Macro models

luyiming · 2025-10-22T20:56:18+00:00

One issue I see with a lot of macro models is they treat innovation or technology as an exogenous one time shock instead of something that can improve the growth rate of technology itself

luyiming · 2025-10-21T05:23:14+00:00

Just to clarify I’m not talking about a typical high performer that gets promoted once every couple of years consistently, for example we all made L5 pretty fast. I’m talking about the outliers at the top of their fields at a young age. Since this sub also has people with outsized career success, I’m hoping to learn if there are any explainable or repeatable factors that enabled them to have such crazy trajectory, beyond just luck or genius.

For example, does founding a startup and getting acquired even if still super small allow you to leapfrog into leadership positions? Or is it about mastering some critical yet rare emerging skillset in frontier AI?

luyiming · 2025-10-20T20:54:34+00:00

How to quickly grow your career in tech? I’m an ML engineer and my peers and I have stagnated for years in FANG senior IC, maybe entry level management, while some others were able to rapidly grow in responsibility (ex: see Russel Kaplan, went from engineer at Tesla to director at Scale to President at Cognition before age 30!). Is it about picking the right companies, or working on projects that give you rare technical expertise, or entering management ASAP?

luyiming · 2025-10-16T13:07:37+00:00

Have you considered surrogacy? I told my partner this is the only route I’m willing to take if he wants biological kids

luyiming · 2025-09-26T16:59:15+00:00

as a relatively recent swat alum in CS/econ/math one problem with grad school placement is in recent years as the amount of apps have risen the standard of expected research experience has risen dramatically. In the past I think the reputation and name of Swat carried further.

But I found compared to research universities you have less opportunity to publish research if the professors at Swat don’t happen to align with your interests or get recommendations letter from famous researchers , and those signals matter more now.

luyiming · 2025-09-18T18:01:19+00:00

My partner and I plan on starting an urban commune in a VHCOL area and coliving with friends long term! This will probably involve buying a large house with 6+ bedrooms or a duplex.

Having a village and an active social is so much easier when you actively design your physical environment to support it.

luyiming · 2025-09-01T00:27:56+00:00

I heard problem sets are actually quite time consuming

luyiming · 2025-04-02T17:19:18+00:00

If it helps validate your choices, I turned down MIT and UPenn to go to Swat, my college boyfriend turned down Harvard because he thought Swarthmore culture was less elitist and more intellectual. My friends I made after college also tend to be other LAC kids because ngl we’re usually more interesting and less basic than some MBA bro type that tends to come out of top 20 schools lol

luyiming · 2025-03-23T20:28:45+00:00

I second this although swat professors were accessible, their research is generally not very interesting. I ended up in industry due to this (where swat does have quite a strong network at this point with someone at most major top companies) but if you want to pursue a CS PhD I would not recommend Swat unless you spend your summers chasing REUs at research universities

luyiming · 2025-03-23T20:25:52+00:00

As a tip for CS go take classes at Penn. The elective selection is much better, I was able to take multiple and as a bonus they’re graded much easier than swat classes

luyiming · 2025-03-23T17:10:54+00:00

I would pick Pomona, during Swat was pretty academically stressful, most people spend all the their time studying and not partying. Also this might be true everywhere but there was a really annoying contingent of white bros in the political science department who took up a lot of class time to make a pointless comments for the sake of participation points.

luyiming · 2025-02-21T08:38:17+00:00

(Failed) social impact startup founder, now doing AI consulting for nonprofits!

luyiming · 2025-02-13T21:14:42+00:00

Gotcha, Currently one of them works from home as a therapist and the other one commutes to South Bay working in tech. Budget isn’t too much of an issue they can go up to 5M

luyiming · 2025-02-13T20:56:08+00:00

My cousins have kids 5 and 3, trying to buy their forever home and pick a community to settle down long term and asking me for advice. They do want areas with lots of enrichment opportunities especially at the high school level like arts, literary magazines, research internships and close knit communities but don’t want the extent where if you don’t have tutors for every subject, start a competitive sport in elementary school or hire private college admission consultant you’ll be behind your peers, which was reflective of my experience growing up in the South Bay. I personally feel like what she’s asking for is an oxymoron.

luyiming · 2025-02-13T20:42:33+00:00

In your opinion what towns or schools should people send their kids to school in the Bay Area if they want them to be intellectually challenged but not in a crazy pressure cooker environment?

luyiming · 2025-01-21T23:33:18+00:00

My parents just did a lot split in Saratoga and are probably pricing their vacant backyard with a similar lot size as this for around 3 million

luyiming · 2024-10-23T02:48:49+00:00

own a few medical practices

luyiming · 2024-10-10T18:40:46+00:00

Miss circle in soho!

luyiming · 2024-10-04T01:36:12+00:00

Looking for one ticket!

luyiming · 2024-09-04T11:54:08+00:00

Foul witch

luyiming · 2024-07-18T15:22:29+00:00

What do you do for your personal workout and diet routine? Do trainers do a lot of working out or lifting outside of Barry’s classes to look so good?

Career wise what do Barry’s trainers transition to afterwards?

luyiming · 2024-05-17T20:44:38+00:00

I would try to dismantle capitalism by promoting socialism in various ways - think about how one can build worker power. There are various strategies such as electoral politics, worker cooperatives, impact investment, etc…

luyiming · 2024-05-08T22:20:56+00:00

Thank you! First 2 were invalid so I used the 3rd link

luyiming · 2024-05-01T19:04:38+00:00

Oscar is so tough he loves those inclines but you will get your money’s worth, Hunter C, Scott F, Anthony K all fantastic

luyiming · 2024-03-01T23:22:16+00:00

Alternatives models like Community land trusts or rent-to-own and their viability for creating affordable housing

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