Invisible hand? Yeah maybe when you're early-stage Capitalism, in late-stage it's all about the invisible knife.
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Never underestimate the blue message bubble y'all. That's real leverage.
You the real one!
That was an expression. I didn’t mean it literally.
In a modern workplace treating people with decency and respect is a must. If you’re experiencing toxicity from “brilliant jerks” consider escalating to HR. Definitely the most under used resource at work. I think the dialogue around workplace and mental health has evolved significantly over the last 10 years.
I don’t condone Steve Jobs’ style in the 2020s moving forward. The world moved past it already and the “next Steve Jobs” I hope will recognize people’s need for psychological safety to work effectively.
There’s two events in my life where I can clearly recall what I was doing at the time. The first is 9/11. I was eight years old and I came down from my bedroom, my parents were staring at the TV in disbelief. I knew I was witnessing something important.
The second is Steve Jobs’ death. I was sitting at my college’s math center. My friend who was sitting next to me suddenly declared: “Steve Jobs is dead.” Not sure why but I cried a little bit. It felt sad, and I didn’t even know the guy.
Steve Jobs whether you hate him or love him, you can’t deny the impact he had on our world and industry. He made technology relatable. He made it Human. He redefined how humans relate to each other via the introduction of the iPhone. Smart Phones rewired how we perceive the world and ultimately our consciousness.
I remember the naysayers. It’s too expensive, he should’ve stuck to iPods. He had a knack of being unconventional. In Japan, my home country, I remember a TV show where some rich businessmen bought the iPhone but primarily used their flip phone for work. It’s a toy they said. A decade later and now almost every citizen has some kind of smart phone.
Google and Facebook built an empire on Steve’s Jobs platform and ideas. Search and social media wouldn’t have been able to scale their power so widely without the introduction of the iPhone. He left a seed and technologists grew an Amazon.
Personally I listen to his Stanford graduation speech occasionally. Whenever I feel lost in life I remember, “stay hungry, stay foolish.” Those four words takes loads off my shoulders. I could only connect the dots looking back. I don’t have all the answers and that’s okay.
Day to day at work, I’m reminded that the systems and product we build have real life users. My job is to develop a relationship of trust directly with the user. There’s a lot of temptations to take shortcuts during development from management pressure or career ambitions, but it’s easy to push back if you imagine the user next to you frustrated that their app broke because you couldn’t write a simple test. My earliest memory of this ethos stems from Steve Jobs. No matter how fast you finish coding or how impressive the technology, experience is the only thing that matters.
Apparently he was a terrible person. :shrug: Why do I care? I learnt a lot from him and never had to deal with his shit. Do my heroes have to be saints? It would be nice sure, but the best stories I’ve seen are about complex anti-heroes and he played the part perfectly.
This is the HN comments of Facebook’s latest valuation in 2007:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057
I wonder if HN will ever be bullish on a product that’s targeting the general audience. We seem to only be able to see technical expertise as the only moat. I guess this is why product managers that can’t code get paid the big bucks. Anyone know if there’s a HN made up of folks with astute product sense?
Or even better: Anyone know of a Discord server I could join. ;)
/inzˈtiNG(k)tivlē,inˈstiNG(k)tivlē/
adverb
without conscious thought; by natural instinct.
I used it correctly, the idea is that I end up on HN without thought and the bright lights surprise me.
You should've pointed out 'built', I meant 'build'.
I never would've thought making a Latex for diagrams! I can't think of an immediate use case but this is really cool!
Used to work at Uber Freight. There were definitely conversations around safety for women drivers or a lack thereof. Just wanted to point out that this statement is a little presumptuous especially if the author is not involved in the industry. Just because you're not exposed to it doesn't mean there aren't complaints. There's a documentary called Big Rig and it showcases the lives of truck drivers, some of them are women. They go into depth about the dangers of being on the road as a women, go watch it, you'll quickly realize some people do care.
Obviously in the beginning, power law will take into effect where a few people will have enough income to thrive in these platforms. I do think that these platforms will eventually have more features like pooled donation, say you could donate to a collective of creators that you care about, will lead to significant portion of the economy to more meaningful work.
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