How to Think for Yourself

Re:How to Think for Yourself by aerosmile on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:53PM (#25233682)

Fair enough - one article alone probably wouldn't have had the full impact. But I am envious of the generation of current high schoolers who can read HN all day. After a year or so, I imagine you can reprogram your mind quite a bit. Back in the late 90s, access to information like this was much more limited.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by polote on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:22PM (#25233890)

What you are getting from HN at your current age with your experience, is not the same that what your young self would have gotten from the same content

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by username90 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @06:10AM (#25236926)

I learned that working at Google pays a ton and not that hard to get in there. So I learned to code and got a job at Google and made a lot of money thanks to HN. My life got a lot easier thanks to that.

I feel the value of HN is greatly reduced once you are more familiar with the industry. But to an outsider this site is gold.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by webdev93 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:10AM (#25237579)

How is it not hard to get into Google? Sounds more like survivorship bias.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by username90 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:25PM (#25238871)

I'm really good at math so I knew that learning the algorithmic thinking wouldn't be hard. All I needed to do was learn to program and learn algorithms. For people with a different skillset it wouldn't be as easy, but reading about it online made me realize that it wouldn't be hard for me.

I mean, when you read about interviews and the problems people struggle with you get a sense of what it is. When I read those I thought "That doesn't seem hard, I can do that!", so I did.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by yawaramin on Sunday November 29, 2020 @12:34AM (#25243154)

What you are describing is exactly survivorship bias.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by dahx4Eev on Saturday November 28, 2020 @06:42AM (#25237009)

Are there any sites that are gold for HNers?

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by newtwilly on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:38PM (#25234346)

I'm sure that's true.

I would like to say that I am young and I remember getting turned on to podcasts and reddit and good books when I was 15 or so, and being exposed to rational thought and discussion did a lot for my development I think.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by qPM9l3XJrF on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:43AM (#25236021)

Same. Unfortunately the internet isn't what it once was. I can't say I'm optimistic this strategy would work out for today's youth.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by Swenrekcah on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:24AM (#25236747)

Occasionally I stumble upon an old article posted here and start reading, lamenting the missed opportunities if I'd only seen this article x years ago. Then a bit further into it I start feeling like I have read it before, and I suspect I often have.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by Geminidog on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:01PM (#25234484)

Start up bros are becoming generic this space is filling up with garbage as well.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by CyanBird on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:23AM (#25235714)

That's just the natural life cycle of social platforms.

Looking forward to what will come next

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