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by sejtnjir 7y ago
Show up. Do the work. Take every opportunity to learn the skills you deem relevant to your long term plans. Don't fill up all your free time with other work-related projects. You won't be able to learn as fast on the job if you&#x
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
I subscribed to the Correspondent based on the proposition of in depth quality journalism until it decayed into long form leftist outcry and nothing else. I wonder if this type of decay is inevitable.
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
On tuesday, I aspired to be a carpenter. On wednesday, I went to my dayjob.
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Women Against Suffrage (2015)(herandrews.com)
2 points by sejtnjir 8y ago|0 comments
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
Enough to not be overwhelmed. Thanks, bookmarked!
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Ask HN: High quality investing discussion board?
37 points by sejtnjir 8y ago|10 comments
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
What you're describing sounds exactly like a motivated worker. The OP and my comment is about incurring a selection mechanism for unmotivated workers.
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
I can see how advertising a 32-hour work weeks attracts a class of people who view work as something that supports their other interests, whereas a 40-hour work week attracts more traditional workers who derive a large part of identity from
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
Adopting Airflow over cron was a huge leap for the analytics company I worked for. I think the biggest win was making the complex net of dependent batch operations explicit. That logic lived inside the head of the lead dev before that point
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xkcd 2021: Software Development explained(explainxkcd.com)
5 points by sejtnjir 8y ago|0 comments
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
I believe project managers/product owners get compensated better than engineers in my environment. They may or may not have a technical background. I'm not sure if this is generally true. More thoughts on the semantics of mediocri
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
It's hard for me to think of an opposite to the Peter principle as formulated in the article: "Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her level of maximum incompeten
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
A mediocre individual contributor could be a competent project manager.
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The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)(arxiv.org)
101 points by sejtnjir 8y ago|50 comments
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
Yes, exactly. Do you think this is untrue? Why?
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
I do think traits are somewhat evenly distributed, but some traits are multiplicative towards a person's net competence in a certain role. I imagine the distribution is a fat-tailed one.
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by sejtnjir 8y ago
I wonder how much truth the 'Introverts have hidden strengths!' and 'Introverts are undervalued underdogs!' memes actually hold. Is it conceivable that not being able to freely communicate in a professional setting is &#