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John Carmack's path is highly unusual. I highly regard the person but would not take on his experience as career advice.
by Iv 6y ago
John Carmack's path is highly unusual. I highly regard the person but would not take on his experience as career advice.
- swyx 6y agoah the irony of career advice. we only care to hear advice from successful people but the successful people are exceptions. this is why I focus on generalized principles in my writing. all personal success is anecdotal but we should not let that stop us from trying to discover generalizable truths by induction and deduction.
- Foober223 6y agoBut his "highly unusual" success is lighting that strikes 5 times in a row. Maybe he's onto something. His lighting strikes consistently in completely different domains too.
- halfmatthalfcat 6y agoLightning strikes aren’t evenly distributed on the globe. Carmack is a skyscraper, the average human is a normal tree.
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