Tag: career
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Magic happens in cross of unrelated things
My nephew asked me should I do double degree of law and art or computer science and electronics! Two of the most related things? “I think you should do two completely unrelated things like computer science and psychology, or nursing…
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The Ownership Illusion: The Paradox of Modern Corporate Stock Compensation
As a common practice in big companies, total compensation packages include stock which is used to advocate “ownership mentality.” The aim is to encourage employees to work harder and help the company’s success so both parties benefit. But the hidden…
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Severed Without the Chip: How Work Culture Programmed My Mind
I just finished watching Severance on Apple TV. The idea is simple but terrifying: what if your work self and personal self were completely disconnected? A clean split done by surgery and a chip implanted into your brain! No memory…
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Heroism
Once at work, I was told: “We do not need heroes, so don’t play the hero. Instead, focus on building sustainable processes.” So I did. I built a process that was widely adopted and praised. But within a few months,…
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Dr. E or Mr. E?
I looked into the AI Index report from Stanford today. PhD researchers like Ilya Sutskever published great academic papers like “Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks” in 2014. “Attention Is All You Need,” which introduced the Transformer architecture and…
