Another, less colorful, way to put this is "don't put anything on your resume you don't want to do more of".
I know folks who have taken old technologies (perl, ASP.NET) off their resume so that they don't get approached by employers looking to hire for technologies they don't want to work in.
There are a couple of reasons to do well on the job: it might be a joyful activity, it leads to better opportunities, it teaches a lesson that can be used starting something, or it ensures employment.
If none of these things have appeal, then one should carefully think about being in that job.
While the concept of atomic blogposts is a nice one, I think this characterisation is a bit unfair in this case.
In my view he put four separate but related and logically linked nice thoughts together, and tried to link them all thematically by restating the pie analogy briefly each time.
And the post was otherwise quite short and punchy.
I read this comment before the post itself and I expected to read some sort of lengthy AI slop repeating the same idea ad nauseam, but it was nothing of the sort.
People forget that in the long history of human civilization, the idea of working as an employee of a big company only goes back about 150 years, the idea of white collar office work in that context only goes back about 75 years, and the idea of a "career" (as opposed to just doing the same job forever) is even newer.
Evidently this post is excellent in its brevity, redundancy and effectiveness in getting its point across.
And flawed for the same reasons, if not for my suspicion that this is a fragment of a greater point that the author is trying to make that can be further contextualized against the posts adjacent to this one, except that there is no date on this individual post nor are they any on the main “blog” index that would allow me to orientate myself thereby.
So I’m loving the mixed reactions that this is getting. And I reckon that the author could elaborate better through either a change of format (like a book) or UX revisions.
I'm reminded of the episode of the Strange Planet television series in which a "flying machine comfort supervisor" (flight attendant) is called before Being Resources, where she is promoted to comfort supervisor supervisor. "Our data show you handled your responsibilities well. Your reward is more responsibility."
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 39.7 ms ] threadI know folks who have taken old technologies (perl, ASP.NET) off their resume so that they don't get approached by employers looking to hire for technologies they don't want to work in.
If none of these things have appeal, then one should carefully think about being in that job.
- timm chiusano
A career is actually a contest where the prize is money that you can buy things with, including pie.
My recommendation to the author is to read and reflect on “Atomic blog posts”¹, by Mike Crittenden. I’ll reproduce it here in its entirety:
> There’s no law that says a blog post needs more than one idea or more than one sentence.
¹ https://critter.blog/2021/01/06/atomic-blog-posts/
In my view he put four separate but related and logically linked nice thoughts together, and tried to link them all thematically by restating the pie analogy briefly each time.
And the post was otherwise quite short and punchy.
I read this comment before the post itself and I expected to read some sort of lengthy AI slop repeating the same idea ad nauseam, but it was nothing of the sort.
And flawed for the same reasons, if not for my suspicion that this is a fragment of a greater point that the author is trying to make that can be further contextualized against the posts adjacent to this one, except that there is no date on this individual post nor are they any on the main “blog” index that would allow me to orientate myself thereby.
So I’m loving the mixed reactions that this is getting. And I reckon that the author could elaborate better through either a change of format (like a book) or UX revisions.
A company just gave me more work. It nearly doubled my income.