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The illustrative example to me is the construction of railroads at the beginning of the Industrial revolution. Unquestionably useful, unquestionably important there were neverthele…

What about blackberries made them unsuitable for social media apps?

How would this even work? Get it out of the app stores, fine. But presumably the URL would still be accessible? Likewise sideloading it onto Android devices?

This analogy doesn't hold for "WWIII" though, right? By this analogy, I would call the current crisis "Cold War II".

I gained a lot of clarity when I differentiated "programming" from "shipping code". I still enjoy the former, but the latter is becoming harder and harder to do at large corporatio…

I burned out hard towards the end of last year as an engineer. Fortunately, this preceded 4 months of paternity leave during which I was really able to think hard about what I want…

I believe this is the premise of an upcoming Netflix movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Look_Up_(2021_film)

100%. The answer wouldn't be "join our marketing team", it would be "you aren't a culture fit".

Has anyone read Jordan Mechner's Prince of Persia journal? Was thinking of checking it out: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578627310?pf_rd_r=HMREHVA...

The rubber band trick [1] really helped me. Took my unlocks-per-day from ~100 to ~20. I took it off after about 2 weeks and it's more or less stayed that way. 1: https://www.indepe…

I mean, a few guys stayed in orbit on subsequent lunar missions, but you're right, Collins was the first.

The NYT did a deep dive in an Indian city using this methodology: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi... The figures are orders of magnitudes greater than …

I feel like the covid pandemic has definitively answered the question "What's better, government policy and collective action, or a small well-capitalized group implementing a tech…

https://stripe.com/climate lists some interesting tech companies working in this area (scroll to the bottom)

I don't think it is. Most popular, groundbreaking technology isn't the first version of itself. Eg, I think of this profile of Tony West: https://www.wired.com/2000/12/soul/ Tony W…

If you enjoy this series I really recommend reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. It's 40 years old but still the best book I have ever read about what motivates engin…

I find no fault with the social network bans, and I don't even mind the Google Play Store ban (given the ability to sideload apps, including alternate app stores, on Android), but …

So, $7.2M per life lost.

Task managers must also have traffic spikes early in the new year...

If you've devoted yourself to a novel anarchist monetary project, I would imagine you might see your job as political regardless of which aspect you worked on.

I think what he's saying is that no-one would be willing to take over as CEO unless they had two years of runway ahead of them.

FAANG companies will have smaller teams working on various new/experimental products. Without a large userbase you'll be able to iterate faster. You can try to get transfered to on…