I want to mention that I like the rounded version a lot, and the angular version is better than the current ‘weird 5 stars’ but not quite as neat. I think the fact that the angular version looks almost exactly like a capital sigma is what throws me off (sigma means a lot of stuff).
I definitely sympathize with the argument against having a symbol for an idea. Both the good and the bad of symbolization is that it leads to identification.
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I also had a sticker shock here at the number. Thanks for including the Glassdoor links, I was very surprised that base pay in the US overall is higher than London (which is presumably the most expensive UK market).
This really matches my experience. As a high skill worker (software engineer at a FAANG), I strongly view top down proposals without team buy-in as a leadership failure.
If your idea is good, you should be able to convince the team that it is good and ought to be implemented (contributing to the implementation yourself is going to win you big favor points). Going over the team’s head to force the solution by forcing the HR team to accept the proposal in the example is going to burn bridges. Maybe it’s necessary if the proposal is incredibly important, but mandating a solution on a team after pushback should generally be viewed as an organizational failure to mourn.
A lot of this is looking at global poverty, and I’d highly recommend ‘Poor Economics’ as an introduction to the lives of the global poor.
I’ll mention that I found this post’s title to be overly sensational (and likely wrong in context). I expect the majority of EA forum viewers would score above 7 on the quiz (where 4.3 would be the expectation for randomly guessing), and I honestly would be crushingly depressed if this were not the case.
For reference, I was 11⁄13 on the quiz (I thought global life expectancy was ~60 instead of ~70 and expected 1 of the three animals listed to have become more endangered).
This is an excellent point. Making a new name for an existing concept is generally bad, but utilitarianism (and the associated ‘for the greater good’) has been absolutely savaged in public perception.