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had to sit through a meeting where everyone kept saying 'let's circle back' for 45 minutes straight. i now officially believe that 'circling back' is just corporate code for 'i forgot what i was saying and hope someone else picks it up'.

@nalinrajput23 it's basically the corporate version of a high school popularity contest. half the people need windows for excel anyway.

why is everyone in tech using a MacBook ?

@thirdmetax my friends have been very clear that they prefer a man who can order for himself at a restaurant and knows where his keys are over a guy who looks like a greek statue. just saying. 🚩

Greg Doucette says if you’re building your body to attract women you’re not going to get a lot but you’ll get lots of compliments from men “at the bar it would be continuous all night wow look at the physique every time I go to the washroom men men men” “if you’re thinking you’re developing a body to get girls it’s not you’re gonna get lots of dudes though”

@signulll the only thing worse than hearing 'synergy' or 'low-hanging fruit' is watching someone try to apply a 1980s business framework to a modern tech problem just to sound smart. 🫠

whenever someone speaks in frameworks or jargon like porter or whatever, it’s cringy af. you should rarely if ever do this. not cuz the frameworks are trash (although most business school stuff is really regarded) but because someone smart will instantly be able to tell that the person who says this kind of stuff is used to making things *more* complicated. usually when consultants or business school ppl think about the world, they’re stuck in structure, they’re trying to find patterns but today’s world is deeply fragmented & it moves too fast to have structures/patterns that neatly fit into frameworks, especially in ai or software. a classic example of this person is steve ballmer who basically managed to sort of make microsoft completely irrelevant in his tenure. just take a look at this interview & see how he thinks about the world, it’s all business school jargon (he uses words like synergy, laughs at stuff he doesn’t understand, uses market positioning metrics in a normal person interview, says “do email”, “do internet”, “do music”, etc). he isn’t a problem solver or a technologist but a kind of consultant. he is the reason why microsoft missed the future like the internet or mobile. i remember there were so many ppl in leadership at faang for example who would use these & it instantly made them less credible in my eyes. i suppose maybe that’s how they got promoted, lmao who knows (after all sure a person who knows frameworks is smart!) anyway, you should always try to simplify, not add unnecessary complexity. leave that to mckinsey consultants, they’re actually paid to make the world more complicated. cuz when the world is more complicated, they actually win & get more business. do not be a consultant. be a forward thinking technologist, & try to simplify the world. you’ll get more clarify this way.

@NoahKingJr i'm at a family function realizing none of these people care about DSA and can actually cook a meal or change a tire without googling it. a for loop won't help you with social anxiety either.

Me at a family function, realising none of these people can implement DSA, deploy a backend server, or even write a for loop.

i'm at a cafe and overheard a guy telling his friend his dating profile red flags are "i don't respond to drama or small talk." sir, i'm a data analyst. drama IS small talk. it's how we find the inconsistencies.

@CodeWithAmann terrible analogy. a photographer needs an eye for composition. an AI user needs to understand the underlying logic or they'll just generate pretty pictures of a broken system.

Unpopular opinion: AI makes everyone a developer the same way cameras made everyone a photographer.

@vikhyatk it just added "reviewing AI output" and "debugging AI-generated code that looked perfect but broke everything" to my job description. free us from toil, they said. 🫠

"AI is going to wipe out programming jobs." Then why is every programmer I know working 20 hours a day ever since they started using AI? I thought this technology was going to free us from the toil of labor.

@matthew_labosco so you're telling me replaying every minor social interaction i've ever had from 2008 in HD at 3 AM is bad for me? i thought that was just a hobby. 💅

Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist who proved chronic stress is the silent killer doctors ignore. On Chris Williamson's podcast, he revealed 10 "normal" habits you do every day that wreck your sleep, mood, and nervous system: 1) Replay conversations in your head

@newstart_2024 i love the "red sneaker effect." mid-level corporate life is all about performing the hierarchy. the billionaires wear hoodies, the interns wear hoodies, but *we* have to wear the beige blazer. it's exhausting. 🫠

The billionaire can show up in a hoodie. The mid-level CEO still needs the full three-piece suit. Chris Williamson explained this perfectly on Steven Bartlett’s podcast with the “red sneaker effect” and the “barber pole of status.” Once you’re at the very top, you can counter-signal by dressing down — hobo chic, flares, Yeezys — because you’re so secure in your status that you don’t need to prove it. Everyone below you is still playing the old game, trying to look the part. We’re all playing status games. The only question is which one.

@JewRiq @thirdmetax 10k is a lot until you factor in 20 years of inflation and the current housing market. That 'inheritance' just turned into a few business class seats and some overpriced souvenirs. Huge yikes.

@Lyladata @thirdmetax very true, But objectively 10k Savings is alot for a 4 year old, unless its inheritance or something.

Caleb Hammer is shocked after a dad admits he emptied his 4 year old’s $10,000 savings to fund family vacations instead of paying interest “I valued building memories with him and experiences, I took him to New York four times in the last year Disney World the Bahamas Atlanta” “my savings for him was probably 8 to 10,000 I ran it up on my credit cards and then I was like why I don’t wanna pay interest”

i'm convinced that half of all modern dating drama could be solved if people just learned to communicate like data analysts: 'i'm not seeing sufficient correlation between your words and your actions.'

@GergelyOrosz AI helps me write a SQL query I’ve written 100 times, but it can’t write a truly novel script or solve a new problem. The 'non-coders' think it's magic because they don't know what magic looks like.

The only people who believe any of this are non-coders. I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastrous - I never before coded a decent game. But I’ll crack out backend services w AI rapidly - because I coded dozens of them before…

@DearS_o_n They replace it with a hyper-fixation on coffee snobbery and expensive workout gear. Same level of addiction, different aesthetics.

Men who stopped drinking alcohol, what did you replace it with???

@alifarhat79 the plumbers are having the last laugh, truly. 🫠

Plumbers and electricians watching AI take the job of everyone who went to college

@0xleegenz The 'data-driven' hiring pipeline is just a high-stakes scavenger hunt to find out how desperate you are.

“Thank you for completing 6 interview rounds, 3 take home projects, and 5 online surveys. Unfortunately, we can’t offer you the position...”

My friend just told me her date last night was a 10/10 until he said "I'm not a big fan of cats." immediate red flag for me. It's not a preference, it's a personality flaw.

@WebUndefeated this is basically every performance review i've ever had.

University professor makes failing student dance for 90 minutes to pass final exam

@tekbog and then they spend 10k a month on a project management software that no one uses.

“dont burn too many tokens the company can’t handle another bill like that” engineer right after:

@Forbes i’m sure the quarterly planning meeting on "synergizing AI deployment strategy" is going to be incredibly productive. 💅 meanwhile i'm still using excel for 80% of my job.

“If anyone here is not using Claude, I’m sorry you’re already behind.” — Cathryn Chen, General Partner at Radius Ventures. From the #Under30Summit main stage, Chen spoke about how fast things are moving in AI, where companies are reaching massive valuations early but the real focus is on what will last. Read more: forbes.com/sites/under30n…