This scale is used in colleges, where the best grade a student can receive is an A (5), and the student can also receive a B (4), C (3), D (2) or an F (1). Actually it is not clear what these letters (nubmers) mean, so a clarification is in order. Some poeople and institutions will mean different things when they grade something a B. At WasyaCo this grading scale has the following meaning.
I guess it's a thing. Weaponization obviously comes from the autists (see /r/wallstreetbets, or better don't). They weaponize everything - their own autism, chicken tenders, you name it. We are going to be weaponizing appearances, for the purpose of achieving concrete goals. One of the elements of appearances is the smile, and its weaponization is important.
Weaponization of your smile may take up to 2% of your overall continuous effort.
You can think of a software system as a sort of an animal. Muscles, skeleton and the rest of the structure go a long way, long before intelligence in an animal becomes useful or desirable. Automation is the muscles and bones. AI is the high-level brain. I'd take an ox or a mule over a monkey, for labor, most of the time. So let's develop the structure first - the muscles and bones...
The short answer is - I think it used to be much better. To be fair, doing marketing and obtaining new clients has always been difficult - arguably, it is more difficult than doing actual technology work. But in the past I think it was more rational and more usable.
So Vitalik, the guy who wrote the Ethereum protocol, recently posted this, which I feel I can comment on:
I'm not necessarily calling him a grifter - but analyzing his post falls squarely under the subject of analyzing grift.
I want to write first about my admiration of ducks, and swans by extension. They are the animals capable of flying (birds), and they also swim. They also walk on land. Ducks, and also swans, are therefore truly all-terrain, all-element animals: they've conquered earth, water and air. (And they're metabolic, living organisms so we'll grant them the command of "fire" in the sense of metabolic oxidation.)
You may be familiar with the saying, "duck typing". The idea is that if something walks like a duck, talks like a duck... then it may be a duck.
Gym creates time and creates focus, by the way. It's not that I "don't have time" for gym. Rather, if I'm stuck on a concept, lack focus, or lack motivation - I perform physical exercise, and that helps me gain focus, allows my mind to explore insight in a more creative way, and possibly gets me un-stuck from a local bog. Simply switching the mindset, from gymm is unpleasant and time-consuming, to gym is a mechanism for inspiration and time creation, allows me to go to the gym more. And the benefits are real: gym allows me time creation and being more mentally agile.
