{"id":7780,"date":"2018-11-16T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7780"},"modified":"2018-11-16T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:34:05","slug":"one-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/one-song\/","title":{"rendered":"* One Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlease, <em>please<\/em> don\u2019t come to Google and waste your time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I tell this to promising interview candidates. That is, I hope they come here, but it\u2019s <em>waaaaay<\/em>\u00a0too easy to fall into a velvet fog: you get free food, good money, something for your parents to brag about\u2026 but you wake up one day and realize that you\u2019re polishing some goddamn stupid widget 9 levels deep in who-knows-what system, and you think, \u201cIs this why I was put on earth?\u201d This doesn\u2019t have to happen, and indeed people often do amazing things instead\u2014but it\u2019s anything but guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>I always think of the amazing monologue in Walk The Line (starts around 1:30 in the clip below). If you had one song to sing before you\u2019re dirt, are you telling me this would be it?<\/p>\n<p>Now go find your song &amp; sing the hell out of it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/hSDVptBw\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Filed under \u201cShit That Actually Matters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlease, please don\u2019t come to Google and waste your time.\u201d I tell this to promising interview candidates. That is, I hope they come here, but it\u2019s waaaaay\u00a0too easy to fall into a velvet fog: you get free food, good money, something for your parents to brag about\u2026 but you wake up one day and realize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7783,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}