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like to build systems

[Slava Akhmechet @spakhm]

Long range career advice. (Won't help you get a job tomorrow, this is a ~10-20 year thing)

You want to run two processes. Your main loop:

1. Knock on doors, many outside your league, and get yourself in a room with the most competent people who will have you.
2. Work your ass off to be reliably useful to them. Like, really, _really_ hard. However hard you think you're working to be reliably useful, work ten times harder. Also, be cheerful.
3. Every once in a while pop your head out and go to step 1.

Your background loop: look around for weird asymmetric opportunities. A startup to found/join, a project to hack on, an angel investment into a friend's company, whatever. When your heart sings, jump on it. (You will fail a lot but that's fine so long as you handle failure well, I'll cover that in another post)

In exchange for working really hard you get two things. First, knowledge/experience-- you learn a ton. Second, relationships-- ppl will remember how great it was to work with you. Knowledge and relationships with competent ppl create crazy asymmetric opportunities. You then jump on those. (There is a lot of twitter slop about compounding, well this is what career compounding looks like.)

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Now some failure modes. Do _not_ do this:

"I deserve much better than this company/role, I'm just going to begrudgingly collect a paycheck" --> first, you deserve what the market clears and that's that. Second, if you act this way you'll only hurt yourself. Your colleagues will remember you as a grouch and it will wreck the compounding loop. Third, it's a very unpleasant state to be in, and you should choose not to be in it.

"But I work at Home Depot, what's there to compound?" --> that's extremely shortsighted. Maybe you do a super good job helping a customer who then has an open spot and remembers you. Maybe your store manager becomes a regional manager and calls you. Maybe years down the line your quiet peer is looking for a partner to start their own store. Maybe none of this happens, but it doesn't matter because empirically ppl who try hard to be useful wherever they are tend to do great, and people who don't, don't. (Home Depot is a metaphor, obviously)

"I hate this place, I quit! And anyway they're a faceless corporation that will lay me off any time." --> don't do that. The company may be a faceless corporation, but your colleagues are not faceless. They bet on you, hopefully you did a great job, and now they depend on you. Leaving is never easy, but do it in a way that respects the trust ppl put in you.

"Everyone around me is an idiot, I hate this!" --> maybe they are, or maybe you're not ready and some day will discover you were wrong about this. In any case you can learn from everyone and everything. So do that and be useful, don't break the compounding loop because opportunities will surprise you and things are often not what they seem.

“_I_ should have been promoted not that other guy/why is my manager layering me, screw this!” --> every time that happened i eventually understood I deserved it, you probably do too. Don’t hold grudges, do your best to figure out how to learn from this and move on, it will make sense eventually.

P.S. it helps if you’re a little talented.

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@arogya30 @Microsoft @MicrosoftEdge its msft:)

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

i mean codebase me thoda business logic bhi likhdo bhai

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

Abstraction kills productivity and readability.

I understand its importance, but it does kill readability and take away the natural flow of reading and understanding the code.

What do you mean I will have to write UseCaseContextSingetonAbstractFactoryPubsubBuilder class

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@browsercompany Game changer feature for sure!!

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@LollaIndia Selling tickets at 7k
Please DM

[isaacs @izs]

I would like there to be a podcast where they interview people who build innovative technical things, but instead of talking about how great the thing is and what a genius they are, it's a 2 hour conversation about all the shit that didn't work along the way. Way more interesting

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@Higgs_X_Boson will meet you there :)

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@TheBanat pep ke tactics were too easy for McFred
ye postecogou kya chij hai

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

Three PL titles in three seasons. Two Champions League finals in the last three campaigns, reaching the semi-finals once.
Pure football heritage.

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@augustradjoe Thanks for reaching out!
Please check DM.

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@Casey @nothing and here goes nothing

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@jarredsumner JS needs to step up its AI game to stay relevant. To improve DX in AI, JS should better support more ML libraries.

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@Higgs_X_Boson One day bhai one day

[Aman @AmanHasNoName_2]

As a Developer, my new hobby is wearing shorts and going to nice restaurants.

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@piersmorgan dont try hard bruh
you wont get 2nd intrw

[Deep @abcdeeeeeeeeep]

@getpeid okay ig

[Kautuk Srivastava @Cowtuk]

There just aren't other well-populated sites that centre around text. Every social media has become increasingly visual and worryingly dance-y. As terrible as it was, Twitter was a refuge for people who traded in language. It's where introverts went to get heard.

[Aman @AmanHasNoName_2]

Anil Kapoor's daughter asked a Linkin Park fan if he had a degree.

He replied, "I've BCom Sonam"

[Raj Kunkolienkar @kunksed]

Hinduism is the Linux of religions.