- you previously spent time building relationships with contractors. You didn’t just type in property management in Google

- a significant overhead goes to insurance and management. Your comfortable putting money as needed into the venture. You have knowledge of legal pitfalls of being a landlord.

- you regularly spend time managing these contracts

I would also rather be an engineer than fix apartments.

Scams and low quality content are usually a strong indicator something used to be good, and attracted copy cats.

Yes it’s a terribly written book, but that’s typically the case from non-professional writers who just have something to say.

My biggest takeaway is that “stay in school so you can get a good job” is not a great wealth creation strategy. You just compete with other highly qualified candidates for jobs that pay 20-30% more (See 20+ years at Boeing). Jobs like this also attract other risk averse people.

That’s not what’s happening.

There is a myth that higher paying jobs must be more miserable, but it’s rarely true.

If he can’t understand a limit it really puts a question mark on whether it’s worth reading his insight into the subject.

stable_sort, sort, and sort_heap

The creator Alex Stepanov also included insertion_sort (used in sort) but it was rejected by standard committee.

That suggests that the idea that complexity is primarily to compare is wrong, because then why would anyone pick insertion_sort? Of course there are real world cases where it is the right choice. But if you need the complexity guarantee, then it's not.

> shiny new general purpose sort

I don't want it in the standard until it's proven useful and has some longevity, not just a micro benchmark. Shiny and new are exactly the wrong adjectives.

Why can't you include a header?

> quicksort

Introsort is simply a variant of quick sort with heap sort as a fallback to avoid the worst case, and insertion sort at the lowest level.

Anyone who tried to pass off naiive quick sort simply wasn't educated about the topic, so it's good that they were not standard compliant.

Do you have any examples of “better” algorithms that the STL is not able to use? Another idea in STL is to provide many algorithms, which is why there are 3 sorts.

I already addressed this point.

> No one made a statement even remotely like this. This is a strawman you chose to "reply to"

No. My argument was that it’s important for a new engineers to have drive and curiosity to get started. The other poster replied that this wasn’t true because “teams”. So I was checking for understanding about why this individual does not need to take their personal development seriously.

> I don’t think your advice is good advice

This is why I am asking questions that seem stupid to you. You don’t think someone should have strong natural interest at the beginning of their career?

I think the bias today is actually against individuals and for community.

Money ball didn’t get them the best team it got them the better team than others expected for less money.

That's not to say you can't have seasons of more or less interest, but this guy is at the starting line.