afinlayson

I question this myself. I worked over 100 hours a week on the 3rd - 6th version of the iPhone. Did I make a lot of money from working there? No not really. More than I made at the 3 startups I joined afterwards .. but only because I didn't sell my stocks. Did I learn a lot yes absolutely, probably about 5 years worth. Has it helped my career: Absolutely. It's opened many doors. I usually get to pick what I want to work on.

Did Paul Graham and Sam Altman both try to convince me to quit and join a yc startup or start my own. Yes at 2 different Startup schools they told me I was wasting my time. Shortly after I did join heed their advice and join 3 separate startups ... with mixed results.

Did I work too hard? Ultimately no, because it's like investing in the market. Yes you think you'd rather have more (booze, travel, video game, etc) at the time, but those things don't improve your life in the long run. And ultimately I wouldn't change where I am today for the world ... minus the pandemic / quarantine / civil unrest.

Be careful what you wish for ... businesses aren't there for your benefit, they are there for theirs.

And this assumes that everyone can work equally well remote or don't have advantages to working at an office.

Personally the "Water cooler" moments give me plenty of original ideas and have resulted in new product ideas and explorations.

This works really well, if it's partnered with cash. Like a competitive advantage of why you'd want to work with his VC company, but without money it's worthless.

When people ask me how they did, I try to frame it more general, like instead of here's what you should do better, here's what I would do if I were interviewing that would allow me to be more impactful. I've always got good responses. And I've been told I'm in the clear legally.

The industry is too small to treat people like you will never run into them again. There are many reasons why someone might not be right for the role today, but will be a rockstar tomorrow.

At what point do we not allow companies to own this data beyond a transaction.

Lets be honest no one can keep this data without eventually being hacked, so maybe they shouldn't have it after that transaction.

... Not rocket science ... You reduced a complex problem to a simple short term solution. Too many people act like we have infinite land, Earth isn't getting any bigger. There are also consequences to policies that assume you can always build out further and further. By building on more farm land, you might reduce the amount of grown food and produce more chemical food. This leads to obesity. Which means people need more room... etc. Living further from your job means your commute is longer, meaning we need to get more foreign oil.

If America has 2 Billion people in 100 years, building a little further away won't work, it doesn't scale. Cities need to build better cities that allow people to have the space they need and get to the jobs they have. Where they don't need to be commuting 2 hours each way.

Cargo isn't easily google-able ... I was hoping someone would link how to install it, instead of being sassy.

I figured it out.

It can be found here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation...

You can install it easily by running this: curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Why do I need cargo to install on mac? (It would be nice to have a link to install)

Updated To install run: curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

I've worked at 3 big tech companies and 3 startups. 2 got bought out, the other is going strong. I made more money off 1 year of bonus at Google than I did with any of the successful startups. It's not because I did anything wrong (I was Eng #1 at one, First iOS Lead at another and Lead for the 3rd) It's because I was building someone else's vision for the promise that that my stock will be worth something. When a company gets bought even if you have a high % when it gets funding, it will be diluted. If the company doesn't do refreshers often enough you will be working long hours for close to free. The charming CEOs will talk about how they plan to change the world, the sleazy ones will tell you they are a sure thing (and what will you do with your millions). That makes no difference, it's just a lottery ticket. You have to decide how much of your career to put on that ticket.

Startups are a wild ride, and a thrill to join, you'll learn a lot, and have a great chance of coming out learning more than you'd learn as a entry level at a big company. Don't for a second think you have the winning lottery ticket, because if your number doesn't come up you'll left with memories and the paper it wasn't written on.

PS I'd argue if you have a group / team, build your own vision. Go big, we have enough insta-wecha-snapple sauce out there. Build something that will have real impact. And if you don't have the Team / Vision / Risk tolerance go somewhere they'll pay you what you are worth. Maybe you'll be even meet some of those you want to build a team for whats next.

At Google this is called UX Engineering. An experienced focused engineer that works with UX Design to build prototypes of future features, products and systems. I currently am working on multiple products that only exist because I straddle UX, Engineering and Product.

What's the opportunity cost of areas like the bay area, where average commute time is 32min, and some people are closer to one hour, where mass transit isn't as robust as somewhere like NYC or Toronto.

Joking aside, I don't know why we are still using such simple tech to secure transactions. Large numbers aren't good security measure.

Yet another reason to get an electric car.

I'd put money in a startup that solved this.

Yet! Give it time, we'll add a peripheral port soon enough

I need this for hockey asap!!!

That's fascinating, Maybe there can be a megacity that spans multiple cities or something like that.

Oakland and SF makes less sense than SF and SJ imo, because there's no space between them. At least Oakland has the bay.

At some point the bay area will have to become a 1 giant city, instead of a bunch of little nimbism towns.

Soon, we'll all live in Bay City!

I like Cocoapods, but I don't think we should destroy it :p

There's so many better ways to identify an account than a string of characters. Just like we shouldn't be using an integer for Credit card numbers or Social Security (or Social Insurance for the Cdn's)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE call it the ET!

Well some ideas aren't based in reality. Brexit was anti-immigrant policy, and used non immigrant based lies to bring regular people onboard the idea. Aka the lie that 350 Million Pounds would go to NHS instead of EU. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/final-say-bre...

That coupled with the idea that every country thinks it's special, no one in America thought that kind of broad faced lie would happen in USA. Welcome to the new reality. I worry that the only way we have smart world leaders again is if they make a huge lie that gets ignored by some world event. Example: George W Bush and 9/11. No one worried about his promises afterwards, because national security was the prime focus.

Instead of crapping all over one platform or another, or thinking politics is full of cheats and con men, what are we doing to promote ideas that aren't my half will chant at your half.

We have a lot of power in tech to make things better, but we often pass it on, and let those who want to exploit it take advantage of our passiveness.

Let me guess he's tenure, and got it at age 40....

I honestly don't know why Facebook (the tool in this problem) is getting more flack for this then the candidates who used the tool to do the damage.

Can we do the same thing for gun companies, how about death in general? It wasn't X's fault, he used a remington (tool) to kill someone but really it's Remington's fault, their CEO should go to jail..

Next we'll start blame Amazon for being the company that transporting the problem.

Depends on how many direct reports the person can scale to.

But I agree 100x is a little high. If you have a 10 person team and they all can do 2x what an unled team, The math might work out to be a 10x team lead. But there I go trying to use Math to justify hyperbole...

Yes, but the wrong one can be 100x the failure. This goes for all leadership positions.

Lol, to all those down voting my health issues..

And PS I only eat organic, and still seem to involuntarily throw up leafy greens. No issue in Costa Rica, Thailand, and other countries around the world.

Good thing they put some pesticide on it that makes me unable to eat these in USA....

It's more like a kickstarter. At least you get something out of this. ICOs give you some bits on a system.