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Low drama, amazing support, compliance first: @remote for payroll anywhere in the planet, and everything else your HR team needs (like recruiting from 800 million profiles, or device management, or performance management, or compensation benchmarking)

Quickly losing all faith in rationality in the Netherlands

@Pradumn27 @remote on it

@remote, can someone look into the ticket ID 1753885? It's been pending for 48 hours now

The optimal known packing of 16 equal squares into a larger square

I’ve been trying to get one of these for years. Every year they open up “applications” where you have to apply with a little cover letter. No instructions. Just an empty text field. No hints on what helps or hurts your application.

We started @Remote in my living room with pastel de nata. 🇵🇹 Lisbon 2019: @Jobvo and I had no office, no funding, and no team. What we had was first-hand experience watching global HR break companies from the inside. Job helped define remote work at GitLab. I’d spent years at Unbabel watching great engineers slip through the cracks because nobody could figure out how to pay them legally. The playbook for this didn't exist. We still remember the early days: The first entity. Our first customer. The first payroll run where we triple-checked every. single. number. because there was no system to catch our mistakes. Today, we're 7 years and billions in processed payroll later - we operate across 160+ countries. People ask what changed since that living room: Scale. The architecture is different. The team is global. The numbers have more zeros. What hasn't changed is the conviction that where you live shouldn't determine whether you get hired. What started over a good conversation in Lisbon I still think about when I walk into work - (down the hall, past the kitchen).

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

if you want great startup ideas, just read sci-fi books! culture series, three-body problem, foundation series, children of time series; all super fun reads with lots of interesting ideas

That's some Trisolarian shit.

Smoking kills.

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine. What went wrong? In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms: 1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder. 2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology. 3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it. The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does. Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace.com/s/The-psycholo…

A doctor is our new CTO at @remote. Here's the story 🧵

@JoshSchoen Only way I roll. Working out body _and_ mind

forgot to bring my AirPods in the gym. just me and my thoughts. crazy experience

@heinenbros Insanely cool, congrats

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X auto-translating is genuinely amazing.

Funny story about Scott Forstall, Steve Jobs and free Apple lunches.😅

@JoshSchoen No

Maturing is realising this is healthier.

I feel strongly we need more “I told you so” reporting so there’s a stronger moral reason to try to be right

Genius

@friedmandave Rosewood Abu Dhabi

@Jobvo I have yet to see a good gym at a hotel.

Ah hotels, where the most complex workout devices on the planet come together.