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I think a critical component of making platform teams work is to allow internal competition between the platform team and the stream-aligned team using some other technology. In th…

Really helpful - thanks for the details!

This is really cool. Out of curiosity - how did you actually set this up for him to use? Was it on tablet or a computer or phone? Any suggestions for a dad of a 3.5 year old? Also,…

May be hard with unpredictable timing of a layoff, but I’d recommend folks look into Recurse Center: https://www.recurse.com/ After closing down my last startup I did it. It was a …

I built a command line wordle solver that provides an updated best guess as the game progresses and you learn more. Right now it's just based on word frequency, but working to add …

Oh I see. You allow this in-app. Your signup flow, though, has a start time + end time and doesn't make it clear you can add these windows in. It made me pause during sign-up and I…

Just went through sign-up flow. Heard of the product for years + interested in it. One note - I have a bit of an idiosyncratic schedule. I work 9-6:30 and then stop for the evening…

Love this idea. Some quick thoughts: 1) Tool to tool choices: Many migrations involve making decisions that are judgement calls because of service inconsistency (e.g the security r…

100% true. And a good reminder of how much exposure housing prices have to interest rates. To frame the same math another way: If you bought a house for, say, $580k with a $500k mo…

There are many photos one could take without uploading or saving them in the cloud. The question is can I safely store things locally on my device without a multi-national corporat…

My current job has a lot more video calls than prior. It took some getting used to. I find the biggest challenge to be the urge to do some low-quality work simultaneously. What's h…

As a new parent I think about this a lot in terms of how to educate my son. I find it especially relevant as my first job was starting my own SAT tutoring company. Anecdotally I fo…

Agreed. Valuation is based on sum of future profits - so essentially how profitable the business can be AND how big it can be. If 1) Ratio of fixed to marginal costs is high you ha…

Google Cloud Composer, built on top of Airflow (mentioned by a number of people here) has a great Getting Started Guide to check out: https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/quickst…

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One interesting thing to think about is how reliant Facebook is on startups. If there is a wider reduction in VC investment, Facebook may be dramatically affected (like Yahoo in ea…

I am not the founder of my company, but I ask the same thing of new hires (it's probably easier to give ideas to the non-founder). One thing that has worked well for me has been to…

Obviously this vision is compelling. I'm confused by the decision of their prototype car to not have manual control overrides (e.g steering wheel or something similar). Air travel …

As an intern project years ago I had to all the BLS data into a database for analysis. Any time I ran into an issue I would call them directly. Little known fact that every BLS dat…

Curious as to why you say that. Do you mean in comparison to other cloud infrastructure providers or in comparison or rolling your own infrastructure?

I think the dirty not-so-secret of advertising is that for most content on the web the ads are awful, poorly targeted (or at best basic retargeted). Many content producers want to …

I don't know what you mean by bubbling. The overall essay produces a quite useful heuristic. Perhaps the specific example is inspired by recent experience... But it has power for m…