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[M @pnc090]

@vaishprasad11 @bpoppenheimer Maybe find something that doesn't feel like torture anymore

[Abhijith Neil Abraham @abhijithneil]

The reason they tell you to learn DSA or other core algorithms is to abstract your mind, no matter if you directly use in your job or not. A new theory or concept that you learn can easily memorized or envisioned if you know the core foundations, because the science of engineering is built block by block, helping you to build more blocks or rearrange the older blocks.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Software engineering consists of hundreds of "it's so over" ⇔ "we're so back" micro-episodes per day.

Perseverance is just as, if not more, important than sheer technical ability.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Thirty-eight years into being a stand-up comedian, Jerry Seinfeld was asked how his daily work routine has evolved over the years.

“It’s the exact same,” he said. “I do the exact same now as I did when I was 21 in 1975.”

He sits down with a yellow legal pad, he said, and

"my writing technique is just: You can’t do anything else. You don’t have to write, but you can’t do anything else.”

That’s your day? the interviewer asks. That’s what you’ve done every day for thirty-eight years? That, to me, sounds torturous.

“It is,” Seinfeld admits. “But you know what? Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with…Find the torture you’re comfortable with, and you’ll do well.”

Takeaway 1:

To most, what Jerry Seinfeld does every day sounds like torture. But Seinfeld loves what he does. "I love my big, yellow legal pad," he said. "Once I get that pad open, I can’t stop…the next thing I know, the day is gone.”

Paul Graham has a great essay on this imbalance.

"My father is a mathematician," Graham writes. "To me the exercises at the end of each chapter in a math textbook represent work...To him the problems [are] the reward."

"It seemed curious that the same task could be painful to one person and pleasant to another."

If what is torturous to other people is rewarding to you, Graham writes, "that's something you're well suited for."

Takeaway 2:

In the early 1980s, the sociologist Daniel Chambliss spent 5 years studying swimmers at every level of ability.

In 1989, he published his research in a paper, “The Mundanity of Excellence.” Essentially, Chambliss found that Olympic champions don’t train more than the average swimmer. Instead, they train differently. In particular, they do “what others see as boring.”

Chambliss tells the story of a group of coaches from around the world visiting a U.S. Olympic Team practice. “The visiting coaches were excited at first…then soon they grew bored, walking back and forth, glancing down at their watches, wondering, after the long flight out to California, when something dramatic was going to happen.”

“They all have to come to see what we do,” the U.S. Olympic Team coach said. “They think we have some big secret.”

There is no secret. There is only the doing of the mundane, boring, torturous work, day after day.

Find the mundane, boring, torturous work you like, as Seinfeld said, "and you’ll do well."

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"Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with." — Jerry Seinfeld

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[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

So let me get this straight:

Justin Trudeau took his 15 year old son on a vacation to a country that, with credible alleged link, to assassinating someone in Canada and where travel his government is recommending to avoid to due to terrorist attacks.

Make it make sense for me, please.

[shaurya @shauseth]

when an individual is manic depressive we call it bipolar. when society is manic depressive we call it business cycle

[Azhar Jafri @zhr_jafri]

🚨 Breaking : Canadian Envoy got 29 spam calls from Agarwal movers & packers companies after he was asked to go back 🥲

[Kelly Vaughn @kvlly]

After spending 30 minutes in Azure I am pleased to announce that I am lost

[Klaas @forgebitz]

just slap an .ai on it 👏

[Daniel Bordman @DanielBordmanOG]

Canada vs India 101:
Both countries have expelled diplomats over the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar and relations are breaking down. Here's an explanation of why India is mad and why this goes terribly for Canada

[M @pnc090]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

git merge for long running feature branches
git rebase for everything else

[kitze 🛠️ tinkerer.club @thekitze]

mfs put "made with ❤️ " in the footer like they didn't curse at js and css and thought about switching professions the entire time

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

ISRO chairman S Somnath is now bigger than cinema superstars in India.

[amar @liftplaycode]

Bruh; need to attain this level of swag some day. 💀💀

[daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder]

On August 31 I will do the longest and most detailed curl command line video you ever saw. Join me. Lean back. Chat. Enjoy.

https://t.co/QNLp7yy8V6

[Kevin ⨀ @kvncnls]

Life is so fragile. You think someone is doing okay, and the next moment they’re learning JavaScript.

[Vishal Biyani @vishal_biyani]

💯 I bow to the fact that - these women who have achieved no mean feat - are so simple, unassuming & work together for larger good

[Shiva @shivakilaru]

still sad this scene didn't make it into the final cut

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
🔍What's new here?

Pragyan rover roams around Shiv Shakti Point in pursuit of lunar secrets at the South Pole 🌗!