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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Everyone has access to this superpower but almost nobody uses it. This is 100% authentic and real. Please pardon if I made errors about the exact dates & numbers. The important part is the message and not the data.
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Here is the spreadsheet I made but I haven't yet found the old emails.
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Thank you 😊
I'm glad you had success here.
Unfortunately I have not had the same luck holding agencies to their core values.
My local police department springs to mind.
can you share a bit? there’s likely a very specific leverage point where you need to stick your prybar and pop the problem free.
it sounds unhelpful without context. but i’m extremely serious. if i tell a story about the other society fixes i got done, and failed one’s, you might start to see where the levers are.
@davidmalawey that would make a great video.
This story reminds me of how alphabet removed "don't be evil" from their corporate values, makes me wonder what truth made them reconsider.
Evil is defined by scope. Expand the scope wide enough and anything good can become evil.
so ultimately did they keep this value listed?
@@davidmalawey it's now "do the right thing". Would love to know the discussion behind it.
If the school had a gym, those 20 gyms would go out of business.
the gyms all dropped their prices by 50% over the last 12 months.
i was playing volleyball last night and realizing my friend who gave me a guest pass (free) was paying 1/3 of what i paid for a lesser gym in 2016. this is all in the same town. the local gyms are going out of business and i love it.
actually it hit me so hard i lost that round of volleyball and my team was like “what’s wrong with you bud?”
Thank you, its so valuable to be optimistic about change, most of time all you need is to shift the lens so the people to busy at the tops can see the truth.
I'd be careful about attributing cause and effect here. Those with power *rarely* actually care about holding true to their stated values; they are motivated by self-interest and self-preservation. If it would make them look bad to a donor or the public, then it's something they will take steps to mitigate, but that can easily take the form of spin/PR to move the goalposts or shift the conversation (like they did with the initial fudge around sqft/student). It's more likely that some donor (or donor's wife or donor's kid) had to wait at the gym one too many times, and that was what spurred action. Donors are the only people with real leverage in this situation and they don't need data to prove it or values to uphold, just any arbitrary request, and the dollars (or the threat of withholding dollars) to make it happen. I guarantee the needs of first-gen or low-income students had zero to do with the decision, except maybe as an ancillary PR benefit. (The conversation surely was not "it will help xxx" but atually "hey, we can also say that it helps xxx".)
(Incidentally, this would be a great investigative story for an enterprising journalist, should you wish to find out more about what really happened.)
@@joshwand yep i can’t conclude for certain. and so i wondered about it for years. and if a journalist wants to check it out, id help any way possible.
our motto is “an Aggie does not lie cheat or steal or TOLERATE THOSE WHO DO”
The bed? Good sleep is important for both learning and problem solving.
yep. some exciting times lately and I need to keep a consistent sleep schedule at a top priority while things jostle about.
Amen, Brother!
love this, you've earned a subscriber from a felloe engineer.
I had to work 4 days a week when i was in college 5 days a week for Mechanical Engineering it wasnt easy and i think it burnt me out too, when i graduated i didnt want to so anything 🤦♂️
It does need to start with identifying values, but even with LARGE institutions, it's not just holding them to the values that they stated at the beginning. Any group has the option to change those values, but that needs to be equally as public. I believe this offers the same level of accountability, but with more room for things to change and ideally improve over time. All systems of power need this type of accountability: relationships, families, HOA's, city governments etc. I do worry sometimes though that systems of power ask for feedback early on to justify ignoring it later.
so what you’re saying is: you can update core values but
1) publish in the SAME PLACE as you published originals.
2) do NOT DELETE the originals so there’s a clear record of changes
3) if you market any changes, CITE THE VERSION Numbers so folks know the context (dates and series’) and they can ask themselves “is this improvement?” and “do i support this organization the same now?”
I love your videos, but a quick fact check at 0:43 Texas or Alaska is the biggest state?
Hopefully he meant to say CONUS....
yeah alaska is huge - i didn’t want to be so wordy but it’s true “contiguous states” is better.
still, the school is bigger than any of Alaskan schools.
Sick story and lesson. I'm sure that one day they'll rename one of the gyms after you.
Your download was blocked by Bitly. Might want to take a look at why that is. I'd like to review your file.
lobfile.com/file/TddJvVn4.pdf
There's the spreadsheet. I updated the link in description too. Thanks!
To often today we accept fact as truth but when we don't get all the pertinent facts we don't have the truth. When the dean made a factual statement about the size of the rec center she thought it was the truth. When David made a factual statement about the size of the rec center he thought it was the truth. Both the dean and David put forth real facts, but which of them spoke the whole truth?
deep fucking value
Do you have any black friends?
some of the best. yes.
it’s crazy you ask because i asked this to my mentor in kentucky 2008 (a white engineer) and he looked super offended.
but i was genuinely curious.
Who are you and why am I subbed lol
You would think a lot of these things would be non-issues. Especially not a hierarchy that places students at the bottom. With tuition as high as it is, that's the opposite of what you'd expect. I suspect that this, like many other of our problems in the US, is a result of too much federal spending. College should be expensive. It drives competition among colleges, incentivizes highly respected professors to teach instead of following the money elsewhere. It also drives innovation for new programs and amenities like gyms, which drives the student experience up while keeping tuition prices from getting out of control because it's a customer-driven model. The student is the customer. If a school wants students to pick them, they need to offer more and charge less than other schools. Simple. Impress the customer. This also leads to smarter, more capable graduates long-term as high school graduates will naturally choose the colleges where graduates statistically make more. Thus, expensive college = good deal. But the more the federal government makes it rain student loans and forgiveness plans and such, the more all of that good stuff goes out the window because it relieves that competitive pressure on the schools to cater to the students. The federal government becomes the customer. A customer with seemingly endless pockets who doesn't ever use the product, leading to ridiculously-high tuition and a crap experience for the students. It lowers the value-and raises the price-of education. Easily making all your money from a single customer who doesn't even use the product is enough to destroy any institution. Lazy, complacent, out-of-touch with student life, situations like this = American universities across the country. Bummer. At least there was a sort-of-happy ending here. Thanks for sharing, man.
I like your videos but the sound quality is not that good... The echo is not but tolerable, but next time you could at least cut out clearing your throat (which is then way louder than the spoken word).
I like your comment but the content ist not that good. Next time could you at least cut out the criticism (which is way louder than saying something nice).
@@arbitrary_username This was really hard to hear, though. I currently am listening with headphones with the volume way up, and if an ad plays, I know it will have been a mistake. Hurray for closed captions.