throwaway839246

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by throwaway839246 6y ago
Private offices suck. The environment you want is ~5 developers per office. You get to build rapport with your coworkers, customize the physical space together, collaborate, differentiate yourselves from other teams. But you don't have
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
Something I've always wondered about that maybe you could help me with. What does it mean to say that "Jesus died for our sins"?
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
> i don't understand why you want to force a path This isn't the right metaphor. I'm not trying to force a path; I have a very strong internal sense of a general direction I need to go. But there is no path in that direc
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
> Clarify what your goals are. Do you want to make money? Improve society? Work on intellectually challenging problems? Be happy? Thank you, that is excellent advice.
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
> If you're the kind of guy that needs to be burning, all the comments about the cycles of business, numbers, money and all that are not going to work for you. No, they are not. As to the rest of your post, I get your metaphors, b
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
A lot (most?) of the responses in this thread are "learn to leave work at work, fuck greedy capitalism, enjoy your family and hobbies". And most of those responses sound to me like they come from people with a lot of unresolved
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
If not identify a problem then find a solution, then what?
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
Would you mind saying which nonprofit you joined? (or maybe throw out a couple of names of other non-profits, just as examples of what's possible)
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
> Most importantly, know that the future is bright and that our best days are not only ahead of us, but always will be. I've read (and watched) everything on your list of recommendations. Perhaps I should reread Deutch's chap
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
I'd add open office plans to this. It's awful. You never quite get to focus, you don't build the rapport with your team, you don't get to customize your physical environment. Development really became a white collar vers
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
Would you share yours? I'd really like to hear from an older person. I'd imagine you know 10x of what I do now. It would be incredibly helpful if you could share some of what you've experienced and learned.
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
Thank you, I will consider it. I wonder what subset of these problems can be solved, and what subset is a fixed property of the human experience. I don't know yet. This is a massive problem, and a business is likely not the right vehic
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
> Now that you know how the system works, would you feel better about yourself had you succeeded? Would you feel guilty? I think about that sometimes. Had I been one of the young optimistic CEOs running around talking about how to impr
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
Thanks for the advice. This all sounds right. > I found that learning about politics and history-- specifically the history of engineering-- really helped me sort out my feelings. Is there any specific reading you'd recommend?
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
Thanks for the advice. It's really good. > Think about all the food stands that you have walked past in your life, within each stand is an immigrant family who slave away for decades hoping for a better life. Have you ever thought
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by throwaway839246 6y ago
I did throw everything away. I walked away from ~$10M, so this isn't the problem. To live in the present moment one has to unsee the cant. That's the difficult part. How to keep the mind from focusing on all the bullshit that it c
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Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help(gist.github.com)
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