> You’re an 18 year old with just a high school degree. You immigrate to a new country that speaks a different language, and start work with some of the brightest engineers in the world. Soon after, you’re thrust into management. Now, you’re leading teams of people who are 10 or 20 years older than you, working on one of the fastest growing internet companies of the last decade.
I stopped reading after this. This is so unrelatable that I could be reading about an alien life form.
Actually I skimmed through the rest of the article. There are a couple of good points there, but being the very atypical experience of a single person, I can't help but feel it has a good dose of survivorship bias. Someone became successful and attribute it to "this one weird trick".
This was my gut reaction as well. I'm sure it's a nicely written blog, but I really doubt I'll get any value from it.
Perhaps I'm just sour grapes that I wasn't lucky enough to work at Shopify at age 18 when they were smaller, but blogs in this genre generally all have the same effect on me.
I stopped reading after this. This is so unrelatable that I could be reading about an alien life form.
Actually I skimmed through the rest of the article. There are a couple of good points there, but being the very atypical experience of a single person, I can't help but feel it has a good dose of survivorship bias. Someone became successful and attribute it to "this one weird trick".