General¶

General Notes¶

• Work-life balance
  • Determine what's important: on your deathbed, what do you want to say that you have done
  • Never have regrets: on your deathbed, don't have anything you'd wish that you had done
  • Make key goals: personal & professional
  • Spend time with friends and family
  • Take hare of health
  • Complete work
  • Cut everything else
  • Profile your activities
    • Self-logging post hoc (end of the day) is notoriously unreliable
    • Is your time spent aligned with your goals
    • Organize and build systems
    • How much is your time worth
• Finances
  • Documentation
    • Payslips
    • Assets
    • Income flows
    • Expenses
  • Bank
    • Account Fees
      • Opening fee
      • Maintenance fee
      • Minimum balance
        • Penalty fee
      • Minimum spend
        • Penalty fee
      • Interest
      • Loans
        • Penalty fee
      • Closing fee
    • Credentials
      • Use non-trivial credentials
      • Keep changing credentials regularly
    • Credit card: Prefer whenever possible
      • Always have 100% auto-debit, and ensure sufficient balance
    • Debit card: Avoid whenever possible
      • Keep locked unless when required
      • Put maximum restrictions on debit card, which requires atleast 3-4 steps to be able to use it, this is to fend off any fraud
    • Global money account
      • Keep locked throughout, only use whenever possible
  • Investing
    • Portfolios
• Emails
  • Personal
  • Professional
  • Etc
• Professional
  • Perception is reality
  • Interview
    • Interview
      • Be confident, not over-confident
      • Make it clear that
        • you are great what you do
        • you have lots to learn, as one cannot know everything
        • you need hand-holding guidance
  • Understand the problem, don't immediately provide the solution
    • "If you understand your solution better than the problem you're doing something wrong" ~ Vincent Warmerdam
    • Understand the final goal is not the solution itself, but the solving of the problem.
    • Many a times people get caught up with the solution or just do their work as is without truly understanding the goal - mainly seen in the IT and AI industry.
    • I believe the problem is not with the people, but a problem with the objectives set for the people in organizations - to finish as many tasks/tickets/publications as possible
  • Response if you don't know something,
    • ❌ "I don't know"
    • ✅ "I am not aware; I will check and get back to you ASAP"
  • Reuse, don't redo
  • Decisions
    • Plan decisions for potential scenarios in advance as much as possible
    • Spontaneous decisions are prone to biases
  • Time Management
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  • Never directly trust anything you read; always do the derivations & test everything for yourself
  • How to read a paper
  • Always be prepared; new opportunities may arise any time
  • Always be eager to continuously learn & explore
  • Be wary about the Hype Cycle

Hype Cycle¶

Technology adoption cycle

Venture Capitalists know that 9/10 investments fail, but expect at least 1/10 makes enough money to compensate for the others

General Tasks involved in Job Roles¶

O*Net

Parts of Profile¶

• Knowledge - Theory
• Skill - Practical
• Craft - Projects
• Experience - Time?

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