I really don't like the false modesty
Sorry I'll try harder next time
My Failure Resume
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't even get 10% of the number of interviews. I feel like you have little justification to say "In fact, almost everything I have tried to do has failed". Clearly you've been very successful in general. Much more so than people like me.
I mean the interviews are like 1 out 400 applications.
Still, seems like you move up. I'm over a decade in and still a shitty midlevel.
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#53Really great list, congrats on the success with ZipX. Great examples of Nelson Mandela's quote "I never lose. I either win or learn." in practice.
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#54This is a really great list. I see that you're constantly doing many things at the same time, do you ever feel like you're spreading yourself too thin? I wonder if you could benefit from focusing on one thing as opposed to working on many things at once.
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#55This is a really great list. I see that you're constantly doing many things at the same time, do you ever feel like you're spreading yourself too thin? I wonder if you could benefit from focusing on one thing as opposed to working on many things at once.
I actually just leave the other stuff in autopilot and focus on the next one entirely unless I see it isn't working out.
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#56If you are in NYC - https://museumoffailure.com/ Opens tomorrow.
Very cool - will check this out
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#57"CTO at Loyalsnap (02/23/2017): The CEO rejected me then used the code I wrote in the interview in production. When I pointed this out and said an estimate of the hours I worked on that if he wanted to use it, he told me I would have to sue him to get it. 20 minutes later he venmo’d me the amount and said don’t sue him." Happens more often then you think. Get 200 approaches on something that team can't get right. Use…
I can't wrap my head around why companies do this. If you find a competent programmer whose work is good enough to use, wouldn't your team be better off if you hire them full-time? That seems more efficient than interviewing 200 people every time you need some code written.
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#58What drives you? Is it money, general problem-solving?
I must be wired differently because I cannot understand how someone can try so many things in so many different industries without being driven by a mission beyond financial wealth. I have friends who are like this and I don’t get it.
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#59What drives you? Is it money, general problem-solving? I must be wired differently because I cannot understand how someone can try so many things in so many different industries without being driven by a mission beyond financial wealth. I have friends who are like this and I don’t get it.
If you couldn't tell, I literally couldn't get a job...
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#60One of the items on this website contains very personal information about an another person you dealt with. I don't want to assume this is violation of privacy. Perhaps you're on terms with them and they're public about it. But are they? Because if they're not, I believe you should remove it. (I'm speaking vaguely, because I don't want to repeat that bit of information here and make it more immortal).
You're speaking vaguely enough that it's not clear what you're referring to. I didn't see any very personal information.