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I would also add to this.

Aligning your personal goals with your company's mission can be a game-changer in achieving both professional success and personal fulfillment. When your values and objectives resonate with those of your employer, every project becomes more meaningful, and motivation naturally increases.

Your personal goals become much easier to achieve, and you have more fun achieving the company goals because they're also helping you.

I would say then you have chosen the wrong employers. If you're working for someone who doesn't see your value then you're unlikely to be properly recompensed for it. Choosing a company with less hierarchy and more of a meritocracy would help.

Employees are more likely to quit than get made redundant. Therefore it would seem that employers are more disposable than employees. You can't quit a job for another job with a higher salary and then moan about being made redundant. Generally I think you hope for the best and plan for the worst. If you're a good employee then employers won't want to lose you. If you're not then what do you expect? You wouldn't stay with a shitty job.

Unless we hit another AI winter. We might get to the point where the hardware just can't give better returns and have to wait another 20 years for the next leap forward. We're still orders of magnitude away from the human brain.

If you spend 40 hours on this and it only gains you a 1% increase in salary then you earn that back in 2 years. I would say that it will generally earn you much more so personally I see it as a good investment. If you enjoy the take home you're also more likely to enjoy the role so it's also a filter for you. If you're not enjoying the take home then stop, but if you're finding it interesting then it's well worth it. These things are also for you to assess future Jon opportunities. The best take homes are as close to actual work as possible for a reason.

Even Germany which is an EU member has an exit tax when moving to another EU country. This is theoretically against the EU's principle of free movement of capital. According to EU law, any restrictions on the movement of capital or payments—either within the EU or between EU and non-EU countries—are generally prohibited. However, somehow Germany gets away with it.

Sounds like you're building products in lieu of doing user research and product discovery. You can often prove or disprove something is a good idea with some market research and some mock-ups. Even just building the landing page as a fake door can work. Spend more time on product discovery and less time building and you'll save time overall.

.NET Blazor 3 years ago

I regularly have video calls from the UK to NZ with no issues at all. Might be your provider.

Your electricity demands probably change drastically between summer and winter. Do you not use electricity during the winter because you know you won't need as much during the summer? People are a resource just like electric. There needs to be flexibility for elasticity. This is why redundancy exists as a concept. Of course people should be compensated for elastic demand and you can of course always seek to increase your notice period to increase your security.

Couldn't agree more. Let's also not forget that many people can't actually read for various reasons, such as visual , physical, learning disabilities. Free AI narration is a huge thing for all these people, even if the quality is not perfect. Anything that encourages people to consume more books and build empathy with other humans by experiencing different viewpoints has to be a good thing, right?

The brain has always been compared with a highly sophisticated computer.

This is not strictly true. In ancient times, Plato compared the mind to a chariot pulled by two horses, representing emotion and reason. This reflected the importance of horses for transportation at the time.

In the 1600s, Descartes saw the mind as akin to a mechanical clockwork machine, reflective of the clockwork and automatons built then.

In the late 1800s, Freud described the psyche in terms of hydraulics and steam engines - cutting-edge technology.

Each era attempts to explain the complexities of the human mind through the lens of its most advanced creations. But all these analogies fall short.