paulcole

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by paulcole 10mo ago
If you became discontent enough, would you be open to changing?
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Who is already seeing this as a book that is opened and closed on the same day?
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by paulcole 10mo ago
0%. My job isn’t as a programmer though. I used to write scripts “by hand” to automate processes and do other things to help me in my job. I liked the outcome not the act of coding. I’m a self-taught coder and it was sometimes slow going. S
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Do you like this idea?
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by paulcole 10mo ago
People don't hate being sold they hate being taken advantage of and disrespected.
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by paulcole 10mo ago
That's marketing and they said they were bad at marketing.
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by paulcole 10mo ago
You work to get better at marketing. That's it. > If you were starting from zero today, how would you get the first 100 real users in a clean way? Beg everyone I know. When that doesn't work, start Googling, pick up the phone a
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by paulcole 10mo ago
What is this doing on the front page?
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by paulcole 10mo ago
If we do, nobody told me.
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Lord I would hope so lol
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Yes. With some limitations. This is true for everyone though.
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Love how he’s critical of the 13-interview hiring process despite having done all 13 of those interviews. “Nobody drives there anymore. There’s too much traffic.” These companies can do 13 interviews because people will put up with them. Th
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Your example is as much a counter example as mine is…
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Well-said
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Nobody with a family has ever found a way to make a sacrifice and leave a job they felt was wasting their life?
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by paulcole 10mo ago
I find that when decisions are very minor, people love to have tons of options to select from. When decisions are much more impactful and high stakes, people seem to love finding ways to convince themselves there are no options and that the
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Why didn’t you make the significant sacrifices?
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by paulcole 10mo ago
If you don’t design your career, someone else will.
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by paulcole 10mo ago
> Even the way they walk through the tunnel is done for show. Huh, interesting. I thought I’d been working remote so long that offices had done this to make people more excited for work.
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Bro thinks this is unique to engineers.
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by paulcole 10mo ago
> This reveals what IQ tests actually measure. It’s not whether you can solve problems, but how fast you solve them. Who is out here arguing that IQ tests only measure whether you can solve puzzles or not? > You retort that "if y
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by paulcole 10mo ago
> Most people will choose to shoot from 3/4 court instead of running all the way to the other end, because they’re not interested in basketball. I have never once in my life seen anyone do anything close to this. Have you?
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by paulcole 10mo ago
No, I don’t think that is the correct analogy. The analogy in the blog post is that you (one person) gets a month headstart on the test. You would look like a genius because you’d outscore everyone else who had the time constraint. Yes, i
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Request is not allowed…
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by paulcole 10mo ago
> I like the simple point about the hypothetical IQ test sent one week in advance. It’s a simple point but an incorrect one. If you can work on it for a week, it’s no longer an IQ test. Nobody is saying that the questions on an IQ test a
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Share a screenshot of what you're seeing because it seems like everyone else is seeing something radically different.
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by paulcole 10mo ago
You really think rose-tinted glasses is 0% of it?
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by paulcole 10mo ago
Wow. Can’t believe this is the first time in human history when someone thought things were better when they were younger.
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by paulcole 10mo ago
> I said "without risk of lawsuits", and that phrase is doing a lot of work. It is like saying that it is hard to go swimming without risk of shark attack. Mostly wrong until you share a bunch of cherry-picked scenarios to supp
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by paulcole 10mo ago
What is the difference between what they said and this that they responded to? > Professionals at anything, let alone an elite performance sport like this, are almost certainly statistically more intelligent than average.

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