I'm a huge fan of the course and methods. If it's tl;dr, here is a recap:
1. 2 methods to learning: Focused vs Diffused. 2. Use Pomodoro to focus intently for 25min. Spend 5 min in diffused mode (walking, running, napping, eat).
"A society that aims for equality before freedom, will end up with neither equality nor freedom."
Laws are not meant to lift people from poverty. PEOPLE must lift themselves so far as to lift each other out of poverty. One of the basic functions of government is to protect people from other people (both land and rights). Now, "rights" is where things tend to become grey. Who should determine what those rights are? The government? People? A majority? San Francisco is an excellent study in what can happen when government plays a role it is not fit to oversee.
Now, Larkin Street is an excellent case study on how the private sector fills in that space governments leaves open when they play around with policy. The aim here is to continue to build these networks around support.
How free are the poor and what is governments role?
1. Governments don't have responsibility, people have responsibility. 2.The free-market is the most effective system towards ending poverty. 3. Bad government failures result in welfare schemes has been machine to produce poor people.
Judging from this comment, I would say you lack confidence. Recruiters and interviewers can see this coming from a mile away. Perhaps, you are trying to jump up the proverbial software engineering ladder to fast...
I would highly recommend you read the book: Decode and Conquer. I would also recommend Cracking the Coding Interview and Cracking the PM Interview. If you can solve those problems on a white board, you can pass a technical SE interview.
I would also suggest you:
1. Work on a problem for a few minutes and try to solve it. If you can't, look at the solution and understand how the solution was derived. Go back and solve the problem again. You are not finished here. Go back a few days later and work on the same problem - repeating this several times a week. Over time, you will grow more confident and can quickly recall concepts that are potentially causing you to perform poorly on your technical interviews.
You raise some very valid points here. While I don't think this is a direction more modern, western democracies are heading, I do fear that as mega cities draw in more people, countries and local governments will become less egalitarian - which is what you see beginning to take shape in the U.S.
The United States very well may be the only country on Earth that invites illegal immigrants to stand on the floor of their national convention and demand systematic change across the political divide. Think about this for just a moment - imagine you live in China, illegally, what do you think will happen once you get caught? They will ship you back to the U.S. Period. I overstayed my Chilean visa by 1 day and was threatened to be sent to military prison.
Given this is not only a Democrat problem, but a Republican problem as well, both parties irresponsibly pander to potential voters - in this case illegal immigrants. Does that make it right? No. I am all for removing borders globally, but this is not what Democrats are describing. They don't want Trump to separate families. That is it. Where these people used as pawns, yes.
Back in the 80's, amnesty was granted for 3 million undocumented workers. Flash forward 30 years, that number is now over 12+ million. When will it end?
I don't know about you all, but I could care less about which party you are from - we need to get illegal immigration under control. What will you do to fix this?
I disagree with you. Kenya has become a playground for western companies to test their technologies on the poor. I too have lived and worked in Keyna for the past 10 years and I believe this is a step in the right direction. There are many Kenyans who do not work and would benefit from being employed by a western company. Thought experiment...Google 5 startups in Keyna. What did you find? They are run by 95% white non-Kenyans. They are mostly Ivy league 20 somethings. Why is this point valid? Kenya has become a testing grounds for millennials and 50 somethings to validate their self-worth. However, this doesn't apply to all startups / companies operating out of Kenya like One Acre Fund or Kiva.
I have been following the thread on Twitter over the past 5 hours. If I don't refresh my screen, there are Thousands (tens of thousands) of tweets, retweets, etc. Once I refresh my screen, they are all gone. There are only tweets every hour or several hours. Try it.
I taught english to school students in Kenya back in 2007. When teaching english, you learn the most while working with kids. They are more patient and you learn just as much as them during the process. After only a month, I was speaking Swahili.
Right now, there is a huge opportunity to teach english to Spanish speakers in Chile and Argentina.
I have been traveling the world living out of my backpack for 10 years now. Once every 5 years an article like this pops up. There is nothing new or novel about quitting your job and traveling the world.
When I see articles like this, I think 3 things:
1. Newspapers / Blogs / etc., are running out of things to report on.
2. Wait 5 years and another will pop up.
3. You are either very well connected with tons of money or know people in high places. There are many of us out there who travel the world with nothing but our backpacks - we don't need articles in the NewYorker.
1. 2 methods to learning: Focused vs Diffused. 2. Use Pomodoro to focus intently for 25min. Spend 5 min in diffused mode (walking, running, napping, eat).