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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • I work in a job where I have to introduce myself quite a lot. For a longer introduction like you would in an interview, I do the following:

    • General statement about my career, one liner

    • the professional topics I’m most interested, 3 or 4 bullet points

    • a brief walk through my resume: what I studied (one liner) and where I worked, no longer than 1 minute total

    • what am I doing currently, responsibilities, likes and dislikes, no more than a minute, they’ll ask you more about it later

    • some personal details: family, kids, hobbies, favorite {teams, sports, countries, movies, whatever} keep it to 20-30 seconds

    Total under 3 minutes


    For a shorter one, like in a 1h zoom call:

    • name, position (and description of the position if unusual), tenure.

    • any relationship to the people in the call (I’m a customer of yours, my first car was from you, I would love to buy gizmo some day, etc)

    • background info: previous jobs or studies if relevant (oh, i used to work in industry in college, etc)

    • one hobby if relevant, or if it is in your background (movies, books, sports, photography, whatever)

    Total 15 to 30 seconds.





  • Here comes my boomer moment:

    You kids have it so easy with technology these days. Back in my day we really had to stare at equations or wait for office hours with the prof.

    The it came Wolfram Alpha which showed you step by step how to integrate an equation if you wrote it into the prompt.

    Nowadays with ChatGPT/Gemini/xyz you can just take a picture of your homework and it will solve it for you (and explain it in any level of detail that you want, if you care about learning). You can have it explain differential equations talking like a pirate, if you want.