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throwaway98797··on Autism's confusing cousins
that’s why acquiring wealth and power is so important

nice to throw off the shackles of the lifetimes of masks we wear and now the normies must adapt to us, instead of the other way around

fellow autists there is hope for us!

throwaway98797··on Autism's confusing cousins
i suspect it’s only the minority of people who are normal

everyone needs to learn impulse control

we draw a semi? fully arbitrary line on what too many or too strong

being normal is just the balance of your talent to mask vs the strength of the oddness

throwaway98797··on Meta Segment Anything Model 3
you don’t, that’s true

i prefer to say thank you when someone is doing something good

throwaway98797··on AI Broke Interviews
kinda silly given the ability of most people to infer anything substantial through finances and marketing copy

really company reviews is all that matters and even that has limited value since your life is determined by your manger

best you can do is sus out how your interviewers are fairing

are they happy? are they stressed, everything else has so much noise to be worse than worthless

throwaway98797··on When is it better to think without words?
often times the answer is instantaneous but the articulation takes ages to show people how to get from a to z

insight often lives in the ability to skip a b c d, then post processing is to allow mortals to understand

sometimes my verbal skills fail me and the steps are missing

this is why i disagree that if you can’t write it, you don’t know it

in another words, i may know the note to sing but not have the voice to sing it

throwaway98797··on Your data model is your destiny
luckily for sass builders most people aren’t like you
throwaway98797··on Benefits of choosing email over messaging
if i write specific questions and people reply in totality i find that offensive and manipulative

(adding another point of view)

ultimately no way not to offend people who are dying to be offended

throwaway98797··on Teen safety, freedom, and privacy
build something
throwaway98797··on Anthropic raises $13B Series F
lots of start ups were built on aws

i’d rather have a subscription than no service at all

oh, and one can always just not buy something if it’s not valuable enough

throwaway98797··on OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5
only kids have no-no words.
throwaway98797··on OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5
i tried creating a meme about retards and it refused.

i’m an adult.

throwaway98797··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
unless you’re a kid or obnoxious police are quite reasonable

made up fears are stealing your joy

throwaway98797··on What happens when housing prices go down?
karl marx called he wants his argument back
throwaway98797··on The first time I was almost fired from Apple
some of us have a soul

some of us need a way to express ourselves

why not start digging your grave right now? it’s more efficient.

throwaway98797··on FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores
sometimes you make money in lumps

debt allows people smooth that out and lending companies take a fee for that service

nothing evil or wrong about it

throwaway98797··on Calibrations Have a Context-Collapse Problem
excellent write up

advice ultimately boils down to work harder in judging talent.

everyone wants a single word answer oh sally is great, john is okay.

the truth it’s hard work to right level people.

no one gets it right.

systems get co-opted by ruthless people for personal gain.

only hard and consistent work by leadership can reduce, but not eliminate the harm

throwaway98797··on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
drink milkshakes
throwaway98797··on Tailscale has raised $160M
office space of course!
throwaway98797··on Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
make those with power like you and rewards will flow

relation to company profitability is optional and often times counterproductive

throwaway98797··on Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
the frameworks are always flawed

the best leaders know this

throwaway98797··on It's not a crime if we do it with an app
yea sure let’s make taking risks even harder

we as a society are better off when people take risks

throwaway98797··on Life lessons from the first half-century of my career
props for writing this out

i know it couldn’t be easy

we have limited time in this world

i’d rather spend it with the strong and confident, who need me less than weak and insecure

it’s not fair

it’s not right

but that’s the structure of the world

i don’t like hearing well aktually, because for every one time they are right (and they are right occasionally) i’ve had to listen to to them whine where they have low context

don’t waste peoples time with your insecurity

don’t help the weak

help yourself

throwaway98797··on No Calls
when your purchasing 100k+ products having a conversation makes a lot of sense

lots of opportunities to find easy win-win

finding out what the salesmen incentives are and working with them can lead to a good outcome

obviously not worth it for smaller ticket stuff

throwaway98797··on No Calls
your probably leaving money on the table then

i’d find that unacceptable as a ceo

you got to do the work to do what’s best for the company, not yourself

throwaway98797··on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
outside of stable coins and poly market i don’t see anything useful for those outside of crypto

plenty of cool shit for those who do things onchain tho

throwaway98797··on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
you’d have to be crazy to think the onboarding funnel in web3 is easier than web2
throwaway98797··on This open problem taught me what topology is [video]
useful to smooth brains like me

also meta lesson on how useful extra dimensions can be

throwaway98797··on Are at-home genetic tests worth it? As an oncologist, here's my advice.
leave to the experts they say

but are we experts at choosing experts?

life is such is that we have to muddle through when we barely know anything

live or die by your own choices you got only this one

throwaway98797··on If you need the money, don't take the job
true it’s retaineresq

i’ll roughly give you ~20 hours a week for the next 3 months but if you don’t use it you lose it

granted if their utilization drops off too much the contract gets re priced or paused

the most money i’ve made is when i can be comfortable having an uncomfortable conversation up front with occasional nope thrown

and all that matters is that you deliver *visible* value

throwaway98797··on If you need the money, don't take the job
yep fixed with an implicit or explicit cap
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