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I used to work with a very senior engineer who is now retired who had a job which involved VERY LITTLE OR NO WORK. This may or may not be your situation. He was one of the happiest…

Probably because there is no worthwhile business model. Selling single chips doesn’t work. And they tried bundling with cloud services to get it and that probably didn’t work. And …

This list is missing Guillotine from the extended “legend” section. He wasn’t himself guillotined but for awhile there was confusion that he was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo…

You are correct. If you lay them off there are lots of expenses. If you scare them off then they will leave for free. He is attempting to shake the tree before taking over on purpo…

They probably have a layoff coming which is closer to 50% than to 10%. Does he want to be the one who does it? Probably not. Does Intuit need another CEO floating around? Probably …

Tasteful plug: https://youtu.be/Hjt5Mnrb__w Been expecting this since working on edge computing software ecosystem at NVIDIA.

I was working at a similar company the last two years. I was completely bored and not learning anything. Now I feel like I am learning more in a daily basis than I learned in an av…

The model that makes sense to me is what DYDX is doing with their decentralized platform. They use the blockchain to settle and track finalized transactions and offload computation…

I feel this article misses a lot of the historical context when RoboCop was created, it's themes and why it fit this time. I don't see how you can talk about RoboCop without mentio…

I once was in a discussion between two former VPs. They were mentioning someone who had been at their prior co for 20 years. VP 1: “Jason? He is still there? How?” VP 2: “He never …

Similar experience The good news is there is nearly unlimited demand for programming work. However, you have to filter it very carefully, learn how to market yourself and become ve…

Preface: This article is likely focusing on non-developer platform projects. There are plenty of scenarios in Web3 which don't target developer end users so this article is probabl…

This is probably meant to be, partially, in comparison to Warren Buffet, who famously claims to invest based on reading of financial statements (and other documents) in search of “…

The problem with incoming recessions is if everyone expects them, then everyone knows they are coming, so they price it in, then they go “well, we priced that in, so now we can go …

This is actually very good advice from personal experience. The best career results (promotions) I have seen came from people who built a prototype of some sort then evangelized it…

imo there are often several components to burn out... - going at it too hard, for too long - letting your health and body deteriorate - having your goals change without noticing - …

The bad news is it sounds like you have absolutely nothing. The good news is it sounds like you have absolutely nothing. How I would love to move to Taiwan or Vietnam for six month…

This article came up on twitter last month. I remember finding it very interesting and taking the time to systematically untangle it. I will try to do a good job of explaining all …