either god or fatalistically stupid - by Celeste 🌱

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The intelligence thing? Again???

[day 4/7 - epistemic status: blogpost therapy neurondump not checked or anything] A coding interview. A coding interview for a position ostensibly often obtained by people who do not actually code day-to-day. How hard can it be? After all, I’m smart, I study computer science explicitly. I can code. I’ll be fine. Ignore that I might have accidentally taken 2 vyvanse this morning, haven’t eaten, didn’t bother to do any of the example questions and that I received a warning before starting that my signal was bad. I am god. I will be fine. My hubris is ontologically justified. And I failed.…

either god or fatalistically stupid - by Celeste 🌱

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