YouTube is pretty good at both theory part: there's MIT physics class, but also on intuitive parts (i.e. visualizing how phase arrays work). ChatGPT is also seems to be very good at TA/Professor job when grinding through math-heavy parts: asking intuitively explain things do wonders. And you can also ask lots of stupid questions to understand things.

#1 Can you fix the 2h commute? (edit) Would companies consider paying for commute time as work time?

Man with ego invents, creates new jobs both at his company and outside, boosts the industry productivity. It's spark that matters; no matter how much wood you bring upfront, it won't burn until the first spark is created.

The system Ahrens describes is more: it has indexing system and an approach to generate new ideas.

github + markdown + cross-page linking works really great with his system.

DeOldify [1] by Jason Antic got really good results with old photos and movies colorization.

[1] https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify

That's what Spark is for. You can do petabyte-scale jobs... with DataFrames.

oura ring fills this use case.

Problem statement first.

There is another great book written by Cal: Deep Work [1].

Don't follow your passion. Instead, become really good at something. Apply methodical approach to improve your craft skills. Once you got mastery, you might actually like it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...

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> Don't follow your passion. Instead, become really good at something.

The important question always seems to be: at what?

You can't pick a lot of things because mastery takes years, and if you picked something you're unsuited for, you've just wasted a lot of time.

This just doesn't seem like a high value proposition.

I've read the book. I actually disagree with Cal on the that one for the simple reason you can be really, really good at something and not passionate about it.

I think there's a trick here though - get really good at something and then use that to make someone else's life better - now that is something you can probably get passionate about.

This whole passion debate will run and run though - I don't think anyone really has the definitive solution - it will be different for different people.

You can put a credit freeze on you file in major credit bureaus - this way their website would not be able to verify answers on security questions and deny login.

Brian Krebs did a good article on the process placing a freeze on your file [1]

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/how-i-learned-to-stop-wo...

Good point, hadn't occurred to me to correlate that idea with the SSA's system.