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Note added 2 August 2019
Two years ago I published this rather long post describing my experience in the OMSCS program at Georgia Tech. As I wrote it on my personal blog, which has few regular readers, I did not anticipate that one day this post would show up on the first page of Google searches for OMSCS.
I’m leaving this post up but I want to be clear that it reflects my personal experience in the program more than two years ago.
Good books are like old friends.
You’ve known them for a while. They’re familiar.
The more time you spend together, the more you share and reveal yourselves.
As you go through life, you grow and change (I hope!). So too do your circumstances.
Good books and good friends come with you for the journey, providing guidance and helping you reflect on your changing world.
I’ve been sitting with this excerpt from Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek that I want to share.
More people are starting to recognize that vulnerability is a good thing.
That’s great!
But I often see a misunderstanding of what vulnerability means.
There’s a faux-vulnerability that’s overwhelmingly more common among men than women. It’s widespread in the sports industry.
It ties in with a kind of glorification about doing the work where you are. In an industry that makes substantial use of low-paid or even unpaid labor in the form of young men desperate for any opportunity to work for a sports team, this rhetoric is everywhere.
