Dare ObasanjoJul 2
Congratulations to Soram Parekh, our overemployed king who works at multiple Y-combinator startups at any one time.
Show threadLog 🪵Jul 3
@carnage4life As speculation, about 50% of developers could probably work 2 startups at a time, and 10% could work 4--without even farming the work out to subs or AI. Just don't do any of the performative office bullshit, and focus solely on the automation goals for 2 hours a day. If you don't have to spend 6 hours a day on metrics and psych to keep the execs satisfied that you're a good corporate trooper, you can work on *work*. They constantly reinvent wheels and think its new.
Show threadCyberFrog
@log @carnage4life I often tell people that most white collar workers are really only doing 3-4 hours of productive work a day anyway, I think there are studies on this
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Dare ObasanjoJul 2
Congratulations to Soram Parekh, our overemployed king who works at multiple Y-combinator startups at any one time.
Show threadPhil WolffJul 2
@carnage4life What I don't get is he seems to be highly effective but let go because he isn't faithful to one employer? Or is he doing the 4 Hour Workweek bit and outsourcing his 4 concurrent day jobs to others?
Show threadJohn RJul 3
@carnage4life "Damn workers need to have more hustle. NO NOT LIKE THAT"
Show threadWolf_DeityJul 5
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"Your hustle belongs to MEEE!"
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Show threadLog 🪵Jul 3
@carnage4life As speculation, about 50% of developers could probably work 2 startups at a time, and 10% could work 4--without even farming the work out to subs or AI. Just don't do any of the performative office bullshit, and focus solely on the automation goals for 2 hours a day. If you don't have to spend 6 hours a day on metrics and psych to keep the execs satisfied that you're a good corporate trooper, you can work on *work*. They constantly reinvent wheels and think its new.
Show threadRaven667Jul 3
@log @carnage4life this probably only works for startups because they have no real need they are solving and don't know what they are doing, so are churning out a lot of effectively boilerplate infrastructure by rote, whereas a developer at a more mature functional organization is going to spend a lot of time figuring out what problem actually needs to be solved and how to build it, not rote coding.
Show threadCyberFrogJul 3
@log @carnage4life I often tell people that most white collar workers are really only doing 3-4 hours of productive work a day anyway, I think there are studies on this
Show thread⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯Jul 3
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Show threadFazal MajidJul 3

@carnage4life I’m guessing he actually farms out the work to freelancers. And that’s how North Korea infiltrates your company and steaks crypto or intellectual property:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693

https://therecord.media/doj-raids-laptop-farms-crackdown

US employee 'outsourced job to China'

A US software developer was revealed to have outsourced his job to China, instead spending his workdays surfing the internet.

BBC News
Show threadJohn Abbe (aka Slow)Jul 3

@fazalmajid @carnage4life ~15 years ago, a security professional told me about the turnkey software available in criminal networks. Running on vampire'd machines, using little enough power & storage to use many infected computers as server farms. Credit card or other payment would let someone send spam, crack weakly encrypted passwords, run all kinds of basic attacks on websites and other Internet services, etc.

Fifteen years ago.

I can only imagine now.

Show threadJohn Abbe (aka Slow)Jul 3
@fazalmajid @carnage4life When they took a big one down, it made the news, and spam suddenly reduced by a notable amount.
Show threadCyberFrogJul 3
@carnage4life this is some hostile corporate bullshit, by all accounts he did a good job and had no reason to be fired other than the company wanting him to be their only employee lol