Comparing oneself with other people on a single dimension is a bad idea because likely the most extraordinary thing about that other person is what stands out. Said otherwise, it’s the reason you chose them as a comparison point.
Same with people posting fancy pictures on instagram.
You don’t see that they have a chronic but unseen illness, and that their children hate them, for example.
Specifically though when I see people who have accumulated much more wealth than I have, often they’ve been doing it much longer. It makes more sense when I remind myself that. And yeah I could have started saving/investing earlier, but if the best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, the 2nd best time is today.
Discord would be awesome for work ... I want to use it so bad. But the terms of service are completely unpalatable. Discord basically gets a perpetual license to anything you post.
IMO a manager needs to make their direct reports and their team successful. But you can start doing that while you're an IC: get in the habit of unblocking people and generally being useful.
Also, manage a coop student or intern. One of the reasons companies hire them is to give their ppl management experience, so take advantage of that.
I did both of these things, and my company made me a manager 2 years earlier than when I thought I'd try to transition into management.
And after 6 months I decided I didn't really like management that much, and they graciously let me transition back to IC, haha.
It probably helps if your company is growing, has a healthy management culture, and great career progression options for ICs and Mgmt. If that's not the case, switch companies.
I still think you're strawmanning the essay (and I'm sorry you didn't figure out sooner what you wanted to do with your life - that really sucks!).
Bill Gates knew what he really wanted to do and what interested him so not taking a day off was probably a no-brainer.
If you had been able to realize earlier that travelling the world was what you wanted to do, then you could have put all your efforts into making that happen.
I think the essay is suggesting that merely working hard without enough of that effort spent on the directional problem won't yield the results you want, ultimately. So I think the suggestions here taken holistically are useful to a theoretical-younger version of you.
Your point may be true, but it's not a rebuttal to the parent's assertion that "contagious narratives" are a normal part of many generally accepted systems. It's like you're throwing in random information.
I think the $40k price tag is deceptive if you look a bit closer. The extended range 300 mile battery is only available on the Platinum edition which starts at $60k IIRC, otherwise you're stuck with 230 miles which IMO going to make the truck feel hamstringed.
I actually love the idea of embedded LLM help. I just wish Google used on-device compute with small models.
The idea that the browser will be used to farm data that’s not on the public internet is reprehensible to me, consent notwithstanding.
When I hire a junior engineer do I have to teach them about Google’s dark patterns so they don’t unwittingly upload our intellectual property?