Links and Thoughts
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- What’s it about? Navigating your career in technology
- Why I like this? He gives you practical, straightforward advice on how to deal with co-workers, managers, and HR. His advice is quite mercenary and I like that. There’s not a lot of beating around the bush and trying to defend both sides of the argument.
- Posts I like:
- Embrace the Grind: how to seem magical by just working harder than most people would imagine
- What is “professionalism” and why am I writing about it?: I have a vague idea of what professionalism is and I’ve mostly learned it by imitating people I work with. I’ve changed jobs once in my career and my definition of professionalism has changed with the company culture. I would like to have values that are self-generated rather than derived from wherever I’m working at.
- Ways I’m available to help: It’s awesome that he is willing to help random people in the internet.
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- What’s it about? Posts on specific tech learnings and random thoughts
- Why I like this? I like the fact that he participated in the offload writing challenge. Also I like the layout of the blog
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- What it’s about? Career advice for tech people. Thoughts on writing and productivity
- Why I like it? I like some blog posts bc they offer practical advice on tech careers and productivity
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- What it’s about? Writing, walking, the slow life.
- Why i like it? Many things appeal to me— the website’s layout, the long-form writing, the content itself. I like the fact that many of the posts are about living a slow, peaceful life full of writing and noticing things.
- Posts I like:
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- A post on how to be successful
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https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behind-a-one-person-23/
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Dan Harmon’s advice:
My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the GOAL of writing well and the FEAR of writing badly. By default, our instinct is to conquer the fear, but our feelings are much, much, less within our control than the goals we set, and since it’s the conflict BETWEEN the two forces blocking you, if you simply change your goal from “writing well” to “writing badly,” you will be a veritable fucking fountain of material, because guess what, man, we don’t like to admit it, because we’re raised to think lack of confidence is synonymous with paralysis, but, let’s just be honest with ourselves and each other: we can only hope to be good writers. We can only ever hope and wish that will ever happen, that’s a bird in the bush. The one in the hand is: we suck. We are terrified we suck, and that terror is oppressive and pervasive because we can VERY WELL see the possibility that we suck. We are well acquainted with it. We know how we suck like the backs of our shitty, untalented hands. We could write a fucking book on how bad a book would be if we just wrote one instead of sitting at a desk scratching our dumb heads trying to figure out how, by some miracle, the next thing we type is going to be brilliant. It isn’t going to be brilliant. You stink. Prove it. It will go faster. And then, after you write something incredibly shitty in about six hours, it’s no problem making it better in passes, because in addition to being absolutely untalented, you are also a mean, petty CRITIC. You know how you suck and you know how everything sucks and when you see something that sucks, you know exactly how to fix it, because you’re an asshole. So that is my advice about getting unblocked. Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit” and then take off your “bad writer” hat and replace it with a “petty critic” hat and go to town on that poor hack’s draft and that’s your second draft. Fifteen drafts later, or whenever someone paying you starts yelling at you, who knows, maybe the piece of shit will be good enough or maybe everyone in the world will turn out to be so hopelessly stupid that they think bad things are good and in any case, you get to spend so much less time at a keyboard and so much more at a bar where you really belong because medicine because childhood trauma because the Supreme Court didn’t make abortion an option until your unwanted ass was in its third trimester. Happy hunting and pecking!
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https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/people-dont-work-as-much-as-you-think?s=r
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https://neil.computer/notes/ — i love ppl shitting on UI/UX — so much bad shit out there
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Memorization
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Speed