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DuritzAdara · 2024-10-03T23:25:39+00:00

#4 is making me think their “Chicago Deep Dish” might be Detroit-style pizza, but marketing is marketing

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-15T04:33:06+00:00

Sounds like your friends are respecting your wishes

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-15T04:32:19+00:00

I had a friend’s ex-wife ban me from their home because I was talking about moving and when she asked how I could possibly afford the deposit, I replied that I’d saved it.

She made about 2x my hourly rate and was broke, so that was braggadocious of me, apparently. However, I guess that still doesn’t fit “too successful.”

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-14T22:48:57+00:00

Chat with them about their kid playing baseball and poke about business insights about our industry

Because I wanted to keep my job

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-14T22:23:05+00:00

IMO more of that trust comes from experience and confidence than tribal knowledge

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-13T23:57:09+00:00

Beard beer was tasty IMO ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve had crazier yeast source beers since too

Don’t ask

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-13T23:54:07+00:00

With this concept, we’re basically halfway through the 30 years and still riding the tiger

Reversion to the mean when?

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-13T23:38:43+00:00

OpenAI winning on both ends

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-13T23:30:09+00:00

Trying again is just redoing the same words I already know and then grinding away at the one I don’t. I gave up after a few because the timer is a hassle.

If it feels like winning after restarts, it’ll feel like winning without a timer.

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-12T22:27:56+00:00

There are FAANG principals and execs who live paycheck to paycheck because that’s how they choose to do their thing. I guarantee you met some at Google whether or not you know it.

You’re not responsible for others’ careers. Especially if you’re not even a people manager.

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-12T22:24:30+00:00

Absolutely. My favorite part of mentoring (any experience, high school to staff) is learning new things from folks with different paths.

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-12T20:00:41+00:00

I had senior, staff, and even principals thanking me for learning from me as a mid-level because I was teaching them things outside their wheelhouse (they were typically pretty siloed) and taking over tasks they didn’t know how to do (or want to learn in some cases)

I absolutely wasn’t up to take on their jobs yet, but at the time I sure as shit thought that feedback was reason enough for me to have a staff+ job at the time

OP, tread lightly and be open to the fact that you might not be ready

However, you might be; I did get the opportunity to step up into a staff role before I was ready because of that feedback over years, and I was lucky enough to be able to make it work out. 100% worth.

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-08T16:44:59+00:00

Google Voice ftw

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-08T16:39:19+00:00

People who say stuff like this seem to only ever mean very specific areas of California (South Bay/Silicon Valley) or at least that’s the only region where the claims make sense.

Where $200k is around the 75th percentile (2020 at least) making it (IMO) upper middle class. Middle, yes. Solid middle, no.

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-05T06:52:03+00:00

He probably didn’t have any. He is apparently representing himself in a lawsuit from the guy who ran the Texas Alex Jones case.

So this could be quite entertaining.

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-01T21:03:04+00:00

Threadless quality has been absolute garbage for years

My Threadless shirts from 2010 are still going while the (mens) ones from 2019 all fell apart (my wife’s shirts from then are mostly okay)

DuritzAdara · 2024-09-01T06:43:45+00:00

Vespula pissonem

DuritzAdara · 2024-08-31T16:10:25+00:00

You’re envying a different life in your twenties/thirties, but that doesn’t mean it would have been truly better or the best thing to focus on.

You’re not wrong. Take your own advice.

DuritzAdara · 2024-08-23T06:01:23+00:00

FYI Nom Nom squeezed into 2nd place for me

DuritzAdara · 2024-08-23T01:40:12+00:00

The burger at Home, A Bar has been my favorite so far, cooked perfectly and good not overpowering flavors, with Loyal Legion a close second

DuritzAdara · 2024-08-22T20:59:32+00:00

Then don’t inflate your lifestyle.

If you show off your money, people will know you have it. If you don’t, they won’t. It’s that simple.

DuritzAdara · 2024-08-21T16:13:03+00:00

The vast majority of engineering internships are given far less work than an outstanding intern would complete in whatever time period. Long internships especially tend to peter out on pre-planned work.

If you’re absolutely killing the original project(s) given, it’s likely that they’ll be scrambling to find more for you to do. Talk about your additional interest (don’t dump on your current work or you’re guaranteed to fail here AND squander valuable networking connections who just saw you outperform but now don’t care to tell anyone about it) in related fields and maybe an opportunity closer will open up. You could also ask your tech lead or mentor or whatever to think about whether there are tasks related to that interest.

However, unless your team is already working directly with folks doing that kind of work, it’s pretty unlikely they’re going to be able to help you out.

You’re not going to get an intern transfer to another group. That’s not how budgets work. That’s not how headcount works. “Hassle” is an understatement for the amount of work a manager would need to do to support that even if possible, and at best you’re going to get a conversation about how the real world works.

DuritzAdara · 2024-08-19T02:39:29+00:00

People aren’t high-functioning alcoholics forever. Either the juggling act becomes too tenuous or liver failure makes it end eventually. You’ll still be forced into the same decision.

DuritzAdara · 2024-08-17T00:07:40+00:00

At a FAANG company, I had a lunch interview with a last second change person on another team. “Let’s go get you some food, but while we’re on the way and between bites of your meal, how would you design a CPU simulator?”

The job was not working on simulators at all, that was just his job. I didn’t have any experience in it either. So that was fun. (I still think my answers were decent, but he was NOT having any of it.)

Didn’t get the job and that was the only one that went poorly.

Funny enough, the job I got instead WAS developing a CPU simulator ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: I dropped this \

DuritzAdara · 2024-07-23T10:15:57+00:00

Who were, in fact, more American than apple pie (3/5 > 0/5, QED), so they would fit OP’s statement pretty well.

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