I'm intrigued by how they could be making $500k as a ML engineer for Stitchfix.
Losing My Hands
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Re: Losing My Hands
#72I can somewhat relate as I’ve suffered a brain injury. It was similar in that I couldn’t continue to go full tilt everyday. In my mind all my success was based on that: working all the time. Turns out I was wrong; I still make a living but am much more prudent about what I spend time on. Anyway. After reading all the philosophical quotes etc I felt bad when you ended with this: >> Despite my injury, I still try to ma…
Despite some market imperfections, and non-monetary contributions like caregiving or volunteer activities, the money you make is a very good proxy of the value of what you produce and the impact you have. I can not simply think of a better proxy.
Re: Losing My Hands
#73I can somewhat relate as I’ve suffered a brain injury. It was similar in that I couldn’t continue to go full tilt everyday. In my mind all my success was based on that: working all the time. Turns out I was wrong; I still make a living but am much more prudent about what I spend time on. Anyway. After reading all the philosophical quotes etc I felt bad when you ended with this: >> Despite my injury, I still try to ma…
> Make more money for what? You can’t take it with you when you die and it will not make you happy in ill health.
You can leave it to your kids, hoping it will give them a slightly easier and safer starting position in life, which sort of fits in the basic premise of all life, ensuring the extension of your gene line... or you could spend it all on hookers and blackjack, in the Fender from Futurama style...
Re: Losing My Hands
#74There's a few things that caught my attention. I am too in tech, but from what I understand and my circle, everyone... kinda worked less during the pandemic (especially at the start). How was this person pressured to work so much? He was doing machine learning for a company that offers clothes. How can you derive actual societal value from that? Not saying that the work was not interesting or challenging, just a bit…
author here:
mostly training really interesting models, optimizing recommendation systems, designing frameworks. i was having a lot of fun.
Re: Losing My Hands
#75I can somewhat relate as I’ve suffered a brain injury. It was similar in that I couldn’t continue to go full tilt everyday. In my mind all my success was based on that: working all the time. Turns out I was wrong; I still make a living but am much more prudent about what I spend time on. Anyway. After reading all the philosophical quotes etc I felt bad when you ended with this: >> Despite my injury, I still try to ma…
Despite some market imperfections, and non-monetary contributions like caregiving or volunteer activities, the money you make is a very good proxy of the value of what you produce and the impact you have. I can not simply think of a better proxy.
Question stays, however, is "the impact" and the produced value how you measure your own's life fulfillment?
If that's what you care about sure, but should we really care about it more than some other things?
Re: Losing My Hands
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Despite some market imperfections, and non-monetary contributions like caregiving or volunteer activities, the money you make is a very good proxy of the value of what you produce and the impact you have. I can not simply think of a better proxy.
Question stays, however, is "the impact" and the produced value how you measure your own's life fulfillment? If that's what you care about sure, but should we really care about it more than some other things?
That's right. I need to do a soul search after I am done with my job search.