Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami (Published 2011)
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First Word Art / Last Word Art
naimark.netAs a rule, in a corporate environment, never signal that you buy the dream or that you crave an audience, as each of these can be provided at little to no cost for the employer and for little or no lasting benefit to you. Instead, signal that you crave the two things of real, lasting value a quality employer can offer: a learning environment and,... See more
The Peter Principle and exploiting overconfident workers - Marginal REVOLUTION
𝗟𝗨𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗙𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗧
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Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
