might be too early to standardize

standards are good but they slow development and experimentation

if you have to ask the answer is no.

if you are young there’s still hope that you can change your mindset and approach though.

if software can save time and make money than human capital then there will be demand.

life is phase oriented

when i’m working i find retired people boring

when im taking 6+ month break i find the nervous energy of employed people annoying

ultimately, comfort comes from being around like minded people

then again seeking comfort rings hollow to me, even though it’s quite enjoyable in the moment.

most things don’t endure

greater chance something will if we take more swings

I don't know about that. Too much is allowed to not endure. I don't want to push on that point too hard, because I get what you are saying: things that are worth something will persist. Still, it would be nice if we didn't have the ridiculous churn of stuff.. that does nothing but gather dust only to be thrown away.

Fully disagree. First, I question the value of something merely enduring. But that aside, implicit in what you're saying here is that the "skill of the swing," so to speak, doesn't matter, whereas only the quantity of swings is what matters. Baseball players clearly negate this.

solving users problems vs solving technical problems is likely where your confusion lies

time value of money

we don’t complain that the per unit cost at target is higher than at costco

Because it's very rare that Target crowds out the only Costco that sells produce in a 20 mile radius leaving only boxed shit food for people to buy.

that’s why acquiring wealth and power is so important

nice to throw off the shackles of the lifetimes of masks we wear and now the normies must adapt to us, instead of the other way around

fellow autists there is hope for us!

i suspect it’s only the minority of people who are normal

everyone needs to learn impulse control

we draw a semi? fully arbitrary line on what too many or too strong

being normal is just the balance of your talent to mask vs the strength of the oddness

you don’t, that’s true

i prefer to say thank you when someone is doing something good

"Is the company consistently profitable or not?" and "Are revenue and profits growing over time, stable, or declining?" are very important questions to answer, particularly if stock grants are part of the compensation package.

For developers who work on products, getting a sense of whether the product of the team you'd be joining is a core part of the business versus speculative (i.e. stable vs likely to have layoffs) and how successful the product is in the marketplace (teams for products that are failing also are likely to be victims of layoffs) are also very important to understand.

So many ways to juice those numbers though.

And if your team is far from the money, what often matters much much more is how much political capital your skip level manager has and to what extent it can be deployed when the company needs to re-org or cut. Shoot, this can matter even if you're close to the money (if you're joining a team that's in the critical path of the profit center vs a capex moonshot project funded by said profit center).

This is one thing I really like about sales engineering. Sales orgs carry (relatively) very low-BS politically.

It matters a lot whether the organization is growing. If you get assigned to a toxic manager in a static organization then you're likely to be stuck there indefinitely. In a growing organization there will be opportunities to move up and out to other internal teams.