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I read Cal Newport's "So Good They Can't Ignore You" ( https://www.calnewport.com/books/so-good/ ) when I was around the college age, which helped me solidify a belief I always had…

Surely that cannot be? If some relatively large set of Bitcoin related energy consumption happens in datacenters. Then how does it consume more than those datacenters? This only wo…

Important? Probably not. Busy? Absolutely.

Everyone who doesn't really read, doesn't reserve a response anyway.

I see go/nohello has gone external, lovely.

You think the remaining workers are going to “get back to work faster” just because their colleagues were canned fast? That’s not how people work.

One man’s obstacle is another man’s security measure :) I used to work in Techstop, I wonder how crazy of a time that team is having right now. But I wouldn’t call them an obstacle…

I sure hope I don't live if / when that time comes.

Because they aren't the same kind of "thing". Data isn't manifested in physical space in the same way as "my house" is. For one, my home is in one physical place. A bad actor needs…

This again? Making effective encryption that lets law makers access our data, isn't just "hard" in the traditional sense. I'm willing to bet it's impossible (At least with the kind…

I'm a Xoogler myself, I understand the struggle. And I agree that I've never known any individual Googler to be evil, or intend to be evil (Although I've seen questionable decision…

I don't know, I wasn't there the whole time :)

Leadership is a skill to learn, just like programming, writing, or most other things really. People who are introverts at heart can learn to become just as good managers as those w…

No no no, Larry and Sergey are simply pivoting.

Yeah. As anyone at Google could tell you, they've been a familiar face at TGIF, and nothing more, for years. At least at the operational level. I'm sure Sundar has had much contact…

It's there on paper, but is is really still there?

"Effortless" I envy David Robson at the BBC, for whom it is apparently effortless to take time away. Because it certainly isn't without effort for me to not accidentally find mysel…

Nice article. As someone who has worked at a company that DOES operate on the bleeding edge of technology, it's also hard to go the other way. Only after applying for other jobs, h…

Based on my business trips to the SF Bay area, it's seriously Apple land over there.

Personally I've done development work on a Pixelbook for a while now (Using a cloud IDE), and I've enjoyed it greatly. If being able to run a Linux VM is what it takes for others t…