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by altonzheng 5y ago
Thanks, I'm early-mid career, and this feels like really good advice. It almost seems obvious: be helpful, don't be an asshole, and you'll be fine.
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by altonzheng 5y ago
> Protip: never psychoanalyze anyone! This likely applies even to psychoanalysts. Beside your point, but wondering if you could expand on this. I have a tendency to do this, and while it's fun, I'm starting to get the sense th
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by altonzheng 6y ago
I’d add removing inner resistance, which could be expanded under motivation in the formula. Increasing motivation isn’t simply an additive process — you can introspect on the things limiting your motivation, eg. fear of failure, and address
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by altonzheng 6y ago
Almost spit out my coffee.
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by altonzheng 6y ago
Join a large company and inspect the engineering org structure, and you will have the answer. Or ask someone that works at one :)
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by altonzheng 6y ago
When I introspected, I realized indeed, all my dislike of Google was, at the root, just saltiness at being rejected :D.
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by altonzheng 6y ago
Very interesting, I would love to see level-headed discussion on this, although it might be politically fraught. I'm curious how these two axes were decided, if anyone knows. Also, it makes me wonder about cultural relativism, since it
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by altonzheng 6y ago
While I agree with your sentiment that the system is flawed and not serving much of the population, I think the parent's point still stands. If the system was designed solely for protecting wealth, it wouldn't be encouraging compe
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by altonzheng 6y ago
According to LinkedIn, Yelp has 8964 employees with top 2 being: 1. Sales (3799) 2. Engineering (1035)
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by altonzheng 6y ago
I was surprised myself, and I don't know what they're for. I have heard they are a design-driven company though. Also, they have a magazine (airbnbmag.com)
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by altonzheng 6y ago
FWIW -- according to LinkedIn, they have 14554 employees, with the top two functions being: 1. Arts & Design (3365 employees) 2. Engineering (1990 employees)
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by altonzheng 7y ago
What a beautiful quote, thank you for sharing.
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by altonzheng 7y ago
> But due to the lack of a distributed or delegated authority, it greatly limits how many important topics can be focused on at once as the apparatus of government is designed around pleasing the core power holders, who can only focus on
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by altonzheng 7y ago
Another perspective (I learned from a therapist), is that we might already possess the innate ability to be great conversationalist, it's just performance anxiety that gets in the way. So for me, as someone who consumed loads of self-h
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by altonzheng 7y ago
I've fallen into the trap of similar thinking as the author, and I agree, the main issue is believing that mindfulness is a panacea. The more we suffer the more we hope for simple solutions. I really wanted to believe that meditate mor
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by altonzheng 8y ago
Well said. I’ve just started really thinking about this. Although I would venture that people naturally develop value systems as they get older, whatever field they are in. It’s just that many of our existing institutions set you up to crea
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by altonzheng 8y ago
Excellent, will check that book out. Something I've noticed in my own life is practicing mastery in one area creates learnings and attitudes that aid in mastery in another area. The actual skills are not there, but the ability to navig
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by altonzheng 9y ago
Any idea on how this compares to the deep learning course here: http://course.fast.ai/ ? Very interested in taking a course, but there are so many offerings available. I have high level ML understanding from classes I took i
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by altonzheng 9y ago
I felt like the attack on "traditional" emotional intelligence in the beginning was contrived and not really thought through. Yes, it's true that we assume we can approximate the emotional experience of others, but I think a
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by altonzheng 9y ago
Great advice. > Learn how to trick your brain into thinking that fear is excitement. You don't have to be able to do it very long, just the ten seconds before you're about to start, but it makes all the difference. I would say
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by altonzheng 9y ago
Easy solution I've found: unfollow everyone. Obviously they make this hard for you, you have to unfollow individually and get stopped for "abuse" every once on a while, but it's so rewarding at the end. You get all the b
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by altonzheng 9y ago
While progress might be slow, I still believe that more humanistic values can exist within a capitalist institution, because at the end of the day, a corporation is just another human endeavor.
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by altonzheng 9y ago
Huh really, didn't get that vibe but okay.
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by altonzheng 9y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, thought you had some great points. As someone who has struggled with mental health myself in the past, I'm kind of wary of the whole "let's reduce depression down to how we would trea
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by altonzheng 9y ago
Hahaha I love this
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by altonzheng 9y ago
Great essay. To me many of Thoreau's points seem like excellent ideas, the difficulty is putting it into practice. Everyone is aware that your work and property is not "you", but in practice, I feel many of my peers, myself i
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If Uber is such a terrible place to work, why does everyone want to work there?(linkedin.com)
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by altonzheng 10y ago
I've noticed the huge wave of new luxury apartments being completed. I wonder why they don't lower the rental prices instead of partnering with HomeShare.
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by altonzheng 10y ago
> How many will care if artificial intelligence destroys life if it has already destroyed meaning? This line sounds deep, but I think it incorrectly conflates work with life having meaning. If eventually there isn't a need for large
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by altonzheng 10y ago
I wish this article went into more of the philosophies of the slaveholders. Slavery is bad no doubt, but I can see how someone would rationalize it as providing security and peace of mind. If you give up your freedom and personal responsibi

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