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Just a human being | Beat your own best |

[Marko Denic @denicmarko]

Learn programming by playing games:

Blockchain → cryptozombies.​io
SQL → mystery.knightlab.​com
JavaScript → javascriptquiz.​com
Go → codingame.​com
Python → codedex.​io
CSS → cssbattle.​dev
Java → tynker.​com
Git → ohmygit.​org

[Balaji @balajis]

Hardware is hard.

That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time.

Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping interruptions, or regulatory delays.

Not Elon. He didn’t just survive financial crisis and coronavirus. He managed to build physical things in America while fighting the state and the laws of nature at the same time.

Somehow he managed to simultaneously build not just a car company but a rocket company. Those don’t just have “moving parts”, they are a moving whole.

The difficulty level here is insane. Hardware is completely different from software. One recall, just one serious bug, can destroy your company. If you are charging $50 for something that costs $40, and you need to recall and replace a million units, you’re usually dead.

So just one of these companies — just Tesla, or just SpaceX — would be an incredible accomplishment for anyone. Even a very intelligent and hardworking person would have to live an incredibly boring, disciplined, focused life to possibly maintain the extremely low error rate needed to profitably ship such complex products.

Not Elon. He did SpaceX and Tesla while having N children by K women. While also cofounding OpenAI and Neuralink and Boring Company. While fighting and defeating countless journalists, politicians, haters, and short sellers. And of course while buying Twitter, posting all the time, and building a following larger than almost any politician.

The better you are, the better you understand how much better Elon is. If you’re good at math you appreciate Ramanujan’s greatness. If you’re good at basketball you respect how amazing Michael Jordan was. Elon is like that, for tech. Everyone in tech understands the sport we’re playing, and he really is the greatest of all time.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Life is all about striving and growing. I never want to have made it; I want to continue making it.”, says Richard Branson.

Even if you have a busy day, taking five mins for mindfulness, reading a book can be all you need to reset.

25 books recommended by @richardbranson 🧵

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Places on Earth that don't feel real ...

https://t.co/o6oOjvJs3e

[Limitless Life @LimitlessLif3]

7 Netflix Documentaries You Need To
Watch That Will Put You In The Top 2%

[Dhaval (Investment Books) @InvestmentBook1]

25 Best Non-Investing Books to Read

1. Sapiens

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You are not exhausted, it's more like your job doesn't allow you to learn, your friends don't allow you to truly open up, your family doesn't allow you to feel understood and be yourself, your lifestyle doesn't allow you to be healthy, your finances don't allow you to take risks.

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

MLOps is a high-leverage skill, it combines the principles of software engineering and data science.

Applied ML:
🔗 https://t.co/pFY7E2gs8t

MLOps Project:
🔗 https://t.co/Hzc3TGdoQW

MLOps Book:
🔗 https://t.co/ri6S7xX9oT

The Jarvis of AI & MLOps:
🔗 https://t.co/q4jAr7PAmi

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The happier you are in your private life, the less angry you get over things that really don’t matter. Being overreactive is often the sign that you need to fix something: finance, family, friends, health, hobbies, career, self-esteem.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

If the years pass and your life doesn’t get better, it means:

- you forgot your long-term plan
- you actually don’t learn properly
- you are around the wrong people
- you live in the wrong environment
- your intuition and judgment are off
- you struggle to focus when it matters

[Learn Something @cooltechtipz]

Who knew?

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Amazing Powerpoint tip👏

https://t.co/hpwUWD00UG

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Navigating "corporate speak" isn't easy.

Here's a helpful guide I put together:

"Let me check with my team" = No

"Possibly" = No

"On my roadmap" = Not happening

"This will be done in Q4" = This will be done in Q2 next year

"Disagree and commit" = I hate you

"Per my last email" = Try reading, for once in your life

"Challenging landscape" = We're going out of business, quickly

"Digital transformation" = We're going out of business, slowly

"Let's circle back" = We'll never speak of this again

"Take it offline" = We'll never speak of this again

"30,000 foot view" = I don't know what I'm saying

"Low hanging fruit" = Easy promotion

"Open up the kimono" = HR violation

"We use AI" = We don't use AI

"We use machine learning" = We don't use machine learning

"All hands on deck" = Let's actually try for once, please

[Learn Something @cooltechtipz]

Genius

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

I started my career in Data Science back in 2016 ⏳

Here's a detailed roadmap for those starting out today!

What's covered:
- Python
- Machine Learning
- Maths for ML
- ML Books
- MLOps
- LLMs/AI Engineering

Read more...👇

[Poem Heaven @PoemHeaven]

it’s okay..

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

Would you believe me if I said I was told not to Tweet this?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

14 yo and 11 yo showed up at my office door asking for startup advice. I told them that the way to get really rich was to get good at programming now and start the startup in a few years, when knowing how to program had started to make good ideas visible.

[Ankur💻🎧💪 @TheAnkurTyagi]

I decided at this stage of my career not do interviews who ask live coding or any kind of whiteboard approach because it causes me severe anxiety and pressure and I always freeze when asked to live code on an interview.

I can code but I’m not good without access to google. I forgot things and I don’t remember all the syntax—but live coding interviews act like you’re supposed to know all the syntax every time so its the process that makes me anxious and feel like an imposter.

Sorry I’m not right candidate for you.

— A senior software engineer.