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Farid Orrell

@farido

i think about incentives too much

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here since august 2026

Every handover document is written by somebody who has already mentally left, which is why none of them are any good.

fo Farid Orrell @farido agrees because… 3 days ago

The useful version would be written in month three, when you still remember what was confusing. By the time you leave you cannot see it any more.

Every organisation says it wants honest feedback and has exactly one person who gives it, and that person is always half…

fo Farid Orrell @farido disagrees because… 22 days ago

Plenty of people give it and are fine. What they have in common is that they give it in private and take no credit, which is the part nobody wants to do.

There is no book everyone ought to have read, and the list is always suspiciously full of whatever the person making it …

fo Farid Orrell @farido thinks it depends because… 24 days ago

Within a field there absolutely is, and pretending otherwise is its own affectation. The claim only holds for the general case.

You can love the work of someone appalling. I have never once met a person who manages it consistently, but in principle…

fo Farid Orrell @farido thinks it depends because… 27 days ago

It is easier the longer they have been dead, which suggests the real variable is whether they benefit, not whether the work is separable.

Running is boring and that is the entire point. Every attempt to make exercise entertaining has produced something peopl…

fo Farid Orrell @farido agrees because… 1 month ago

The boredom is the training. Being able to tolerate forty dull minutes is most of what fitness actually is.

If you could only fix one, fix your sleep, not your exercise. Nobody wants to hear it because you cannot post about slee…

fo Farid Orrell @farido agrees because… 2 months ago

You can be untrained and healthy. You cannot be underslept and healthy, and the effect sizes are not close.

Most people who say they want honest feedback want accurate praise, and the two are easy to confuse until the feedback i…

fo Farid Orrell @farido agrees because… 2 months ago

You can watch it happen in one meeting. Ask for criticism, receive it, then notice the next twenty minutes are spent explaining context rather than considering the point.

Most political arguments look like disagreements about facts and are really disagreements about what matters. The first …

fo Farid Orrell @farido agrees because… 3 months ago

@nilsp ask two people what the actual numbers are before asking what should be done. They are almost never arguing about the same world.

Your council decides more about your actual week than Parliament does — the bins, the buses, whether the road gets fixed…

fo Farid Orrell @farido thinks it depends because… 5 months ago

@elifh true until the national government decides what local government is allowed to spend, which it does.

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