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by bigred100 7y ago
The reason I invest my time and energy in my job is because working and maintaining a career is generally necessary for someone in my position. Within limits the people (I don’t want extraordinarily unpleasant coworkers) and the mission (I
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by bigred100 7y ago
I don’t really believe this. I know some people who I value less specifically because they are overly confident relative to their abilities. I expect them to play social bluffs to play up what they know how to do (or pretend to know things
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by bigred100 7y ago
Execute misbehaving underlings
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by bigred100 7y ago
I can’t imagine this is a good long-term career idea unless it’s something you do only on occasion when you’re mentally exhausted or something.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Surely a rational person would care about doing a solid day’s work while maintaining their health, sanity, relationships etc.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Paraphrase of a quotation of some guy’s high school wrestling coach I read many years ago: Dumb athletes are better at the start because they’ll just do what their coach tells them, but smart ones eventually overtake them as they figure thi
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by bigred100 7y ago
If someone makes an effort to present themselves as extraordinarily competent I’ll start watching them to try and figure out whether it’s true. If they’re extraordinarily competent then there’s not much to conclude. If they’re just normal b
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by bigred100 7y ago
If someone seemed to not like talking I’d probably do this a few times and then stop. However if someone seems untrustworthy/manipulative in work settings one of my responses is to say incredibly mundane things to them.
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by bigred100 7y ago
My personal opinion is that the average person is struggling not to die of obesity or become diabetic, not be massively in debt, take reasonably good care of their kids, attain a reasonable level of education, etc. So from this perspective
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by bigred100 7y ago
Books aren’t about enjoyment. They’re about suffering and talking about Montaigne at a party. That’s why I forced myself to read 800 pages of Babur complaining about melons.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I fill it with PlayStation
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by bigred100 7y ago
Many times people should just stay home and do their laundry instead of engaging in these weird adventures, in my opinion
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by bigred100 7y ago
I only learned math up to maybe the level of a decent BA student but I feel like when you take a math course you learn how to “do a trick” (pass the exam) and then actually learn the material when you take the next course, where you need to
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by bigred100 7y ago
> If you get a CS degree at any major institution, you are not learning how to learn. You're both preventing learning and picking up bad learning habits. What planet am I on right now?
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by bigred100 7y ago
It seems like another one or those things where nobody actually cares
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by bigred100 7y ago
I assigned my last manager a book to improve his communication skills and he just got mad at me.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I believe it’s easy to be cured of this disease by realizing what you want in life and realizing your limitations. I care (like probably most other people) about having a reasonably good career, being reasonably financial stable, taking rea
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by bigred100 7y ago
Aren’t index fund investors generally the folk who would just buy more during a huge exist anyway? That seems to be the “common wisdom” that goes with index fund advice.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I can’t imagine being so self-hating that doing a job for money instead of my passion for JavaScript or whatever caused me to look down on myself. I also can’t really conceive of any sane person having a passion for JavaScript (or whatever)
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by bigred100 7y ago
I feel like this is family’s fault. A family who is professional/UMC should be able to afford a child not immediately succeeding at getting a top job and staying home while going on interviews etc. If you can’t, admit it and adjust you
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by bigred100 7y ago
Open book & read it til done then switch. Anything I care about will involve me reading multiple texts on the topic or eventually rereading so I generally don’t worry about figuring everything out. Understanding takes time.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Depending on your position this to me reads like paranoid behavior one would expect from someone without many social skills who gets manipulated into fearing for his job when he has realistically one of the most portable and in demand skill
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by bigred100 7y ago
This is a problem I have with a lot of human behavior. Instead of admitting you don’t have the resources to do something or aren’t willing to prioritize it, people come up with a bad version that’s not worth doing. Lots of things are worth
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by bigred100 7y ago
I wonder if it wouldn’t be better for such towns to die. I don’t know if there’s any reason to live in a place where you don’t really have a means to do anything productive or (apparently) provide for yourself.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I feel the opposite. You need to develop a broad range of education on different life topics rather than obsessively implementing a small number of things. How much you implement from a smaller number of books is what I think would be usefu
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by bigred100 7y ago
I believe the internet goes to big extremes. I only want to read a newsletter from the “be a bit more prudent and save some more and then retire at the normal time with a reasonable expectation that you won’t run out of money” movement.
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by bigred100 7y ago
It depends on how many other responsibilities you have or other activities you engage in, and how much you care about the project, I suppose. To me 10 hours of solid study after work is a lot, but other people might throw out some other stu
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by bigred100 7y ago
I have a similar feeling. To learn the basic math (single, multivariable calculus, linear algebra) will probably take you 300 hours of serious study if you don’t already know any of it. That’s one hour a day for a year (if you actually succ
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by bigred100 7y ago
I hate this interpretation of everything as status games. It seems like a great way to drive yourself insane and develop mental illness as you overreact to mundane situations or fail to take advice from proper authorities. I consider somebo
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by bigred100 7y ago
I don’t read “per my last email” as “you’re an idiot”. If people didn’t misread emails it wouldn’t be a common phrase. And if it’s a common occurrence in an area of highly skilled employment with generally highly educated workers... I don’t

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