This is one of those videos where you know what it's going to say in the first few seconds or maybe just the title, so you don't really need to watch it.
Honestly just the fact that it's in English and the comments are positive tells you where it's going.
I've come to think about internet usage as "high-stimulus" or "low-stimulus".
Low stim internet usage would be things like looking up the actor from that one movie, and then getting the name. When you get the name, you get a low level of stimulus. You just go "oh yeah, right".
High stim internet is an unregulated and extremely addictive drug. So much of the internet is meticulously designed to elicit the biggest possible emotional reaction from its users, who may then get caught in the undertow of looking for the next big emotional rush.
Content is irrelevant; the same content could be styled as "FIFTEEN AMAZING FOOD HACKS, NUMBER EIGHT WILL BEAT UP YOUR FATHER!" or it could be styled as "hey did you know you can crunch up breakfast cereal and use it as breading"
Twitter, reddit, instagram; these and many other sites are just ranches for people who are caught up in the undertow to spend half their day on, bleeding out personal information to whomever wants to buy it.
So I guess I'm not baffled by how negative it is, how little you gain from it once you're on it long term, or why peopl euse it long term despite that. It's a drug. They're addicted. No one's stopping the pushers. It's not going to stop on its own.
There's a different school of thought on negotiating tactics that says you definitely should be the first to offer a number, because it anchors the negotiations.
I can see both to be honest. Especially if you don't 'know what you're worth' in a given market, letting them make the first move at last has a chance that they won't offer you 50k for something hey are prepared to pay 250k for. Potentially they will start off with 150k and you're gonna be happy with it, because you undervalued yourself at 100k. Luckily you didn't say that but took the 150k offered!
If you know you're worth at least 150k, asking for 200k can anchor the negotiations in your direction as long as you don't overshoot what they were prepared to offer by too much (which might just kill the negotiations altogether). You might just walk away with 180k and you feel good because you got 30k more than you thought you might get and they feel good because they got you 'cheaper'.
I have no way of knowing which strategy actually works out better, as its hard to do a controlled experiment here :) Also you probably have incomplete market information and it might be hard to know how incomplete it is.
>You can work like a dog to release a feature, and if the feature does what it was meant to do, and you get recognized for your contribution, how hard you worked doesn't matter as much. You are energized, excited to be part of a great team, ready to move on to the next stunning victory.
Gross. All that overtime is systematically stamping all the things that are good for the soul out of life. I'm not going to cheer it on because a feature works.
If your purpose only comes from work I find that kind of depressing. Work is something most people are coerced/forced into to survive and avoid a life of desperation, life has a lot more things in it than work.
If someone's purpose is work it kind of makes me think they're not really creative, lack imagination and have had purpose given to them from external sources rather self decided and internal. They didn't really choose a purpose, they just adopted one they fell into. Kind of sad.
I don't think he's talking about a specific subreddit, but rather reddit as a whole. I tend to agree, but I don't see how that hurts advertisers.
IIRC you used to very rarely see actual celebrities in the ama subreddit because it was a weird place where they'd ask you how many toddlers you thought you could fight at once, or maybe someone would get accused of trying to bang a highschooler. Now it's just your standard softball interview space where you go plug a movie, someone asks you what it was like to work with (other famous person), and then you're off to go do the exact same thing on kimmel.
It's advertiser friendly but it's about as exciting as a bowl of oatmeal and as thought provoking as the number eight. The only reason people stick around on reddit is because they're addicted to the skinner box content feed.
That seems extremely common. For a stretch there every tech S1 I saw said "we don't make money, we've never made money, we have no idea how we're going to make money in the future".
It's kind of crazy to see a tech IPO that doesn't come with the boilerplate "we make zero profit, we've never made profit, and we have no idea how to change that in the future" caveat.
Uhhh, are we looking at the same S1? Coursera currently loses money, has never been profitable, and does not provide any indication of when or if they will ever be profitable.
From the S1:
We incurred net losses of $46.7 million and $66.8 million in 2019 and 2020, respectively, and we had an accumulated deficit of $343.6 million as of December 31, 2020. We expect to incur significant losses in the future. We will need to generate and sustain increased revenue levels in future periods to achieve profitability, and even if we achieve profitability, we may not be able to maintain or increase our level of profitability. We anticipate that our operating expenses will increase substantially for the foreseeable future as we continue to, among other things...
These expenditures will make it more difficult for us to achieve and maintain profitability. Our efforts to grow our business may be more costly than we expect, and we may not be able to increase our revenue enough to offset our higher operating expenses. If we are forced to reduce our expenses, it could negatively impact our growth and growth strategy. As a result, we can provide no assurance as to whether or when we will achieve profitability. If we are not able to achieve and maintain profitability, the value of our company and our common stock could decline significantly, and you could lose some or all of your investment.
> I love the idea of an off-grid house but it always comes with too much DIY.
Are you seriously complaining that homesteading is DIY? That's the point. You belong in SV, just buy a copy of stardew valley.
>I wish there were sellers with fixed affordable off-grid packages. (...) I realize this is contrary to the spirit.
You don't get it. It's going to break and if you've got the maintenance skills of a disillusioned tech worker, it's never going to be anything more than a money pit for you. Stay in whatever tech hub you're in.
I'm in the middle of a programming boot camp where they just blaze from topic to topic to topic, we never do any considerable project work to nail any of it down, and even though they state clearly "you need to be studying outside of this class", I know a bunch of students won't because it's 12 hours a week and billed as something you can do on top of a full time job.
So once these people graduate, OF COURSE they're going to stumble over for loops and if statements; the only think they know is how to follow along in vs code while someone builds a react app over zoom.
Honestly just the fact that it's in English and the comments are positive tells you where it's going.