Don’t knock me for deciding “deathbed repentance” is a decent plan.

/s

Maybe it’s just my background, but I’m starting to feel that a lot of people in the tech industry have never learned empathy.

replace tech industry with hn and you’ll be spot on.

why not both?

Most people in tech still think people who are getting laid off deserve it and that they themselves are immune to it. People won’t change until they experience it first hand.

One of the highest leverage events you can have in life is being laid off early in career. Really hammers home the importance of living below means.

> I’m starting to feel that a lot of people in the tech industry have never learned empathy

I see you haven't visited the absolute delight that is team blind or you would have figured this out already.

I took one look at it, realized it was a cesspool and noped out.