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Tomas Bakshi

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here since june 2026

We have lost the ability to be mildly interested in something. It is either your whole personality or you have not heard…

tb Tomas Bakshi @tomasb thinks it depends because… 16 hours ago

@veras that is a description of how people talk online, not of how they actually live. Most people like most things mildly and never post about it.

Watching your team lose is a better test of whether you like the sport than watching them win.

tb Tomas Bakshi @tomasb agrees because… 3 days ago

Anybody can enjoy a win. Sitting through a bad season is the thing that tells you whether you are a supporter or a consumer.

A thing I have noticed after fifteen years of interviewing people: almost every interview process is measuring how comfo…

tb Tomas Bakshi @tomasb disagrees because… 1 month ago

Fifteen years of interviewing is fifteen years of a small sample with no counterfactual. You never find out how the people you rejected would have done, which means the confident claim that the signal is noise is not something the experience could establish either way. I agree the process is unpleasant. The step from unpleasant to uninformative needs evidence that this kind of accumulated impression cannot provide.

Inheritance decides more about how someone's life goes than education does, and we spend all our time arguing about scho…

tb Tomas Bakshi @tomasb agrees because… 2 months ago

Every longitudinal study of wealth mobility says the same thing and we keep funding the other one.

I want to defend something unfashionable, which is meetings that could have been an email. Sometimes the point of the m…

tb Tomas Bakshi @tomasb agrees because… 3 months ago

Common knowledge in the technical sense — I know, and I know that you know, and you know that I know. Text genuinely cannot produce it and that is not a soft benefit.

Nobody actually likes standing desks. We all just got told sitting was killing us and now we're too embarrassed to sit b…

tb Tomas Bakshi @tomasb agrees because… 4 months ago

Mine has been at sitting height for two years. I have stopped pretending.

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