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The best two books for engineers are 1) “How to win friends and influence people” 2) “Never split the difference” The first one will teach you how to work with people. The second w…

Not to mention, he was also living in expensive areas. It’s amazing he saved and invested that much.

Man, we’ve built an internet where you literally can’t trust anything.

I ignored it for years and things are still great. Still running with simple Bootstrap themes, jQuery and mostly server side rendering and have thousands of users on my side projec…

The article is good but it’s missing a big point that equity in startups is tied to risk taken not to contributions. Many people, including myself, make this mistake the first roun…

Appreciate your comment, it’s good learning for me to hear a different opinion. I might have extrapolated the benefits of a capitalist system too far. But the main point still stan…

The companies you just mentioned all got Paid at whatever market rate they/the market set. Just because it was the government that paid them, why isn’t that capitalism? Socialism a…

Capitalism for all its flaws at least taps into what motivates people to work really hard and encourages it. It mimics nature itself. Some ideas might be mundane but others can be …

Full disclosure this dev is actually my brother but still pretty awesome to see. Edit: also this is the free app in question https://tapex.app/

I know a lot of people make their money on here from these companies. Heck, I interviewed at one of them twice. But my gut says these two are no longer good companies to work for. …

Nearly every system in nature has some slack baked into it. Take the human brain, pound for pound it packs more neurons in it than any other animals brain on the planet. 20% of the…

I have been doing a lot of writing lately, short and longer essays. I have also written on-and-off for the last ten years. Writing well is not easy. I used to think I wrote well un…