Sakib Ahmed

This is why people get so brain-constipated when they try to choose a career, and why they often pick the wrong one: they don’t understand the craziness that they have to offer, nor the craziness that will be demanded of them, and so they spend their lives jamming their square-peg selves into round-hole jobs.

what does it mean to “handle your feelings about the task” it means you recognize and acknowledge them and this contact and acceptance allows you to begin where you otherwise would have hesitated or avoided the problem due to the aforementioned feelings.

Imagine buying a car where the only person allowed to decide is the guy who doesn’t drive. That’s how B2B software gets sold. No wonder shadow IT is thriving.

The best performers expect their work to be seen without having to announce it. When forced to advocate for themselves, something fundamental breaks. They realize the system rewards performance theater over actual performance.

We built performance matrices to seem fair. Instead, they systematically reward visible mediocrity over invisible... See more

Interview loops are brain dead (leetcode, takes forever). No one is actually trying to assess the level of impact that you could potentially have, because none of their decision-making is tied to that

literally no one has been able to explain this to me. https://t.co/9gAGppH25c