dont_be_mean

If it's true only 7% of communication is verbal you are mislead by 93% when you do a phone screen.

Irrespective of specific CS areas people will list here, a more important question might be: why do you ask?

And why are you after leverage? Is it because you want to make a lot of money? That's not the only factor to consider.

Individual inclinations tend to be strong enough to pull you to specific directions. Which areas will be exciting? The ones that excite you! Be as proactive about finding what excites you as you are about worrying about the next 5-10 years.

I don't ask for a raise and I don't expect one.

If anything, I expect my salary to be decreasing.

The lower the salary, the higher the equity. Ideally I want my salary to be low enough that I'm self-funded. The mindset of wanting a high salary goes against the mindset of doing the kind of work you want to be doing.

Sometimes you wonder.

I was not particularly interested; I was bad and soon stopped again.

I don’t know why I learnt all the countries of the world off by heart, including their capitals and populations. Chess was probably just another pastime.

I’m not a disciplined thinker. Organisation is not my thing; I am chaotic and tend to be lazy. My trainer recognised that and as a rule allowed me to practise whatever I felt like at the time.

When I was 13, my parents took me out of school for a year. They travelled around the world with me and my sisters, and on the way they taught us. That was fantastic, much more effective than sitting in school.

A plausible explanation I haven't seen suggested in this article is: lack of surprise.

This is slightly different than the divided-attention and lazy-parent theories.

There is evidence we learn more when we get answers wrong, not right. It's reasonable to assume then the more children you have the more right answers you eventually have as parent. And the same goes for a first child. You are both surprised when something goes wrong and you both learn from it.

The problem is, the parent doesn't necessarily need to be learning more as they have more children, so they take the shortcut of not letting younger children get answers wrong. They don't let them get surprised. Parents don't give younger children as many chances to screw up.

That's it. Learn to run on the balls of your feet. It reduces the shock to the knees by such an amount that I can't run in any other way now.

Alan Turing ran to stay calm. He said: "I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard."

What worked for me is:

- moving the mouse to the left (you get used to it in a week); this reduced the pain in my right wrist by half. Most of the pain on the right wrist now comes from using the arrow keys.

- getting a Typematrix 2030; adds spacing between wrists, has softer keys, leads to less movement for Enter key

- switching away from qwerty; this was twice as valuable, because I also finally learned to type properly.