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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Jan 2019
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      A thing I like about Japanese corporate culture is you’re allowed and encouraged to non-ironically write “We will change the future through chemistry” as e.g. ad copy.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Jan 2019
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      Or my all time favorite, lightly paraphrased: “Contributing to society through excellence in precision cutting tools.”

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Jan 2019
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      It kills me that these read to educated Americans as jokes, because people who work for a chemical precursor company should also get to feel purpose, belonging, meaning, and accomplishment.

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        2. Stephanie Hurlburt‏ @sehurlburt 14 Jan 2019
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          I know for me, it’s because sayings like this have been followed by “So of course you’d work overtime/for free/in your spare time, because it’s that important.” Which isn’t good. But I like the reminder that we don’t need to go to the other extreme of seeing no meaning in work.

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        3. Stephanie Hurlburt‏ @sehurlburt 14 Jan 2019
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          It reminds me of something a religious friend told me— he said his church said to truly give back and serve others is to serve through what you do now, not wait for some mystical future date in which you’re not distracted by obligations.

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        2. Scott Elrod‏ @scelrod13 14 Jan 2019
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          As a Chem E, I appreciate everyone who gives me the tools to do my job. Skilled craftsmen are far too hard to come by these days because so many people degrade it. Bullshit. These are the things and people that make everything else possible

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        3. ice9‏ @__ice9 14 Jan 2019
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          "living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam"

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        2. Nadav Har'El‏ @nyharel 14 Jan 2019
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          I don't know about Americans, but many Israelis do feel pride of having a job which does something *good*. Doesn't have to be curing cancer - can be producing a chemical that improves people's lives. The opposite of working on things that people *don't* want (spam, ads, etc.).

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        3. Nadav Har'El‏ @nyharel 14 Jan 2019
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          I like how Buddhists incorporated the need to choose a "good" livelihood into their religion. Doing good for people - not finding any legal way to part fools and their money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path#Right_livelihood …

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        2. Star Simpson‏ @starsandrobots 20 May 2019
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          I recently stumbled across an industrial manufacturing facility creating wiring harnesses for aerospace/some “boring” mfg, in LA. Every single assembly/test/inspection station had someone in their seat. On a Saturday. In their main office, this sign:pic.twitter.com/6Z6Q3HnMjL

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        3. David Bengtson‏ @davidbengtson 20 May 2019
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          They make good connectors 👍

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        2. Douglas Frank‏ @dpfrank07 14 Jan 2019
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          I'm betting it's more an issue of Americans inferring many of those words as pandering platitudes, but natively (and culturally) the original words carry sincere meaning.

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        3. sp@m‏ @misterohno 14 Jan 2019
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          So you could find a new way to say the same thing and convey the intended meaning instead of the meaning garnered by overuse of those words

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