Most people are not good at articulating their thoughts into words, let alone writing well.
Now, AI has given all these Linkedin psychopaths who did not have a voice because of their affliction a rare kind of superpower to endlessly spew their meaningless dribble.
I cringe every time I have to go on the cesspool that is Linkedin, but forced to since am job hunting.
Very few people have their finger on the pulse of a paradigm shift as it's happening - and he was there to capture it at the right place and the right time.
Excellent read!
I was really hoping that they Ipoed this year, so we can see their stock shoot up and down in flames, and we're really done with them and Sam Altman, once and for all.
I think there are more nuggets of wisdom in great fiction than these self help books.
Maybe if someone put together a list of fiction books that correlate strongly with self-help categories, it would be immensely useful.
A great fiction book helps you vicariously experience a character's life while self-help is an instruction manual which sadly does not provide the same form of connection.
Unfortunately this can work both ways - if it's a low politics environment yes, it will work to the engineer's advantage but in environments rife with politicking, people will be quick to swoop in and take credit and at the same time give 2 hoots about throwing you under the bus.
As someone who worked remote for 8 years I can see a few reasons
- Really hard to get juniors up to speed when they are remote, when I started out as a junior I sat around a bunch of senior folks, and inhaled in all the knowledge via the interactions we had all day.
- In my previous company, we hired a bunch of juniors who clearly were not self-motivated. There were few who were actively disengaged, would not even care to turn the camera on. They were a few boot-camp grads who though motivated, I could not for the life of me teach computer fundamentals. You can't learn a 4 yr degree's worth of stuff in 6 months at a bootcamp.
Yes Covid was great for us senior folks who did not need direction and were disciplined, but really bad for junior folk.
Sorry OP you had to go through this - not knowing your circumstances, but golden rule, once the interview starts getting invasive, please cut it short and move on.
Recently I had an interview for a contract position.
First off, it was a zoom interview where the interviewer did not have his camera on.
He promptly asks me to share my screen - which I found odd, since I had no content to share with him.
Next - he tells me to go the top right screen of my mac and asks me to disable bluetooth.
I said am not going to do it, since I had my airpods connected and within the next second I also told him am not interested in proceeding with this BS interview.
There are boundaries of human decency, which you should never let anyone cross.
Coursera used to have good quality courseware, now I get better stuff via a simple search on youtube.
Youtube killed these two companies, well Udemy was garbage from the get go.
I think AI is the final nail in the coffin of meaningless slop that started pervading our lives after covid.
I see people tiring of this brain rot, especially Gen Z, there are more offline events - music festivals, day time raves, running events, people are appreciating more things analog - LP records, cassettes, younger people getting turned off by social media.
Agents are conniving yes men, and who usually loves yes men?
Leadership!
Most developers are rational and skeptical, hence the backlash from most in the community.