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Sent 367 cold emails → 21 phone screens → 5 offers (including FAANG).Here's what I learned:1. Projects > Education Stop leading with your CS degree. Your deployed app with actual users matters more than your 3.9 GPA.2. Be Specific About Impact Bad: "Worked on backend services" Good: "Optimized PostgreSQL queries reducing API response time from 800ms to 150ms"3. Metrics Matter (Even Small...

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Monday October 13, 2025 @03:45PM (#45572551)
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Re:Kindness needs its own economy on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:18PM (#30619440)
We can never have more of kindness. Yet we don't have it enough. Just saying "I appreciate you", is the most simple act of kindness. What if you could send a visual story one on one to someone and get incentivized for it??