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For years, I was stuck on teams drained of passion that treated me as a mere code monkey. I got no say, all blame, no praise. My Growth - My Career - was stuck in mud. I don't want that to happen to you or anyone else. So, here are my top tips on how to escape from misery:
What it looks like when people are seen as nothing more than data points:
To stay present in a moment, I dedicate a separate time for reflection. You can do it by dedicating time for a journal, diary, or in my case, a newsletter. I don't have to think about what to post while traveling because I know there's time for that later.
What I wanted to write is how good my life is and how grateful I am. That's what such views provoke. But no! I am fucked. Because being in such a place and not being in the real moment, but thinking what I am going to post is just a mental illness. Let's admit it.
Every opportunity has a cost. Whenever I see someone boasting about making bags of money a month, I don’t just wonder how they got there. I wonder what opportunities they gave up to get there.
Generating code with AI reminds me of generating SQL with an ORM... You still have to take time to know and understand what was generated otherwise, you leave yourself open to bugs, vulnerabilities, and performance issues down the line.
If you think you can ignore generative AI as a developer to keep your code pure, you're hamstringing yourself. In fact, it's just meta-coding. You still get to write instructions, just as a prompt. Top left 3 lines are mine. The rest is @AnthropicAI Claude. And the code works.
An upside of more interconnectedness? You can reach people you could never reach before leading to new connections. A downside? A failure can reach people it could never reach before leading to widespread outages.
To be a professional developer, you have to learn your limits and communicate them clearly... *as soon as possible. The longer you wait, the harder it will be to deal with the consequences of those limitations.
To be a professional developer, you have to learn your limits and communicate them clearly. If you're unsure you can implement something, say it. If you know you can't meet a deadline, tell it in advance. If a requirement looks too weird or hard, speak out and get help.
A high-end gym with membership fee that's also... a recreation center, event space, salon, spa, and workspace... isn't that just a modern country club minus golf?
Interesting article on high end gyms filling gaps in human connection & unwanted commercial real estate. Will companies ditch the office and buy gym memberships for employees instead? What do you think?
Context is everything. "I can't believe anything works at all." can be read at least 2 ways. "I can't believe anything works at all. We really figured it out." vs. "I can't believe anything works at all. We really screwed it up." 2 words flip the meaning.
a mind boggling amount of work went into the world around us. I can't believe anything works at all. It's actually remarkable, shocking, absurd. Us humans. We really figured it out
Technology can either extend or replace our abilities. e.g. An AI writing tool can teach us how to improve if we learn from its suggestions. It can extend our writing abilities. But when AI auto-generates writing, it replaces our skill. And if we're not practicing and…
We are creating a world that is only fit for machines. We built machines to serve us, that was the whole point of science. Not to expand our knowledge for knowledge's sake, but to create industry. To create machines. And now, we exist to serve the machines. We sacrifice the…
What I love about writing for my newsletter is having the autonomy to write what I want, how I want. I feel like if I outsource writing to AI, I either lose that autonomy or I become a micromanager (of prompts). And I don't want either.
The subtle imperfections to someone’s writing are slowly becoming one of the big tells to me that AI didn’t write it. And I think we’ll see more & more of it. The more polished it is, the more people will learn to ignore it.
If we don't like what we see in the mirror, the question ought to be "How do we change ourselves?" Rather than "How do we change the mirror?" -- "How would algorithms change if they prioritized our long-term desires?" is akin to asking how would the mirrors change if the…
This meme is revealing, both in its brilliance and its shortcomings. I'll start with the brilliance. Social media algorithms have a deeper and more intimate understanding of their users than most of their best friends do. They know our quirks, our desires, our lusts, and our…
On our duty to care for others and the impact on ourselves: Most of us make products or provide services to customers. So, we still have a duty to others, even when there may not be formal laws that govern our actions. When we neglect our duties, we don’t just hurt others; we…
“Through caring for certain others, by serving them through caring, a man lives the meaning of his own life. In the sense in which a man can ever be… home in the world, he is at home not through dominating, or explaining, or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.”
An excerpt on "meaning well": No one cares about your good intentions in business, or really… in real life. Because if you want to make a positive difference in the real world, you need to achieve a positive outcome in the real world. You need to act. And your actions must add…
This should be obvious. Once you become an adult in a position of responsibility, there's no more "well-meaning." An actual well-meaning person would research the topic, talk with people, make small tests, pre-mortem, etc. If you didn't, you don't get to claim you meant well.
Fun + curiosity as a means to an end => innovation and invention Fun + curiosity as an end => hedonism
Of course Indians and Asians would not understand that you learn things for fun and curiosity, not merely for “utility”. That’s why they usually become robots, cogs in the machine. And never the creative force. The university was invented by European aristocrats who loved…
Reminds me of: We all start off as outsiders of all conflicts. At some point, we’re told to better understand the plights of a specific person or group of people. That’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with that. But once you take a side, you’re no longer an outsider to the…
I encourage everyone on Twitter to listen to this episode of the Cosmic Matrix podcast with @lauramatsue and @veilofreality because almost all of you could benefit from hearing it. The kind of polarisation they are talking about is rampant on Twitter. One of the things they…
Empathy looks easy until it's time to empathize with a person we don't like. Counterintuitively, empathy can be weaponized to sow division among people. I wrote more about that here: newsletter.belowthesurface.top/p/dive-70-how-…
I think this is one of those issues where men and women are talking past each other. Men fixate on the statistical realities and assume that women must be dumb for not understanding the math. Men aren’t wrong about the statistics, but what’s lacking is an understanding of the…
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