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Tokyo having another very pretty sunset today.
The other side of the window is pretty cool, too.

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One more of Mt. Fuji. Apologies; my skill with a camera not doing it justice.
Mt. Fuji photography is one of the fascinating subgenres of human endeavor, by the way, where literally anyone can take a photo of Mt. Fuji but the best photos are almost universally by people who care about taking photos *of Mt. Fuji* far, far more than most care about anything.
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Patrick McKenzie
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I think this is approximately the optimal way to play the job search process as a candidate: utsavahuja.com/p/d2039b6a-259…

Note in particular being organized, treating it as a sales pipeline, pursuing multiple offers in parallel, and practicing for interviews.
(Suffice it to say that I am astronomical units away from believing the tech industry has a rationally constructed process for attracting, evaluating, and closing candidates, but given that the equilibrium is where it is, this is—descriptively—how to play game well.)
As I think about this more I almost want to provide an annotated version to show what is (probably) happening on the other side of the table which explains some of the candidate's experience.
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This is extremely true of companies and teams, and an underappreciated area of endeavor is setting the ambient resting state level of productivity high.

Most organizations do not, for a host of reasons.
These include:

* productivity is hard to measure
* there are easier-to-measure proxies, like hours or “appearance of activity”, which crowd out better goals / aspirations
* some people and organizational cultures, for that or other reasons, become hostile to productivity
I feel like “Some people will actively sabotage productivity” sounds like a horrible rumor and/or an excuse from a failed organizing principle like communism.

If the existence of the boogeyman seems on face implausible, consider you may have been in extremely successful orgs.
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You can also watch a lot of developers “spend thousands in a vain attempt to save hundreds” just by putting a usage-based price tag on something.

(It doesn’t even have to be denominated in money; we’ll golf any available metric.)
I remember vividly a conversation with @tqbf when I was at his office regarding optimizations I could make to Redis to prevent me from having to go up to a 1 GB VPS.

“How much does it cost extra?”
“$10 a month.”
“Then why are we having this conversation?”
In addition to being reflexive nosetweaking, I’ll point out that this is a reason to avoid usage-based pricing for developer-oriented tools and, instead, orient pricing around proxies for sophistication.
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