if the market bounces back my RSUs goes back and I'm back to where I was. I don't plan on harvesting my put profits, I'm secretly hoping I lose it all.
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Personally, I believe that giving should be done without expecting anything in return, otherwise it becomes an exchange, which I find incredibly exhausting.
Also correct, I'm essentially shorting the entire equity market. Chipotle is very volatile so there would be quite an upside if market trends downwards.
To protect myself, when I see sharp dips in the markets like this, I usually buy a put (option) just in case 2008 repeats itself. I bought a put last week for 2k (CMG) and now its worth 18k. If the markets keep falling, I may end up with around 30k, which is enough for me to pay my mortgage for a year and a half.
Maybe someone finds this helpful, maybe not. Be safe, play responsibly.
Starting last week, I bought a put (just 1) in Chipotle (No particular reason, I just picked a random one) for 2000.
Its the one bet I hope I lose money on, but so far my position (2k investment) have grown to over 6k. (300% increase).
Its sad money because when the market goes down, my RSUs are dropping significantly more. The put are there to make sure if I lose my job and my RSUs, my put position will generate enough profits to last me 2 years without work. I only need 24k to get by / year.
Just wanted to put this out there in case someone else out there has alot of RSUs that are stuck and wanted to buy some positions to make some money in case of a recession.
If I find some great engineers in the library and bring them into my team directly, will they do good work? If they prove to do good engineering, would it be a sustainable model to hire directly from our volunteer program?
If this works out, we could replicate this model in other public libraries as well.
The comments above are my moonshot ideas, I'm currently experimenting to see if it can be possible.
Some of the regular students that come into the library lives off non-profit assistance and one is homeless. They speak highly of local nonprofits providing them food / shelter. I've volunteered at a few shelters that were impactful (don't know them by name unfortunately, I'm too privileged). Staff there definitely didn't have the comforts I have at my current work place.
I spent a chunk of my childhood growing up in Beverly Hills around some peers whose parents run profitable businesses. They have always valued few wealthy clients over many average clients.
Again, take my experience with a grain of salt, I'm not interested enough to prove this point.
Some do, some don't. Some Non-profits optimize for maximize impact to their vision.
> for profits for maximum numbers students.
Some do, some don't. Some for-profits optimize a small number of wealthy clients.
If you think it is helpful, you can breeze through the lessons and exercises so you know / understand how other students use the curriculum, then work with the more senior students as a team on c0d3.com and build features to make it better. Proudly put all your contributions (features, mentoring work, authoring work - if you contributed to the course material) on your resume.
You can reach me via email: library at zheng.network
I think mainstream bootcamps value getting a job more than actually becoming a good engineer, which is something I disagree with. This also motivates me to show up at the library every day.
Basically... if you are a seasoned engineer, just going through what we are working with and being curious about it and understanding our approach is really helpful.
What wouldn't be helpful is to show up (in person or online), try to implement a bunch of new changes without understanding the current student journey, and then don't follow through. The intention is good, but I think the students end up more confused.
1. I simply created the meetup group. Showed up, people came. It was empty the first week couple of days, I just made it a point to show up. When there were no people, I simply just read hn or did some work. When the first student came, I made sure to be nice so he feels inspired to come back. The library took note, wanted to make it official with their library program and give us a dedicated room / parking even though we only have 4 consistent students. (Libraries love it when tech community volunteers to help teach).
2. I was honest with students that I can't help everyone and my time is limited (though I try). If they helped each other it would make my life easier. They have been good at helping each other.
3. I don't understand burnout, I'm guessing it's a symptom of ambition and expectations (I'm really not sure because I've never understood it. If I experienced it previously I never noticed). I just make sure to have no expectations. All I hold myself accountable for is to show up. If I did something wrong I apologize and move on, there's no point beating myself up over anything. I don't have big ambitions to make millions and millions, I just want physically show up for people who need help.
4. Yes. I want to open source it completely, such that if people wanted to repackage it into their own bootcamp they have the freedom to do so (not sure what license that would be, but I'm not at that point yet). Right now I just document everything in notion: https://www.notion.so/garagescript/Table-of-Contents-a83980f...
Last year I decided to take action and started a free coding group at our local library: https://www.meetup.com/San-Jose-C0D3
I show up before work every day (M-F at 8am) to help students who are learning how to code. So far no students have gotten a job yet, but our group consistently gets 4-8 students who show up promptly at 8am. I answer their questions, give them guidance, and teach them best practices I follow as a software engineer with 10 years of work experience. I ask for nothing in return except the joy of students going "ahhh" when something clicked for them.
Things are still early for us, but my dream is to inspire other software engineers to help create a free and open learning center at their local libraries so people have an alternative to coding bootcamps.
Then spend your time on the content to answer the questions your users are gonna have. Provide screenshots of your app.
If you are a self starter, I wouldn't recommend building an entire landing page yourself.
To get users, we started a meetup group to teach people Korean. https://www.meetup.com/San-Jose-Korean-Language-and-Culture-...
We stopped working on the app, but continued with the meetup group (3 years now and almost 1000 members).
Our conclusion is that the most effective way to learn a new language is a simple commitment to showing up regularly to language events. Meetup.com or your local public library will usually have regular (and free) events. Once you have that commitment, picking a great app will help expedite your learning.
Excited to see an open source language learning app!
I wonder.... is there a service (Maybe a chrome extension) that lets you ask questions on the page you are in? For example, I want to highlight:
`btrfs-progs` and ask... "What is a quick summary about this package?
`ship a new enough version of util-linux` and ask.... "What features in the new util-linux allows this to work?"
Then maybe someone who also visits this page with more knowledge can answer my questions.
This tool would augment my learning 10x and I would be a paying customer. Does something like this exist?
Recently I've looked around me and realized, everything around me is new. There are no memories around me, I have chased marketed products until my whole apartment is lined up with useful products.
Some of the people I admire the most carried around the same water bottle for more than 10 years, wore the same watch for more than 20 years, used a phone for more than 3 years. They can point to anything they owned and talk about the rich emotional history behind each item.
I think more people should acquire the skill to use a product and maximize its life rather than to throw and buy the next cool thing.
Cool!
Accessing the folder, creating a file, and even simple unix commands like `ls` feels significantly slower than other folders.
The default instructions did not work for me, my file path is actually:
/Volumes/Keybase/public/username
It is different from the one provided in the blog:
/keybase/public/your_username/
When reading the blog, it wasn't obvious how I can find the path to the correct folder. I had to open the Keybase app and find a notification.
I read the book and reread it and work the 12 steps into my daily life. The single best thing it did for me is that it made me a more honest person, to others and myself. I no longer try to push myself to make deadlines. When things starts sucking at work, I say it honestly. When I wronged someone, I am quick to apologize. I no longer have the need to fulfill people's expectations and since I have nothing to hide, I look into people's eyes during conversations and I genuinely connect with people better.
I was introduced to this book during AA meetings (which I started going to voluntarily to get the courage to say no to alcohol). The people who go to AA meetings regularly because they choose to, are amazing people. Maybe going there regularly will help you boost your self esteem, as it did mine.
FYI, most people have a hard time with step 2 and 3. If you are like me and don't believe in God, it helps to redefine God. God could be nature, fate, an apple, or whatever makes sense to you that seems like a recurring source of comfort for you. For me, God is the innate goodness in people that makes them want to do right by others.
Good luck.
1. People who care about building good products, leading to good careers.
2. People who care about their career for the sake of their careers. This group tends to focus on office politics.
Therefore, caring enough about their career to cram has not a signal for how much they will care about building great products.
http://www.paulgraham.com/lesson.html
You shouldn't be studying to get good scores. You should be studying to learn and understand.