Just doin stuff
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Perfect is the enemy of Skill, that's great!
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You don't need to be incredibly good at something either.
Often it's just being who they think about when they want something done. Be the person they know they can turn to or the only person that can do it and that's just as useful.
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It's tangential, but I often struggle to start things unless I can do it perfectly.
I have to remind myself "done is better than perfect".
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That's more the fault of the company than you. We are at a point where companies don't want to "waste money" waiting for a great employee to train up on their system and want drop in place cogs or to go for someone way cheaper abroad. My company is asking to only hire people that know our proprietary software or we hire people in the Philippines that aren't even trained.
Don't mistake the malice of the owning class as a personal failure for being multivaried, you would never be perfect in their eyes so don't look at yourself through their lens.
Luck and networking is what gets people jobs these days.
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And done 5 times is better every time, more or less.
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What is this, the Vitruvian Spider-Man?
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"Perfect is the enemy of good enough" is one of my favourites.
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don't minmax your skills, kids. if you do you'll end up like me
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Same for 'a few rotten apples spoil a bunch'.
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Yeah, that one is also infuriating to hear people misuse.
The entire point is not that its a small problem, its that its a big problem.
Along the same lines:
"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps."
This was originally written as an obviously impossible absurdity, a modern equivalent would be the 'plug the power strip into itself for infinite energy' memes.
Yet it is instead used to mean ... its time for you to do a lot of hard work, and then you'll be in a better place.
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I'm in an engineering field, and I can tell you this absolutely holds true.
I've been very average in my own specialty of electrical engineering, but because I've taken the time to deep dive into mechanical engineering and controls/automation, I've far surpassed my peers career wise.
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still means the same thing, just used incorrectly by dishonest and truly wretched people.
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I focused too much on software development, now I find it tedious and boring, plus AI will replace me in like 3 years, womp womp.
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AI will replace me in like 3 years
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No you jack off!
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Look at it this way: after AI replaces you, a lot of companies are going to eventually realize AI can't cut it. Once that happens, you folks will be in high demand. You just.. have to find a way to survive in the interim.
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I am mediocre at a lot of things. But the way I combine and use those skills are what make my skill set unique and what makes them great.
I love this. It pretty much perfectly describes how I got every job I've ever had as an adult.
