I guess that tokenmaxxing phase has served its purpose, of forcing people's brains to go from "i will never use AI, it's scary and new and useless" to "i must learn to use it, this is the new normal, otherwise i'm getting fired".
And now they're able to move to the phase of "let's now learn to actually use it effectively".
> Famously, the first iPhone was actually expensive trash: no apps, no 3G, couldn't even cut and paste text.
Also famously, while the tech elitists complained about all of its shortcomings, the broader consumer market fully embraced it and it single-handedly drove an entirely new generation of consumer electronics.
What's the fastest way to get promoted to a manager at a fast food chain -- show up on time and do your job. If anything, the managers are workers who cared enough to do a decent job.
> I understand what the author means, but I think that in any human-2-human interaction, we are all entitled to at least basic courtesy.
This only holds up for the "small" number of human interactions the average person gets. If my neighbor comes and rings my doorbell to say hello, I'm fine answering and shooting the shit, maybe invite them in for a quick coffee.
If every 5 minutes a strange comes in and rings my doorbell, I'm not getting up and answering it. And some people visiting will get angry and start pounding on the door and coming to my window and pounding on it glaring at me inside. And say, hey, I drove all the way from hours away to come visit you, the least you could do is open the door and say hello.
For them, it's their first human-2-human interaction that day, with someone they slightly admire even, and they're expecting basic human courtesy. To me, they're just the 42nd doorbell ringer today.
The term is 漢字. It's written the same in both Japanese and Chinese, with the Japanese pronunciation being "kanji" and the Chinese pronunciation being "hànzì".
I highly dislike the recent changes in Evernote, so i just tried importing my notebook into Notion, and uh, it's kinda horrendous. The massive amount of margin (going from 850px of usable width to 600px is unconscionable), having to click three times to open a page, having to click another three times to see my list of pages (that used to be 0 clicks), how it handles newlines.
If you are able to achieve speed that is 2x, then as long as your angle is less than 60 degrees off axis from the theoretical perfect direction, you're making progress towards the goal faster than everyone else. Though I wouldn't be surprised to find out that your error is not nearly that high, and given your high amount of practice/experience, you might even end up with the least amount of angular error amongst your peers.
You can probably think of it as hidden secret in the sense that, here a couple of people who believe they have greatly increased their own productivity, that it gives them an advantage relative to others, and that you need to piece together from their thoughts how you might apply such anecdata to yourself.
My interpretation of these articles is that it is worthwhile to become faster and more productive, that there are real tangible benefits to your quality of life. And that you might gain a lot of productivity by deliberately training your skill at "low-level" components of your workflow, e.g. doubling your typing speed, practicing writing documents, perfecting the use of your tools.
If your motivation is to be able to work "at a FAANG or any of these beautiful environments with amazing people dedicated to the craft of engineering", then maybe it's more useful to think of the advice in terms of, making it easy to get a job "where your job really is just engineering and good engineering is recognized and rewarded". Or is this not actually your motivation and it's more to lightly mock people who grinded to get such jobs? If you've never worked at a company that has amazing people, that was a beautiful environment, that had dedication to craft, then it might be difficult to believe that such companies do exist. But once you enjoy it and recognize it, then that just becomes your standard for companies, so you'll only interview at companies that you think might meet that standard, you carefully evaluate them during the process, and you switch if you find that not to be the case.
pg cat
pg dog
What's he going to name the next version?
pg emu ?