ZainRiz

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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Sounds like a recursive problem. What if the parents were parented badly and thus lack emotional capacity. What if they were parented badly because the grand parents were parented badly?
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What you're describing is part of the point the author is making
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Instead of focusing on a goal for three years, try to focus on a goal that you can achieve in two weeks (or whatever your default attention span is) Design each two week goal so that you get a dopamine rush from doing it, get some value out
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Wow, this is a great story! Do you have pictures of the post cards by any chance? And how long did it take her to realize what the message was?
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Thank you for intensifying my impostor syndrome ;)
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Dude, so much wisdom in this comment. I’m saving it Yeah, regarding perception, yeah, I have definitely noticed a jump in responsibilities every time I’ve switched teams, and a bigger jump each time I switched companies. But I hadn’t quite
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I suspect anyone who tries to stretch themselves past their comfort zone experiences this But different people have different comfort zones (author here)
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Shhhh, I’m trying to convince myself that’s not true (author here)
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Author here. For what it’s worth, that first promo I talk about was when I was just two years out of college. It was many years later that I started realizing that maybe it wasn’t a fluke mistake
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
It's worthless as a "certification program", but the actual knowledge is valuable You need some way to get your foot in the door and prove your chops. Some bootcamps like Lambda school are doing a pretty good job about that
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Thanks for the detailed write up, I love hearing from folks with more experience than me. How do you study failed attempts in a space? The survivorship bias can make those hard to find. Do you focus on failed attempts within your company f
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I like you :)
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I totally get it. I used to revere books waaaaay to much to let any blemish willingly tar them. Now though, I'm delighted to write notes all over
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I've written an article comparing a couple of the more popular note taking strategies. It was even on the HN front page 13 hours ago :) https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/remembering-what-you-read-zett... HN link: htt
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Ah, I see where you're coming from. The benefits don't accrue as much when you're writing material you've been told to write, especially when it's not something the recipient will be happy to receive. Those can be v
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
You don't need to get paid directly for those skills to be valuable. I started brushing up on my writing skills since at the higher levels of engineering (and prob all other fields) communicating your ideas more effectively will open u
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
+1 And as patio11 says, combining engineering with good writing skills makes it very easy to be one of the top with your combined skills I’ve been trying to lean more into that advice the past couple months by publishing on my blog :) Surpr
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
> creators can get just as much value out of creating their original content and connecting with like-minded people. Strong resonance here. I recently became more prolific about blogging, and this was the mindset that helps me stay consi
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Got it. Yeah, this is one of those instances where the paradox of choice can kill you. Just a thought: if I were interested in adopting a tool like that, my chances of successfully sticking with it would go up 100x if there was a set of &qu
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
OP here, if the article seemed to imply that tooling is irrelevant, that was not my intent. The most important part of any system is that it be something you'll stick with. I 100% agree with you that if a system puts you off from takin
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
How do you use slack for para?
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Do you have private tags visible just to you? Otherwise it seems like the system would get pretty cluttered with everyone's tags For my work notes I've been copying links to the team docs into my personal note taking system and or
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
That's pretty cool Jeff! Those insights are probably used a lot by researchers working on general AI. How much work does it take you to add your notes to it? I'm curious about it on two dimensions: * The time it takes to add a not
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
It doesn't take much effort. Win + '.' opens up the emoji selector, and just start typing a word to search the emojis. Why bother? Sometimes they help to convey emotion that would otherwise be missing. Other times it helps to
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
I really like how you distinguish saving nuggets from complex mental constructs. That's a super valuable call out. Regarding mind maps: I've personally found them useful for thinking in the moment and brainstorming. They were also
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
Lol, two-year-ago me would be scandalized at how I now defile books with my vile notes Pictures if you want them: https://twitter.com/ZainRzv/status/1289964671563214848
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
(OP here) The argument I tried make in the article was twofold: 1) You read waaaay more than you use. So only summarizing what you're about to use in a project takes less time total. (and even then, it's just highlighting passage
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
That's a great way to learn the content deeply. I tried doing that and failed miserably however, I just couldn't stick with it, lol. That's where PARA's highlight based, minimal effort note taking system really helped m
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
(OP here) The philosophy behind PARA is different from spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is super valuable when you want to keep all the information inside your head. PARA is more geared at when you want all the information available
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by ZainRiz 6y ago
100% agreed. It's been a journey for me to get to this point, but Tiago Forte's thoughts were really influential for me here. Now I try to only save notes that I found particularly surprising or insightful, I'm definitely not

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