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Engineering org aside, there's something much larger here burgeoning under the surface:

> I talked with several engineers in infra orgs, who had 30-50% of their teams drafted into the ADO org. And in some cases, it was the best engineers who left.

> On Tuesday, Meta’s Chief Information and Security Officer (CISO), Guy Rosen, announced his departure.

This Guy was here since 2013, after his mobile tracking app Onavo was acquired, VP of Trust & Safety / Integrity during the high-stakes times of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, handling platform abuse and election interference during a very "yuge" election cycle.

With that goes the accumulated ethics, philosophy, and tribal knowledge that drives organizational cybersecurity and risk, 3 very important factors that can't be automated away or even openly spoken about. This sounds like a massive change to decision making that is larger than engineering.

You can get a general idea with free backlink checkers, just won't be able to deep dive and do various filters.

Ignore all the spammy websites that usually regurgitate random links. Focus on the sites with high DR that don't have the "NoFollow" attribute. These are the hard-hitting websites that boost your domain for SEO purposes and can be good places to get feedback on your own product.

>At this point market validation (and practice validating ideas) is starting to seem like the most important thing.

Market validation - especially for online products and services - is indeed incredibly important, but not many people like to write about it because it is actually very drab and a tiny bit audacious.

His market validation - you are seeing it. It is a submission to Hacker News.

Ok ok, that is a given, but the author alludes to other various ways he gets feedback and validation for his products. He also talks about how well his products were received on Product Hunt and you can also follow him on Twitter.

My final advice for seeing how online services validate their ideas - run the product's domain through a backlink checker. It lets you see what other websites link to their product and what avenues they pursued for outreach. Each of those submissions exposes the product to potential customers and gives valuable feedback to the creator.

Breaking down monolithic databases into microservices.

Containerism and modern devops practices become borderline impossible when you're working with a monolithic database that's encumbered in complex business processes. Ideally you're working with independent, decoupled microservices, but that's far from the reality that most admins face.

Talk to a recruiter, reach out to a staffing agency, or occupational therapist.

Receiving career advice online isn't very useful unless you live in the bay area or know the credibility of the person giving advice. Odds are your local labor market has a completely different landscape with different skill requirements.

I'd say working for an employer is making less sense in general, especially if you're a developer. It's becoming way easier to make money through other means, and you can devote your time to pursuits that are actually meaningful to you.

Ideas aren't worth much, execution is everything.

I would like to encourage you to act on those ideas because the real art is in translating those ideas into practical solutions. Everyone has their own ideas of what would solve a problem, but 99% of those ideas will not work because they are not grounded on reality.

I don't know much about the heavy equipment industry, but from the outside looking in, it doesn't appear to have the conditions to support "disruption." First of all, the majority of consumers in the heavy equipment industry are price insensitive. Heavy equipment is mostly sold to other businesses, agriculture, construction and engineering firms, military, and government. Those companies will buy the equipment regardless of price or any other improvement.

Secondly, there isn't really any scalability in the market for heavy equipment. Even if firms made a big change to the heavy equipment design/mfg industry, they most likely won't capture any new markets. Even a substantial change won't make the average Joe say "Hey I should buy a 400 ton dump truck." The only benefactors of the disruption would be the consumers listed above, who again are pretty indifferent.

Finally, it's also heavily burdened by bureaucracy and regulations. I imagine the biggest bottlenecks to the industry are all the requirements for safety and quality. If someone gets hurt with your equipment, you are in for a multi-million dollar lawsuit. You need approvals, permits, inspections, and QA, each of them slowing the process down further. It's also possible the industry can experience a drastic change from a breakthrough in technology, some kind of mass adoption of a new process, or some sudden increase in demand for heavy equipment, but I see that being dependent on changes outside of the industry.

The biggest one that hasn't been mentioned yet:

Practice gratitude. Get a pen and paper and start writing down things in your life that you're grateful for. It can be something as simple as being grateful for food, water, and shelter (which gets taken for granted so often).

Do this for 15 minutes a day (preferably as soon you wake up) and you will notice your outlook on life improve. Religious people do this in the form of prayer, and it has been scientifically proven to increase your happiness.

Sad how this technology is being used for tyrannical surveillance when it could be used to improve the mental health and emotional well-being of people instead. I imagine using this to improve the emotional well-being of your employees would boost productivity much more.

Work backwards. Envision the future you would like to live in 10 years and notice the details of that vision. For example, maybe you'd like to be living in a custom-built estate on Malé in the Maldive Islands, where you run your travel data business. Work backwards and decide what actions will lead you to this dream. Once you figure out those appropriate actions, decide what you can do in 2hr bursts. The hardest part will be finding what's "meaningful" to you, which will require some soul-searching.

I think this becomes true when any programming website becomes popular. Just look at reddit.

Highly technical programming articles can be hard to digest and don't appeal to a wide audience so they get less upvotes, especially if it's about a specialized language. If you really wanted to read those articles, you could still find them in abundance on other programming/hacking/specialized forums.

I agree. I was recently in the market for a car and I think the best bang for your buck would be a certified pre-owned Honda, 3-5 years old, less than 50k mileage, and last year of its body style. A CPO 2015 Honda Civic with ~35k miles could be had for $11-14k in California. 31/41MPG, cheap to repair, extremely reliable.