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Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by ephemeral-life »

austin-cheney wrote: post #87
ephemeral-life wrote: post #73

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> Competence at what? There is a class of people who believe leadership is something you can learn on its own. These are the people who join all the useless commitees for resume building purposes. Leadership only has value when paired with significant knowledge in some domain. > Avoiding strong personalities purely for the sake easing hostility sounds a lot like cowardice. Cowardice is when you avoid something, becau…

> Cowardice is when you avoid something, because of fear. GP is talking about avoiding people who will annoy you. That sounds like autism. Avoidance for what ever imaginary reason your creative mind can conjure is still cowardice. The excuses only fool yourself. Other people will see it as they choose.

ah yes. the internet autism diagnoses.

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by ronald_raygun »

scooke wrote: post #72
oldandtired wrote: post #62

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Emergent behaviour can occur, not a problem. But if you study such systems, I think you will find that the emergent behaviour is based on the programming involved and is not "beyond the programming". When it comes to intelligence, this is not something that we can say is actually emergent. There are currently a number of projects that are looking into intelligence and free-will. There are researchers on the same team…

I admire you for pressing home your point that others are missing. I practice a visual art form (which I won't name; many other smaller cultures around the world too have their own) which will never "emerge" from AI _unless_ it is programmed in, or trained on the visual art itself. Even though, I don't see how it could ever figure out the intricate detailed meanings without it being programmed. The people trying to c…

It is shocking to me how many people miss the fact that the big prediction machines trained on lots of data, are fundamentally historical and based on that data?

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by dinkleberg »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #31
tmountain wrote: post #10

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Going down a layer below Tim Ferriss to his staff… /s

I agree this is kind of trivial, but doing anything more than the average person already puts you in the high percentiles. My abstract strategy for making contact with the right people: Try to imagine things from the perspective of the people you're trying to contact. What is their day-to-day, what are they sick and tired of? What will make your cold email stick out in that context? It's click-bait targeted at a spec…

The thing is, almost all of the "secrets" of successful people are trivial, it is just that few people are doing them consistently. Anybody could practice basketball as hard as Kobe Bryant did, but almost nobody is actually willing to put in the consistent work over years and years.

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by gessha »

intelVISA wrote: post #99
Aurornis wrote: post #39

> For example, on LinkedIn, someone may say they were CMO of a company for just three months, and if you take that data at face value, you may think something very bad must have happened for a company to hire and lose such an important role in so short a time. > But when you look closer, you see that this person was a sophomore in college at the time, that the company was just a month old, and that actually, it wasn’…

A highly curated LinkedIn is a red flag - nobody producing value has time to tend that walled garden.

A sizable chunk of engineers from the most competitive companies got fired - people used to optimizing for everything - resume readability, LeetCode hards, system interviews, etc.

You think they won’t optimize their profiles for their next job?

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by ronald_raygun »

intelVISA wrote: post #99
Aurornis wrote: post #39

> For example, on LinkedIn, someone may say they were CMO of a company for just three months, and if you take that data at face value, you may think something very bad must have happened for a company to hire and lose such an important role in so short a time. > But when you look closer, you see that this person was a sophomore in college at the time, that the company was just a month old, and that actually, it wasn’…

A highly curated LinkedIn is a red flag - nobody producing value has time to tend that walled garden.

Really? Is it a walled garden when like 90%+ of recruiters are on there?

Would you say “a good resume is a red flag, nobody producing value has time to tend that”.

The big irony is making things look nice, be readable, be sellable is creating value. In the case of making a LinkedIn or a resume, the value your creating is in terms of your very own capability to get a job and have a high take home pay!

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by kasey_junk »

shakow wrote: post #83
vik0 wrote: post #81

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But the vast majority of people who go to programming bootcamps don't get rich quickly, or rich at all. Same with most people in the world who practice medicine or law Or did you mean to convey that people who go to boot camps think it's a way to get rich quick? Your wording is a bit confusing toward the end there

I think he means that ‶guy who knows to code″ used to be a statistically strong marker of ‶tinkering guys with a potential″, which is less true now that IT is now socially internationally perceived as a high-reward career, hence a one where people may go either because they like it, or just because they want to make stacks.

The problem with this theory is people have been saying it for 25 years. At least as long as I’ve been in the profession. And it’s not historically accurate in the past either. Programming was a clerical job for much of it’s history.

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by hiatus »

enriquto wrote: post #93
baxtr wrote: post #91

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Absolutely. At the same time it’s a bloody shame they don’t. Great people who actually do great stuff need to become people who talk about it too. Otherwise only those that master talking will get exposure.

> Otherwise only those that master talking will get exposure. Or maybe we shouldn't organize our society so that "exposure" is such an overwhelmingly positive thing.

Exposure, as I understand it, is becoming known to more people. I can't see how society, which is predicated on interpersonal relationships, could be organized to dissuade increasing your renown.

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by bruce343434 »

enriquto wrote: post #93
baxtr wrote: post #91

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Absolutely. At the same time it’s a bloody shame they don’t. Great people who actually do great stuff need to become people who talk about it too. Otherwise only those that master talking will get exposure.

> Otherwise only those that master talking will get exposure. Or maybe we shouldn't organize our society so that "exposure" is such an overwhelmingly positive thing.

There's only so much you can do. If someone isn't advertising themselves, they can not be expected to be found in a sea of people who do.

If I solve the navier stokes equations or whatever, but never talk about it... Yeah. Who would know. How could they know?

Tree, woods, sound.

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by intelVISA »

ronald_raygun wrote: post #106
intelVISA wrote: post #99

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A highly curated LinkedIn is a red flag - nobody producing value has time to tend that walled garden.

Really? Is it a walled garden when like 90%+ of recruiters are on there? Would you say “a good resume is a red flag, nobody producing value has time to tend that”. The big irony is making things look nice, be readable, be sellable is creating value. In the case of making a LinkedIn or a resume, the value your creating is in terms of your very own capability to get a job and have a high take home pay!

That is true, I suppose...
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