Andrew Shevchuk

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

"Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with."

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@yourneedler @KirtTucker @michaeltastad @levelsio Of course Isaacsons bio is super objective.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@levelsio And in reality Elona Musk is shitposting 24/7 on twitter. Stop being such a simp.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@mraleph @UBS I bet its a management and not an "engineer" problem. I also bet that there is a ticket somewhere deep in the backlog regarding app size optimization, but since its not a new cool feature PM or PO or some other SAFe person responsible for running things dont give a sh.. about it.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

Indian tech bros are next level...
You have to pay for opportunity to be a SLAVE 🤣

what a joke

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Update: I am looking for a chief of staff for myself.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@Architect9000 @DavidSacks Yeap, sounds legit 👍

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

Reason #10394747 why Sacks is a dumb idiot

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The smart people know the Ukraine War is a grift and they are in on it.

The dumb people think it’s about “democracy” even though the vast majority of Crimea and Donbas are ethnic Russians and want to go with Russia.

The U.S. has been fighting democracy in Ukraine.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@RpsAgainstTrump what a moron

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@VCBrags ego bigger than the universe....

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@omposerca @Jason 100% agree

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@Jason this is pathetic

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

Wtf is this chart is even about?
And of course I love how chart/tech/finance bros like to compare one country US to like 20 countries Eurozone. Have you ever been to at least couple of eurozone countries?? You jave no idea what you are talking about.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@MichaelAArouet Comparing US to Eurozone (20 countries!!) is ridiculous.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@jcrichman @CarwanRasoal @CtrlAltDwayne @levelsio Tell me you are an idiot without telling me you are an idiot.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@ThePrimeagen Watching prime becoming php and rails advocate

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@RobertKennedyJr you are a scambag and a piece of shit

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

While Zelenskyy strong-armed Democratic leaders into signing artillery shells that will kill children and another check for $8 billion, @realDonaldTrump stood firm for U.S. interests vowing quick peace and fiscal sanity. DJT has made Republicans the party of peace and skilled diplomacy.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@RobertKennedyJr @realDonaldTrump You are a scambag and a piece of shit

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

RFK is an idiot and a liar.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

While Zelenskyy strong-armed Democratic leaders into signing artillery shells that will kill children and another check for $8 billion, @realDonaldTrump stood firm for U.S. interests vowing quick peace and fiscal sanity. DJT has made Republicans the party of peace and skilled diplomacy.

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@TFTC21 Population red vs population blue? Have you done the calculation?

[Andrew Shevchuk @andrShvchk]

@Austen You are still here after scamming people with your lambda school?

And of course you are on AI bandwagon.

How predictable, scammers gonna scam...