#Importance of Work Ethic

[darrenwalleyconsultancy]

What is Work Ethic

Photo by Bruce Mars I have looked at lousy management practices and what makes a good leader in previous articles. Also, I covered the issue in today’s society where meritocracy has died in the liberal West. My last article, “How to motivate unmotivated employees.” I went over why we need to motivate our teams. There are a few areas that directly affect motivation. Several more that get…

[moyazaika]

hmm

[aparticularbandit]

Responding to this post as a separate post because I want to respond to something that I think is beyond the scope/intention of the original post (and honestly the scope/intention of the response in the linked post) but that, like.

I want to respond to it because it's been churning in my head.

Specifically the idea of the Protestant Work Ethic and trying to earn your way into heaven.

Because that's the very antithesis of what the Gospel is.

Over and over, it is made very clear that you cannot earn your way into heaven. (Titus 3:5 and Ephesians 2:8-9 are the ones that come immediately to mind, but there are more than that. (I also like - Romans 4 and the entire discussion about it being faith and not works and especially Romans 4:4-8.)) Literally one of the entire points is that you are stuck in your sin and you cannot get out and no matter what you do, you cannot earn your way in, but God loves you and chose you and wants you, so He paid your debt Himself (Jesus) and is giving you His righteousness - His perfection - because He was the only one who could earn His way in.

God is for you, not against you.

Are there things you should be doing? Yes. (Ephesians 2:10 talks about that, too.) But, like. It's not to earn your way in. It's out of love and gratefulness to the One who got you out of your horrible predicament? And then on top of that, made you a co-heir with Him?

Because it's...He paid for you to get in and then also you got adopted as a child of God? And someone described it once as good works after that being like when a child makes a drawing for their dad and their dad hangs it on the fridge? It's not to earn anything; it's because you love Him, too?

So, like - I want to know where the Protestant Work Ethic went wrong. Why so many people think it's about earning their way when it isn't that at all.

It's a gift. It was always a gift.

[tennessoui]

chapter 4 of ? (it's probably 6 i just lost confidence in myself)

[butchsophiewalten]

Thought I had posted about this already whups. Martin made a really important twitter thread earlier:

[player016]

What if I told you it was okay to feel frustrated while you’re writing and want a break?

What if I told you to take your time and slow down on purpose, to trust your brilliant brain to work through the wrinkles in your ideas?

What if I told you your writing is worth the wait, and your readers will not abandon you if you take a while between updates?

[spitblaze]

hey does anyone have any good songs about unethical experiments or genetics or profound regret. im making a playlist for a new masks character

[husberttee]

I MIGHT BE EMPLOYED AGAIN :''''D

[cw-ianthe]

I just finished blood over bright haven. it was pretty good (love a gritty magic system that works like programming. also love unlikable women) I will say man does it hit you over the head with its themes

[pastaasaladd]

I need to draw I need to work out I need to paint I need to practice an instrument I need to take walks I need to remember to eat I need to brush my teeth twice a day I need to relax I need to watch that new show I need to take time away from screens I need to write I need to respond to messages I need to get out of the house I need to learn a new language I need to read I need to go dancing I need to see live music I need

[zestyzigzagoon]

So, a lot of the research being put into this fic doesn't actually end up in the final product- it's just background stuff that's good for me to know, like the history of westward expansion and the cultures that modern cowboy pastiche is profiting off of. I like knowing the sociohistorical context of what I'm riffing off of. But in some of the more practical parts of my research, I have found a need to specify 'western riding' or 'horse' or 'cowboy' at the end of my searches. The reason being, if you look up enough things like chaps and whips and crops and rope *without* specifying, the google algorithm starts to get a really specific idea about who you are and what it is that you're using these things for 😭

[whatudottu]

I haven’t read the books so perhaps I don’t have the full context for what TFP Shockwave’s experiments were like, whether he went in with a question to be answered or coming up with a hypothesis after the fact to justify the means, but I’d think it’d be interesting if he kinda had like… all the scientifically proven basis to form a question and ask a particular bizarre scenario.

Like for instance, Shockwave might have countless evidence that torture is not as effective of an interrogation technique as apparently both sides make it out to be (if OP’s threat to Soundwave was any indication of anything), but instead of testing a much nicer method, Shockwave develops the cortical psychic to GUARANTEE the authenticity of the information instead of idk, appealing to the captive. Might even suggests that the evidence points to flaws on both the tortured (prone to lying just to get out sooner) AND the torturer (subject to distraction and accepting conflicting statements), rather than solely one party or the other.

The thing is though, it’s hard to wonder WHAT questions Shockwave may seek an answer for, unknown questions that somehow connect with just a lot of predacon DNA (either their revival or in hybridisation). Because offering the alternative - senseless scientific violence - seems a very bland motive or whatever this would be ESPECIALLY for Shockwave; the cold pursuit of science is his mojo not to affront it.

Eh, whatever. Guess this is me just thinking about the logic tree Shockwave might follow to get a new experiment running, and doing so in a way that doesn’t just amount to ‘mad scientist for the sake of a smart guy torturer’ or whatever lmao-

[girlblocker]

just found out that when my dad was in college he was in a placebo-controlled medication trial and immediately took his pills to the college chemistry lab to test if he was in the treatment group or not

[arabella-strange]

caveat: I do think the s3 of the show was great in many parts and I am loath to put negativity into the universe when we could be celebrating how beautiful the animation was, the sound design, so much of the hard work of so many people

That said: I think what made the s3 Keyleth arc so frustrating was that the narrative kept undermining the message. At first, she was the one who didn't trust Raishan because liars and murderers are not ideal allies—some of the party agrees, but they go with pragmatism. It's useful to have someone on the inside and we can't have perfection if we're going to win.

Then it's: Keyleth isn't being listened to, but at least Vax does the respectful thing to say that he trusts her instincts even if they can't follow their better angels right now. Keyleth compromises—hooray, pragmatism. (We even do this back-and-forth twice: Once at the start of the season, then again around the selling-out of Whitestone. Keyleth immediately mistrusts Raishan, but she's wrong about that—and if they had let themselves consider it was really Ripley, they might have stopped it [or whatever]. So then they decide to be pragmatists again.)

Except then: Nope, Keyleth was right, she shouldn't have compromised, she wasn't listened to, her friends dismissed her, and she was right [except for those times she wasn't] and she needs to go it alone. She needs to trust herself independently and refuse to back down. Hooray, we have down a boardroom victory at the Ashari Council.

Except...: Wait, just kidding, Keyleth needs to learn to listen and trust, and go back to Vox Machina, and thank them for empowering her to trust herself. And now they can reunite as a team more sure of themselves and thus more able to communicate and trust each other to take risks as a party.

^^ Which in itself is not a bad message! But the whole doesn't really click with this final point. And so by the end, it was hard to feel like there was really wisdom gained or understanding reached by any of the characters individually or about each other, because the back-and-forth just... made it so inconsistent about what choices we are supposed to see as right or fair, and which as incorrect or naive.

[saltnpepperbunny]

I kinda wish I could do some comic collab with you 🥺

But it's mostly wishful thinking

While I hate to shoot people down, Iiii wouldn't count on it too hard tbh. I'm very picky with who I'll collab with. It takes a LOT of trust for me to trust another creator with a collab. I've known @imagination-confusion for a few years now.

[cuz-reasons]

I am once again reminded that my brother is in computer engineering and has fuckin annoying takes on the environment sometimes