Sometimes sharing on tech's evolution and effect on the world + other work. Built products at startups and beyond.
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Well, when you put it like that
"We estimate that the decline in Nuclear power Plants caused by Chernobyl led to the loss of approximately 141 million expected life years in the U.S., 33 in the U.K. and 318 million globally". nber.org/conferences/si-2024…
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Excellent stimulating exchange on gen-AI's potential, between @erikbryn and @tejparikh90: ‘On the productivity side, I think 2024 is going to be a year of harvesting a lot of the capabilities’ ft.com/content/b71759fe-397b… via @ft
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How has AI helped you so far?
43%Understand new codebase
25%Find what's wrong
14%Write tests
18%Other (reply in thread)
28 votes • Final resultsThe hardest but most fundamental problem in (mass) video call tech STILL seems to be two people talking at the same time
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Asking if it's still worth learning to code in the age of AI is like asking if it's still worth learning to write in the age of the printing press. It's even more valuable than before. You've just gained new leverage.
I certainly won’t miss the term and title ‘Prompt Engineer’
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Product operators who proudly pooh-pooh instinct & creativity (“it’s all about the numbers!”) often don’t realize that they have that luxury precisely because of the instinct & creativity of those who built that product before them.
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The only thing that successfully let non-programmers make software is Excel.
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Mission conveys Why it is worthwhile
Vision conveys What the world will look like
Segmentation conveys Who you will serve/not serve
Strategy conveys How you’ll differentiate to win
Roadmap conveys When you’ll ship the big stuff
Metrics convey How Much progress you are making
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Born blind, John Boyer couldn't find enough Braille books to read. The Madison man created software to open access for others jsonline.com/story/news/educ…
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The best products and frameworks aren't built by committees or by mercenaries. They're built by people with a strong sense of ownership of the product and a passion for the product's purpose.
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"What if we took 2-3 months to rewrite the whole thing? Start from scratch, fix all the mistakes we know about, and we will have a clean state, all our problems solved."
There's a divide between engineers who thought about doing this, and those who did it, and it's a big one.
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to what you're not prepared for. An entity capable of adapting on the fly (like these Marines) will run circles around one that is limited to past training data.
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Some favorite survival tactics of managers who don’t actually know how to make impact:
- Need a re-org
- Must hire for a key role
- Need to fix another function
- Have a severe staffing shortage
- Organize a Strategy Summit
- Need a re-org
Can often survive for years this way.
Exactly, and tucked away on thread.com
"we will unfortunately have to cease trading and put the business into administration. We understand how disappointing this may be."
Disappointing? NO refunds / returns will leave customers out of pocket @marksandspencer @thread
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Excellent, simple visualisations and mental models in this guide to CSS Flexbox 👏
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