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Slightly lower than one of MIT's alumni doing the same. It's telling that Jane Street stayed away from the whole mess despite the connection.

Counter proposal: I'll learn to relax

'Cannot' being the operative word. 'Did not' does not necessarily mean 'cannot'.

Writing simply helps me to think clearly. So journaling is just a way for me to crystalize my thoughts. And it works great for that. It also helps me see patterns I might not be aw…

Not only that, software is a unique sector in which a lot of the capital is in the talent. These companies aren't laying off labor that have few choices. They're budding off knowle…

Nothing is more expensive than cheap talent. Besides, the market is still super tight and shows very few signs of loosening. What we're seeing is that the old-guard companies have …

I have personally been approached by internal recruiters for a position just after the company very publicly laid off people with my title and are going after 'middle management'. …

Are there any journalism democratization efforts we should be aware of? An organization who has incentives aligned with providing journalism for the people?

>"Don't get me started on having to fill out sections in a form that are just resume sections" I haven't been laid off but I've been dipping my toe in the past few months because I…

If they weren't here, we wouldn't be able to talk about it. I'd be interested to know if we're in an element rich vein of the wider universe or if all the good stuff is more or les…

Right. And the tech unemployment rate still went down despite layoffs up to November's doorstep. There's no data on November, yet. Will be interesting if November arrests that down…

- First thing in the morning, standups followed by coaching sessions (basically pair programming or code review) for sticky problems Then it varies. - 1:1s - project or program (in…

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke and How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas W. H…

With all of the options these days, I'd wonder about the characterization of 'intrensic'.

Just like when you step out of the ocean in wet trunks you reduce ocean levels.

The only shocking things about this layoff at Cisco, which happen about once a year, is that it didn't happen during their normal time in the summer and that the numbers are so mod…

Truly intelligent machines. Got it.

Purpose is made, not found. The meaning of life is to create meaning. Now let's get to the real question; How do you live with mindful intention? How do you create the meaning you …

Considering the severance, Meta might have just realeased the biggest pre-seed funded class ever.

Perhaps. And perhaps some will go and create their own companies and create more demand.

No matter how the deaths were counted in the moment, excess death counts after the fact saw an increase of 12.8% during Covid in Ontario. So, unless there was another mysterious ca…

It happens in the US, too. Primarily due to badly managed privately held, for-profit care where supply and demand aren't joined up. (because it's a hospital and avoiding death is i…

Can words and word structure capture all ideas? (I'm using 'words' in a very broad sense as packets of information that can be communicated sequentially). It's a broader and easier…

AI will enhance middle management and make things easier, but people problems are complex in a way that AI is a loooooong way off from understanding. Once they figure that out, it'…

They have one lever, and it isn't innovation.