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bharath28on Ask HN: Managers of HN, how do you organize your 1:1 notes?

Thank you for all your answers - the handbook link is super useful!

bharath28on Ask HN: Managers of HN, how do you organize your 1:1 notes?

That's a great idea and makes a lot of sense. I'm curious, what do you actually want to spend the majority of your time on in 1:1s?

bharath28on Ask HN: Managers of HN, how do you organize your 1:1 notes?

Thank you so much for offering such great insights. I love the general flair of keeping the process light. I do have a couple more questions:

a) When does your google doc go "stale"? (The next 1:1? At the end of the year? When you stop having 1:1s with that person?)

b) In your approach, are there things you don't want to share but want to make note of (performance related notes, future ideas etc)? What do you do in these cases to stay organized?

c) If you are managing a team of several people over large time periods, that's a lot of google documents. Do you have the need to stay organized over time? How do you do it?

bharath28on Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?

@janee - This is an industry I am trying to learn more about and get into as well. Would love to get some advice. Is there a way to get in touch? My email is on my profile if you'd prefer to not leave info on here.

bharath28on Facebook’s Virtual Assistant M Is Dead

More importantly, how do you know Dominoes (or someone else with an incentive) is not driving you down a certain path? This happens today already with Ads, Fb feed, instagram etc... but there is something distinctly suspicious about taking away specific control points in the decision making process.

bharath28on A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm

For those who are interested in the topic, i just finished reading this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3109.The_Omnivore_s_Dile.... The author follows the ingredients of a meal he makes all the way back to the farms. He seems to romanticize certain notions of naturally grown foods and at other times, is given to polemic against the agriculturally industrial complex (quite justifiably at times). The book itself was a lesson in the history of agriculture, nutrition, politics, policy, cooking, animal husbandry and the organic food industry. There is a part of the book where he talks about the huge industrial setup behind organic food and tries to distinguish it from the vicissitudes of the small scale farmers life. He even turns into a hunter gatherer for a little to experience life as it was before agriculture. It was a totally fascinating read and i recommend it.

bharath28on Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered

Earth would keep contact with colony A which would be slightly different. Colony A would keep contact with colony B which would be slightly more different. It would only take a few tens of hoops to get to something different enough that would classify as alien. At interstellar distances, this is a definite possibility. Isaac Asimov's empire, foundation and robot series have some fascinating (hypothetical) examples of this.

bharath28on The evolution of eyes

Richard Dawkins has talked about this fascinating subject several times in interviews (and in his books). It is a beautiful demonstration of how complexity and seemingly magical things can emerge from small changes over large periods of time. e.g: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzERmg4PU3c

bharath28on Gmail Launches Add-ons

Clearly Google Now/Home uses gmail data to be relevant.

bharath28on Is the Universe Conscious?

As far as i can see it, to be conscious is to have a subject experience of reality and (this is i am sure about yet) to have some sense of purpose (however mundane).

To talk about the universe being conscious in this sense, seems to be meaningless to me. I get this strange feeling that we are trying to force something that is vastly mysterious (numinous, not divine) into our world view of how lifeforms work on earth.

Reminds me of a fascinating discussion with Richard Dawkins from a while ago. If you can ignore the pseudo-scientific babble from Deepak Chopra and the annoying host, Dawkins makes some deeply interesting points worth thinking about.

https://youtu.be/BiwLrxPb1fE?t=16m12s

bharath28on Introducing Surface Book 2

Just the quality of the writing is poor overall. It's not exactly grammatically incorrect, just seems like it was done because someone asked them to do it and not because they were really excited about the product.

At one point, the blog entry says: "In product making, we believe every detail matters. ". Those of the type of things Steve Jobs would never let Apple push out as PR.

bharath28on I Am Not a Monster: Science has turned the squid from a monster into a marvel

Definitely worth a read. If you end up with the official audio book on Audible (which is what i did), the narrator is pretty good too.

bharath28on I Am Not a Monster: Science has turned the squid from a monster into a marvel

If you found the article interesting, i highly recommend this book: "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness". It is a fascinating description of how cephalopods are the closest thing to intelligence that is built vastly different from us. The author also explores philosophical questions (à la Thomas Nagel) What does it feel like to be an octopus? Does it have multiple selves? The book doesn't have all the answers and sort of fizzles out at the end, but definitely one of my better reads this year.

bharath28on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)

If you are interested in deep learning and how the space is evolving, this is the place to be. Floydhub is working on tons of super interesting problems, the solutions to which will make DL algorithms and GPU cloud infrastructure accessible to everyone.

Disclosure: I am friends with the founders.

bharath28on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)

Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B

Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer in test (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B

Come be part of a team that is building the next generation developer platform for our digital stores across Alexa, Twitch, Amazon App Store, Lumberyard and many others. Our team builds developer.amazon.com & drives developer relationships for Amazon. We are also building a product that makes standing up new digital storefronts easy. We are changing the way digital economies are setup. For you, that means solving problems that haven't been solved before at massive scale & make breathtaking impact for hundreds of millions of customers.

We are growing rapidly and are looking for engineers to the build the future. Reach out to swalexis at amazon.com to learn more about the team and positions we have open. If you are in the Seattle area and want to chat over coffee, ping me.

bharath28on Twenty-First-Century Alchemists (2016)

Definitely seems like an interesting read. Thanks for the recommendation!

bharath28on Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home

There is such a thing as being heroic & not stupid.

bharath28on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

I know from personal experience that they are working on very cool and important problems at the forefront of the deep learning space. Seriously, talk to them.

Disclosure: I am friends with the founders.

bharath28on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)

Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B

Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer in test (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B

We are growing rapidly and are looking for engineers to the build the future. Reach out to sarthomp at amazon.com to learn more about the team and positions we have open. If you are in the Seattle area and want to chat over coffee, ping me.

bharath28on Tesla raises $1.8B

What they care about is being part of the future...today!

And why is this bad?

bharath28on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)

Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B

Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer in test (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B

At Amazon, we care deeply about our developer community. Come be part of a team that is building the next generation developer platform for our digital content across Alexa, Twitch, Amazon App Store, Lumberyard and many more touch points. Our team is making “developing for Amazon” easy. Our platform creates a seamless unified experience for developers to submit digital content including Alexa skills, Apps for Amazon devices, In-app digital goods, games and plenty more. We are looking for world class Software Developers & Quality Engineers. Reach out to sarthomp@amazon.com to learn more about the team and positions we have open.

bharath28on SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

I am sorry to hear what you guys are going through, and kudos for posting this here.

We are hiring for several positions at Amazon in our Seattle office working on some really cool stuff. Please send resumes to sarthomp at amazon.com and say you found out on Hacker News. We'd love to make this work for you.

bharath28on What Is Space? It’s not what you think

Seconded - very well written, funny and easy to follow along.

bharath28on IBM Claims 5nm Nanosheet Breakthrough

Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14485960

bharath28on Microdosing: People taking LSD with breakfast

This is one where I am fairly confident the future will not tell anything new.

On a related note, watch James Randi swallow an entire bottle of Homeopathic sleeping pills in this talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi

bharath28on Five world map styles

Ah, I see now.

bharath28on Five world map styles

I concur. Of the maps proposed, other than maybe the Peter's projection version, i don't see any practical value for wide option of any of the other maps. Peter's projection is interesting because it correctly depicts the relative sizes of nations and gives better perspective to things most people think about (for example, how large Africa really is). Reading too much into things like the grand meridian was chosen because of colonial supremacy is pointless. Yes sure it was, but it works and the cost to switch is too high. Any other arbitrary place we choose as reference will have the same problems in the future.

bharath28on Five world map styles

That would still hold true in an east-up map.. We are projecting out of the plane of the map when we stand up/walk..

Separate note - while i get that north-up is just a convention and a mental construct, the south-up map really threw me off. As i was staring into the map, I felt the urge to turn my monitor around and had the same visceral need to set things right as i would upside down on a roller-coaster. This caught me completely by surprise because i was expecting to just make a mental note that this was a new convention i could get used to. Instead i "felt" uncomfortable - did this happen to anyone else?

bharath28on CRISPR used to genetically modify viable human embryos for the first time

Why was that offensive? As far as i can see, the feedback was devoid of any vitriol. I'd gladly take any of that kind.