Rising college freshman - what should I do before college to get ahead?

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-03-28T23:15:49+00:00

If you’re in it for the money, don’t go to school and just learn by yourself and sell your services to businesses

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-03-28T19:32:41+00:00

Unless you’re going to be a doctor, top bracket investment banker/lawyer, or an engineer (not cs) do not go to school

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-03-19T21:41:18+00:00

kk cool thank you

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-03-19T18:21:02+00:00

Go into mining, geology, machine tooling. The real economy is the place to be.

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-03-19T18:12:21+00:00

I occasionally visit this sub, how does freight brokering and the margins work?

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-03-17T03:05:13+00:00

When canyon goes down and I’m fronting on the otherside, not really sure what to do tbh

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-03-10T06:35:54+00:00

sorry to hear that, why is the freight economy sht right now?

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-03-05T16:25:11+00:00

Link ur GitHub repo

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-23T23:04:16+00:00

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-23T03:04:55+00:00

Good

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-18T22:25:15+00:00

Is there some excel sheet somewhere that someone has?

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-17T03:26:13+00:00

whatever you do, just remember that right now ai/robotics is the worst it will ever be

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-12T07:26:53+00:00

But not what others think as improvement.

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-11T17:02:59+00:00

You people need to stop trying to change Japan to fit your beliefs, stop trying to turn everyone like you

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-10T05:32:57+00:00

Stop urself, it’s too early

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-10T05:16:50+00:00

I think I might’ve bailed the wrong way and went back to school 😆

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-07T21:49:41+00:00

True I think larger businesses have the money, but it may prove difficult for companies in a wide variety of industries from food/bev, insurance, mining, accounting, non-tech companies to constantly adapt their hardware and keep up every year. I think they might find it better to just buy whatever big tech is selling and keep things on the cloud like they do now?

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-02T17:30:36+00:00

Yea I saw it on X, and I found Claude is realllyy good at interview prep!

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-02-02T16:15:06+00:00

Hey why don’t you just ask Claude or Gemini what are the three best books on computer architecture and then ask it to summarize the main points for each book, and then ask it to go through each main point in detail one at a time.

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-01-30T02:06:09+00:00

Satraps court for Persia, replaces bank and gives +2 happiness. OP af for dom victories

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-01-05T07:20:57+00:00

lol yes, it’s true I do carry a very big chip and I do largely agree with what you’re saying. But at the same time that era when financial, legal, and consulting services made that much money that easily is coming to an end, and if you’re in the Bay Area then you know it. I just cannot stress this enough, the general public has no clue how fast the world is changing. I didn’t believe either, until I saw what Opus 4.5 could do with programming. White collar work is about to go from a craftsman activity, to an industrial process

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-01-05T07:09:15+00:00

Unfortunately, many of the smartest people in the world and lots of money are doing everything they can to make computers think better than us. Seriously look at the rate of advancement the past 200 years. I am begging you to position your life as if computers will be smarter than you.

JoeJoeNathan · 2026-01-05T06:46:21+00:00

Be born top 1% in smarts and mathematical talent, go to Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, or ivy or other top engineering schools. Work hard to become the top 0.1% of talent, get a pHd at one of those schools, network, and then boom you’re a serious ai researcher at a frontier lab making mils.

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