𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン)

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Btw this is why computer science matters. Yes, you can self teach it if you really want to (I personally wouldn't have had the discipline, so college was a way better force). However you learn it, the theoretical fundamentals matter and get applied to work every single day.

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

Gold:

"Discipline often comes before passion, not after"

[Anish Giri @anishgiri]

The Myth of “Love Learning”

People often ask me how to get better at chess. My answer is almost the opposite of what people expect.

You don’t have to love learning.

In fact, if you wait until you love the process, you’ll probably never become very good.

We romanticize improvement. We imagine great players waking up excited to study endgames, analyze losses, or memorize opening lines. Sometimes that’s true. Most of the time it isn’t.

Improvement is often boring.

The difference between an amateur and a professional isn’t that the professional enjoys every minute. It’s that they keep going when they don’t.

People say children are fearless learners. I’m not so sure.

Children quit things constantly. Piano. Swimming. Languages. Football. Chess. They usually continue only because someone else insists they do. Parents. Teachers. Coaches.

Discipline often comes before passion, not after.

The same is true for adults.

We tell people to “follow your curiosity.” That’s wonderful advice if curiosity happens to last. Usually it doesn’t.

Every meaningful skill has a point where curiosity runs out and routine takes over.

That’s where improvement actually begins.

Chess certainly did not always feel like play to me.

There were tournaments where the last thing I wanted to do after six hours of defending a miserable endgame was analyze another five hours.

There were openings I studied not because they fascinated me, but because my opponents forced me to.

There were positions I analyzed simply because they were objectively important.

Not because they were fun.

Because they needed to be done.

People often criticize schools for asking the wrong questions.

But there’s another side to that story.

If everyone only studied the questions they found interesting, most people would develop huge blind spots.

Sometimes someone else knows what you need to learn before you do.

Nobody is naturally curious about tax law before becoming an accountant. Or anatomy before becoming a surgeon. Or rook endings before losing enough of them.

External structure isn’t always the enemy of learning.

Often it’s the bridge that gets you to the point where genuine curiosity develops.

The biggest obstacle isn’t fear of looking stupid.

It’s our addiction to doing only what feels rewarding today.

Modern life gives us endless opportunities to switch the moment something becomes difficult.

A new opening.

A new productivity system.

A new app.

A new hobby.

Very few people simply keep doing the same useful thing for years.

That’s the superpower.

So when people ask how to improve at chess, I don’t tell them to fall in love with learning.

Love helps.

Curiosity helps.

Being willing to fail helps.

But none of those are reliable.

Build habits that survive the days when none of those feelings are there.

Because mastery isn’t built on motivation.

It’s built on showing up after motivation has left the room.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

The next decade belongs to those willing to earn it:

[SlavicWarrior®️ @q_slavic]

My definition of wealth ✨

[ElevateYourMind @leantolearn]

5.

[∩ @zachpogrob]

Go insane once in a while.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

5. A whale shark moving through bioluminescent algae appears to be flying through the vastness of space

[∩ @zachpogrob]

Play in decades.

[deor @Deor]

i know this has been talked about before but still so cool that the creator of zig asked on stack overflow 15y ago how to open a file in c++

u can just do things. start.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Guys…

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

So now that Nvidia has far outstripped the market cap of AMD and Intel, I thought this would be a fun story to tell. I spent 6+yrs @ AMD engg in mid to late 2000s helping design the CPU/APU/GPUs that we see today. Back then it was unimaginable for AMD to beat Intel in market-cap (we did in 2020!) and for Nvidia to beat both! In fact, AMD almost bought Nvidia but Jensen wasn’t ready to sell unless he replace Hector Ruiz of AMD as the CEO of the joint company. The world would have looked very different had that happened. Here’s the inside scoop of how & why AMD saw the GPU oppty, lost it, and then won it back in the backdrop of Nvidia’s far more insane trajectory, & lessons I still carry from those heady days:

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

Testing in production ultra pro max 🔥🔥🔥

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Barry Marshall was convinced that the Helicobacter pylori bacteria caused stomach ulcers, but no one believed him.

Since it was illegal to test his theory on humans, he drank the bacteria himself and developed ulcers within days.

He treated them with antibiotics and went on to win a Nobel prize in 2005.

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

@2sush You pay tax to government, government builds infrastructure (roads etc), you pay tax on those infrastructures and it goes on….

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

The first tech roasting which I actually enjoyed 😂. #IGotRoasted by @dailydotdev

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

@Zoomcar_India @ZoomcarBLR …in the first place instead of debiting the amount and showing something went wrong. This could have saved me many hours of to and fro with the customer support. Also, the car’s photos should be updated after every ride for better transparency to customer.

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

Hey @Zoomcar_India! I booked a Toyota Glanza in #Bangalore which turned out to be in a bad state (outdated pics of car). I went to chat support in the app and tried to book another car twice but it failed both times. A very disappointing experience for a new user. More in 🧵…

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

UPDATE: @Zoomcar_India @ZoomcarBLR The issue has been resolved and I was refunded the full amount. I was informed that I cannot book another car until the current booking’s car is verified by the zoom team. There should be a proper UI/UX to not allow booking another car…(1/2)

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

@ZoomcarBLR @morang @Zoomcar_India @ZoomcarBLR @morang I kindly request you to please look into this matter with urgency or else I would have to take help of legal actions. This is a major security breach as the host can now do all sorts of nasty things with your records showing my DL. (2/2)

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

🚨🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE 🚨🚨

The trip has started without my knowledge and I got a notification around 12:35 AM today. I don’t know what kind of shady deal is this but the car is “On Trip” with my DL attached and I am not even driving the car. (1/2)
cc: @ZoomcarBLR @morang

[𝚗𝚊𝚢𝚊𝚗 (ノヨン) @async_punk]

@Zoomcar_India @Zoomcar_India @ZoomcarBLR I am still waiting for your response/assistance.
cc: @morang