Given you are happy to work say 60 hours a week, what is the optimal use of the extra 20.
For some it might be free work for their employer in return for something. Example might be in financial trading etc. to get a bonus or raise or promotion in a shop that is killing it.
For some it might be leetcode and reading everything on levels.io and teamblind.
For some it might be active investing for example property renovation.
For some a side business.
For some TOGAF and Scrum qualifications.
But remember 1000hours a year is a lot to bet on your company or colleagues vouching for you and being in a position where that matters.
Not sure. Read the recent PG essay. But I reckon you are going to be writing the procurement app for a midsized building firm, or a ERP for a road haulage firm, or a shift management system for a hospital, rather than some low hanging tech bro idea fruit. What they call “IT”.
I disagree with #1. Not entirely but it is about perception. Working an extra 10-20 hrs a week for free in return for a chance but no guarantee of a vouch is in itself a bad deal. So while you may have reasons for working long hours, hoping someone has your back is not a great one. Unless you have known them since you were 8 or something and even then.
Honestly it has been a godsend for repairing broken Stackoverflow links!
Now I reread about state actors… I am not sure about that. There is a balance between can it be read and can people
find it. You can shove it in the blockchain but maybe 3 people will read it but might be a good option for your O(N) algorithm for factoring primes. Or whatever the equivalent attack on Elliptic Curves is! Because it is foundational knowledge that will spread itself.
OTOH if you want
to maximize viewership maybe choose a jurisdiction to host and register domain name that is most friendly to your cause.
For some things, just find the right journalist. Panama papers springs to mind.
Possible but maybe 2060-2100. The big rub with LLMs is training time and methodology. RAG exists because despite the name, these AI systems cannot really learn, at least human level stuff.
I believe it is probably possible due to the very very mathematical nature of the universe and it’s reliable calculability.
The only difference might be semiconductors might thermally not be able to do it since to dissipate the heat you need distance which then limits communication speed due to c and you might need that speed.
OTOH we can do tricks evolution missed so there is that. Quantization isn’t available for grey matter.
Yes he tells you how to increase your odds in the lottery from 1E-11 to 1E-6 perhaps. His advice assumes you won the birth lottery already. Really you can’t be motivated by being the next Google because it (approximately) won’t happen. Be excited by the other things on the way.
What is the parallel advice for a 40 year old? I guess the programming and tinkering stuff still applies. But university cannot be redone. Sure I can study but I wont have any connection to most young people. I’ll be the old guy.
And this assumes I can afford the loss of income.
I assume a lot of start ups are started by older people too.
I think for older people an advantage is to solve older people problems. Like how sucky accessing all kinds of “adulting” things are from aged care to dealing with myriad systems with kids schools or any other problems that have inevitably been chucked at you. Some of these “startups” might actually be lobbying/political work for the good that doesn’t make money, some might be startups.
Also being older I don’t care about making a unicorn. I see that as an odd goal for a founder of any age but a great goal for an investor.
For some it might be free work for their employer in return for something. Example might be in financial trading etc. to get a bonus or raise or promotion in a shop that is killing it.
For some it might be leetcode and reading everything on levels.io and teamblind.
For some it might be active investing for example property renovation.
For some a side business.
For some TOGAF and Scrum qualifications.
But remember 1000hours a year is a lot to bet on your company or colleagues vouching for you and being in a position where that matters.
Etc.