Let me offer some (hopefully constructive) counterpoints: > If the system doesn't work for you, it doesn't mean you're not capable.
Let me offer some (hopefully constructive) counterpoints: > If the system doesn't work for you, it doesn't mean you're not capable. Sure, but working with the system is a useful capability. Don't be lazy and dismiss it as worthless just because you can't (or don't want to) figure it out. I've made this mistake and regretted it. > Follow your passions, not external dictates. Following your passions is great, but doesn't always work out. Life is often about finding a balance between something you really like doing and something that society values enough to pay you for doing it. > Try to get as many different perspectives on life as you can. Yes, of course, but the challenge is weighing these perspectives appropriately. Everybody's perspective is right from some particular viewpoint, the trouble is figuring out what that viewpoint is, whether it applies to you. > Coding is making credentialing and "proving" you can do something much easier. Completely agree. > As for luck, I have a bad habit of framing things as lucky, and to some extent they are, but there was also hard work behind them. Sure, you always need some hard work and talent to succeed but it's often not sufficient, and luck is sometimes the necessary component that makes the difference. ed: One last meta point that occurred to me was that you became successful when you took charge of your career. When you were just doing what others told you, you seemed both unhappy and underperforming. The lesson I would take is that we all need to take responsibility for our happiness and success. Sometimes this means introspecting and figuring out what we ought to be doing and not just drifting around listening to what we're told by society, our peers or parents.
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Yeah PC was a horrible platform before Win2k, but there was a beautiful short time period when we had alternatives like Amiga, Atari, NeX...
Living in a 200+ year old house, I've seen a lot of this first-hand through both planned and unplanned renovations and repairs.
Is anything with the pebble time able to capture heart rate for historical data analysis?
Datastar has evolved into a suite of tools [1].
> real issue is that MSG is basically a public utility.
Everything good is a slippery slope: every step in the right direction is bad if you overshoot.
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Let me offer some (hopefully constructive) counterpoints: > If the system doesn't work for you, it doesn't mean you're not capable.
Let me offer some (hopefully constructive) counterpoints: > If the system doesn't work for you, it doesn't mean you're not capable. Sure, but working with the system is a useful capability. Don't be lazy and dismiss it as worthless just because you can't (or don't want to) figure it out. I've made this mistake and regretted it. > Follow your passions, not external dictates. Following your passions is great, but doesn't always work out. Life is often about finding a balance between something you really like doing and something that society values enough to pay you for doing it. > Try to get as many different perspectives on life as you can. Yes, of course, but the challenge is weighing these perspectives appropriately. Everybody's perspective is right from some particular viewpoint, the trouble is figuring out what that viewpoint is, whether it applies to you. > Coding is making credentialing and "proving" you can do something much easier. Completely agree. > As for luck, I have a bad habit of framing things as lucky, and to some extent they are, but there was also hard work behind them. Sure, you always need some hard work and talent to succeed but it's often not sufficient, and luck is sometimes the necessary component that makes the difference. ed: One last meta point that occurred to me was that you became successful when you took charge of your career. When you were just doing what others told you, you seemed both unhappy and underperforming. The lesson I would take is that we all need to take responsibility for our happiness and success. Sometimes this means introspecting and figuring out what we ought to be doing and not just drifting around listening to what we're told by society, our peers or parents.
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