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The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech
In tech, switching jobs almost always comes with either a financial or a title upside. However, it doesn’t always come with both. Switching for higher compensation can result in a “lower” title, like going from Senior Software Engineer to SWE 2 or VP Engineering to Senior Engineering Manager. This
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Product Manager vs. Product Marketing Manager vs. Product Owner
Product Owner is a role you play on a Scrum team. Product Manager is the job. — Melissa Perri.
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A reading list for new engineering managers
<p>Like many engineers, I got thrown into management without any real guidance. I thought management was just telling people what to do. I thought there wasn’t any real science to it; you just needed to feel your way through it. I was wrong: there’s a whole field of study here, and you can learn a lot by…
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Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations
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Leaving Mozilla
I don’t think any little girl grows up with the goal of “I want to be an OSS Android browser developer” and to be totally honest, even as an adult I just kin...
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Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus
On dismantling data's ship of Theseus.
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The Roblox Microverse
Roblox is something new and interesting that abstracts away the platforms underneath it.
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Is Norway the New East India Company?
Gas and oil, and opium
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75% of the original Disney+ executive team is no longer at Disney
Ricky Strauss' departure was a longtime coming
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The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct.
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Why inflation is not a threat
I have just posted this thread on inflation on Twitter. It will feature in 'Money for nothing and my Tweets for free' in due course: Current debate about inflation isn’t really about whether it’s likely: it isn’t. Instead it’s about whose vision of the future is going to win. Is it...
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Early Retirement (2006)
The joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young.
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Repealing Section 230 won’t do what anyone wants
Abolishing platform immunity won’t do what anyone wants
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McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge
Leaked slides document the lies, sleaze and profiteering.
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The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
Amazon’s logistics investment makes the company increasingly attractive to 3rd party merchants.
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I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months
I believe there is a non-trivial chance that the United States will experience a rolling series of “Ireland events” over the next 30-45 days, where the Covid effective reproductive number (Re not R0) reaches a value between 2.4 and 3.0 in states and regions where a) the more infectious UK-variant (or similar) Covid…
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Tyler Cowen is a curator of talent
Tyler Cowen is an economist that has spotted top talent in fields ranging from biotech to literature, often years before insiders. How does he do it?
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Pro rata is a bad term for founders
For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade and was comfortable with it. As a partner at YC, I thought it made enough sense that I helped...
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BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet
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Clubhouse’s Inevitability
Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
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Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way
Geothermal seems so simple, endless heat out of the ground. It is currently a niche electricity source, generating 0.4% of electricity in the United States. Several factors have kept geothermal from scaling.
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Chilling Effects
In what sense do 10% of people die of the cold? Also, why are heat-related deaths most common in Greenland?
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Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future
It's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
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Using government guidelines to police content: state censorship?
YouTube's decision to demonetize podcaster Bret Weinstein raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture
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We deserve better than Confluence and Notion
If you ever were in the situation of looking for a tool to manage the knowledge of your organization, chances are you ended up choosing between Notion and Confluence. A handful of other tools also exist in this field, large players like Microsoft Sharepoint or Google Drive, niche tools like …