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consultant @ sms (ibm partner)
Instead of stressing about finding a grand purpose, focus on discovering what you enjoy, what you're good at, and opportunities for growth to create a meaningful and fulfilling career. s.hbr.org/4fT7Cik
I saw someone saying that they thought scrolling was affecting their memory formation, because it teaches the brain to immediately discard what it just saw to situate itself in a new context, over and over again. Something to this I think
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn"" Benjamin Franklin
Don’t get caught building a better interchangeable part. Focus on designing the next engine.
mathematicians build artificial intelligence. a.i automates/displaces software engineers. swe's -- a/d -- hardware engineers. hwe's -- a/d -- mechanical engineers. me's -- a/d -- human capital
Acquiring knowledge is easy, the hard part is knowing what to apply and when. That’s why all true learning is “on the job.” Life is lived in the arena.
Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.
google has caused a massive over-inflation of knowledge workers and unquantifiable gdp growth, that without it, only the true domain experts - fundamentalists - would persist. the intangible economy relies on google like nyc relies on bridges.
People liked hearing the non-technical side of enterprise/B2B sales from a technical person so let's continue: another significant non-technical driver of sales is understanding that your buyer doesn't want to get fired, and ensuring buying your product is a safe choice.…
palantir's greatest success was convincingly rebranding consultant to forward deployed engineer
after using Cursor for a while... the software dev field will either shrink to only the most efficient or see a surge of new pros via Jevons paradox. either way, most "application" development will likely shift to an on-demand, localized service model.
thoughts on trip to mars and space travel... humans took centuries to get to safe travels over the seas. in the early days, it took months, had high mortality rates and was primitive. space travel will evolve the same way if we ever get to it.
*unmutes* nothing from my end, have a great weekend!
senior partner when he has to talk to the offshore team