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Deep understanding can look like closed-mindedness to the uninitiated.
Michael Hartl
@mhartl
Forever curious. @TauDay founder. @Caltech, @YCombinator alum.
“Hartl understands physics deeply… and like Feynman he is an outstanding pedagogue.” —Kip Thorne
- I feel like this may prove to be the most prescient cartoon of the 21st century.
- There’s absolutely no way I could pass the coding interview at any of the big tech companies. Even the ones where the interviewer learned to code from one of my tutorials.A good Hacker News comment on tech interviews.
- One of my uncles was ostensibly an executive at a major oil company, only he wasn’t: it was actually his cover as an agent for the CIA. If your model of reality doesn’t include intelligence agents in major industry and media organizations, you’re probably missing something big.
- One of my most valuable experiences was watching #Bitcoin tumble from nearly $20K to $3K and being totally fine with it. Adopting a long time horizon helped me achieve a Zen-like calm even as I watched a significant fraction of my portfolio evaporate (temporarily) into thin air.
