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worst: I have in two companies before being exposed to "Toxic Culture". Before working in my 3rd company, I didn't imagine that there are "engineers" who would go behind my back and just talk sh*t about the whole team. I left after few months, but to this day, I still couldn't process it. Culture does matter.

With all these problems in current Social media platforms, isn't the time for de-centralized social platforms to flourish?

There is nothing like "surviving a toxic workplace". I have been there, and it was a nightmare.

I wonder what is the general feeling towards startups that take a different approach such https://comma.ai/ and https://wayve.ai/?. These startups take the approach of building "Android version" of self-driving cars, a technology that can be used as add-on in the existing cars.

Most ride-hailing companies that invested in self-driving cars are giving up on these projects. Most of these startups struggle to sustain their business.

Moved from Evernote to OneNote, and thinking of moving to Notion (https://www.notion.so)

FB became the new Yahoo!. I can't think of a single feature they came up with in the social space lately that they didn’t copy from their competitor[1] (Snap, Clubhouse, Youtube) or via some sort of acquisition (e.g. Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, etc)

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-times-facebook-copie...

Even small startups started "copying" FANG interview style. For me, this was none-sense. We were discussing this point few days ago, some colleagues (who work in ML space) are going through interviews (for ML engineer, data scientists roles), most of them don't get questions about ML (which is the focus of the job) and they go through the typical LeetCode problems for AI/ML startups, which was discouraging for most ppl.

I understand when a big company uses LeetCode problems to scale out the process (e.g. new hires in Bangalore and new hire in SF go through the same process). In these companies, usually candidate don't interview for a specific team, they just get an interview to join FANG, then they get matched to a team at the end of the process. However, for startups, they should know what they need, and what kind of skills/person that they are looking for. I wish this trend change (hiring professional interviewees, instead of hiring professional developers).

- Python Design Patterns: https://python-patterns.guide/

- Python 3 Patterns, Recipes and Idioms: https://python-3-patterns-idioms-test.readthedocs.io/en/late...

- Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways to Write Better Python https://github.com/SigmaQuan/Better-Python-59-Ways

Fluent Python is a great book. 2nd edition is accessible as well https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/fluent-python-2nd/...