How To Get A 20% Jump On Your Next Paycheck

How to get a 20% jump on your next paycheck

The final part of the interview is usually the salary negotiation, and I'm afraid it's the one that gives you the most headaches and concerns. The headache is because you don't know how to negotiate with the prospective employer, and the concern is because it's hard to get to this point, and you want to get the desired figure, but you're afraid you'll miss the opportunity by asking too much. For example, I've come across headhunters who started with a high offer and waited until salary negotiation with the employer and then pressed hard; future bosses who gave the salary and then got cut by the recruiter and other dramatic salary negotiations. If you want to solve this dilemma once and for all, then you can't miss the long article recommended this Thursday, Patrick McKenzie spends 7,000 words detailing the bits and pieces of salary negotiation, and it's said that after reading this article, your next salary can go up by 20% :)

Recap

Dan Shipper described some of the habits he has established this past year, such as diet/exercise, etc. He goes to great lengths to describe some actions to maintain mental health.

1. Try meditation.
2. Use of sun lamp
3. Try ACT (Acceptance and Commitment therapy)；
4. Try couple therapy.

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Today's recommendation is not an article, but a set of tweets in which David Perell introduces himself to reading.

1. Writing notes in your own words as you read will make your reading more productive.
2. you'll have your best ideas when you read good books. After all, reading is about having better ideas. Writing detailed reflections in your own words can add highlights.
3. My reading notes are first drafts of new ideas, but they are worth recording because I am at my most reflective when reading. Since I keep all my notes, I can always return to them as well.
4. sometimes there are no complete ideas, at which point I write a short summary at the bottom, which makes note retrieval easier.
5. Writing is a partnership between you and your computer. You don't just create a note-taking system to remember things. You build a note-taking system to blend ideas - so that you can do wonders for yourself.

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Stephen King once said to take writing seriously and not to assume that writing is comparable to washing cars. robin sloan doesn't agree with this view, in his opinion any writing can be successful for any reason. He says that's what happened with the Transformers script: first there were the dolls, then the toy manufacturers asked the writers to make up stories based on those dolls, put them on, and they ended up being a big success. So to succeed through writing, the most important thing is not what to write, but to keep writing.

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Patrick McKenzie has written a very thorough article on how to negotiate salaries.

1. The so-called package includes wages, health insurance, leave, allowances, etc..
2. it costs the company about twice as much to hire an employee as ta salary, so the request for a partial wage increase is actually a small number in terms of total cost.
3. The worst outcome of salary negotiations is to accept the salary offered by the hiring party, so do not be afraid to negotiate salary.
4. In short, the core point of salary negotiations is never to show your hand first.

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This is Dan Wang's annual summary at the end of 2020, and like the annual summary for 2021, he goes to great lengths to recount his observations on China.

Observations on political parties.

1. This year, I read every issue of Qiushi (translation: Seeking Truth), the party’s flagship theory journal, whose core task is to spell out the evolving idea of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
2. Propaganda might not matter to you, but it matters to the party. Anne-Marie Brady has pointed out that the leadership considers propaganda to be the “lifeblood” of the party state.
3. For the most part, the party’s role can be boiled down to two items: inspiration, by setting the ideological direction, and control, through its power to select personnel.
4. Some of it however can be absurd: I’m skeptical that anyone can readily explain the nuances between “rule of law,” “socialist rule of law,” and “socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.”
5. Daniel Koss reminds us that the longer that revolutionary parties have to struggle before consolidating power, the stronger their ideological commitments and the greater their governance durability tend to be.

Observations on the outbreak.

1. Some of these masks had problems early on, but the manufacturers learned and fixed them or were culled by regulatory action, and China’s exports were able to grow when no one else could restart production. Soon enough, masks were big enough to be seen in the export data.
2. Francis Fukuyama states that high-trust societies have “spontaneous sociability,” in which people are able to organize more quickly, initiate action, and sacrifice for the common good. On each of these metrics, I submit that China should receive high marks.
3. Even though the government has every reason to be confident about the effectiveness of its virus containment, it has issued a jail sentence to a citizen journalist under the catch-all charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” For all the emphasis on seeking truth from facts, the state still maintains this practice of shooting the messenger or jailing its critics.
4. Not only has the government ramped up censorship, society as a whole is developing greater intolerance for dissenting ideas.

Observations on the economy and the relationship between the United States and China.

1. As a society grows rich, its problems become social: an organizational sclerosis, which no technology is sophisticated enough to solve.
2. The US responded to the rise of the USSR and Japan by focusing on innovation; it’s early days, but so far the US is responding to the technological rise of China by kneecapping its leading firms.
3. US restrictions are setting back Chinese companies in the short term, but I think it’s unlikely they can crush the broader effort to catch up. No country has monopolized a key technology forever: instead, the history of technology has mostly been a history of diffusion.

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