There's no link to the article in the OP.
I've found searching the archive using DuckDuckGo more effective than Google lately.
Google is going to cite to Unfogged to prove it doesn't have a monopoly .
Wow, I can't find the prior discussion of the BA Test Kitchen blowup even using Duck Duck Go. Maybe we didn't talk about it here, and instead I'm remembering conversations other places.
I remember learning that BA was racist and sexist. I assumed I learned it here, but I could be wrong.
I just searched my inbox, and it wasn't a guest post, and I wouldn't have posted it, so if it came up, it was dropped in a thread.
The blowup happened about a week after I discovered the videos, and I was still enjoying them. I felt both very plugged-in to the moment and very annoyed that something I was enjoying went wrong so quickly.
I think BA might have come up in a discussion of Alison Roman, but I recall some specific discussion of videos (LB, did you mention that Newt watched some of the Test Kitchen videos?). I also remember DQ sharing some illuminating stories about sexism in the food industry.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I believe BenW wrote the Alison Roman post.
Oh right, pretend that I remembered other FPPs exist when I wrote 6.
Here's the post about Roman, and it's an interesting (though slightly contentious) comment thread, but it doesn't mention BA: http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_17259.html
The article linked in that previous OP, does talk about BA: https://www.eater.com/2020/5/20/21262304/global-pantry-alison-roman-bon-appetit
Comparing Brad to Trump seems really unnecessarily vicious. He comes off on screen as a lovable golden retriever type, not an aggressive asshole.
Surely the more apt comparison is to Biden, who's well-like but bumbling and somehow beat several more qualified women.
15: I don't want to refight the primary, especially not in defense of Biden, but qualifications was Biden's strong point.
Off topic troll alert
I'm just watching Michael Dell's keynote and who's a special guest but the GRIT LADY!!! Talking about how the virus has turned us all into animals in a learned helplessness experiment and how we need...
....*Grit*....
and, you know, an unrivalled range of enterprise hardware products.
I have to admit, I heard Angela Duckworth interviewed on Armchair Expert and went from disliking her intensely to liking her and feeling like her point has been distorted by journalists.
an interesting (though slightly contentious) comment thread
That thread was brutal. It still depresses me a little bit to remember it.
talent, charisma, and hard work
I can't see this without rewriting it in my head as "charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent."
My wife and I watched and enjoyed the BA videos for a year before Covid, and were dismayed at the pay revelations and poor response by BA. Our gateway were Claire's Gourmet Makes videos, branching into several of the other people's videos. They were well edited and gave a nice sense of personality (whether real or artificial) -- it was very low stakes and enjoyable.
We've since followed Sohla into Stump Sohla and "Off-Script With Sohla"; both are fun and still well produced.
18: but did that make you want to buy a server from her?
Of course not. I just need to have high expectations and high levels of support for my old server to produce at the top end of its natural range.
Do people have servers in home? I'm behind on the Covid nesting stuff. I'm only up to baking.
We all need to believe that there was a work-related reason for Alex to watch "Michael Dell's keynote", although maybe recreational tech conference viewing is a new lifestyle trend. Stranger things...
Oh man: someone is going to propose the ghastly neologism "nestalgia" for the homesickness everyone will feel when office work resumes, mark my words.
https://angeladuckworth.com/grit-scale/
Ok, everybody post your annual income, your SAT score, and your grit score.
You know just by clicking on that link and filling out the questionnaire I already failed at grit.
Take that quiz with your BFF and each fill it out for the other person and see if you guys are really besties!
I tried it again and got a 5.0. It's not very hard to guess what you're supposed to say
On topic of cooking, my Cal II class got in a big conversation over chat while I was lecturing about fideo, which I've never had before, but now I've promised to make it this weekend and report back.
They all said that this is fancier than their families usually make, because it's usually a simple quick comfort food to whip up with maybe just an onion, garlic, and a few tomatoes, plus the fideo noodles, but that the general idea is right.
Technically π but they're rounding down to keep it simple.
I took that quiz honestly and of course I'm in the 10th percentile. It's basically the anti-ADHD quiz.
26. Turns out I'm pretty gritty, but tbh I don't think it's grit so much as mulish obstinacy -- once I've set a course for myself, I lack the imagination and initiative necessary to veer from it. In many parts of my life -- school, work projects, practicing music -- this trait has worked out fine, but I've also wasted years of my life doggedly trying to salvage obviously doomed relationships because it's so hard for me to abandon anything.
My forthcoming THE DARK SIDE OF GRIT book will also have a chapter about how people like me should never start playing phone games, lest they be condemned to spend the rest of their waking hours joylessly completing the requisite tasks. A few years ago, all my friends downloaded Neko Atsume. After few weeks of cooing about their cute cat pictures, they all abandoned or deleted the game. But there I still was, day after day, wearily but diligently farming my cats. Not because it was fun. I had just succumbed to inertia. Maybe it's not grit. Maybe I'm a robot.
I took that quiz honestly and of course I'm in the 10th percentile. It's basically the anti-ADHD quiz.
It's not a great quiz -- it's obvious what the "correct" answers are, but also not-obvious how one would decide between the various options. There's no way to know what baseline one should be comparing to.
Also, I enjoyed Range which argues that the way that GRIT assumes a value to not switching goals/plans is arguably counter-productive.
Maybe blaming everything on Iran will eventually work?
After few weeks of cooing about their cute cat pictures, they all abandoned or deleted the game. But there I still was, day after day, wearily but diligently farming my cats.
I identify with this, as I figure out what to post in my weblog for today, October 22, 2020.
The interview with her was more nuanced than that dumb quiz, for sure. For one thing, they were like, "Isn't grit just actually being interested in something? Can anyone actually white-knuckle their way into grit, or is it all just that our brains work much better when we're interested?" Or at least, I had that thought while listening.
The other funny thing about the quiz, to me: my instinct is to think about areas where I'm successful, and give myself high marks. But Ile's comment about ADHD made me go back and look at the quiz through the lens of, say, my house, and then I score miserably on it. I'm just so marvelously adept at ignoring my half-finished lazy crap all over the house that I don't even pull it to mind when someone asks me about my half-finished lazy crap.
Anyway, that quiz itself is also a pile of half finished lazy crap.