Kenson Hui

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If you can figure out what the company cares about, or who is in it, talk about how you think you could help them achieve their goals and why.
What startup recruiters actually see when you apply for a job - PostHog
Writing 'hi I'm X' is a waste of words (we know who you are!)
What startup recruiters actually see when you apply for a job - PostHog
I naturally caveat and hurry through and self-deprecate to serve an artificial to avoid imposing and be looked upon favorable as “what a humble guy.” It means I’ve had to learn to force myself to be confident, even aiming to be arrogant or selfish in order to actually stand up for myself and assert my ground.
quiet confidence
A lot of it comes through in the seemingly effortless ability to take time, make space for yourself, and communicate a vision effectively that seems like a supernatural mandate
quiet confidence
But if you don’t do them, you are letting your cortex run on auto-pilot, validating a “true” statement that will feel comfortable.
Unlocking Progress: Overcoming the Illusion of Being Stuck
TL;DR: use convolutions with stride or pooling at the low levels, and stick self-attention circuits at higher levels, where feature vectors represent objects.
Yann LeCun on X: "A short post on the best architectures for real-time image and video processing. TL;DR: use convolutions with stride or pooling at the low levels, and stick self-attention circuits at higher levels, where feature vectors represent objects. PS: ready to bet that Tesla FSD uses" / X
show the inside of your head in public, so people can see if they would like to live in there
Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
Some people reflexively start solving the wrong problem, others reflexively start making excuses for themselves, still others reflexively share personal anecdotes that paint them in a positive light.
The Art of Response
Managing response patterns is something of an art: when confronted with an obstacle, does your brain switch into problem-solving gear or do you start to flail?
The Art of Response
I'm assuming myself capable — not consciously, but as a background assumption. I'm not assuming success — either I can run a research institute or I can't, the jury's still out on that one — but my capability is not the focus of my attention.
Stop trying to try and try
Rather, therapy and other tools of introspection have become ways to justify our lack of access to external stimulation. Instead of using therapy to untangle our desires and fears so that we may effectively act on them, therapy becomes the goal in itself—to create mental stimulation through constant rumination.
A Culture of Introspective Captivity - by P.E. Moskowitz
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young – Chicago Tribune
You, too, will get old. And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young – Chicago Tribune