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Einstein, 1905: > 1st paper: explains photoelectric effect revealing the quantum nature of light > 2nd paper: explains brownian motion proving atoms exist > 3rd paper: special relativity, time dilation, etc > 4th paper: discovers E=mc² leading to atomic energy

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Einstein modestly said, “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” In a similar vein, he also said, “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

Before you mentor anyone tell them- “You learn the most from things that you enjoy doing so much that you don’t even notice that the time is passing.”

Some people are struggling with this one so let's walk through a couple of examples. If we were on the same team and I asked you to write some code, what would your initial response be? Would you just go back to your desk, fire up your IDE, and just start typing random bits of

Ditto. Unpopular opinion: If you think RTO is going to fix the reason why you cannot innovate anymore, I have bad news for you. You will lose the top 5% who used to innovate by enforcing it. x.com/sarah_edo/stat…

When did you realise that job in tech is not what you expected? For me it was the moment when I learned that my relationship with a manager impacts my career in tech significantly more than my actual coding skills.

Dear AWS sometimes your API responses look like they were coded by someone who didn’t want to return to office.

This is such an uninformed take. When I worked on the Metaverse at Meta, comparisons like this would come up and it boils down to trade offs. How much time and resources (art assets, physics, computer, etc) do you want to spend on the water versus other parts of the game?

Your talent matter, yet it’s your connections that can propel you to greater heights—so focus on nurturing relationships.

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And they end up quite sad

Elon vs Brazil: Elon lost.