Daniel Joseph

If you've suffered due to circumstances in your life or because of your vices, you've already paid the price to hold huge success. Don't forget to cash your ticket in. It is a mistake to wallow in the miserable intersection, but most people do. Rumplestiltskin technique can be adopted for life: learn how to spin it into gold; your only task is to figure out how to leverage your struggles into a unique advantage. The secret is that you can rewrite the past to make everything worth it.

@nikgeneburn @DesmondPilak GG bro, deserved!

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@JakeSucky Lets go 💪🏻

@nikgeneburn Let’s go 💪🏻

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They booed you for this post, but in reality it is profoundly difficult to be happy for anybody–– including your friends –– until your own life is in order. People will pretend because they think it signals they're a good person but it requires an abundance of energy. If I'm not in a good place myself, I won't wish people badly, but I legitimately do not have the mental space to care about their accomplishments.

@ManeeManjunath I have been experiencing the same for the past 12 months since moving back from the Netherlands Manasa, I'm a recent graduate but the situation is dire all round.

Please explain to me how hiring in India works. Few friends & I have started applying to jobs & cannot make sense of it. Long response times, ghosting & rejecting with no reason for jobs that are perfect profile fits. It’s been a few instances now so what are we’re doing wrong? A friend who works for a German OEM and is an expert in a very sought after field in automotive has been summarily rejected for a job that she’s a perfect fit for. The same job has been reposted & is being promoted now, so it’s not like they found a better candidate. They will not find a better candidate! Indian OEM HR on LinkedIn has been asking automotive folk abroad, that want to return, to send him their resumes. When we did, it was crickets for months. Same post again, so all of us call him and he responds only to me. I arrange a call with him for the next day. At the appointed time, nothing! I wait for 10minutes & then reach out via LinkedIn. He finally calls 15mins too late, doesn’t even say he who he is when I say hello, doesn’t apologize for the delay and proceeds to tell me he forgot about our call & had no agenda for the call. I steered the entire call, introducing myself & asking his about his goal with the return to India post on LinkedIn. Man is super vague. Asks me to send him our resumes. I point out that we’ve sent him resumes twice via email. Laughs & says please send here on WhatsApp. Husband & friend from earlier hear back immediately since both are experts in a sought after field. Husband has technical interviews with 2 teams. In the 1st, interviewer is late, nitpicks everything & says he’s not a fit because he’s not worked on the exact same thing. For perspective, in Germany you can have field expertise but not in component/system & that’s considered a good fit. They preach a 60/40 fit. 60% you know and 40% you can learn so you can grow in the position. 2nd interviewer is not so hostile but says ‘I’m just validating you’ after every question. It’s been complete silence since on both fronts. Friend has a technical interview with another team manager who was surprisingly really nice and knowledgeable. Turns out she’s not a fit in his team but tells her that he’ll refer to another team where she would be a good fit. She should hear from HR and then again nothing. Today I got a call about a job I applied to on LinkedIn. The HR lady doesn’t introduce herself. Starts with “You applied for a job”, when I asked who this is. She hasn’t read the resume I sent & asks me about my experience. She either didn’t listen to me or understand what I said. Because she then asks me if I had experience in the exact same thing I said I had experience in a minute ago. I explain again that yes, I do. There are 2 jobs and she gets confused between them both. I explain again that I have experience in both & then some other too. She asks about my CTC. I give her my number. She laughs and says that they can’t offer beyond 20lakhs. It was my turn to laugh. (I didn’t though). This is an Indian OEM who expects someone with 10+years experience toward for 20lakhs in Bangalore. Good luck! So here’s my question, what are we doing wrong? We are 6 of us. Each with 10+ years experience working in Germany for OEMs. We’re experts in our fields and highly sought after there but want to come back home for personal reasons and can’t get a call back. What are we missing?!

@nikgeneburn Desmond streamer item when Nikita

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@dhh @JimmyBroadbent 🐐 expression 😂

The inflation in YouTube thumbnail expressions is the cranial distortion version of the loudness wars. (And enough to make one seriously contemplate what life on a farm without internet might offer!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_…

@ThePrimeagen Every engineer been using the second since ages

when i did multi-variate calculus and learned the math world does Z up.... still upset about it to this day

Ability is built, not unlocked. You do not have a latent superpower that can be unlocked in a day. You have to build up a skillset. You build it up high enough and then other people think it’s a superpower you always had. It’s crazy how many grown-ass adults think there’s some kind of mutant motivational spider that’s gonna bite them and turn them into intellectual Spiderman the next day, some kind of magical motivational unlock that will bring about a sudden phase transition in their ability. Don’t bother. It doesn’t exist. Iron Man is a much better mental model. Incrementally build up your skillset.

The longest of projects finally coming to peak. Excited, anxious, and looking forward to v1.0

@Spotify Where is the aforementioned ‘here’?

Lossless is now here in Premium. What’s the first song you’re listening to?

@tiggr_ Anyway I can do a ping test? Playing from India and I get 75 ping to the closest server while my friends get 40.

Please keep the feedback coming! With the first weekend for BF6 in the wild, we are bound to have found issues, problems, stuff you like to see change - perhaps even praise? It's still all good, I want to know. And the team is eager to show you how much we care!

You know you have to work really damn hard to figure out what fulfills you, right? The solution to "I don't know what I want to do" is NOT "I guess I just won't do anything because I don't know what to do." Even if you have literally zero self-knowledge, just try a bunch of random activities and reflect on what you liked and disliked. Boom! You now have some self-knowledge. Consistently and seriously lean into a few of the things you liked the most (or disliked the least). Just because something doesn't speak to you now doesn't mean it won't speak to you later. Developing baseline familiarity and competency can completely change the experience. Sometimes we think we dislike activities when we really just dislike doing unfamiliar things and sucking at them. Also, leaning into some activities now doesn't mean you're committing to lean into them forever. Keep exploring on the side, and if you find some other activity you like better, switch it in! You gotta come at the problem with a builder mentality, continually iterating. "What fulfills me?" is not some riddle that you can stare at until an epiphany comes to you. Epiphanies seldom happen, and when they do, they only come after you put a ton of work into building. The epiphany is just the final piece that snaps a bunch of infrastructure into place that you previously built. Sometimes you feel the snap when it happens, but other times you don't even realize the significance until later down the road when you look back and try to make sense of how you got to where you are.

@gabednconfused No way 😂

Deleting LinkedIn asap

@gvy_dvpont I could have really used this at one point in time 😅

A rare practical project from me. I live in a building with ~16 units and we all share 2 washers/2 dryers. Very annoying to go all the way down to basement just to find out they're in use. So I'm putting together a low maintenance, non-invasive monitoring setup we can all use 🧵

All the energy you spend wishing you were less dumb, put it towards identifying & filling in the prerequisites you're missing. All the energy you spend wishing you were less lazy, put it towards building a habit, one step at a time. Act, don't wish. Wishing is a waste of energy

@CalumDouglas1 Fantastic read Calum! Really needed this 💪🏻

When I started welding, it was a small firm with 20 people, it went like this: 1) For 3 weeks nobody talks to you, because most people give up and leave in this period. If you are still there in 3 weeks and have not been fired people will start investing in you. 2) After six months one of the senior welders looked at my parts in the packing dept one day, grunted and said "hello" to me after lunch. This meant "you are not s**t and if you carry on you might be worth my time". Keep in mind these people had been there for years, and attained a very high standard of craftsmanship, it was not arrogance on their part, it just needed a lot of work to get their respect. 3) After three years I was appointed welding instructor for new starts at the firm, because I was the only one with aircraft certification and because my welds were very good, and I was personable. Almost any useful technical activity will follow some similar path to this one. Gaining immense personal self belief can ONLY come from setting yourself against an obstacle and overcoming it. In this case gaining the respect of senior time served craftsmen. If you wont expose yourself to an immense challenge you will never get the self respect you feel you lack. This means willingly submitting youself to a highly risky task, and "having a go". (learning to CNC machine with a fellow student, we did it in 3 days, which was enough to set up the tools, start the machine, load it, make basic programs and not break the bloody thing, the rest is a lifetime should you choose to become an expert, my friend in the white labcoat, is now Chief Engineer at Alpine F1 Team)

I hear a lot of comments from younger people today (pre-university and graduates) asking about what they should do, and being uncertain about careers and finding the "right" thing to do. Based on my own experience, I would say the following things are very important to keep in mind. This is all my own personal opinion, although technical education is a hobby interest of mine and I study it a lot. I think people get too hung up about the correct "way" to enjoy things or be good at them. There are (I think) many ways to do both. 1) You can discover a natural talent, and enjoy finding that you can effortlessly exceed the attainments of your peers on a specific topic. This is very quick to make itself apparent, but relies on you finding a specific "thing" that clicks with you. 2) You can if you have a more general cognitive skillset enjoy a topic simply because you gain mastery of it. It is actually irrelevant what IT IS, the enjoyment comes from slowly but progressively learning a topic or skill, and just enjoying slowly becoming more and more proficient at it. This is no less valuable than finding a "talent" at a specific topic. The tricky thing here is that there is a major chicken-and-egg component to learning. If your confidence level is low, you may find yourself unable to try new things, which is the only way of finding out what your innate skills may be, and similarly this will also prevent you attempting to master new skills as if you may feel that doing something you dont LIKE is the same thing as not being good at it. Remember that a huge amout of natural enjoyment comes FROM bettering your skills, it is NOT a sign that you should give up on something because you dont LIKE it when you try it. For many personality types that just means you dislike failing, but most really worthwhile pursiuits require years of learning to get good at, and so often, nearly ANYTHING you try at first will seem awful. Some people have talents they find and enjoy instantly, then develop, and some people find thet enjoy overcoming obstacles and getting GOOD, at nearly anything. Of course most people have some mixture of both, so the lessons are: 1) Unless you are apolocalyptically awful at something over a period of months, persevere for at least SIX MONTHS at any new endevour if you are young. Anything really useful needs at least this period to develope your skills in. 2) If you feel aimless try as many things as possible, you may find something that clicks instantly, but, it may take you years to find it, this is one reason to take aptitide tests. I took a Morrisby Test and found I was in the top 3% for mechanical aptitude, the rest is history. I learned to weld, spent half a decade climbing that ladder then realised I wanted to be an engineer and went to university. If you dont know what do to, TRY things, if its REALLY hard at first and you cant stand not being good at it right away, ignore this, push forward and carry on. Not all routes to sucess are instant clicks, and the joy of grinding through trouble, for months, and coming out the other side may do you far more good than you can possibly imagine.

@JaaamesBaldwin @Garage_59 @customerracing @GTWorldChEu Giga James 💪🏻🔥

Class POLE & P11 overall in qualifying this morning☝️ Onto the race later & I’ll be starting👊