tnegoshi

Hmm, I agree the article was uninspiring.

I looked into the course a bit more though and one of the first lectures addresses this preconception people seem to go into the course with in what the professor calls the "GI Joe Fallacy." She refers to it as "this mistaken idea that knowing is half the battle."

There will undoubtedly be behavioral practices or studies in positive psychology you may have come across before, but there is a difference in knowing those things vs. putting them to use through conscious, habitual effort.

I can't speak to how good the course is on that type of learned discipline, but it might be worth another go if you were interested enough to read the article.

Sure, there may be a correlation between a candidate's ability to answer every kind of algorithm & data structure problem across multiple respected CS textbooks and their performance at any one of these companies, but what of the many other confounding variables? What of the benefits, day-to-day perks, prestige, future open doors, workplace culture, or scale of the products they launch? Do those kinds of variables not also greatly impact the ability to attract and select top talent?

The only misuse of semantics I see is where an attempt to obscure a concretely causal relationship occurs:

mistake > punish himself > donate to charity to punish himself

Donating to charity as a method to achieve the punishment goal is precisely material in this case.

GP is asking if this method, which contains both a gain and loss, actually results in a punishment with an intended loss.

Not sure where GP got that 25K figure from but this is a trivial lookup:

https://www.policeapp.com/Entry-Level-Tenafly-NJ-Police-Offi...

> Department: Tenafly Police Department

> Type: Entry Level

> Job Title: Entry Level Police Officer

> Salary: $44,500-$125,000

> Location: Tenafly, NJ

> Is it crazy to hold a driver to a higher standard than simply Googling "Tesla autopilot" and only reading the first paragraph of the first result?

For this standard it would have to apply to every driver. Should drivers who do not google "Tesla autopilot", let alone ones that do and read on in a section about said autopilot feature, be punished with death in a two ton metal trap?

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