Titles, tenure, and paths don't matter

At the end of the day it always comes down to work. What is this person made at the end of the day? Of course before that you look at a few other things. You look at the writing abilities. You maybe look at their history a little bit. What kind of things have they done? But ultimately the deciding factor is always the work itself. It's always that and it's always kind of a surprise actually. Sometimes you think this leading candidate is going to be the finalist and then it turns out someone else comes from behind with the work

The CV is very frequently full of shit it's full of half truths if not outright lies about how you move this lever and how you produce this amount of impact and it's just gotten to the point that I look at the CV and you can see all right this person's been here there and somewhere but it doesn't really tell me whether they were just writing co-tails of someone else how much they were actually involved how much of that impact that everyone tells you how to list out in your little CV actually is attribable to that person specifically and that's what's focusing on the work does it just takes all that bullshit all that pretending all that charade and it just puts it into the shredder and then it asks so what can you do

I do think it's very valuable and I just I don't like the excuse like why I don't have a portfolio like I haven't been given the chance to do anything yet you can't wait for someone to give you a chance just just do something pick something I think what's interesting is on the programming side you have even less of an excuse because you don't even have to invent work there is an infinite amount of work available in the world's open source projects you can literally just show up in almost any project pick any bug or offer suggestion for a feature and just do it don't ask anyone for permission you just do the work you submitted to the maintainer whether they take it or not doesn't even matter