spandrew

I love this article; it's well written and accurate. But in my experience the bigger problem is that companies aren't using data at all.

Data-ignorant decision is a killer, too.

I cancelled my Amazon Prime after this email. $2.99 isn't a lot, but I was already on the fence given all of their good shows were heading to the dumpster fire that is the + premium channels; Paramount+ AMC+ channels, etc.

So far I haven't missed it. I watch more YouTube than any of these services anymore.

Being a good manager starts with a desire to experiment and constantly change processes to improve your team's happiness and productivity. So the 'good' manager should be able to make both work?

With RTO, however, there is A LOT more wasted time. With all that extra time walking to meetings, water cooler conversations, and the busywork of running an office I can definitely see how bad managers and employees can hide more.

I would bet Photoshop + Wacom or Procreate given the simple brushwork.

"Henrique and I are responsible for the decisions that led us here, and seeing so many talented folks go through this experience is never what you hope for as a founder."

~ Responsible but not accountable, got it.

Someone in 2006 asked what Apple would bring to the cellphone market, too.

The issue with Apple and the automotive market is the units don't have enough turnover for Apple's business model to thrive.

Software had infinitely less demands on its usability and non-technicalness. Maybe it would be cheaper to have IT and have'm maintain this; but I doubt it.

What the heck? Politics at play here I assume. OpenAI was hitting zingers.

RIP Sam. Cut down too early; not given the chance to become the next crazy CEO tech baron.

I'm starting to suspect there's more to securely stowing user data than throwing it on a bunch of 4TB SSDs!

I thought the backlash was a bit greedy by the devs? Unity is a great tool that you don't really pay for compared to foundational software in other verticals? It was like installs over 1 million (so over 1 million in revenue), which functionally netted out to about 10k - 20k per company. That seems... OK?

Agreed. This is like blaming the user for your bad UX. Nope, the solution increased the complications of a very complex problem set (scaling software development).

There are no silver bullets that can solve this. Only well-designed systems accommodate for the flexibility of human error and hubris can do that.

Or grow up and accept that a volume of emails and comms are expected when you're coordinating with dozens of other human beings.

I think you nailed it. This is more than plausible, given Apple's penchant for valuing the packaging of technology (its application) over the sheer horsepower of cutting-edge tech. More performance per power draw would 100% fit with that and enable a lot of applications; Vision, Apple Watch, etc.

It's amazing how often tech media works themselves over.

Sorry, but this is not accurate: People messaging over Slack 100% makes us more effective. Like any technology, including printing 20 pages of status report, there are ways to be efficient with them, and ways to be inefficient with them.

The workforce right now are growing up as digital natives. Time to act like it.

Your point is true, but as many trillion dollar businesses have been created with the "hey look at this cool tech!" school of thinking as the "focus on problems" school of thinking. Google thought they'd sell to Yahoo before they hit pay dirt.

It's a crap shoot, pal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sorry to hear about your brother passing. Hopefully this gives options in future, as you said. Thanks for sharing

Give everyone the option to choose which browser they'd like to use by default. 99% will choose Google. Who the eff cares about this.

Or... do?

77k fine for a net worth of $10-14 million from his businesses, and a 5 years sentence at a minimum security prison (with the likelihood of parole much earlier) is not a bad retirement plan.

I'm not sure if you're wrong. What about boredom? Boredom isn't pleasure, or unpleasure. There could be some unpleasure associated with it, or it could manifest in daydreaming if the boredom is a nice reprise from a busy schedule.

Anyone who's been to a nil, uneventful football match has felt this.

Sovereignty matters more. You can't just assassinate someone based on your own laws in someone else's jurisdiction. That's anarchy.

It doesn't matter whether it's free or you're paying either — your consumer data from the grocery store and other retail purchasers is already tied to the ad grid too. If you buy a can of cat food you'll get cat toy ads on Instagram.

The harsh reality, despite what privacy pundits might say, is that people... just don't really care. And that's fine? It's great Apple lets me tell an app not to track me. But if they didn't? It doesn't make material difference to me. Okay I bought cat food and now I see cat toys Instagram ads that I may or may not buy... okay?

It's not like insurance companies are able to use the data to deny you health coverage or something (yet, anyway). It's just used to support more consumerism atm. When that bridge is crossed then people might care, until then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I often see articles like this, and they seem to think the message people takeaway from nihilistic meanderings like this is "nothing is forever therefore your toils are folly". The author failing to see the time you spend together with your family will also fade to nothing.

The solution is a balanced life, realizing that only examples of things that resonated beyond their time are the toils, both failed and otherwise, of humans. And there is no meaning of life other than to experience life. So toil away; and spend time enjoying your family & friends.

This is fine though. All of these things, including the original sources, are philosophies as product of the time they were written. Ie. It makes sense for them to change as the society around them changes.

If one guy reads the Tao of Pooh and it helps him 'be' — that is the point. Laozi would likely agree: don't overthink it.

Ehh you're right, but they don't really have to address showstopper issues. There isn't a lot of upside value in "human issue ranking" as a scrutiny tactic to a donation. Charitable donations aren't public negotiations like they are if you're talking about gov/public funds. Just take the money on offer and build some lovely green spaces.

This type article declaring a thymus revelation is published every few years.

We've known the thymus is saving our lives — it's where the t in t-Cells derives from for years. There are very old studies of removing it from older humans and statistically seeing a decline in health. Most doctors will not remove it without a decent cause in older patients (intractable infection, for example). In those cases it's not that removing the thymus was a good approach. It was just the least-bad approach the physician had on hand to help their patient.

Never forget that everything we do, medically, is a stall. I'm glad we have blood pressure pills and better health spans than our grandparents. Eat a healthy diet, run 3 times a week, manage stress and... die anyway. That's the deal we were given as living things.

Not discounting this, but i Free-form 1:1's always have an aura of being more "improvisational" and in the moment. Good 1:1's are supposed to be semi-structured (ie not 'free form'). A shared journal, a retro exercise, etc. I have not had the experience that these build trust. Good team work, and delivering high quality work towards a common goal do that. You popping by for a 3 minute conversation in ear shot of 5 other people trying to do their work doesn't.

It may FEEL like it because those people chatting get energy from it. But it doesn't. If you need energy from people like this it's 100% a good idea. Go nuts. Personally I think people over index on this because they have no idea how to structure async team comms.

– Videos – Longform content – Team agreements to respond to things async without x-hours – Team collaboration spaces – Good sprint ceremonies like refinement – Team QA-type exercises

Ad hoc conversations also contribute immensely to what I call "comms debt". The jolt of energy you get from water cooler talk last 3 minutes, and excluded anyone not in direct proximity. If the best idea was in the head of somebody 3 rooms away you have no way of knowing it. Add dozens of these micro-interactions throughout the day and it's a recipe for comms breakdown and kliqish behaviour.

I see this a lot in User Research. Let's "get out of the building" and talk to people. A good idea in practice, but without actual goals or hypothesis product leaders mistake the first 5 opinions they collected as fact — often cherry picking sound bytes that fit right in with their own biases (and I've seen this A LOT in older leaders). This is mistaken as research. But they love it because it has that face to face energy. The feeling makes it right, regardless of the evidence.

Trust in a team is based on good communication — and an agreement on what you expect from it. If someone posts a video to Slack do people respond? Do you have ceremonies to build togetherness and understanding? All of these things are somewhat easier when you just have to deal with Zoom logistics.

Anyone who has to clean up and index the deluge of Design Sprint whiteboard stickies knows what I'm talking about. Put that shit in Miro, thanks.

Cash has a real implication accessibility as well — particularly those who may not have enough income to even hold a bank account (that may be a NA thing?). It also helps those who aren't digitally literate or may have cognitive disabilities that a screen can make worse.

In addition to some level of security — there are a lot of reasons to keep cash around.

The initial claim was speculated to be room temp and ambient pressure superconduction. 110K is a far cry from that.

The only way to prevent AI from answering questions in digital platforms is to develop a ML db on the typing style of every student across their tenure at an institution. Good luck getting that approved — departments can't even access grade or demo data without a steering group going through a 3-deep committee process.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ try paper I guess. Time to brush up on our OCR.

He almost certainly did click renew sub — esp. if that is in the flow? User researchers know very well people's recollection of their use is not reliable data.