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Author here. Thanks so much for your kind and encouraging words. Happy New Year!
You should consider what he said though, because your description does read like delusions of grandeur.
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You should consider what he said though, because your description does read like delusions of grandeur.
Everyone in America is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Everyone in the startup world is a temporarily embarrassed Steve Jobs.
So I disagree with this advice, because I think there is an effect that talking about something feels as good as if you've done it. I prefer to keep an accomplishment totally stealth - not write it down or mention it to anyone - until it's more than done. And then understate it, casually let it out of the bag. This is how Apple did products in their heydey. Did Steve Jobs list all the things the nonexistent iPhone di…
This is OT, and no offense, but this post and your homepage make you sound like an exaggerated parody of a techie. > I'm an engineer. I live in the Philadelphia area. I build things. I assemble teams. I scale products. I'm inspired by minimalism and order. I am a co-founder of my kids. I dig plaid, chucks, and loud music. I want to dent the universe. I suddenly really want to re-watch the first season of Silicon Vall…
How can you possibly say "no offense" and then proceed to make fun of somebody? Simply using that phrase doesn't make it any more ok.
http://www.bellenglish.com/EnglishBlog/2012-09-04/No-offence...
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The fun part is when different players are playing with different rules. "Oh, I touched Python once, better put it on my resume." But that bullet point on the resume could indicate any level of skill. Whereas someone more modest might not put that on the resume because he only touched it. Now you're headed from salesmanship towards snake oil. It isn't lying outright, but it smells familiar.
I don't like putting anything on my resume because I try to learn from the best. I know what mastery of the material looks like, and I don't have it. But I can usually outperform most of my peers in anything I've seriously studied. It is more depressing to me in that I wouldn't want to work for someone who doesn't understand that, yet that's not something they could reasonably be expected to know. So resumes just fee…