What really caught my attention was the date format: 2024/06/01, YYYY/DD/MM. This is first time I'm ever seeing anything like this.
Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
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#12What really caught my attention was the date format: 2024/06/01, YYYY/DD/MM. This is first time I'm ever seeing anything like this.
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#13This article has a section titled "how to get a job." The author then mentions straight away that he has never had to apply for a job in the traditional way. Following this, he questions his own success and implies that there may be factors other than merit that played a role. A few paragraphs down the author then laments people with imposter syndrome. Yup. I'm not sure how you can read this without being irritated.…
Right. It might be because I have no idea who the author is, but this post read like a bunch of useless incoherent ramblings
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#14The imposter syndrome comment straight up pissed me off and I immediately core dumped and killed the process, sorry. This “advice” (thanks at least for admitting you’re not qualified to give advice) was a very soft and ambiguous primer on being a bullshit artist.
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#15The imposter syndrome comment straight up pissed me off and I immediately core dumped and killed the process, sorry. This “advice” (thanks at least for admitting you’re not qualified to give advice) was a very soft and ambiguous primer on being a bullshit artist.
Take it easy; dude is just sharing his own personal opinions on life. YMMV. No need to get all exercised about it.
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#16This is nonsense from a child in a bubble of privilege. His family connections got him jobs, and he has the hopeful optimism of a an upper-middle class child living in a gated community and going to private school. Of course he "found luck," it's easy to come by when you have wealth and resources backing you.
He's just repeating a bunch of woo woo self help books, calling other people losers for being members of reality, and taking credit for what his family gave him outright.
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#17> Seek success because you deserve it and learn to love yourself, rather than punishing yourself for not being good enough. The idea that I "deserve" success, and to be happy, is something I've heard repeated many times but have always struggled comprehending. I think to myself, well, why do I deserve it? Just for being alive? I feel like there's a better way to think about this, but it eludes me. Does anyone have an…
I'm right there with you. I struggle to make sense of it, but I've found those messages useful as a counterbalance to the messaging or received from a religious upbringing, "I don't deserve any good thing," and martyrdom "real, true believers^TM will suffer. "
It's also helpful escaping the American bootstraps mentality, "hard work will bring you success," and my personal corolary, "if you're not working hard/struggling/suffering, you aren't doing enough."
The thought that success and happiness could just be available to me and that's okay and I don't need to feel shame about it is a pretty radical message that helps to counter my earlier programming.
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#18Man yet another "tech guru" trying to start up his blind following by not actually saying anything worthwhile but wrapping it up as if it is.
People really feed off their desperation on "influencers" like these. Kinda sad.
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#19This article has a section titled "how to get a job." The author then mentions straight away that he has never had to apply for a job in the traditional way. Following this, he questions his own success and implies that there may be factors other than merit that played a role. A few paragraphs down the author then laments people with imposter syndrome. Yup. I'm not sure how you can read this without being irritated.…
>Is this the tech equivalent of a social media influencer?
Yes. They have existed for a while. There are always sheep to herd.
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#20What really caught my attention was the date format: 2024/06/01, YYYY/DD/MM. This is first time I'm ever seeing anything like this.
Really? It's very common to use YYYYDDMM. It sorts well numerically if you're wanting to group them even slightly.