Always exploring. Enterprise Product Leader from Box, HackerOne, Cisco/IronPort, Amazon. Occasional tweets on food and travel. Opinions are my own.
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Joined May 2007
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Spent the weekend in my small rural hometown near Chico. Noticeable drop in active Trump flags flying (interesting). Huge lawn sign battle going over Prop 50 yes/no advocates (expected).
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I would consider voting for the America party if they can guarantee to never text me for fundraising. Gah!!
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My only question about what happened this weekend in Silicon Valley is when they make the movie we know they all will, what part will Ashton Kutcher play?
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Looking for recommendations for a virtual personal assistant service. I’d like to find something to try out for some of my own stuff and maybe some of our family stuff. Originally I thought this would be best virtual, but also wouldn’t mind exploring mid-peninsula in-person help
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Woah, the new WatchOS update made a /lot/ of changes. Many good from what I’m seeing, but I need to spend some time re-learning…
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This sounds rally interestingly. Any of my friends work at Nvidia and want to comment?
The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia is wild:
40 direct reports, no 1:1s
- Believes that the flattest org is the most empowering one, and that starts with the top layer
- Does not conduct 1:1s - everything happens in a group setting
- Does not give career advice - "None of my management team is coming to me for career advice - they already made it, they're doing great"
No status reports, instead he "stochastically samples the system"
- Doesn't use status updates because he believes they are too refined by the time they get to him. They are not ground truth anymore.
- Instead, anyone in the company can email him their "top five things" with whatever is top of mind, and he will read it
- Estimates he reads 100 of these everyone morning
Everyone has all the context, all the time
- No meetings with just VPs or just Directors - anyone can join and contribute
- "If you have a strategic direction, why tell just one person?"
- "If there is something I don't like, I just say it publicly"
- "I do a lot of reasoning out loud"
No formal planning cycles
- No 5 year plan, no 1 year plan
- Always re-evaluating based on changing business and market conditions (helpful when AI is developing at the pace that it is)
This org is optimized for (1) attracting amazing people, (2) keeping the team as small as it can be, and (3) allowing information to travel as quickly as possible
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My in-laws just called and the Orbi wifi network I setup for them a few years ago seems to have failed. It’s been solid but I’m thinking of replacing for Eero, which two other family installs of has been flawless. Any better systems I should look at for far away family?
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I didn’t really want to see this movie but now I definitely will!
I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.
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Mitt ends with: “if proven, [these allegations] would be consistent with his other actions offensive to the national interest, such as withholding defensive weapons from Ukraine for political reasons and failing to defend the Capitol from violent attack and insurrection.” Legend.
My statement on reports of the indictment of former President Trump:romney.senate.gov/romney-sta…
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Really buried the lead there, but I smile to see Blockbuster tweet from the grave..
A friendly reminder that when you used to rent videos from us. We didn’t care who you shared it with… As long as you returned it on time. @netflix
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I was there! My Mom got us near the front of the crowd leaving the SF side. So many people flooded in we basically got stuck in the middle. If you stood still and looked down you could feel the bridge swaying/pulsing. It was memorable, but could have ended very badly..
In 1987 an estimated 800,000 people flocked to the the Golden Gate Bridge for its 50th anniversary. The weight of the large crowd caused the bridge to sag 7 feet, flattening its usual convex shape. Engineer Daniel E. Mohn reaffirmed the bridge was not overstressed as a result of Bridgewalk '87.
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Truly amazing shot!
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