Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by DrDimension on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:48PM (#20436331)

If you want something that someone else has got, ask them for it. More often than not, they will give it to you.

If you find someone who is outpacing you, humble yourself for a damn minute and try asking them what they are doing that makes them so effective, then see if you can make it work for you.

If more engineers had this mindset, we'd all be better off.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by idlewords on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:37PM (#20436691)

Could I please have three hundred thousand dollars?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by closeparen on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:21PM (#20437170)

https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by idlewords on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:51PM (#20437540)

The last time I did that it ended in drama.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by pragmatic on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:09AM (#20438056)

I'd buy that book.

Seriously, please elaborate. Would love to read the story!

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by aptwebapps on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:25AM (#20439015)

This was the denouement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11647165

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by DonHopkins on Sunday July 14, 2019 @07:51PM (#20437045)

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%27ll%20gla...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrUbFZdiZxM

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by Buttons840 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:09PM (#20436506)

Good point. I've more often been frustrated because I feel I'm the smartest in the room. I acknowledge this may be because of my own pride, but either way it sucks.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by elliekelly on Sunday July 14, 2019 @07:49PM (#20437022)

> I've more often been frustrated because I feel I'm the smartest in the room.

Perhaps it's time to change your perspective. No one is ever the smartest in the room. There's always something that can be learned from someone else.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with professional envy? by asdfasgasdgasdg on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:07PM (#20437111)

Having more horsepower under the hood is almost always helpful, but driving in the right direction tends to be more important.

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