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Writing Scaling Fast,a book on lessons learned from ~15 years of engineering in tech startups.
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Yeh. Shows up on job postings
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Because they're guys and men aren't socialized to give praise
But it makes the culture so much better when you do.
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Totally.
But also consider that to many people losing a phone is catastrophic. Takes months to save up that much money.
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You wouldn’t know. They’re good.
We once had a woman take 500 euro out of my girlfriend’s purse. Unbuckled strap. Unzipped purse. Found the wallet. Opened wallet. Took money. Nothing else was touched.
Only thing I noticed was “hey that old woman sure is standing a little unnecessarily close”
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now I just gotta get it published 😅
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Stakeholders actively avoid solving their own problems because it looks bad and reduces their social standing with their peers!
Someone on 2nd or 3rd ladder may ask a 1st ladder person to use agents but they don’t actually care. They just want it solved. What you use to do so is your problem
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Oooh I think this is a 3 ladders problem! Just clicked because of something a friend said
As soon as a company sees you doing real work, you will be blocked from strategy work. But strategy is the high social status work for stakeholder types.
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Usecase idea:
Integrate react scan in ci/cd as a performance budget to block merging slow code 🔥
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This is gonna look sick after I do the LED kit
Where do I put this thing? it’s huge
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This is gonna look sick after I do the LED kit
Where do I put this thing? it’s huge
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Lying with facts is my fav game to spot. Surprisingly easy. Journalists do it a lot.
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Seek jobs in companies where the answer is yes.
ZIRP is over. We’re back to “Sell painkillers not vitamins”
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I think the other aspect is that a lot of this stuff is selling homework. People don't want to learn how to fish, they just want fish.
Personally I stopped buying courses because the cost of time to go through it all far eclipses the sticker price.
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Blank text inputs are my weakness.
I honestly think "You don't have to comment on everything" is an important growth area for me
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For the record I fall in the can’t not do it camp.
I think my mom tricked me into shutting the hell up by saying “You know you can write those thoughts down” when I was like 10 🤣
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It's not that we're too cheap, it's that figuring things out is the fun part. Why would you pay to take that away?
We're also for the most part not incentivized to learn quickly. The faster you need to learn, the more sense it makes to pay
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The only reason to create in this space is if you can't not do it, a learning exhaust for yourself, or devrel.
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Most of them would do better by just getting a job, any job, and building real-world experience. Half your insights won't even land before they do this.
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You're selling the dream of a better career, but 90% of your buyers aren't in a position to leverage what you teach. They need less content and more practice.
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Your competition are dudes in India making amazing stuff with 1% of your living cost, some dude shitposting from Poland, devrels making content full-time to sell products or market their thing, and on-demand AI generated answers that perfectly fit the learner's needs in the moment.