Let's go Pittsburgh startup! I was ecstatic to see netbeez on the front page.

Also, with us opening remote offices, this might be something that comes in handy.

I like that second quote a lot, I bookmarked your ref to read this evening.

However, I do think it is important we consider Mr. Altman's follow up to your quote: "Even if you miss, you’ll probably end up in a pretty good place." If it weren't for this, "Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally." would have made me shift in my seat.

I admire your empathy and that you evidently examined the situation versus reacted. Props to you.

Ditto. Empathy is important...I imagine that boss, if he's relatively young, has to deal with the pressure of seeming like an effective boss, and that includes setting some hard lines...because let's face it, the boss and employee can see eye-to-eye, but that understanding doesn't always communicate across all the other employees, leaving some resentful. It's not dysfunction, necessarily, it's just the nature and friction of having an understanding and an implicit agreement. And so having a hard-no-compromise rule is sometimes easier. And younger bosses do worry about not wanting to seem like a slacker millennial (to their bosses)

Age is not an excuse for being ineffective at your job.

Sure it is! Otherwise how do any young people ever get started?

You're conflating age with level of experience.

Does anyone know of resources similar to the 1994 onward timeline they outline here, but with much much more detail?

Not so interested in the future predictions (without a solid explanation on why they are predicting those, it seems more like at best guessing and at worst marketing hogwash to me).

Though I am happy with where I am now, I will definitely look into this to see what they might be looking for.

Oh yeah I flinched at the mention of VBA and MS Access.

Thanks for the input!

I would love to buy you a virtual coffee or month of reddit and chat about this sometime if you're down.

Thanks for this! Great comment for sure.

AI is definitely of interest to me, but unfortunately I am unsure why economics interests me. I would say that it is because I like knowing what people value, but that is admittedly painting with broad strokes.

I find "Meditations on Moloch" intensely interesting. Thank you so much for posting this.

It will be those who think like you who survive the apocalypse. </humor>