There's a lot to think about here, but one part that stood out to me was the comment on the rise of cognitive skill testing in interviews. I've only had to go through a cognitive skills test for an interview once, but once was quite enough, as I bombed that test and never heard from the company again.
Personal experiences aside, cognitive testing is generally designed to be explicitly unrelated to practical skills, as skills can be almost always be learned whereas cognitive skills are usually seen as innate. Indeed, many of these tests prohibit people from retaking them within a certain period as the results would be influenced by learning. I see it as somewhat self-evident that screening job candidates based on innate traits that are not indicative of job performance is a bad idea, but I understand why it's done (because companies are unwilling or unable to give full consideration to all candidates and instead of literally implementing a lottery they prefer automated tests that are biased in some way that might correlate with job performance).
Yeah, I do more city than trail running, so I've always been a little wary of the zombies app because I need to pay attention to the environment and watch out for intersections.
I enjoy jogging as well (I actually briefly tried "Zombies, run!" as well, and can vouch that it's pretty neat), but since I started a gym membership at the beginning of the year I've been doing a lot more weight lifting recently.
I'd never really lifted weights before, but it 's pretty rewarding. Not "fun" exactly, but there's a real sense of progress when you start seriously using muscles that you've hardly even known you had.



InclusionThe War on Stupid PeopleJun 29, 2016 at 8:58 PM