eddy7346<br /> 2 years ago<br /> To anyone in college:<br /> If your history/government professor is extremely patriotic, do not ask about war crimes by the US... unless you want to get failed.<br /> P.S: This is just my experience, so that might not happen to you. My prof just happened to be a piece of shit

the established "academia" is just another circlejerk, with teachers abusing their power as gatekeepers, to allow only "the good guys" to rise to power, and students cannot choose their teachers, because moving to a different school is expensive.<br /> this imbalance and injustice is so fundamental that it is "too big to fail". no matter what you do, the casino always wins...<br /> in my "crazy" hypothesis [1] i propose a radical solution for ths radical problem: all human relations must be balanced, so every one can live out his strength and delegate his weakspots to his friends.<br /> [1]: Pallas. Who are my friends. Group composition by personality type.<br /> github com milahu alchi

• self-selection effect
  • example
    • police
      • it is likely that abusive, controlling people are on average, more attracted to being police officers because they can control and abuse others in that position

• Example
  • self-selection effect
    • Doraville police department created a video of hyper-masculine SWAT team to attract new officers
    • they attracted hyper-masculine males
    • New Zealand took the opposite approach
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9psILoYmCc
    • We absolutely have to have oversight and very close scrutiny of police officers who abuse their authority.
    • But at the same time, we have to think more carefully about who ends up in the uniform to begin with.

• key observation
  • the dynamics and relationship between
    • self-selection bias and
    • survivorship bias
  • gives us insight of how power operates
  • The wrong kinds of people who are power-hungry, seek power more in the first place.
  • Then they're better at obtaining it.
  • They show up in our ordinary lives because they've survived,
    • they've made it.
  • So when we think about who is powerful,
    • we have to think about
      • the people who didn't seek power in the first place and
      • the people who didn't obtain power in the first place.
      • the people who didn't survive in power for very long, and therefore they dropped out.
    • The presidents and prime ministers,
    • the generals,
    • the cult leaders,
    • the business leaders,
  • those people are basically people who have survived and who self-selected.

• key observation
  • People who are power-hungry, people who are psychopaths
    • tend to self-select into positions of power more than the rest of us.
  • And as a result, we have this skew, this bias in positions of power
    • where certain types of people, often the wrong kinds of people,
    • are more likely to put themselves forward to rule over the rest of us

• definition
  • self-selection effect
    • those people who are power-hungry and seek control are far more likely to seek positions of power in the first place, and are focused and develop skills to get it.

https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-guide-2020-update-self-mgt-replaces-self-organization

Consider reading this article from Steven Denning and see how different states of a team contribute to performance. Self-managing is topped by Self-Organising, where teams organise their own context, including team members (self-selection).

And:

Scrum is built upon by the collective intelligence of the people using it. Rather than provide people with detailed instructions, the rules of Scrum guide their relationships and interactions.

https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-team-self-managing