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Thanks, I'm early-mid career, and this feels like really good advice. It almost seems obvious: be helpful, don't be an asshole, and you'll be fine.

> Protip: never psychoanalyze anyone! This likely applies even to psychoanalysts. Beside your point, but wondering if you could expand on this. I have a tendency to do this, and wh…

I’d add removing inner resistance, which could be expanded under motivation in the formula. Increasing motivation isn’t simply an additive process — you can introspect on the thing…

Almost spit out my coffee.

Join a large company and inspect the engineering org structure, and you will have the answer. Or ask someone that works at one :)

When I introspected, I realized indeed, all my dislike of Google was, at the root, just saltiness at being rejected :D.

Very interesting, I would love to see level-headed discussion on this, although it might be politically fraught. I'm curious how these two axes were decided, if anyone knows. Also,…

While I agree with your sentiment that the system is flawed and not serving much of the population, I think the parent's point still stands. If the system was designed solely for p…

According to LinkedIn, Yelp has 8964 employees with top 2 being: 1. Sales (3799) 2. Engineering (1035)

I was surprised myself, and I don't know what they're for. I have heard they are a design-driven company though. Also, they have a magazine (airbnbmag.com)

FWIW -- according to LinkedIn, they have 14554 employees, with the top two functions being: 1. Arts & Design (3365 employees) 2. Engineering (1990 employees)

What a beautiful quote, thank you for sharing.

> But due to the lack of a distributed or delegated authority, it greatly limits how many important topics can be focused on at once as the apparatus of government is designed arou…

Another perspective (I learned from a therapist), is that we might already possess the innate ability to be great conversationalist, it's just performance anxiety that gets in the …

I've fallen into the trap of similar thinking as the author, and I agree, the main issue is believing that mindfulness is a panacea. The more we suffer the more we hope for simple …

Well said. I’ve just started really thinking about this. Although I would venture that people naturally develop value systems as they get older, whatever field they are in. It’s ju…

Excellent, will check that book out. Something I've noticed in my own life is practicing mastery in one area creates learnings and attitudes that aid in mastery in another area. Th…

Any idea on how this compares to the deep learning course here: http://course.fast.ai/ ? Very interested in taking a course, but there are so many offerings available. I have high …

I felt like the attack on "traditional" emotional intelligence in the beginning was contrived and not really thought through. Yes, it's true that we assume we can approximate the e…

Great advice. > Learn how to trick your brain into thinking that fear is excitement. You don't have to be able to do it very long, just the ten seconds before you're about to start…

Easy solution I've found: unfollow everyone. Obviously they make this hard for you, you have to unfollow individually and get stopped for "abuse" every once on a while, but it's so…

Easy solution I've found: unfollow everyone. Obviously they make this hard for you, you have to unfollow individually and get stopped for "abuse" every once on a while, but it's so…

While progress might be slow, I still believe that more humanistic values can exist within a capitalist institution, because at the end of the day, a corporation is just another hu…

Huh really, didn't get that vibe but okay.