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Tim Tischler retweeted
Brilliant
Chris Rock just nailed one of the biggest problems with wokeness.
Helping people who feel marginalized is good. He says so himself. The trouble starts when a good cause becomes an institution.
The first few witches were real. Then you open a witch office. Now there are salaries, budgets and pensions to justify, and the office needs a steady supply of witches to keep existing.
That’s the trap. Once a cause becomes a career, solving the problem means losing your job. So the problem never gets solved. It just keeps getting redefined.
A system built to find wrongdoing will keep finding it, whether it’s there or not.
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If you give an ADHD employee a clear outcome, high autonomy, and a tight deadline, they will deliver an extraordinary result.
If you give an ADHD employee step-by-step micro-instructions on how to do it, demand mid-day status updates, and check in every two hours, their brain will treat the micromanagement as a wall of friction and completely freeze up.
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DHH told me on My First Million that he and Jason kept a data scientist on staff for over a decade to crunch numbers and run reports.
- "We never did what the numbers told us to do."
- "What we would do was we would do whatever the hell we wanted to do."
- "And then if the numbers supported that, we'd go, those are good numbers."
- "And if the numbers didn't support that, we'd go, yeah, I don't know. There's probably some factor you haven't calculated in."
ha!
Tim Tischler retweeted
TV reporter tells David Bowie the internet is "hugely exaggerated"
David Bowie's response is the closest thing to perfection about the future.
Tim Tischler retweeted
A CEO from one of our portfolio companies shared this with their team. I’m re-sharing it with their permission, because it resonated and reflects what all founders and CEOs should be communicating.
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We are living through a period of compounding change. And in moments like this, the biggest risk is no longer making the wrong decision. It is moving too slowly while the world moves around you.
There are two paths. We can play defense:
- Protect what we have
- Optimize what works
- Wait for clarity
It feels safe. It isn’t.
Or we can play offense:
- Learn faster than the environment changes
- Use new tools to solve old problems in better ways
- And create entirely new strategies and businesses
That’s where the opportunity is.
Challenge yourself to do things faster and better than you have ever attempted. Stay uncomfortable. Stay on the front foot.
Tim Tischler retweeted
I know this has already been said a million different ways, but it's increasingly clear that playing it safe with your career right now is the riskiest thing you can do.
I’ll say it again. So many of the less than obvious papers about LLMs are equally true of humans. It’s why I don’t ask “why” questions… it invites a story rationalizing the action. Brain scans clearly show decisions happen long before the rationalization.
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Part of the challenge is that tech leadership came from the old world and it’s clear they’re grasping to understand the new, and trying to simply map the two. Prediction: old companies/leadership will fail, and replaced my AI native companies and the leaders who built them.
Atlassian’s layoffs underline a wider problem: once AI is part of the explanation, every word in a restructuring memo carries more weight. The issue is no longer only headcount. It is whether leadership language sounds honest, precise, and credible. businessquarter.co.uk/how-do…
Tim Tischler retweeted
Atlassian’s layoffs underline a wider problem: once AI is part of the explanation, every word in a restructuring memo carries more weight. The issue is no longer only headcount. It is whether leadership language sounds honest, precise, and credible. businessquarter.co.uk/how-do…
Tim Tischler retweeted
AI means people need to stop thinking so much about what their boss wants
They need to start thinking much much more about what customers want
And that will make a big difference in society: too much of it is caring about Keynesian beauty contests and other such contests that are disconnected from the direct needs of others
Less dead weight loss. More actually helping people.
Look at what this pos is doing to his dog. MFer. This is my apartment building. reddit.com/r/Austin/comments…
But what metrics will you use to focus the tinkerers?
My only advice to CEOs this year..
Hire tinkerers.
Make it high status.
Find ones that will explore the edges and (ideally) naturally gifted at teaching people.
Empower them to freely roam across the org and fix large problems that can be automated.
All your execs will complain that these tinkerers don’t understand scale or systems (rollout being a favorite word).
Listen, and ignore them. Or even better give them budget to hire a tinkerer to achieve their targets.
Give these tinkerers ambition, purpose and hard targets and watch them fly.
Tim Tischler retweeted
I'm convinced slop psychosis (Ralph/Gastown/etc.) are symptoms of a much deeper issue
There are no good evals for measuring real SWE work
Honeycomb, I've been enthusiastically switching over to you at work and the debugging has been phenomenal, but I have to admit the lack of wiki/markdown/text fields on your dashboards is painful. One of my favorite tools is the external dashboard w/ text explanation telling a story, and a dashboard without text is just .... sad! @mipsytipsy @honeycombio
When the Joker is launching an attack, you need to send more than Alfred to defend Gotham.
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This is the truth. If everyone spent 1/10th of their political energy policing the wackos on their side, we would have an entirely different politic.
The left learned all the wrong lessons from Donald Trump.
We should have learned that if you do nothing about the extremists in your movement, they will take control of your party and you will lose everything.
Instead, we told ourselves a comforting lie that half of our fellow Americans were beneath even talking to anymore. We stopped imagining a future where we could even live together. And our political class, hungry for power, let the open wounds fester.
Can we turn this around in time for November. Deeply unclear. But I know we have to try.
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Commentary: Is Jon Stewart Still the Right Person to Host ‘The Daily Show?’
The comedy vet makes his return to the desk he left in 2015 this evening, but his “both sides are equally bad” approach may not translate to 2024.
More: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/t…
