I think those are good points. I don't know much about comedy or entertainment but I get the same feeling that getting "chosen" matters more than your content.
On the other hand, great work doesn't happen by accident.
Great businesses are a result of good management. Good products are results of good design.
Those don't happen by accident, just like a great program doesn't write itself.
You may not be a warren buffet, due to limited opportunities. But, you could leave someone like that penniless and nameless and i'm sure he could leverage his skills and knowledge to be "successful", even if not a mega-billionaire.
Marketing and sales is an important component which is left out (if you care about making money). That's also something you can deliberately work on and improve.
Pg has a quote along the lines of "easier jobs that are hard to get fired from are worth more money." Of course not every public job is easy, rather often there are benefits involved other than cash
Absolutely. It's almost unheard of to work at a major academic institution without one.
Becoming a professor is all preparation from 18-30, and then was an assistant you still have to grind and run errands to "earn your place".
The intent of that thread is to peer into his tweets to associate him with an untouchable "white supremacist", as opposed to any particular wrong doing.
That's not even a description, it's just a reason to dehumanize someone.
> so I unfollowed.
I completely encourage that.
I'm not asking for his political views to be platformed, just that we treat them separately. In other words, it's not in bad taste to respect Nick for a Bitcoin opinion, even if what else he has going on we believe or even know to be incorrect.
> Just because somebody is good in one area that doesn't mean they have any authority in another
Precisely what I am saying. We can applaud Nick for contributions to cryptography without importing his views of other things. We don't have to weigh his political opinions at all.
> just wanting that people are decent human beings.
This sounds to me like "having views I like, because only undecent people would think otherwise".
Do you have an instance of Nick being nasty or indecent?
Is he mean? Or do associate those views with mean people.
I just don't understand why everyone needs to be a PR polished suit. These people work on computers, not administer public policy. We can appreciate their contributions and ignore their quirks or the fact they don't have all the popular opinions.
PG benefits from self-confidence as well (certainly to a less degree).
Being extremely self aware and re-questioning ones positions constantly doesn't seem to be a winning trait in business and promotion. At the very least, if it's being done internally you want to continue to broadcast consistent and confident messages.
I don't think so.
I draw my 9s by drawing the circle, and then the line down.
Looks like you go the other way. This is all about direction and gesture as opposed to OCR.
It's "introductory" for MIT students who have a background in engineering, math, or physics, not average people off the street.
Recursion is hard for students to grasp when taught in math contexts as well, so I don't think this is a matter of prior CS teaching biasing them one way.
On the other hand, great work doesn't happen by accident. Great businesses are a result of good management. Good products are results of good design. Those don't happen by accident, just like a great program doesn't write itself. You may not be a warren buffet, due to limited opportunities. But, you could leave someone like that penniless and nameless and i'm sure he could leverage his skills and knowledge to be "successful", even if not a mega-billionaire.
Marketing and sales is an important component which is left out (if you care about making money). That's also something you can deliberately work on and improve.