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I am an author and I support the IA in this decision.

I interviewed with triplebyte last fall. I passed all the automated testing and did ok on the real person one (not being formally trained I struggle with concepts I've never applied in a real project). After they told me I wasn't yet good enough for their fast track program I emailed them to have my profile deleted.

I assumed they were doing this already tbh. They sent an email back saying my account was deleted and I haven't gotten this email. I guess now I'll get to see if they really did delete it.

This news does make me consider re applying for triplebyte. Showcasing skill is a pain point when I've applied for positions (sure a github & some links but who knows who really did any of that).

I can't think of a worse way to handle this though.

here it is https://ncase.me/trust/

I don't have the link but theres a great online experience (game, post, idk what to call it) that refers to what your talking about as copykitten

In my experience I've found the best way to combat this is to pick a single thing and then pick a timeframe (something short like a couple of weeks at most) and then you aren't allowed to do any other projects until you complete the one you choose or the timeframe expires.

This is aided by putting ideas that come up along the way into a journal like mentioned in other comments.

For example I want to go back to learning go, and I want to practice foreign languages, and I want to work on small short term schemes. But I decided in mid april to work on a short list of four tasks until may 20th. I can only work on those tasks (unless some urgent work thing comes up). I find this method to be super relaxing because I know that as new ideas come up I can just log them for later and only have a short list of things to think about and work on. It's very freeing.