technology
Cheap Wins and ChatGPT
People don’t really want innovation People talk about innovation a whole lot, but what they are usually looking for is cheap wins and novelty. If you truly innovate, and change the way that people have to do things, expect mostly negative feedback. If you believe in what you’re
Give Recruiters an Inch They Take a Mile Bro
Is this crazy? Yes. LinkedIn really flies under the radar as the social media platform that’s absolutely the most unhinged (View Tweet) Me, after deleting the 100th outbound email of the day (View Tweet)
The Birth of the Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Ehrenberg’s book allows us to connect some big dots. The liberation of the individual from various identities, obligations, and allegiances in the 1960s gave a new flavor to our economic individualism. The economics of the right became infused with the moral fervor of the youthful left in a grand
Technology is Not a Foregone Conclusion
Tech that provides obvious utility must first kill its hardest opponent: the status quo. Ridicule, skepticism, and apathy all take turns attempting to tear apart an idea and leave it in tatters. ^c8707a Some unfortunate byproducts: * when inventions do succeed it makes tech visionaries seems cooler than they are as
Good Tech Products Built Post 2010
Every tech product you use came out between 2000-2010. Nothing was built from 2010-2020. The culture was so broken. PMs, MBAs, SJWs, and entitlement. But the culture is changing. Wild things will be built in the next 10 years. Are you in or out? (View Tweet) False, Obsidian came out
Live Chats Suck for Information Dense Transfers
Live chat (Slack, Teams, etc.) sucks for important discussions. Thinking one line at a time lowers the quality of the discussion. Knee jerk rapid fire responses become the norm. Conversations that last weeks or even days get lost and context gets fuzzy. Threads scroll up into the past and are
What Happened to Engineering?
Im sad inventors in modern era don’t play with the "elemental plane" as much — toying with electricity, or the elements directly. We've abstracted it all to software which has kneecapped hardware innovation leaving innovations like the M1 202301130214 to companies with a ton of resources like Apple. Perhaps I'm
Meta Employees Embarrassed by Tech
frustrating to hear from people inside Meta who found the Quest 2 headsets so unreliable that they refused to use them for work or demo them for people outside the company. (View Highlight) I'm optimistic that Reality Labs will create something worth using eventually, but I find it unlikely that