Is he serious or trolling about "inventing a card game"?

Thank you,

VC-istan Startup HR Token Female

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124374)

the life and times of michael o church:

I'm 29 and I've had a run of pretty terrible luck in choosing jobs (I've had 6 since college). I learn fast and I'm easily in the top 1% of programmers my age, but I've learned the hard way that I'm not a great judge of character, so I've been through (in the past 2 years):

1. A startup that failed in a really ugly way.

2. A big-company job with no room for growth or transfer (left at 6 months).

3. A job offer rescinded post-#2 because ex-boss, pissed that I left, was a personal friend of hiring manager at target company (had no way of knowing that one).

4. Joined a shitty startup in desperation post-#3. Took a management role. Fired after refusing to commit perjury on employer's behalf (left at 3 months).

5. Regular old big-company layoff. Nothing bad about me or company, just business convenience + last-in/first-out (at 10 months).

I can't claim that the problem "isn't me" or that I'm "just unlucky", although that's part of it. #5 was bad luck; #1-4 was terrible judgement of character on my part. Yeah, I've made some awful choices about whom to work for... I've learned a lot, but in painful ways.

I'm starting to get dinged because of my "job hopping" history, and I'm starting to think it might be time for some "creative repair". I don't intend on lying or feigning skills I don't have-- I don't think I need to do that, but here some cover-up options I'm considering:

1. Dressing the short-term gigs up as consulting arrangements, since I'm starting to think project-based work is the way to take my future anyway.

2. Removing the 3-monther entirely and moving related accomplishments (I actually achieved a lot in that time) to other jobs.

3. Moving consulting work around dates-wise to cover up gaps. Again, no material change and no real dishonesty since the dates are irrelevant to the quality of work.

Again, nothing fraudulent or substantively dishonest, since there'll be no inflation of skill set. I'm just talking about fixing some of the cosmetic stuff as the situation may require. I don't consider it unethical since it wouldn't get me any job for which I wouldn't be qualified. Everyone needs to clean up a mess now and then, and it looks like that's where I am now.

Or am I overblowing the whole "job hopper" stigma? Is it better, even with a volatile job history, to tell the truth?

What is the maximum number of jobs that someone at my age can have? And what is the threshold for short-term jobs at which one should just exclude them?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124395)

he's a math dork who enjoys theoretical games, not the nitty gritty of coding

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124434)

why does he write so authoritatively though and also does he take a lot of speed or something?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124449)

Small town 'smart kid' who claims he didn't attend Harvard for undergrad because he "blew off the interview." Instead, "chose" to attend close substitute for Harvard, Carleton College in Buttfuck, Minnesota.

While attending prestigious Carelton, he got in trouble for cyber-stalking and harassing girls who rejected his advances, and became legendary for posting bizarre, self-absorbed emo rants on the student OBB. He was a friendless nut who blamed his peers for his social isolation.

Later on, he began a math doctorate at Wisconsin, but dropped out after a year or so. Went to work as a quant for a really minor fund in NYC, was either fired or quit not long afterward. I stopped paying attention after that.

He's borderline mentally ill and used to engage in marathon "flame" sessions on XO where he would transparently spam threads and discuss himself using multiple accounts. Then, after hours of minimal engagement from other posters and absolutely no accumulation of credulity, he would triumphantly reveal his "flame," and then shower himself with self-congratulatory one-way discussion about his own genius. The coup de grace of these little masterpieces would usually be something like his revelation that his moniker was actually an anagram of 'the best pensive flame' the entire time. You fools! This would have been hilarious if he wasn't completely sincere about the whole thing, every time.

He also sort of pioneered something that has become known as the 'pensive maneuver' to a few old-time XO posters. This involves humiliating yourself by accidentally revealing your alternate monikers by not switching accounts (thereby getting caught talking to yourself or about yourself), getting completely dominated on a factual issue, or otherwise blown out of the water on XO. Rather than taking your lumps, the pensive maneuver involves then spending copious amounts of time explaining, with OCD-like levels of repetition, that you actually pwned yourself on purpose in order to lead other, less intelligent posters into your 'rhetorical trap,' or to humanize your intimidating intellect, or any number of other strange and contrived lines of excuse peddling.

Apparently, he's still having extreme difficulty simply getting along with other people in a normal work environment. I won't out his name on here, but if you know it, googling provides some hilarious updates. And his blog is like a case study in budding mental illness and megalomania.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124498)

I didn't even get into the 10K word screeds that he used to pen about women, and specifically how American women are all broken whores not worthy of a man of his caliber. At one point he forced a meme about idealized "heroic women." This idealization was based on female characters from the Final Fantasy role playing games.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24124626)

Why are you still talking about your bad manager at Google like some scorned woman? Maybe you and Quin Woodward Pu should collab on a novel.

How good of a troll can u be when ur so easily goaded into writing a wall of text on Saturday night?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24134197)

lol at some "google alpha punjabi" ruining your "career."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24134238)

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-fight-16625.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#24134346)

"You are an amazing writer and thinker"

"Your ideas are well fleshed out and extremely compelling"

"You should feel proud because I bet a lot of people have changed their life decisions based on reading your post"

IN SHORT: maybe we have spurned one of the great thinkers of our generation?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25634691)

everyone who tries to objectively criticize pensive is pensive

everyone who puts pensive in a post title is pensive

the guy is a loser.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2372636&forum_id=2#25634925)