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by borroka 5y ago
It is an interesting book and I know people who know him since they trained in the same gym, but along with the solid substance (meat) that he proposes, my impression is that he throws a lot of smoke at the problem (see for example the few
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by borroka 5y ago
Yes, I have found positional sparring to lead to the quickest improvement from blue to black (novices have different needs, typically) "I've noticed the defender from 'bad positions' does better in specific training than
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by borroka 5y ago
Yes, that's my approach when I am teaching. Positional sparring is way superior to free sparring for learning. Lower stakes, people are more relaxed, the same position is presented multiple times and that's where learning happens.
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by borroka 5y ago
This is for the common gym (and follows what was developed as class structure in the early days in Brazil), not for the more enlightened gyms that exist but they are not (or not likely) for the common person. Say, for 100 gym, 90 are set up
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by borroka 5y ago
The standard BJJ classes (warm-up, technique of the day, sparring) are pedagogical black holes (BB here), anything else decent enough is better.
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by borroka 5y ago
"The hard part is actually starting. Once you start, everything becomes easier." - For whom? These are those types of nuggets, and I say it as mellowly as I can, that sound good ("starting is most difficult part"), but h
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by borroka 5y ago
In fact one of the very common risks is to mix up goals and boring advice. Say, you wanna score in a soccer match: just receive the ball, get rid of defenders in case, and kick the ball in the net——which is both true and useless. Eating few
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by borroka 5y ago
You make a good point, but I'd like to add an adverb: he can speak in a seemingly intelligent way about many topics. Also, he is mostly a commentator, which is much easier than be a "creator" of something tangible, he is neve
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by borroka 5y ago
A similar idea was in the ending of the book "The Last Cato", by Matilde Asensi. Hypnosis is a tool that is tremendously useful for the control of vegetative functions (I am an hypnotist myself), but unfortunately it has suffered
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by borroka 5y ago
Am I the only one here who thinks TC knows nothing about many things and his main skill is putting himself out there? I admire his range and understanding and use of the halo effect, but when he talks about some of the fields I know, I can&
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by borroka 5y ago
The Futurists were among the most influential movements of the 21st century. The movement proper was rather short-lived, some might argue that the peak of the movement was between 1909—the year the Futurist Manifesto was published in the Fr
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by borroka 5y ago
I agree with the comment. However, if you are attractive enough, try to compliment a man, saying something like, "I like that haircut", and see how they react. Let me expand a bit. If you are good looking enough and classy enough,
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by borroka 5y ago
I started complimenting people more and it was a mixed bag. I'm a good looking man and when I compliment other men, whether it's their looks, accomplishments, or other characteristics, I have a strong suspicion that at least some
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by borroka 5y ago
I apologize for the "one-liner". I am busy, I interview and hire many people, and I read resumes. You can do it too, it is one page and it is often interesting, including the lies here and there that disqualify candidates.
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by borroka 5y ago
I wasn't discussing lifestyles, I was discussing the meaning of the term "FU money". Otherwise, I could say that with a good 17 seconds flat in the 100 meter dash I'm well on my way to the Olympics.
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by borroka 5y ago
That's not FU money, that's enough money not to work for one year. At the end of the year, you cannot, in this context, say FU to anybody.
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by borroka 5y ago
The obsession of Americans with "how do you pay for your kids to go to college?" is truly bizarre to my non-US eyes (I am living in the US). They are adults when they go to college, there are merit-based scholarships, sports schol
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by borroka 5y ago
"This also explains an economic paradox. Why does our compensation go up when we switch jobs?" Is it a paradox only if you take for true the existence homo or company economicus
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by borroka 5y ago
Agreed about the extremeness of my case, although I would not call it as "obscenely obscure". There are plenty of people who went from FAANG to tech jobs of lesser responsibility, maybe they don't work 10 hours a week but 20
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by borroka 5y ago
I can see that. My point is that there are many reasons for not wanting to work at a FAANG, even for someone like me who has worked in one and could work, I guess, in others. My reason is that I make enough money currently not to want to w
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by borroka 5y ago
They pay market value. Let's say that you come to Netflix with a Facebook offer (or current salary), Netflix wants you, they pay >= FB offer or current salary. If you don't have any offer, they have tech-wide salary surveys tha
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by borroka 5y ago
For every job that it's open in one of the FAANG, recruiters get thousands of applications. It sounds like many are trying, but the vast majority never gets a call back. Others cannot pass the interview. Others again are not interested
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by borroka 5y ago
One level, but different compensation. For SWE IC, it can range between 300k and 700 (plus in some cases). The same for higher levels, there is a big variance in comp. You can use up to full salary to get options (not shares) at 40% (used t
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by borroka 5y ago
I think he has money for multiple generations of do-nothing at this point. But I also think he likes to be at the center of attention and a north star for ambitious nerds, and that's whey he proposes essays that are clearly propagandis
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by borroka 5y ago
If a middle school student was to come to me, a hypothetical English teacher, with an essay including the following: "There are three ingredients in great work: natural ability, practice, and effort. You can do pretty well with just tw
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by borroka 5y ago
Hard agree on this. People lie all the time and in the direction that can make them virtuous and a bit contrarian. How come that they all love their wife and family is important thing they have (although work is important along with their s
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by borroka 5y ago
I don't know about permeating the industry. I know for example that the model that Airbnb used 3 years ago (things may have changed in the meantime) to forecast occupancy was a random-effects model maintained by a single person in Euro
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by borroka 5y ago
Because my decision of getting involved in a business or situation in which the outcome (say, we are able to somewhat make a qualitative estimate) is 10% effort and talent and 90% luck would be different if the % are reversed. That's o
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by borroka 5y ago
While I agree and it is surprising that multi-level/hierarchical modeling is rarely applied in industry (I used them extensively in academia and industry), dealing with hundreds or thousands of random effects in large data sets, especi
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by borroka 5y ago
Kapo by Gillo Pontecorvo is a must see

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