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Don't tie your future to the new (but transient) economic opportunities that will open up.

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Hilarity ensues.

If the big players would stick to the RFC's it wouldn't be a problem.

How to tell the difference between someone who's been burnt a few times too many and someone you probably don't want to work with in one easy conversation.

Hiring is a hard problem of computer science, maybe even harder than naming things!

That would be golden!

Will you still like it enough that you're willing to pay a 30% premium as more and more services start passing the Apple Tax on to the consumer?

This is why I love capitalism!

Massive investments in AI and Crypto, both of which will face less regulatory oversight and more opportunities to centralize both wealth and power under a Trump presidency.

I really hope the other 2/3 are with me when I say that having either Apple or Google integrated with my vehicle is a deal-breaker.

Only if we also make a case for criminalizing managerial misconduct using an equivalent metric to the author's proposed QALY measure.

Hard to swallow pills:

- When the goal of medicine is profit instead of helping patients the outcomes will be poor.

- When the goal of education is profit instead of teaching students the outcomes will be poor.

- When the goal of politics is profit instead of collaboration the outcomes will be poor.

- When the goal of business is political, educational or medicinal the outcomes will be poor.

Generic formulation:

Any attempt to apply a metric that works in one context to the entire system will result in poor outcomes.

Figure out what you'd be doing if you didn't have to earn a salary, spend six months doing a side-project and/or contributing to a related libre-software project in this area.

Chances are you'll make new friends in the process and, in my experience, chances are that new friends will lead to new job opportunities.

Caveat: This is not a lucrative strategy, but it is a sustainable strategy.

Listening is indeed the hardest thing to do if your organization's metrics places immense pressure on you to be (or at least appear to be) the smartest person in the room.

Luckily there are other organizations out there that encourage kindness rather than penalizing it.

Only catch is, you probably won't make it through the first interview if you don't start practicing being kind right where you are. Soft skills are hard and take sustained effort to internalize.