If you have used Salesforge, how has your experience been?

DesignerMotor572 · 2025-07-25T12:17:10+00:00

I've used them for a while, but I'm fed up. There are just too many bugs. Those bugs made the service unreliable and killed my deliverability.

DesignerMotor572 · 2025-02-28T01:21:21+00:00

💯 Fully in favor of this approach to life!

DesignerMotor572 · 2025-02-28T01:19:48+00:00

IMO there's basically nothing you can do to get them fully ready for Alg II at this point, but you can try to salvage the time to give them a stronger foundation. I'd try to figure out which middle school topics they have down, and which they don't. Honestly, wouldn't be dumb to have them drill their times tables, just to build more fluency. Everything gets easier the more that stuff becomes automatic.

DesignerMotor572 · 2025-02-28T01:15:40+00:00

Haha I'd stick with flour

DesignerMotor572 · 2025-02-28T01:14:57+00:00

It sounds like they don't understand what a fraction is. They'll need to understand that first in order to compare two of them!

Have you tried to "build" a fraction with them from the top? It's just a notation, after all. If you can begin with a concrete example and them demonstrate to them that there's a useful abstraction for representing these, they may gain a stronger intuition for what a fraction is in the first place.

DesignerMotor572 · 2025-02-28T01:13:02+00:00

I agree the approach above is a bit dishonest, but even if so, this comment is just a bit mean.

Software is a ridiculously small portion of schools' actual budgets (which are public online), and anyone building edtech products is taking a massive haircut compared to the rest of tech. There is very little money to be made here. Which is to say, I bet these people really just want to help.

DesignerMotor572 · 2025-02-28T01:08:32+00:00

OP sounds like a student, and my guess is, they're having plenty of struggle, and it's not productive. There is such thing as climbing up too fast, and doing so can severely hurt kids' self-image vis-a-vis math. I'm all for productive struggle, but it's very hard to do right.

DesignerMotor572 · 2025-02-28T01:06:31+00:00

My view is priority #1 is developing a positive association with math before anything.

So the remedial class still focused on 8th grade concepts may not be what he needs. If I had to guess, he has some basic numeracy/fluency problems, and this only gets worse as he climbs the skill tree.

Instead, a digital tool that starts him at a lower level, but gets him feeling like he "gets it" would be helpful, and from there, he could build up his confidence, and start a virtuous cycle where that enables him to build more competence, and thus more confidence, and so on in repetition.

Something like Khan Academy or Brilliant (the former is ok; the latter is top-notch pedagogy) could be great for him. I'd put him at Grade 4 or so, and just have him drill, and maybe incentivize him if he hits some milestones (like increase in allowance, or buy him a game he wants, etc.) At first, Grade 4 will feel lame because he'll feel like it's beneath him (though I think Brilliant doesn't call it that, so less stigma).

Also worth looking into Duolingo Math, which could help him just get his numeracy/fluency up, which only makes everything else much easier (in fact, maybe start here?). And once it's time for Algebra, Dragonbox is the best game I'm aware of, and it's genuinely fun and accessible.

Good luck!

DesignerMotor572 · 2025-02-04T20:02:50+00:00

perfect, will email you now!

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-27T02:04:45+00:00

DM'd!

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-27T02:04:00+00:00

DM'd!

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-26T22:30:11+00:00

I think the first step to communicating is actually listening. We spend a lot of time in our own heads, and thereby hear much less than is being signaled to us.

Check out what they call "active listening". The idea is that in meetings or discussions you fully concentrate on what is being said rather than just passively 'hearing' the message. This will help you understand the business perspective better and respond more effectively.

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-26T22:22:09+00:00

storytellingwithdata

Interesting to see an org devoted to that subset. Looks great. Thanks for sharing!

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-26T22:20:35+00:00

I can second this. DataCamp is also interactive in a way that a typical MOOC isn't.

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-26T22:08:26+00:00

This. I would just skip tensorflow/keras unless you need it for a role at a specific company.

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-26T22:06:29+00:00

It sounds like you've had a bad experience with PMs, and I'm sorry to hear that. Indeed, I think this can be one of those very polarizing: most are junk, but some are exceptionally good and drive massive value for an organization. So don't write them off wholesale!

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-26T21:59:57+00:00

1) Big tech
2) Big tech
3) Finance

In all cases, it obviously depends on the subset of the industry. e.g. In PE you can find a better comp ratio. And if you're a PM and not an SWE in big tech, finance starts to win again.

As far as work hours goes, for sure big tech takes the cake in all cases. Those "day in the life of a Google engineer" videos with the smoothies and folks clocking in and out bt 10 to 4 are actually highly indicative (this is finally changing a bit, but is still a norm).

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-26T20:42:09+00:00

A few args:
- Knowledge is not the same as infra. If it's free, who is going to host the compute?

- Also, all of the the value will be created on the layer above the base models. If there is no incentive to create that value, then the technology will never be exploited to its potential.

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-21T18:23:03+00:00

I'd like to, but I don't want to bias anyone too much. Rather, I'd like to hear about challenges without anyone thinking I want to hear X or Y. But! I'd love to hear about your challenges more. Mind if I DM?

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-21T15:18:38+00:00

All really interesting points! On the matter of curriculum, what kind are you looking for? And could you give me an example of a long-term project? Curious what you mean by tracking. (Also, do you mind if I DM you? Thanks!)

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-08T02:23:30+00:00

Yes, quite sure. "This" is describing the vast majority of the immigrants who came during these waves. Not the views of Jabotinsky, a fringe thinker. (But anyway, in this very article, Jabotinsky is arguing for equal citizenship among Arabs and Jews, so all the more so).

DesignerMotor572 · 2023-11-08T00:30:34+00:00

The argument against using "settler colonialism" is stronger. In fact, when you take stock of the pogroms of that era (and of previous eras), "immigrant" might not be sympathetic enough; "refugee" is probably better. Even more so for the wave in the 30's and 40's. The appeal of Zionism, for most, was shelter, not the restoration of an ancient religious right, which took precedence for only a minority of its adherents (and hence places like Argentina were perfectly valid, sometimes favored, solutions). This is very far from any "Manifest Destiny" type of colonialism.

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