Most of you guys just need to become total nerds and embrace it. Nerds at Meta are literally being paid hundreds of millions of dollars. Way more than NBA or NFL players. The upper-mids are making 7 figures. Learn C, Rust, X86 and AArch64 assembly and watch what happens.

If you read and applied all the books that I have over the last 10 years, you’d be rich. jacobwohl.org/reading-list

I have built some of the most devious, frighteningly effective cyber weapons that the world has ever seen. 🇺🇸

If you have information that is very important to you, print it out and put it in a safe. Nothing is secure if it’s on a computer. Even your “air gaps” are totally illusory. If it’s worth protecting, it should not be stored on Silicon. Period.

If you’ve never been sued, then you haven’t even really tried yet. You haven’t even entered the arena. Even the most polished, total Boy Scout Fortune-500 executives I know have been sued at one point or another.

If you own a video game machine, then you don’t get to complain about the “state of women”

You’ve completely misidentified my perspective on this. If you say “fishing is boring/stupid”, fishermen don’t react with giant tantrums. You also don’t see fishermen spend 20 hours/wk on average fishing, then complain about the deleterious impact that has on their social

I’ll ask again: If robots and AI are going to replace everyone at jobs… Why the fuck are govts offering to pay people to have kids? and why the fuck do we need h1bs and illegals flooding into our country? —most aren’t going to want to say the answer

Soham Parekh is not all that unique. And if you think engineers are bad about this, just wait til you see what work-from-home software AEs do. They'll have 4 jobs at once and just treat them like clients.

There's only really 1 question needed when interviewing software engineers: Show me an impressive piece of software that you built all by yourself and tell me about it. If they can't do that, move on.

Is there a large language model that can one-shot a fully featured word processor desktop app? No.

people dont know how bad things rly are at faang and big tech

Most of America’s government spending is on aiming to provide lavish lifestyles to the 25% of people in the country with the lowest inherent productivity. Nowhere else in the world do you have people who live in public housing and also go on luxury cruise vacations.

If you adjust for government spending increases, America’s economy has really only grown at about 1% per annum over the last 25 years.