Wow. I was actually trying to get pricing on a MATLAB Home license and couldn't get signed in or initiate the webform to Sales.

I sent an email to their info@ account and heard they were having some problems with their online systems. Didn't occur to me that it could be or is a cyberattack.

Very interesting collection and I learned a lot of history and norms that I didn't know. Thank you for this! Bookmarked.

Matlab fan here. I've been very impressed with how the product has grown over the years. Its documentation is especially superb. I've been able to get great overviews of signal processing, physical simulation, and many other topics just by going over the examples.

Putting that spade in the ground will trip the mines, though. Didn't Elon threaten to primary anyone who doesn't salute?

Agreed. They followed this cohort for decades and this was the conclusion? It reads like an update from the pitch drop experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

Were they friends or his downline?

Of course, "Further research is required." ;-)

More telling, "This study utilized a unique longitudinal dataset drawn from a sample of 235 men who were originally recruited as Harvard University students between 1939 and 1942."

Well said. I tried and bailed on LinkedIn about ten years ago because so much was forced happy-talk like this article. I think this author is writing earnestly but there is a load of pressure on everyone to think and speak this way even though it makes zero sense for their specific cases. I think it may be called "toxic positivism" in that context.

I really want to get off LinkedIn for this same reason. The happy-speak is so nauseating. The only reason I stay on is so recruiters can find me, but would be great to hear more of your experience in the job market without it.

Pretty bad, overall. I got diddlysquat out of LinkedIn when I was job hunting 10+ years ago but then I got nothing out of my other leads, either. I was old back then and older now so I am staying at my employer until I'm fired, retired, or expired. LI may be required these days to get anywhere, I just adjusted my travel plans so I didn't need to deal with its BS or the general Talent Acq/HR gauntlet required to get past square one. Probably not helpful to you but there it is...

I read the tips and thought, "Well, good for him I guess?" It is easy for very successful people to write homilies like this but what worked for them may not/will not work for most. This guy clearly has a few more brain cells than the average person and was in good environments. To his credit, he made the most of them and contributed greatly to his field. When I hear people mumblefrotz about "passion" my skepticism ramps to 11. This is the stuff of management consultants and motivational speakers. A very few can write their own ticket, the rest of us have to make do with what we can get.

In my case, I wish I had worked much harder and with more focus in my youth and early to mid career. Whatever time I did take off I should have spent differently. Hell, I should be doing something more worthwhile right now. Can't go back of course but I expect to think that way even in my last moments.

Why do you wish you had worked harder?

I could have made contributions in line with the support and advantages I have been given.

The tech owners seem to have gone the other way with their votes (few) and money (big).

Some did, others didn't. That's how it normally goes; there were plenty of Romney, McCain, and Bush voters in tech. The only reason it went differently during the last Trump presidency is that he went out of his way to antagonize tech leaders while promising to end the H1B program their businesses heavily rely on.