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I'm in growth. When I hire in sales roles, I prioritize domain expertise.

I think the feeling is if we want to even keep our current footing in the market we have to increase productivity by 10x because everyone else is as well.

And if everyone else is, the productivity floor is raised but every other competitor has done the same so we don't have 10x the economic output, maybe only a marginal increase. If that is true, then there will be no days off because we have just reset the status quo.

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Oh weird, I also perceive an increased pressure on my ears, but it's only with my over-the-ear headphones when turned on. My in ear ANC headphones don't do the same.

Slight tinnitus here but had it for as long as I can remember.

This story is under the title "Government Surplus" and is indeed quite a tale (and on point for MIT students).

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/government_surplus.html

Domain is all government, but the tech is different across each of them.

I love talking too, part of why I think pre-sales is a lot of fun. And I actually love my CRM work from a data perspective, but my background is in synthesizing data and optimization. Once I turned my sales process into a network optimizing problem, it became extremely interesting to me and imperative to keep the data current.

That is true. My current work is in bespoke environments with mainly non-technical buyers who have been burned in the past. Our POCs are pretty minor lifts to build credibility and have worked extremely well.

If you're working in SaaS or commodity products and have to run POCs a lot, you're totally correct.

My path went from engineering-aligned (math) to engineering management back to engineering to product to program management to solutions engineering to account executive.

Honestly I had a negative connotation about sales for most of my career, but turns out I really love it. The exposure to different problems every day is awesome and more like a puzzle than work to me. I feel a bit of reverse imposter syndrome though, like I should feel bad that I didn't "make it" as a real engineer. So that's a weird feeling.

One thing I try to do in my company is pull engineers into sales calls and proofs-of-concepts if I can. I think that exposure to both real users and unique environments is important for their growth and novelty in the job.

The simplex method in linear programming was one of the first times I ever had something relatively complex "click" for me.

It's funny, I still think about that feeling weekly. My memory of it happening while working out a homework problem is actually sort of like in the first Harry Potter movie when Harry gets his wand: warm, bright lighting, widening eyes, and a feeling like my head was a helium balloon.

Reads like a bunch of CYA soundbites from a man who was incompetent and never should have been in the position he was in.

Much like many others in this administration. People worth their merit to lead these organizations say no, so we're left with egotistical personnel who were destined to top out at middle management.

I've found that handwritten letters, to my friends and to my colleagues, tends to go a very long way in making someone's day. Something that takes me ten minutes tends to make a difference for a month of more.

>She explained that that were she lived (Boston) you just couldn't safely wave at just anybody you passed.

This is the most hilarious thing I've read on this site. Your cousin might get some weird looks waving to random people, but why would they feel unsafe? I have never known more of my neighbors than in Boston, and I've lived all over the U.S.

Ironically, I don't think Musk or Trump grasp how much of the military logistics and fundamental readiness rely on DoD civilians. The same ones they want to reduce by 8% over the next few months.

How does this work on the TV?

Modern US policy is a maximum of 30 days. [1]

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/31/2002242359/-1/-1/1/DOD...

I agree. We're seeing great results for very narrow use cases using smaller LLMs too. It's no different than classical ML and emerging AI over the past 10 years. If you don't have a well scoped use case, you're not going to succeed.

Now the one API wrapper projects that I love are my meeting transcription and summarization apps. You can tear those from my cold, dead hands.

There is a similar issue playing out in Boston too, where the MBTA, the public transit authority that operates the busses and trains predominately in the Boston metro, is a state entity.

Probably because it's pilot training bases and the maneuvers they perform tend to throw off the ADS-B due to signal issues.

https://www.gpsworld.com/one-gps-mystery-solved-another-rema...

I mostly agree. If I were them, this acquisition would be to augment building a baseline of traffic and patterns of life so they can better identify anomalies in the future.

Anyone who is putting you down for being genuinely interested is not someone worth your time. Sorry you had to go through that.

A good manager will find ways to communicate with each individual, usually in an individualized fashion (I say this as an ex-military, but nerdy city slicker guy). Sometimes it takes me a few tries to figure it out for everyone, but it's been helpful to connect with everyone on my team and even outside collaborators.

> For example, when I got a new boss and all the underlings went to them and start chatting about the boss's favorite sports teams and hobbies to get on their good side. I refused to do that. I'll be friendly, like any other new hire.

I don't know if I would consider this to be only getting on their good side. In many cases, if I am going to spend a significant amount of my life working with someone, I do want to get to know a bit about them and that includes their hobbies and interests outside of work. To me, that is being friendly and I also do that with new hires.

Vermont passed a law like this in 2013, designed to help those with incurable diseases choose when to pass. Vermont Public Radio recently did a good podcast on it.

https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/202...

Stata is fairly ubiquitous in statistical circles, especially those working in econometrics. While I preferred using Stata in academia, it is expensive and R is similar, just not as easy to use.

You can on Android, and have for some time IIRC. This is how I get free wifi on my computer by passing it through my T-Mobile phone.

I think people are missing a huge impact that GPS has beyond positioning. GPS transmits timing signals. Those timing signals are used in industries throughout the world to sync transactions. Without which, you are left to syncing via potentially untrusted clocks. Finance [1] is a huge example of the ubiquity of adoption of GPS timing.

[1] https://qz.com/1106064/the-entire-global-financial-system-de...