At first glance I thought this was just an extended "Live, Laugh, Love" style post, but it's more of an autobiographical piece about what worked for the author - albeit with examples retrofitted into the chosen categories, and clearly not generally applicable.
>For me, I would stand there and keep reciting difficult words. And although I was slightly dyslexic, I still won every freaking spelling bee. With this simple trick, I dominated it so much to the point that my teachers, who loathed me for being a slacker, once tried to rig it in favor of their obedient A-students (I still won).
>I used to be a pro gamer, and when my friends and I picked up a new video game, everyone would follow the game's instructions and do the obvious thing. On the other hand, I would explore the edges of the game. I'd explore every weird build, every different weapon, and frankly look like a noob for a long time. That's good. They'll underestimate you. But you're compounding. And eventually, you'll go vertical, creating a massive distance between you and the next participant before they know what hit them.
You just put way more effort, that's it. That's the real advice - put effort into things and make consistent progress. Be curious.
>Think of Apple and how taking privacy and security seriously—despite competing against Microsoft, which didn't care about either at the time—created a lasting consumer trust advantage.
This advise against quitting you find everywhere is just wrong. Sure you should give it a fair shake, but if you are on a dead end, never quitting means never winning. If something doesn't work, it's possible you should just stop doing it and try something else.
I found this article to be inspiring in some ways! I feel like I will go back to some of its wisdom to keep me pushing on in some upcoming hard moment. Not sure just which parts yet, but it is there in my brain for me to dig back on when I get there.
> I looked around me and all the other kids were talking and joking around. I thought that was strange. How could you ever win if you're not in the mindset of winning. If you're not locked in?
I'm generally not a competitive person so this is so strange to me. Even as an introvert on the spectrum, this sounds terrible. It's a game, it's supposed to be fun. I'd rather do my best to study ahead of time, have fun, and see where it takes me during the competition.
IMHO parallel coding is very unwise to spend resources upon. Humans (and agents) will never code in parallel. Merging and conflict resolution was invented for a good reason.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 42.4 ms ] thread>For me, I would stand there and keep reciting difficult words. And although I was slightly dyslexic, I still won every freaking spelling bee. With this simple trick, I dominated it so much to the point that my teachers, who loathed me for being a slacker, once tried to rig it in favor of their obedient A-students (I still won).
>I used to be a pro gamer, and when my friends and I picked up a new video game, everyone would follow the game's instructions and do the obvious thing. On the other hand, I would explore the edges of the game. I'd explore every weird build, every different weapon, and frankly look like a noob for a long time. That's good. They'll underestimate you. But you're compounding. And eventually, you'll go vertical, creating a massive distance between you and the next participant before they know what hit them.
You just put way more effort, that's it. That's the real advice - put effort into things and make consistent progress. Be curious.
>Think of Apple and how taking privacy and security seriously—despite competing against Microsoft, which didn't care about either at the time—created a lasting consumer trust advantage.
Yea, because Apple is saint :D
Choose your gurus wisely.
I'm generally not a competitive person so this is so strange to me. Even as an introvert on the spectrum, this sounds terrible. It's a game, it's supposed to be fun. I'd rather do my best to study ahead of time, have fun, and see where it takes me during the competition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
"Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project" (2021)
I think this is a very insightful post. On why people made products like Replit.