Yes, one such example here.

A golden rule is to fit your resume into one or two pages max.

Have the private copy as big as one wants, however take the effort to sell oneself to the actual position.

HR is looking for reasons to throw away resumes out from the pile, anything that makes their work harder will contribute for that.

Yeah my rule when considering taking on a freelance project is ‘do I want to become an expert in this, and do I thus want my phone to ring for this for the next 2 years?’

A good proportion of nonfiction books could be their blurbs. This is pretty common. We use too many words in a lot of contexts.

I think it did start out as a tweet. Here it is in 2022: https://x.com/jlengstorf/status/1483803682206466049

I also think that he digs in a bit more:

> Whether or not that’s a good thing depends on whether or not you enjoy the work.

But I agree, he could have does a lot more analysis.

The metaphor is striking, though.

I'm a bit surprised that people are complaining so much about this. I have read many a blog post which stretched one or two fairly obvious thoughts out at great length. By comparison this post is just a few sentences and it manages to say something sensible, if not stunningly insightful, about the title. (The banner art and so on is a bit extra, yes, but ... meh.) The thing most worth complaining about here is that the title isn't original: 'academia', 'law school' and 'making partner' are all older and more common substitutions for 'a career'. 'Law school' seems to be particularly popular and appropriate, since (IIUC; IANAL) the best-performing US law-school students are rewarded with the coveted opportunity to move from cramming law for exams to working 996 pressure-cooker jobs as juniors at BigLaw firms.

No, Company Bad, Boss Bad, Marketing Bad, AI Bad, Engineer Good is the vibe here.

Can’t really disagree with TFA.

You call it bad vibes, I call it people gaining class consciousness.

The most important reason to do a good job is empathy for your customers. Everything else is secondary.

There's something that makes me sad about the thought of an engineer, sitting at a desk, thinking "I can't fix the fifteen second frobnizzle page load time because otherwise they'll make me fix the performance of everything."

That's not how work is meant to be. In this metaphor, one should like pie. If the pie eating contest is offering free pie then it's perfectly legitimate to walk in, eat a normal amount of pie, accept your prize, and be happy with it.

And the reward for a job badly done... is less work.

Only if you learn to play the game by the actual rules, not if you play the game by what they tell you the rules are.

Surprisingly little actual long term quality of life, happiness or life satisfaction can be bought with money, any money. They are important if you properly don't have them but as soon as you leave that category they are at best secondary.

So people boasting about their 'successful careers' are pretty boring empty bunch, rather tell me how you spend your evenings, weekends or vacations, how good parent you are (aka how much you suffer for your kids and don't outsource hard but important parts to grandparents or nannies), what you do for your community and so on.

More like 16 year old, but the rest is spot on.

I love that and strongly agree with it. I should probably start practicing that.

How many times did I read "a pie-eating contest where the prize for winning is more pie" before clicking away?

1. The hacker news title.

2. The tab title.

3. The image at the top left.

4. The text section to the right of the image.

5. The second sentence.

6. Different crop of the same image from before, but now below the second sentence.

I know that this isn't a curious comment, but holy shit dude.

Shhh, or you are going to ruin some lives of folks who have excellent corporate careers in some lets say questionable companies, and very little achievement to show in their actual lives.

People who point this out tend to forget that's because for most of that long history the alternative options were pretty much: 1. be born to the right parents, 2. peasant farm laborer. We're not going back to that, so might as well forget it for purposes of analysis.

You need to read Samuel Pepys. In 1662 he definitely had a white collar job. He describes his office politics and his accumulation of wealth and his working his way up the organisation.

In the 1920s poem, Desiderata, I was always surprised that Max makes a reference to career:

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;

it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs;

for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;

many persons strive for high ideals;

and everywhere life is full of heroism.