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Brice Argenson retweeted
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
Brice Argenson retweeted
Doctolib handles 250k queries per second (QPS) at peak [1].
Seems like a lot, right?
So I compared with Shopify, which handles 14 million QPS [2].
56 times more.
The scales are at a different order of magnitude 🤯.
[1] youtube.com/watch?v=9YcLHzDF…
[2] xitter.cf/ShopifyEng/status/1597…
When you want to share knowledge, you might have to choose between different formats: a post, a video or a live presentation.
Pick the one that fits the best what you want to achieve but also maximize the benefits offered by each format.
A live presentation is an amazing format to provide more interactivity. With that format, people usually expect to also see a human with all their emotions ☀️
But availability and navigability is the worst.
Brice Argenson retweeted
LLM hacking is becoming a huge problem.
Malicious images and sounds can now be used to modify the behavior of LLMs.
They can even be embedded in a website or email attachment.
Another recent paper showed that adversarial suffixes can disrupt the behavior of open source LLMs and transfer to ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and LLaMA-2.
Brice Argenson retweeted
Shopify is the best-converting platform in the 🌎. Period. And… we can prove it.
Today, we're sharing results from a Big Three global management consulting firm, and the data speaks for itself: "Shopify converts up to 36% better than the competition and 15% more on average"
Not building with Shopify is now a competitive liability.
shopify.com/enterprise/shopi…
Brice Argenson retweeted
Boss: I need X in 3 weeks.
You: To do this right X will take 4-6 weeks.
Boss: What if you don’t do it right.
You: Then X will take 7-20 weeks.
Boss: Unacceptable, it must be 3 weeks.
You: I can give you Y in 2-3 weeks.
Brice Argenson retweeted
When to Say No to a Customer's Feature Request: A B2B Guide
(source: Reforge Groups)
Brice Argenson retweeted
Companies spend way too much time planning.
Hoping that a buttoned up detailed plan will help them ship more. They hire professional planners vs builders. More planning happens.
My suggestion… focus on consistent progress by building vs trying too hard to guess the future.
Brice Argenson retweeted
jvais péter un câble en breton ptn y'a un anglais qui a fait ça 1er degré en entreprise
Brice Argenson retweeted
☁️ Meet Spin — Shopify's cloud development environment.
As complexity increased and laptops started melting, here's how we experimented, iterated, and learned in the journey towards making our dev work cloud-native 👇
bit.ly/39kqHNu
Brice Argenson retweeted
Developers, you are not victims. Do not put yourself in that position by asking for permission to do what you _know_ needs to be done.
Brice Argenson retweeted
You can now embed diagrams directly into your Markdown files, Issues and PR comments using Mermaid. Learn more - github.blog/2022-02-14-inclu…
