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Laid off (2008)
Here is my one piece of advice to you. The single most important thing to do as soon as you make it back to your house with that box full of stuff:
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uBeam's insider story by ex employee?
Today is the 6 month anniversary of my resignation from uBeam, a startup I'd spent the previous two and a half years working on. I had...
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England and Wales House Price Analysis
The last time I looked at house prices it went pretty well, and I ended up winning a data science competition. There I was only dealing with a million or so records, and a relatively small 120 MB dataset. Then I found out it was possible to download 3.7GB of property sale records for all of England and Wales since…
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Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
AIs limited to pure computation (Tool AIs) supporting humans, will be less intelligent, efficient, and economically valuable than more autonomous reinforcement-learning AIs (Agent AIs) who act on their own and meta-learn, because all problems are reinforcement-learning problems.
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A better offer letter
At Carta we spend a lot of time thinking about how to better educate employees on startup equity. Even new hires at Carta often don’t…
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Milking the iPhone
It feels like cracks are forming at Apple's edges. The company is straining to push out hardware updates. Supply issues are getting worse. Apple is reportedly moving away from selling beloved products like stand-alone displays and wireless routers. Meanwhile, Microsoft, Amazon, and
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Seattle: Highest Minimum Wage, Lowest Unemployment Rate
Doomsayers Keep Getting It Wrong on Higher Minimum Wages In Seattle, unemployment has fallen and business has boomed since the city raised its pay floor. Bloomberg, October 21, 2016 In 2014, Seattle passed an ordinance to eventually raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour, giving the Pacific Northwest…
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Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process
How can Automattic consistently hire the best people without ever having a single voice conversation? Let’s face it, hiring is tough. When you ask startup founders what their biggest challenge is, …
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Why I’m never buying HTC again
I’m not a tech blogger, much less an activist. I usually never write reviews about tech gizmos. I just buy devices that I think will be useful, and if my expectations aren’t met, I just…
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GCE vs. AWS in 2016: Why You Shouldn't Use Amazon
Foreword This story relates my experience at a typical web startup. We are running hundreds of instances on AWS, and we’ve been doing so for some time, growing at a sustained pace. Our full o…
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What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population
In this notebook we'll compare the median annual income of software engineers to the average annual income (GDP per Capita) in 50 countries.
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Dear “Dear GitHub”
Dear “Dear GitHub”, Thanks for your recent open letter about GitHub’s shortcomings. As an occasional contributor to Chef, a large open source project itself , I completely empathize with your position. It totally sucks, for example, when an issue is DoSsed with a wall of unhelpful +1’s, especially by people who think…
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Online music distribution companies may not want Creative Commons music
*maybe The Plot Many of the online music distribution companies: CD Baby, DistroKid, OneRPM, MondoTunes, TuneCore etc., are either rejecting, or at least not entirely happy about accepting, audio content that has been released under a Creative Commons (CC) licence, and are not accepting it into their distribution with…
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Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison
In Oracle’s early days Kathryn Gould was the founding VP of Marketing, working there from 1982 to 1984. When I heard that Larry Ellison was stepping down as Oracle’s CEO I asked Kathryn to think ab…
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The Future of Podcasting
Podcasting is stuck between the open model of the past and the push for monetization in the future. Might there be a third way that actually benefits publishers?
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Paul Graham Is Still Asking to Be Eaten
An Obviously Critical Response to “Economic Inequality” by Paul Graham
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The Reality of Missing Out
Tech is entering a period of inequality where the big winners lift the sector as a whole even as smaller companies suffer. The best example is Facebook, Google, and digital advertising.
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I believe in the 10x engineer, but
The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language.
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The Verge editor secretly joins Apple, doesn't inform the Verge
Link to: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13036012/a-note-from-the-editor-in-chief-about-chris-ziegler
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Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team
Adrian Cockcroft will be joining AWS as VP of Cloud Architecture
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Justice-as-a-Service
There’s a new wave of customer empowerment coming. It’s called Justice-as-a-Service (JaaS), and you need to know about it because it benefits you – you just don’t know it yet. We’ve all...
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How Generalised Problems Kill Startups
It’s crazy how often I hear founders say ‘I think the problem we’re really solving is X’. Hang on a second… You ‘think’? The surprising…
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Is Apple Using Swift?
Apple has been actively evangelizing the use of Swift since it was announced at WWDC in 2014. In the Platforms State of the Union, Andreas…
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