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How to set compensation using commonsense principles

Erik Bernhardsson

Compensation is what drives our entire economy, and you could look at the market for labor as one gigantic resource-allocating machine in the same way as people look at the stock market as a gigantic resource-allocating machine for investments. A bad system incentivizes people to go into management in order to get a raise.

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What Is Causal Inference?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If I shoot the cue ball at this angle, will the 3 ball go into the corner pocket? What would happen if I tried a different angle? We’re imagining what the world would be like under different sets of circumstances: what would happen if we do X? What would happen if we do Y instead? That’s why we have medical trials.)

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Product Life Cycle: How to Extend Your Product Market Presence

Altexsoft

What does it take to create the product which doesn’t go out of demand for years? Stage 0: Development. All they could offer was three airbeds, some food, and the homey environment. Basically, there are two ways to quickly transform an idea into something tangible and test it for survivability and possible efforts.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

So far in this series, we have recognized that by going back to first principles, we have a new foundation to work with. Pillar 4 – Operational plane: Event logging, DLQs and automation. Let’s explore what this really means. The most challenging goal of any application architecture is simplicity, but it is possible to achieve.