed by merlinmann

  4. The Company Where Everyone Knows Everyone Else’s Salary

    Dane Atkinson is a tech entrepreneur who started his first company at 17 and has run almost a dozen more since. He’s so friendly that he manages to sound cheerful while explaining the art of hiring workers for as little money possible.

    "I have on many occasions paid the exact same skill set wildly different fees because I was able to negotiate with one person better than another," he says.

    Some employees were worth $70,000 a year, but only asked for $50,000 a year. So, he says, he paid them $50,000 a year.

    This works great for the company — until the employee finds out someone else at the company with the same job is making far more. "I’ve seen people cry and scream at each other," he says.

    After enough of those painful moments, Atkison decided that at his next company, things would be different.

    Three years ago, he started a tech firm called SumAll — a tech company where all the employees know each others’ salaries.

    When the company first started, there were just 10 people, and they worked together to figure out what everyone would be paid. But it started to get more complicated when they started hiring new people.

    Atkinson would have to sit the new candidate down and basically say: Here’s what everyone gets paid.

    "I distinctly remember hiring an experienced, seasoned employee who has negotiated through her career," he says. "Her response was, ‘This is unfair because I can’t actually negotiate … It’s a car with an actual price, versus, talk to the dealer.’ "

    And, of course, a company where everybody sees each other’s salaries creates new kinds of tension.

    Earlier this year, Chris Jadatz took over the duties of someone who’d left the company. The person who had left was making $95,000 a year. Jadatz was making $55,000. "It made me feel definitely underpaid, as if maybe I was being looked over," he says.

    So Jadatz went to Atkinson, the boss, and asked for more money. He got a $20,000-a-year raise.

    Atkison has meetings like this all the time. He says it gives him a chance to explain why some employees make more than others — and to explain to employees how they can make more.

    For a lot of employees, knowing what everyone makes is less exciting than it seems.

    I talked to the CEO of another company that’s open with salaries, and he said the reaction reminds him of Americans hearing they have topless beaches in Europe. Before you go to one, you think it’s just going to be the craziest thing in the world. Then you get there and it’s like, OK, nobody’s flipping out because people are topless here. It’s just how things are.

    —Huffduffed by briansuda

  5. Web Friends #13: The Magnificent Brad Frost - Goodstuff FM

    Huffduffed from http://goodstuff.fm/webfriends/13

    —Huffduffed by samkap

  6. A Slight Burglary: Glengarry Glen Ross

    Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about Glengarry Glen Ross.

    http://5by5.tv/movies/3

    —Huffduffed by merlinmann

  7. Partially Examined Life — Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?

    Discussing Descartes’s Meditations 1 and 2.

    Descartes engages in the most influential navel gazing ever, and you are there! In this second and superior-to-the-first installment of our lil’ philosophy discussion, we discuss what Descartes thinks he knows with certainty (hint: it is not you), the Matrix, and burning-at-the-stake.com. Mark and Wes agree to disagree about agreeing that they disagree. Seth had a long day and is very tired. Plus: Some listener feedback; whom is this here podcast aimed at? Why, you, of course!

    To increase your enjoyment, download and read the text.

    Here, also, is the Descartes chunk of Philosophy and the Matrix that Seth refers to.

    End song: “Axiomatic” by New People from The Easy Thing (2009).

    —Huffduffed by tommorris

  8. Partially Examined Life — Part 2 of Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.”

    More discussion of Plato’s “Apology.”

    Incidentally, the “celibacy society” that Seth refers to at one point in here has a T-shirt.

    —Huffduffed by tommorris

  9. Partially Examined Life — Part 1 of Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.”

    This reading is all about how Socrates is on trial for acting like an ass and proceeds to act like an ass and so is convicted. Big surprise. On this our inaugural discussion, Mark, Seth, and Wes talk about how philosophers are arrogant bastards who neglect their children, how people of all political stripes don’t usually examine their fundamental beliefs (but probably should), why it might be better to know you know nothing than to only think that you know nothing, and how Plato was a super genius all of whose texts you should worship uncritically. Plus: podcaster philosophical origin stories, like when Wes was bitten by a radioactive Anaxagoras.

    —Huffduffed by tommorris

  10. Partially Examined Life — Episode 0: Introduction to the Podcast

    isten to this here episode first. A priori, that is. Before experiencing the world yourself.

    Why should you bother to go through the trouble of downloading and listening to one of the full length episodes? Who are we anyway? Why shouldn’t you just go listen to some philosophy lectures posted by university professors instead of this thing? Do you need to listen to the episodes in order? Do you need to already know a lot about philosophy to get anything out of this podcast? Should you listen to it while pleasuring yourself? Most of these questions will be answered here!

    —Huffduffed by tommorris

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