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Posted by herbertl 8 hours ago

Stop Ruining It(seths.blog)
148 points | 66 commentspage 2
luxuryballs 1 hour ago|
The education quote is great, I wish selecting text on iPhone was not ruined by the Facebook icon popup.
aantix 1 hour ago||
The reverse can be true too.

Don't make a bad situation worse.

jstummbillig 1 hour ago||
Eh.

> Or perhaps: Satisfaction in our work isn’t created by the boss. It’s what’s left if they don’t ruin it.

~no boss sets out to ruin employee satisfaction. It's a byproduct of having to integrate more realities into the smaller scope that employees usually care about, and that is just not easy.

Of course, most bosses are also not great at this – on average bosses are, like everything else, just average – but to assume that bosses "ruin" satisfaction and employees would be longterm fulfilled and create working companies if only left alone is polemic.

justinsaccount 3 hours ago||
Wait, the example held up for "Stop ruining it" is a company that sells snake oil audiophile bullshit?
kennyadam 2 hours ago||
The product descriptions on audiophile equipment are always gold!

"Designed as the foundation of every great music system, our Power Plant AC regenerators embody an uncompromising commitment to excellence. By rebuilding power from the ground up with state-of-the-art engineering and meticulous precision, they deliver the stable, pure energy essential for revealing music in its truest form."

The product image for this "Power Plant" that no doubt costs tens of thousands has what appears to be a poorly Photoshopped "Improvement" factor meter on the front that goes from 1x to 1000x lol.

https://www.psaudio.com/cdn/shop/products/P20-Black-front.pn...

TremendousJudge 1 hour ago||
wow that's actually insane, the fact that they would have an "improvement" dial is ridiculous by itself, but also the picture looks extremely fake? is this a scam website? leaves me wondering what the product actually looks like

btw it costs $9,999 according to google

edit: I couldn't help researching it, the picture looks like that because the device doesn't actually have analog needles, it has an lcd screen with analog needles rendered onto it. I guess they had to cut costs somewhere, because their customers are very budget-conscious. so probably an actual picture of the device looked unpalatable to the marketers, and they decided that the crappy photoshop would be fine.

Eric_WVGG 3 hours ago|||
with blue LEDs, an instant demerit on any consumer electronic
SpikedCola 1 hour ago||
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aerodexis 3 hours ago||
Sounds like subsidiarity to me
epsteingpt 4 hours ago||
The irony that the packages system looks so obviously and clearly 'baseline claude' designed is a sign of the moment itself.
nathan_compton 3 hours ago||
It is in the nature of capital to ruin it - if users feel great about a product it implies that there is more to wring out of them. The ideal product leaves the user with nothing but the utility the product provides with no extra pleasure. If your employee loves to work for you, you're paying them too much. They can't hate to work for you (unless they have no other choice) but if they feel really good about it, that is a sign of a problem.
iLoveOncall 5 hours ago|
I've read haikus that made more sense than this streak of random words.

Feels like an article generated using GPT-1.

zaphar 5 hours ago|
Feels to opposite to me. GPT-1 would have exploded the word count to about 10x and made it sound way more breathlessly influencer coded. GPT-1 would have written something that was 180 degrees opposite of what the post is communicating.

Perhaps you need to read it again a little more carefully?

stavros 4 hours ago||
I think it was hyperbole, and that the GP does not literally believe this was written by GPT-1, which did not produce coherent sentences.