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It's a pretty brutal antipattern in the software industry that: 1) To pass an interview, you need a huge amount of preparation 2) Nobody has time to prepare like that while they have a full-time job The solution that I've learned through RareSkills is twofold: 1) A study plan must be compatible with only having 30 minute windows to do work. There's a difference between having 5 hours in a week and 5 continuous hours in a week. Most people have 5 hours free a week, but few have 5 continuous hours. Lots of bite-sized problems beat one big project. 2) Having someone (professionally) breathing down your neck to stay consistent makes a big difference when all your energy/disciplined is used up by the full-time job. Education has a very misunderstood social dimension that most edtech ignores. I've breathed down the neck of SRs at big companies. Even chads need an extra push sometimes when energy is scarce. The ideal place to be is to have so much intrinsic motivation that you spend every free time on upskilling, but that's a luxury not everyone gets.

If you think you can "follow a roadmap" and get a well-paying "entry-level job" in Web3, you are smoking crack. People with actual TVL experience and audit contest wins still have to fight hard to get a job nowadays. You do not stand a chance with a blank sheet of accomplishments in web3. Genuinely: if you are looking for a quick buck -- crypto is not it anymore. It's not that I don't want you to become a smart contract engineer or auditor. I just want you to know what you are up against and make an informed decision.

Industry cycles are a part of life. I've seen my friends become overnight wealthy because of a random trade war that spiked the price of a commodity they sell. I've seen businesses collapse due to random stars misaligning (interest rate changes, migration changes, etc). We are all at the mercy of exogenous factors -- but nobody is helpless. Save the date.

This is some weak shit. When my daughter was 14, her boyfriend came over to the house to hang out. They went upstairs to hang out in her bedroom. They shut the door behind them. Approximately 2 seconds later, I opened it and told them that was not allowed, and to come back downstairs. I do not care who I embarrassed. My house, my rules. These types are either rage baiting or afraid of being actual parents.

Contest judging is broken because it’s priced like it’s free. 1600 submissions isn’t a “community problem”, it’s an economics problem. Try this: - each report includes a small refundable judge-time deposit - deposit is refunded if the report is valid / clearly argued - forfeited if it’s spam / unreadable / no reproducible path - judges get paid per review hour from forfeits (+ contest budget) You don’t need perfect judges. You need priced attention. Would you pay $5–$20 to guarantee your report gets real review?

Wow, they found my Usenet question where I was trying to shave some milliseconds off the joystick read when I was working on Lodestar

The criteria for one of the current contests that are running: > Only High vulnerabilities are accepted. > The contest will be judged by the protocol/sponsor. > Only two types of impacts will be considered (funds permanently locked or stolen funds). Tell me you want a free audit without telling me you want a free audit… I miss the old contest days 🥲

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