I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps it was a high dimensional fragment. Or a local who all of a sudden thought he was a guard from the Philippines. Given the Don Quixote story, I'm more inclined to believe that. We should try not to be the Sancho Panza to the Quixotes out there.
The right way to deal with new ideas is to treat them as a challenge to your imagination — not just to have lower standards, but to switch polarity entirely, from listing the reasons an idea won't work to trying to think of ways it could.
An easier way than seeing them as a challenge is to method act the ideas. The source of new ideas is often a new, lived experience. I think of how AirBnB was in the beginning: links from CraigsList to a website where host and guest could message. Payment was in person and in cash! The lived experience of being your own BnB rather than going through all the bureaucratic and government hoops was there, it just needed to be coded.
If those days go into all-nighters, you might have bipolar disorder. I went undiagnosed for years, and didn't believe it myself until I charted the moods with the help of roommates and a doctor. I began to notice being happy at inappropriate times (funerals), and sad at others (weddings). My moods would mysteriously cycle and I really had to take advantage of the upswings.
I went undiagnosed for such a long time because managers would often point at me as an example of startup dedication, and then when I crashed and they got disappointed I would jump to a new startup.
Now I stick to a schedule and never deviate from it. When I do, the monster returns.
No, you are right on. It's really a bespoke to techstars_ solution for Google Cloud. When I think I web, I think HTML and HTTP and all the resources that can be accessed under those two. Note, the web can also be SFTP and a plethora of other resources.
The lock-in here is created by a clever use of the word "Web." It's the same use that allowed marketers at Netscape to call LiveScript JavaScript because it would sell better by bandwagoning on Java. We all know how that went: decades of new users confusing JavaScript and Java. The same mistake is made here by confusing users betweent Makesswift and Swift!
"Like a skilled surfer, I wanted to learn to ride the high pressure waves that came with interviews."
Yeah, bro, that's not surfing. Good surfers respect the big waves. No coder is going to respect a bad interviewer. But I trudged on through the article and ran into this gem:
"There will be times when you’re stuck. And this could be caused by a number of reasons: you don’t have the requisite knowledge, incorrect assumptions, missing details, and so on.
"I used to think that at such times I was being judged by how fast I could come up with a solution. So I would be quiet, thinking, not communicating with the interviewer, just thinking.
"And this is where a lot of us get it wrong. I get it, you need some alone time to think. But sorry to burst your bubble, that alone time is not when you’re being interviewed by a person.
"Yes, your interviewer wants to see that you can come up with a solution, but one thing you must not forget is that they also want to see that you can collaborate with other team-mates to come up with a solution. While companies want rock-stars, they also want team-players.
"Since your interviewer is a friend, a buddy, a team member who’s on your side and means well for you (Refer to 4), talk to them while you're figuring it out."
Yeah, the interviewer is definitely your friend, and you have to work with them as a team in the interview. This advice is gold. If you do not feel that they are a friend, you can politely ask to end the interview for personal reasons. No use interviewing further, for the same reason you can end a date if you are no longer comfortable.
I still get chills hearing about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. This article struck me in a different way: the farmers vs urbanites. I never saw it this way before.
Scalability is always such a spur of the moment implementation at a startup. This seems to be cruft left over from that startup phase. Would a scalability audit have caught it? Tough to say as Slack came from that build fast and break things era.
As a user, I often see the same ad 100s of times. Yes, 100s.
On most ad software, you can set it so that the user sees it maybe 3 times.
The fact that I see an ad 100s of times means that the ad market is inefficient. Maybe the competition for that ad space is efficient, but from a user POV, advertisers are wasting time and space.
Yeah, if recruiters are tagging the least interested in tech in my contacts, then I know it's a ship going down. Acqui-hire is their only way to replenish the talent pool, now.
All I can do is imagine Jesse Eisenberg saying this. There are other channels you can push your spend through with decent ROI. Nobody's platform be it a personal blog or small app is without analytics anymore.