Advice

Miscellaneous advice

How to Start Google

Excerpt:

You need to get good at technology, and the way to do that is to work on your own projects. [Share your projects to find like-minded people to work with you in lieu of going back to university to find co-founders].

Software engineers never escape the skill-change vortex, even many years into their careers. Experienced engineers must learn and adopt technologies that didn't even exist when they started out. Developers must constantly retool themselves, even well after their formal education ends.

Nnamdi Iregbulem • Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

Remembering that the tech industry is being built by people just figuring things out on the fly isn’t just a way to avoid stress; it’s become one of the most empowering bits of advice I can imagine. Because if all those people out there have changed the world while not knowing what they were doing…so can I.

Makinde Adeagbo • Nobody Knows What They’re Doing

Albert Einstein said, "It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer." It's a good reminder that the most successful people in any field play the long game.

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Obsession / stick-to-it-iveness / persistence / relentlessness

a common misconception about going deep in a subject and researching it day in and day out is that its novelty will wear off. it doesn't wear off, but your perspective on novelty changes. for a novice, novelty is newness. for an expert, novelty is nuance.

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Handy

Jakob Foerster

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You get ~350k waking hours every year to do things.

You get 8 shots to do big/meaningful things in your life.

Wonderful.

Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner. The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety: https://t.co/dW7DAcmyng

Tamara Winter

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Timeless advice:

You need to be good, not good for your age
Be wary of personal mission creep, both IRL and online
Prioritize finding friends and collaborators you'd like to have in your life for a long time
Avoid chasing the red herrings of success
Interesting life paths are generally non-repeatable
Keep your standards everything—but especially for your own conduct—high
Own your mistakes
Forgive your parents, and get to know them. Especially if you are the child of immigrants
Embrace commitment in work and personal matters
Mutual obligations are a gift—cherish them and run towards them
Take your work seriously, but yourself less so