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That's Cory's whole schtick - he critiques big corps. I follow him a bit and most times his analysis is good and other times he dismisses things that don't fit in his ideological v…

As someone from India, "tor-toys" is what you would hear from most Indians. For most words of the kind, in india they would be pronounced in exactly the way that would make you rem…

Overall I like yuval noah harrari's point about our systems, that liberal democracies and free market are based on the assumption that we have rational individuals making decisions…

You make a good point. In a state of pandemic, the population IS in some sense similar to livestock, bodies to be managed, since the virus has weaponized our bodies. Wouldn't you s…

College sounds fun! Do it!

Anyone interested in declining birth rates, just take a look at the statistics in South Korea. 42% of the women in their 30s are unmarried ( https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comm…

Now that you can sit in inside spaces without a mask, I feel libraries and cafes are a real alternative for me! And this is me typing from a desk at a public library 10 minutes fro…

Kudos to the team, they've done an amazing job with the elementary ecosystem, considering they are just a handful of people!

I don't think those are the defining factors of why they got famous or successful out of all the highly intelligent and hard working people out there. The fact that they got famous…

If I understand, we are talking about a very narrow definition of success and failure here, professional success which is recognition, fame and riches? That seems to be a rare prod…

I'm surprised, personally I would put software engineer akin to a new-age factory worker, but worse for multiple reasons. This is taking into account how many new software engineer…

RedHat is not a "product" company but a "service" company, so comparing it to other big tech companies is an apples to oranges comparison. The nature of big tech is scalability (pr…

Cool project! Love the autocomplete feature. Just my 2 cents about the custom commands, hiding the complexity of git commands is not something I'd like personally (not accounting f…

Drawing a parallel to Nassim Taleb's "don't hide the risk" (or atleast what I understood from his talks), working for a big corp hides risk (and reward). If you or the team do a sh…

Was expecting visuals but all I got was a bunch of paragraphs..

I get the sense of "relax", but I'm trying to get the essence of it. Is it to be more mindful, stop obsessing/stressing about the thing that you are doing while still putting actio…

+1 I'd also recommend sending the author a note to take their ebook elsewhere in the future.

Well said! I agree and I'll say there's a whole world of difference when moving from programming to software engg. IMO working an average software engineering job, things are messy…

Systems thinking as a general concept might be what you're looking for, pair it up with mental models.

Speaking as a young, single and lives in an apartment person. As an introvert I've often relied on being present among people to kind of substitute for my social life. With that no…

Google Plus Meet? Huh. Did somebody tell Raed667 our plan? We are supposed to be a secret until we kill the normal Google Meet and release our superior chat product Google Plus Mee…

That makes sense since we all have exactly 12 friends, that's the official friend cap for the year 2020.

I would have loved some actual questions. I've been reading some of Google's Project Rework "What makes effective teams", and it revolves around psychological safety. It is very ac…

https://www.notion.so/Fundraising-c5092becfe074069b8252fb866... <- tl;dr it's a startup teaching stuff to other people/companies/startups.