Co-founder and CEO of the Ukrainian EdTech company Mate academy, Roman Apostol, urged not to work on slow technology, but to purchase a computer that will make its owner more productive.
Co-founder and CEO of the Ukrainian EdTech company Mate academy, Roman Apostol, urged not to work on slow technology, but to purchase a computer that will make its owner more productive.
«In ~2008, I got my first Mac and have never regretted it. At that time, I was working remotely for an American company and getting a corporate computer was out of the question. So I just bought myself the best equipment at the time, and it made me work much faster», Apostol said in a post on LinkedIn.
He says that people often work on technology that the company gave them, and it’s not the best. Because of this, they «work slowly and learn slowly» and therefore «develop slowly.»
«So, just invest in a top-of-the-line computer and develop faster. This is your career,» urged the head of Mate academy.
Vitaliy Zagursky, founder of the marketing company be norm, agreed with his opinion.
«I worked on my old laptop for a long time and it was still working hard. Then I bought a new one and somehow everything flew by, everything started to work faster. I also played Stalker 2 on high settings without lag,» he wrote in the comments to Apostol’s post.
Junior Software Engineer Oleksiy Litvinenko also wrote that he agrees with CEO Mate academy’s take, but noted that there is a «flip side to the coin.»
«If you think a slow car is an excuse not to move faster, then this is an imaginary problem. It is a barrier, but it can be overcome with perseverance,» the IT expert noted.
