I kinda like the speech but she was also super lucky to be in the right place at the right time - advice is possibly still relevant but I dont see any bright spot for new grads to go to.
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#212YC is a joke. Imagine letting your company be in the hands of soul less venture capitalists who do not care anything about your "vision". They want their instant paycheck by getting you ready for an IPO. That's their goal, not to nurture you. YC is delusional and so are the people who take funding from them
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#213I kinda like the speech but she was also super lucky to be in the right place at the right time - advice is possibly still relevant but I dont see any bright spot for new grads to go to.
If you saw the bright spot easy enough from an outsiders perspective it would be oversaturated already.
Truth is nowadays it’s really about networking however messed up that might be. Inherently that’s pretty luck based but it’s a near guarantee to bring you _something_ as long as you don’t give up.
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#214> Up to this point in life, most of you have been rolling on train tracks. Elementary school, middle school, high school, college [...] And there are some jobs where you can make it stay like train tracks if you want I've never envied the people who graduate college and then immediately go to work at big tech companies where they start off as an "SDE 1", then "SDE 2", then Mid level, senior, staff, principal, etc. Th…
It does not matter. Everyone is a code whore. You will work at a place which pays you the highest, regardless of the ethics. Majority of "big tech" are unethical places and yet people will sell their souls to work there. Tells you a lot about the majority of CS grads
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find myself in the former position more than ever. Feeling kinda trapped... it's what my parents and their parents did before me. Not sure how to break out? It becomes much harder to take risks once you have an entire family to take care of.
If you don’t succeed enough, most men experience that the wife drops us. You must take those risks. And if you fail, they will be no-one for you. We try to hide this to teens because it’s a raw deal, but generations before us were sent to war without much thought either. You must succeed at life above the others, or there will be no family thing. At each generation, 30% of males don’t reproduce at all, and there is n…
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#216> The first step is to realize that the subway stops here. Up to this point in life, most of you have been rolling on train tracks. Elementary school, middle school, high school, college—it was always clear what the next stop was. In the process you've been trained to believe something that’s not true: that all of life is train tracks. And there are some jobs where you can make it stay like train tracks if you want,…
i think its interesting that for so many college kids, the post-graduation options that continue to provide tracks are also treated as the more "prestigious" options (go to grad school. work at big3/faang, etc). it's not because they are any more prestigious or important, but because they provide a clear sense of achievement/external validation and kids that make it to the end of college are kids that have had decade…
> and because of that, those places do an amazing job recruiting
I think the absurd compensation helps a bit there too
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
> These people were on tracks because they were put on tracks from a young age and told that the track leads somewhere, and any questioning of the tracks was often met with a harsh rebuke. They didn't play outside with the neighborhood kids, they were at soccer practice. They didn't get a summer job at a shitty fast food joint, they were doing summer school or learning piano. Everything they've done from start to fin…
You learn quite a lot by working a regular job and getting a paycheck as a kid. It is utterly baffling that there are some kids graduating college that never worked a regular job. It's a problem that young kids in our modern world don't seem to even want to get jobs. As far as I'm concerned, you are basically mentally stunted if you didn't work for pay in your teenage years.
> It's a problem that young kids in our modern world don't seem to even want to get jobs.
Literally nobody wants a job. You do it to get money. People want to do something and not be bored, but that's got nothing to do with jobs.
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#218> The first step is to realize that the subway stops here. Up to this point in life, most of you have been rolling on train tracks. Elementary school, middle school, high school, college—it was always clear what the next stop was. In the process you've been trained to believe something that’s not true: that all of life is train tracks. And there are some jobs where you can make it stay like train tracks if you want,…
If you aren't careful though, the tracks can also continue. At BigCorp they have lots of titles to create a sense of urgency and box-ticking to progress from A to B to C to..
This is obnoxiously commonplace. At my first job they upgraded me from a level N engineer (1 or 2, probably) to a level N+1 engineer with a 10% pay rise or something.
The year after that I stumbled upon a new job which paid more than their highest value of N. They definitely don't want this to happen. They want you striving for (N+1)+1 only, so they can give it out whenever they think you feel like you're not progressing, and keep you in their system.
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#219Most of us try get a job for money to survive
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Say more.
It's a long story, and probably not one for this venue, but suffice it to say that the skills one develops, rebuilding a shattered life, tend to give significant advantages. > That which does not kill you, makes you stronger. - Freddy Nietzsche > Or leaves you weak and exhausted. - Bill Prekker's Corollary
All very vague