Congrats! It's amazing to live in an era of employers allowing friends to take a deep breath, reflect and come back to work with a renewed sense of themselves and their purpose. It is a great chance to reflect on what you have accomplished and what lies ahead.
And I find that when you really dig deep and go for the projects that you are truly passionate about you will participate with people who are your friends. Words are words but the founders of Y combinator are a small group. I would think they are friends. A personal opinion/thought
Not sure what is really the meaning. I work hard as I am sure we all do. I am reading this thread while chasing around my 4 kiddos. We all need a beak and we are lucky and grateful to be given those opportunities. I follow hacker news daily so I am just happy that someone who made this all happen to get a chance to relax and reflect. It's deserved.
I guess you don't know, jl is pg's wife, they started hn together before they were married. It's not an employer giving a 'friend' a break, it's a co-founder taking a year off from their successful company.
pg already stepped back from the day-to-day, handing the reins over to Sam Altman.
That's why your comment comes across as strange. You've been here nearly 7 years, surprised you didn't know that.
I've taken 1.5 years worth of sabbaticals since I graduated 6 years ago. Can't recommend enough especially if you want to learn, build side projects and take better care of your health!
Where do you work that this is possible? I graduated recently and my employer is pretty generous and flexible with vacation time, but I can't imagine asking for several months off just because I feel like it.
Probably just quits and comes back to (a probably new) employer in a few months or is self-employed. I took 9 months off of work, I wouldn't call it a sabbatical but you could phrase it that way I suppose. Funemployment.
That does sound nice, but a sabbatical usually means you're at least partially paid and you continue your old job when you come back. Also, I don't think I know anyone just out of college who could afford to do that.
I heard Intel lets some people take a short sabbatical after 10 years of employment. 1.5 years after 6 years seems unbelievable. I've personally never seen a company that allows sabbaticals in my 15 or so year career.
Because there is a sadistic tendency in our industry to celebrate overworking yourself to the bone for no real benefit to either yourself or the project you may be working on. I think more people are realizing this and are celebrating a more measured and effective approach to work.
Does everyone think that the average person has the option to stop working for months (or even a year) at a time? This is merely celebrating the wealthy doing things only the wealthy can afford to do.
You make a good point, but the parent comment was asking a more general question of why we would celebrate someone taking a sabbatical at all.
Although sometimes the importance of an important, successful person who many people look up to setting the tone is understated.
But yes...Jessica is very rich and has luxuries beyond any of our wildest imaginations so it's not really a fair comparison to "normal people" or our industry at large. Your point stands.
My wife and I have 4 children, she has insisted that they start lessons at a young age, and now my 9 and 7 year olds are excellent swimmers, with a 2 year old that can make it to the side if he falls in. It is absolutely terrifying to see these videos, but it helps knowing that we are doing everything we can to keep them safe.
My mom got me and my sister swimming at an extremely young age (I don't ever remember learning, as far back as my memory goes, I have always been able to swim). And then got us doing competitive swim team in the summers as early as possible (I think age 5).
I'm quite grateful for this, as not once in my life have I ever felt in danger in the water. Also, in a world of overconsumption (and abundant sugar), swimming is a great way to keep your kids in shape.
So I have to wonder.... why? If I was you I would put the link to https://github.com/andrewromanenco/pyjvm/blob/master/WHY.md front and center. That's great that it was done for academic purposes but I didn't understand that from the main page.
I would love to know more about this book but it seems to not be released yet and there are no reviews. Not sure what the point of posting it is or why it is up voted. More details would be great.
I fully agree. We track millions of events per day and I use hive and hadoop to do my analysis. Not as user friendly but putting the data into a pivot table helps alot.
