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Similar position here. CS major who went to work software / FAANG pretty much for my 30 year career. Something about mechanical engineering feels amazing, unlike software getting r…

Or is your conclusion one that the Sociopaths want you to come to? Hence you go back to support their org rather than compete! Overcoming that fear of failure and finding some Lose…

Agreed, but my interpretation of the following line: "The Gervais principle predicts the exact opposite: that the most competent ones will be promoted to middle management." Ie, th…

Having worked in faang as well for a while now, I can attest that most people seem to be capable of jumping to their own startups very easily. Companies need to craft very enticing…

This is an old but good read! My take since then after numerous debates - there is merit hence the massive success of the Office series. But in general it is a 'glass half empty' p…

I don't think folks in academia are anywhere near the cutting edge on AGI. It's not a field that is advanced by things like particle accelerators as you might find in physics, that…

Personally I feel the complete opposite sentiment is in fact inevitable. Technological advances will most likely continue to remove all toil, repetitiveness and skyrocket human pro…