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kwamenum86

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About kwamenum86

Currently: Leadership Coach and Consultant at Magnetic (magnetic-inc.com).

Previously: Software engineer and manager at Facebook, Asana, and Meebo

Recent public activity

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    Hilariously none of the replies evaluated the deck on the merits. What has HN even become.

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    We’re in the early innings of the AI transformation. You might be right but we’re talking about less than 5 years of AI, versus decades for what you cited

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    Comment #45546384

    They said the same about social media. Don’t conflate value creation with value capture. It can often lag, which creates the appearance of a bubble. To me, engagement through the r…

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    Comment #45546311

    Fastest and most drastic technological transformation of all time: https://www.bondcap.com/report/pdf/Trends_Artificial_Intelli... So nah.

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    Comment #44549751

    Librechat seems perfect for your use case. It’s open source as well. Used by many of the big techcos to solve the problem you’re describing, so it’s battle tested https://www.libre…

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    Comment #44235806

    To me, this sounds like a reframing of the classic advice “focus on your process”. Success is emergent - it can rarely be brute forced. What matters is the process you use for navi…

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    Comment #35438542

    No need to use AWS at all - Jupyter Nbconvert: Jupyter Nbconvert is a command-line tool that allows you to convert Jupyter notebooks into various formats, including HTML, PDF, and …

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    Comment #32715008

    (disclaimer: used to work for Facebook) I had similar doubts about the Metaverse concept until recently. However, Meta has done a great job (better than any other company in histor…

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    Comment #26033633

    If you're interested in learning more about this subject check out The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art https://www.amazon.com/Aesthetic-Brain-Evolved…

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    Comment #21251897

    Direct link to the original article that Voxsnap republished https://www.atrium.co/blog/seed-stage-funding-startups/

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    Comment #18620468

    I think you're taking lots of liberties here so I'll try once more: I think that actively or passively resisting progress toward greater coexistence is antisocial and therefore pat…

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    Comment #18620093

    I think you're misinformed. There are plenty of people who are either fine with status quo (which is not totally equitable from my POV) or completely fine with prejudice. Few peopl…

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    Comment #18619841

    I was lucky enough to grow up around black scientists, engineers, and intellectuals. So I have deep self belief and, to me, emulating behaviors of non-blacks (or other genders, or …

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    Comment #18619658

    That's fair and I shouldn't have let that color my opinion of the entire community. But for hot button issues knee jerk reactions do tend to set the tone for conversations, if not …

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    Comment #18619621

    Absolutely. In the ideal world, we all work together to find something that works. In reality, we're prone to change resistance so when we disagree with a new policy (regardless of…

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    Comment #18619530

    Based on many conversations over the years. Anecdotal evidence to be sure but quite a lot of it.

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    Comment #18619504

    Lots of tech companies do require diversity/bias training for managers and interviewers. It's often counterproductive. In my experience people either don't take the training seriou…

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    Comment #18619427

    Absolutely, here's my email kwame@magnetic-inc.com

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    Comment #18619278

    You misunderstand. I'm saying that being against a better working environment for everyone is literally pathological because it's antisocial behavior. I didn't say disagreeing with…

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    Comment #18618719

    The first 3 comments in this thread "The Left is eating itself." "Good thing they shielded me from that post. I don't know if I could have taken reading that." ">ex manager >manage…

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    Comment #17775587

    It was previously [dead] - I guess mods revived it