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For sensitive types in HR who don’t like workplace conflict, natural attrition seems a smashing idea: k

...to be loosely based on Buchstein’s own wild-haired, fiery-tempered spouse) who, when repeatedly subjected to the clumsy amorous advances of quixotic param

Haddock is the fellow who at spring tide [[Rumpelheimer v Haddock|navigated his punt on the flooded C

...substantial point this documentary has to make. A subsequent participant, who still hasn’t understood it, intones (to cheering): ...ystem of political views held by that single voter; a vote for a candidate who doesn’t win is ignored altogether, and even a vote for the winner, does n

...part of the Keep of Salomoné, amongst the praetorian guard of ISDA ninjas, who are bound till death by the [[Swappist Oath]]. The Wording is, as you would

...g you ''don’t'' know, and ''can’t'' know, but believe you can ''as good as know'', just as long as you have enough data, clever enough [[algorithm]]s and a ...would be really super convenient if, just for one goddam moment, you could know them ''right now''.

...nguish a ''[[Relationship contract|relationship]]'' contract, being one of those architectural arrangements under which we set ourselves up so that we might Likewise, a transactional contract sets out tersely who should do what and by when. Once inked, it is a set of rules designed to wi

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...struggle for memetic survival rages — then possibilities open up for those who genuinely seek to move the negotiation on.

...spiring political careers from [[Snowflake|well-meaning teenaged lefties]] who are now executives at bulge bracket [[investment bank]]s.

...' the [[Children of the Woods|{{Baskerville|Children of the Woods}}]], and those that dwelt among the plants and [[hedge|{{Baskerville|hedges}}]]: there the There is war poetry that they write about their enemies who might otherwise be friends, share a drink, see sunsets glow and so on.

...ial proof|biddable]] species it is, its cognitive decisions — particularly those concerning [[fashionable idea]]s, to depart quickly from crowded theatres w Then there are those “[[ten sigma event|ten-sigma” events]] — like, ooooh, say the correla

...s to be intrinsically very risky. All of the colossal complication that we know, love, and we rent-seeking agents secrete ourselves into the loving satin f ...that, but all the same people who should know better — and many who ''do'' know better — will believe, or at any rate profess, that this principle has be

...tells you all you need to know about the bona fides of the [[sales]]person who just said it. ...f course, except in the vaguest possible way. There is no way the CEO will know or care about any of the details, or have more than a passing acquaintance

If you know you will a fellow merchant again, and go through this again — or even if ...e for the betterment of all. It explains the fable of the wealthy merchant who accosts the elderly pauper.

...There are [[Linklaters]] lawyers alive today — alive, though ''changed'' — who have not yet refilled the existential void hollowed out from their souls by ...19]], the squadron of [[Linklaters]] [[FPML]] ''Avenger'' torpedo bombers who lost contact with reality during a routine drafting mission and were never

...se: it just does it, favouring kin, familiarity, tribe and self-identity. Those people you most instinctively identify with. ...guy against an old-school Bond villain — are rare indeed. Jacinda Arden, who branded herself an empathetic leader, had a couple of rare opportunities: i

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...but to be able to plainly and clearly communicate that expertise to people who are not.