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I hate politics and would strongly prefer to work at companies that signal for less politics. With that said, I think politics is fundamentally about resource contention.

So another way to state my preference is I strongly prefer companies that delegate all decision making to be purely empirical or by the data, and organizationally flat.

As opposed to by political pandering, positioning, attacking opponents, and realpolitick of human actors, with deep organization charts, characteristic of large corporation / Washington DC style decision making.

Actually I think doing everything by the data is a good way to reform conventional politics. If you could just measure absolutely every economic and political signal it should be possible to start using machine learning to identify improved policy (e.g. "remove this rent-seeking law X.")

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There's also the issue of distractions from family. Going to work provides an excuse not to simultaneously help your spouse with child care, etc.

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