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Re: I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)

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Post by Aleksdev » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 7:00 AM UTC

what-the-grump wrote: post #95

Aleksdev wrote: post #82

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You do realize Einstein was always studying? Sergei Brin worked like a maniac. Struggle breeds success. Not everyone successfully picks the right thing to struggle on.

Africa should be delivering ground breaking work all the time right? This idea that x person worked a little harder than the rest and therefore he is successful is laughable. There is a range, say 5% or 15% or even 50% ‘worked more than the rest’, ok so what? Do you think you are within 5% or 50% of working x hours more per day before you become the next tech billionaire? You are not. It’s not that easy. Oh and then…

My last sentence clearly states not everyone picks the right struggle. Also not all countries have equal opportunities the world is not fair. I simply was referring to the 2 examples the original poster was referring to.

Re: I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)

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Post by Aleksdev » Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 11:01 PM UTC

namaria wrote: post #114

fartsucker69 wrote: post #108

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Einstein was working in a patent office because he had trouble finding any work related to what he liked doing after his applications for various professorships at research universities failed. A full time phycisist already tends to work a lot of overtime hours to get anything done, while already doing that as their main fulltime job activity, so with 100% certainty Einstein grinded like a madman in afterwork hours t…

This whole 'grind' narrative is construed as a distraction. "Stay busy. Don't raise your head. If you're not to exhausted to have an original thought you don't deserve to be fed and housed." This is some perverse manipulation. You should not conflate focus and effort with physical busy work. Grind means literally to wear down physically. Theoretical physicists don't 'grind' by any stretch of the imagination. People s…

Nobody said you don’t deserve to be fed if your not the greatest programmer of all time. Your skills should always be improving. Technology moves fast and so should you.

Re: I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)

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Post by selfhoster11 » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 4:22 PM UTC

Aleksdev wrote: post #140

selfhoster11 wrote: post #125

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Exactly. Even if I want to do something in my own time that's similar to my work after hours, I have no personal energy to devote to that unless I'm rested or very desperate. It's rare that I actually boot up an IDE on my personal machine.

Einstein was working and studying in his free time. Just because you don’t have that energy doesn’t mean it’s a companies fault.

Absolutely yes, it is. Or if not their "fault", then at least it is the direct cause for me not having any more energy afterwards. You don't expect a mine worker to come back home and do a bunch of manual labour, why would you expect a mental worker to do the same?

Re: I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)

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Post by Aleksdev » Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 10:50 PM UTC

selfhoster11 wrote: post #143

Aleksdev wrote: post #140

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Einstein was working and studying in his free time. Just because you don’t have that energy doesn’t mean it’s a companies fault.

Absolutely yes, it is. Or if not their "fault", then at least it is the direct cause for me not having any more energy afterwards. You don't expect a mine worker to come back home and do a bunch of manual labour, why would you expect a mental worker to do the same?

You must be joking. You can choose to leave the company and do whatever you want with your free time. I know craftsmen who come home after work and work on their own craft.

Programming is no different. Other developers code in their free time. If your low energy maybe you need to fix that part?