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Life is too short not to play long term games. 🦆Author: 👨‍💻 👨‍🎓alum /r/reactjs

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    Jul 1

    🚨 The Handbook is here! 🚨 It comes in 3 flavors. The Handbook: 450+ pages of everything I have learned about building an exceptional and *sustainable* coding career. This is the ultimate guide for the 4-8yrs from Junior to Senior Dev!

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  2. 3 hours ago

    I did it. It's done. I just hit Podcast Inbox Zero.

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    4 hours ago

    It occurred to me that none of my university classes had any real content in it that actually prepared the non-algo aspects of any jobs in the world. Post COVID-19, college revolution: real voices from the trenches are needed: 's

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  4. 4 hours ago

    oh and of course they sign you up for engagement emails. no fucking shit slack i know how this works

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  5. 5 hours ago

    If I've ghosted you in a DM - I've been getting a ton more than normal since the book launch - feel free to please just re-ping me if I haven't acknowledged or replied feeling bad cos someone followed up after a week's wait and I just totally missed the DM while half asleep

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    11 hours ago

    My new book Full Stack Serverless is officially now available for purchase in paperback & Kindle ⚡️🙏 This book covers the cutting edge in full stack cloud development — exploring the intersection of front end & cloud computing with React, GraphQL, & AWS

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    10 hours ago

    We're kicking off Marathon ➡️ July 22nd with "Fullstack + in 60 minutes" led by 🙌 Have you taken a look at our other training sessions yet? For the full schedule, visit

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  8. 11 hours ago

    `as` is the MVP keyword of It turns typechecking into a dialogue, rather than demanding safety for safety's sake. It enrages purists just as it helps pragmatists Annoying union type? `as` it! Badly typed third party library? `as` it! Inferring Tuples? `as const` it!

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  9. Retweeted
    Jul 19

    GPT-3 is cool but it’s not the end of development or even close to it.

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  10. Jul 19

    TIL GitHub has published plans for renaming default branches from `master` to `main`: Jul 17 - redirects of deleted branches Summer - Configurable default for new repos EoY 2020 - Retargeting PRs/Releases/Pages for existing repos h/t

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    Jul 19

    Engineers giving VCs demos of GPT-3

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  12. Jul 19

    when we are young, smart, and able, our ambition far exceeds our mission. we cling to any structure we can get, even if that structure is a giant pyramid scheme. Scattershot approaches are common: Most grow out of it. Find Your Thing and Don’t Quit.

    1/ there is this sense when you are young that your accomplishments need to be a list of things that seem impressive to others. A list of several items you did. This isn't actually right, so here is another suggestion.
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  13. Jul 19

    TIL of "Bohrbugs", the logical complement of Heisenbugs. I winced reading this

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    Jul 18

    9/ Hardly anyone read SEC filings. Info in the 10k, q’s, proxy statements was assumed to be well-known. Ironic.

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    Jul 17

    The 10 founding principles of the Church of the Next Word, as discovered by and GPT-3:

    Replying to @michael_nielsen
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  16. Jul 18

    Integrity > Capability (h/t ) Designing > Forecasting History > Geography Micro > Macro econ. Resilience > Perfection Redundancy > Efficiency Lasting > Winning Wisdom > Intelligence Drive > Inspiration Investing > Spending Proactive > Reactive Data Structures > Algorithms

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  17. Jul 18

    Play long term games with long term people instead. Long term games look like this:

    💁‍♂️ How to Play Long Term Games: Systems > Goals Discipline > Motivation Trust > Distrust Principles > Tactics Writing > Reading Vulnerability > Confidence North Stars > Low Hanging Fruit Trends > News Habits > Sprints Questions > Answers Problems > Solutions People > Projects
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  18. Jul 18

    "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." - Characteristics of stupid games: - Zero sum - Finite game - Single number - Regular schedule - Costs them nothing - Rules clearly stated - Winner irrelevant in 1 year - Timing matters - Microcopy matters - Social proof matters

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  19. Jul 18

    The primary beneficiary of you being #1 on Product Hunt is Product Hunt. The primary beneficiary of you being Employee of the Month is your Employer. The primary beneficiary of you going viral on Twitter is Twitter. Youre surprised *everything* around you is designed this way?

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  20. Jul 18

    Resharing advice I gave to a friend: **Don't play games you don't want to win.** We often get caught up in other people's games. Ladders, likes, follows, points. Winning can bring a short-term rush, but feel empty after. These games are traps for competitive, ambitious people.

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  21. Jul 18

    important hypebusting

    New blog post up: so, you've probably seen all the tweets about GPT-3. GPT-3 is objectively a step forward in the field of AI text-generation, but the current hype on VC Twitter misrepresents the model's current capabilities. GPT-3 isn't magic.
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