christophergs

Thank you for writing this

How do you know your skill is degrading? Could it be the old "the more you know, the more you know you don't know"?

Well said. Also "that metadata doesn't leave the ivory tower" is wonderfully concise.

Yes. When I was very inexperienced I still remember being interviewed by an extremely big dog in the open-source world (he was VP of engineering at a very successful startup). I was probably about a 3/10 in terms of quality of interview answers, and unsurprisingly didn't get the job.

Despite that, he still managed to make me feel good about the whole experience. At some points in the interview where I was close/slightly off he'd first coax "that's quite similar to X or Y, don't you think?" then if that didn't work he'd coach "here's how X works, elegant explanation, ok, let's talk about Y".

I remember this vividly years later with a smile. Just like I remember all the negative experiences where people were dismissive or ghosted.

I agree that ending an interview early is a no-go. However if it's an onsite/process with multiple interviews, I think the fairest approach (and I've done this in the past) is to manage expectations ahead of time that the full interview sequence only happens if you pass each one.

This way you don't waste the candidate or your time if it's clearly a no after interview 1. They feel a bit bad because they obviously didn't pass, but if you've communicated ahead of time it's not a rug-pull.

Timing matters. The latest generation of VR headsets are incredible. I feel like this point matters, the same way that Netflix needing broadband to be fast enough to stream video mattered.

I'll pay the extra money and get the valve index just to avoid doing business with FB

Thanks for doing the AMA!

How did you discover your repeatable distribution channel, and what did it end up being?

Very true. This is one of the amazing things about Stripe support. They are the only large company where the first person you talk to actually has a clue

This guy deliberate practices

Yep, I do the same. I also combine with github wiki for larger projects and documentation (often these will reference a bunch of issues).

This. Comments are for why.