overgrownzygote

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by overgrownzygote 3y ago
I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to see this. I think most folks want to care about their jobs and the default is having a healthy level of investment. But especially in larger companies, it’s so easy to get burned by workplace poli
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
Is it the (lack of) reliability of electronic systems that people don't like? As a fairly anxious driver, I rather like the extra peace of mind that comes from having automatic braking, blind spot indicators, and cameras. ACC and lane
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
Could you elaborate on what those "upgrades" look like? At least for math, I found that by around Calc II I had to start grinding problem sets to do well on exams, and I can't imagine what the next "level" would loo
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
My personal favorite egg white cocktail is the Clover Club, which hasn’t been mentioned yet.
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
I’m surprised I had to scroll so far to find this response. It was a revelation to me when I realized that, no, it’s not that “most people” lack intellectual curiosity. Their interests are just different than mine.
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
The Bolt is one of the cars available through the carshare system in my city, and I was pleasantly surprised with how much I liked it. The combination of absurd torque and econobox look and feel was just fun . I probably would have bought
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
Over-analyzing has always been a huge struggle of mine, and your comment reminded me of a few times in my life where actually doing things taught me something important: 1. I thought I wanted to be a lawyer through most of college. I took t
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
Having the Apple Store support option is another one. Yes, repairs can be a bit expensive, but most of them can be done same-day instead of having to ship my phone off for a week+ to get repairs. This depends on where you’re located though
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
Highly recommend Nand2Tetris. I completed it a few months ago as a relatively non-technical person (I had only taken CS50 as my first CS class ever in 2020) and learned a ton.
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
For what it's worth, my undergraduate experience was that we had very few opportunities to do any actual empirical* research in most disciplines. Most of the "research" positions available were just grunt work, and even in ca
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
> We don't hear phrases like "I used to read and write English, but since I moved to management I have stopped" I had to chuckle a bit at this one given how some VP+ folks write emails.
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
> I definitely think there's an advertising bubble and it's popping. This is something I’ve been thinking about a decent amount over the past few years. Advertising is the cash cow that underpins a good chunk of tech firms’ val
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by overgrownzygote 4y ago
This is such a key insight. For me at least, “time management” is really about managing my energy levels more than anything.
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by overgrownzygote 5y ago
Figured someone who has read the book might see this and be able to answer a question — to what extent is Caplan’s critique of the U.S.-model of widespread-ish resource-intensive higher education tied and the credentialing problem it “solve
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by overgrownzygote 5y ago
I think a big part of why remote learning is such a "tough nut to crack" is because in-person learning is about the social experience as much as anything else. As much as I've enjoyed online courses that I've taken, even
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by overgrownzygote 5y ago
I feel like the line between Wikipedia and Objectivism is a bit of a stretch. The key Objectivist principles are that are relevant to Wikipedia — realism and rationalism — are hardly the controversial parts of Objectivist philosophy. Moreov
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by overgrownzygote 5y ago
I think it’s less likely that companies like Shopify are purposely filtering out candidates who have interview anxiety and more likely that it’s simply not a factor they take into account. Assuming that: 1. Companies like Shopify do not hav
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by overgrownzygote 5y ago
This is brilliant. I’d never thought about it such explicit terms, but of course using analogies with an unsympathetic interlocutor is basically building them a all-too-convenient strawman
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by overgrownzygote 5y ago
Replication as part of scientific consensus-building dates back at least to the air-pump experiments of 17th century. See e.g. “Leviathan and the Air-Pump”
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by overgrownzygote 5y ago
This seems to be a particularly salient issue in the area of medicine, since many practice but may not actually “do science” unless they’re affiliated with a university or research hospital. Most doctors are more like engineers than physici
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by overgrownzygote 5y ago
That’s my favorite thing about reading Feynman’s autobiographical works or anecdotes about him. There’s a feeling that he must be embellishing, but the stories are never entirely outside the realm of plausibility.