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One thing that I didn't do at that age and very much regret is to be really conscious of being healthy and physically fit. That's the right time to learn what you should and shouldn't put in your body, and how to be constantly active. There's a million different ways to accomplish that but it's important to find one. People at that age often don't really understand how closely linked physical fitness and mental healt…
One thing that I didn't do at that age and very much regret is to be really conscious of being healthy and physically fit. That's the right time to learn what you should and shouldn't put in your body, and how to be constantly active. There's a million different ways to accomplish that but it's important to find one. People at that age often don't really understand how closely linked physical fitness and mental healt…
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Hang out in front of google or attend the local 2600 meeting. Best way to meet CEOs is to become one yourself.
What’s a 2600 meeting? This? https://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html I’ll keep trying to search, but could someone post a note on what’s it’s about?
And the name is a throwback to the 2600Hz tone that was used to gain operator rights on pre-digital trunking phone lines.
This could describe Seattle, Portland, Austin, Denver (from my experience) in the US, and a myriad of other places worldwide.
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Hang out in front of google or attend the local 2600 meeting. Best way to meet CEOs is to become one yourself.
Sorry, but this is real bad advice. Stalking people in front of Google is not going to work.
For example, in 2007, I loitered outside Facebook HQ on university ave until I had a chance encounter with someone who also attended my alma mater (!) and was starting his first day of work, so he took me inside with him[1]. I tried to meet with Zuck but they sicced Dave Morin on me. I ended up getting incredible access to the FB engineering team and my app was ultimately acquired, and I partially attribute that to unfair advantage.
[1] I think he's now successfully retired.
I fall under the target audience for this piece and by now I've dabbled with at least half a dozen of programming languages and their celebrated frameworks/libraries- from Front to the Back. I tried my best to go deep on all of them just for the sake of learning. But, now I feel lost and can't figure out which path am I supposed to pursue in this vast CS space. Where did I mess up ?
Edit: spelling errors
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Sorry, but this is real bad advice. Stalking people in front of Google is not going to work.
Sorry, but that's just not true. Silicon Valley is filled with stories of successful stalkings. For example, in 2007, I loitered outside Facebook HQ on university ave until I had a chance encounter with someone who also attended my alma mater (!) and was starting his first day of work, so he took me inside with him[1]. I tried to meet with Zuck but they sicced Dave Morin on me. I ended up getting incredible access to…
Also it seems like you might be good at talking to people (based on the story above). The OP says they are an introvert and might find that more difficult.