How to Have a Bad Career | David Patterson | Talks at Google

Renowned computer scientist David Patterson came to Mountain View to provide advice that, as he puts it, "I wish I had been given at the start of my career."
An entertaining and engaging presenter, Prof. Patterson takes us through a number of tongue-in-cheek examples of how to sink a career in academics and elsewhere. He also provides great tips on how how to steer clear of these mistakes and build a career that is both successful and satisfying.
David Patterson wrote the book Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach with John Hennessy and helped lead UC Berkeley research projects Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC), Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and Network of Workstations (NOW). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, both AAAS organizations, and President of ACM.

[@BryonLape]

Most of the textbooks I had to use in my Computer Science studies seemed to follow the "don't explain anything" principle.

[@kevinparsley6806]

i felt that way about introduction to discrete mathematics by rosen. he explains the content of that book like he's talking to someone that already knows it...

[@saif0316]

@@kevinparsley6806 I had the exact same book and, exactly!

[@nathanmartinez2630]

One of the best talks I've ever heard lol. Honestly - genuinely useful for folks at the earlier part of their career. Heck, useful even for everyone - lots of lessons to be learned here. Glad I watched.

[@derekxiaoEvanescentBliss]

"If you don't work on important problems, you're are not going to do important things by the dumbest by dumb luck."

[@shivapr1]

Very useful! Now we all plan carefully how to use Friday afternoon meaningfully to introspect :)

[@jmitesh01]

Intuition to ask questions and not to answer questions! Woww!

[@enpaiyar]

Link to Hamming's video greatly appreciated

[@BurnedAura68]

I thought this was about thatdudeinblue appearently not
TnT

[@kamakazechris]

I like the content, but his presentation is lacking.

[@fappylp2574]

Well he _is_ the go-to expert for bad talks!

[@markuswerner1166]

7:35 Be loud looks like Trump was knows that before

[@wartem]

No need to watch this

[@chantzine606]

Come on. He wins the Turing award.