> “Tell me about you. If your life was a book, give me the chapter titles from your birth till now.” Once you’ve gotten the overview, dive into each “chapter” and plumb the depths for their real stories. Go back to their childhood! I learn a lot about their grit and commitment to excellence from their basketball obsession or maybe their experience caring for a dying parent.
God damn that sounds exhausting. How about let's skip to the current chapter, titled I'm Good At Computers And I Want A Job.
Replace the subject matter with that of your own job, or pretend you are living inside the article and respond directly to the author if that feels right to you. Whatever gets you to seeing my point.
I didn't say that in a contrarian way, merely observed that literally none of the advice in the article applies to hiring computer nerds. Honestly I don't even know why this is on HN.
God damn that sounds exhausting. How about let's skip to the current chapter, titled I'm Good At Computers And I Want A Job.