NEO
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NEO
@Neobuilds
Applications Developer | Perpetually getting after it. Obsession Maximalist | Learning in public


Walking around in a foreign city at night has to be the top 3 best feeling ever





Did you ever notice how most guys you see in the gym don’t make any progress 3 months, 6 months, or 12 months later?

Ten years ago, when I was still in university, I wrote a bot to scrape all indeed job postings and their expected salaries. I ran histograms on the total income I'd expect, and found correlations to skills. This is why I decided to focus on distributed systems instead of data / ML jobs. They simply made more money

I don’t know why the world is freaking out. This is our natural state. The one we’ve been in for thousands of years. Chaos and pain is the rule of human existence. Peace is the rarest of exceptions. It’s just not rare to you, because you’ve been sheltered. All of us have.

The engineer is the maker of history. The masses are content to be peasants and the rich are content to be feudal lords. The engineer disturbs their perfect peace with his unwanted machines and they collude to suppress him. But the engineer’s machines are not easily suppressed.

A common misconception among people who have never done a real, actually hard job like surgical residency or Big Law. You are more capable than you can comprehend








