Dwolb

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by Dwolb 3y ago
1) If it’s not immediately clear who should have a CTO title and why, no one should have it. Would also think you should consider for no one to have a C-suite title except for the CEO with such a small team. You’ll need those titles to be a
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by Dwolb 3y ago
Agreed. Another adjacent PoV is improvement, not complete, is the steady state. What I mean is, throughout our entire schooling career we did work and turned in assignments that got graded. They were done. The work was over. Our professions
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by Dwolb 3y ago
Industry momentum. If you’re not an accountant, and want someone to take it over for your business, they usually start you on QB.
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by Dwolb 3y ago
This is a fascinating point. Let me see if I can play this back. If a student studies DNA sequencing, they’ll learn about the compounds that make up DNA, how traits get encoded, etc. Therefore the student might expect an AI trained on peopl
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by Dwolb 3y ago
Shoot a bird laser [1] at it and if it doesn’t respond, it’s a drone. [1] https://www.birdcontrolgroup.com/
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by Dwolb 3y ago
The one in Lakeview didn’t seem to hit the mark. Residents preferred nearby Trader Joe’s, Mariano’s, Dom’s, Jewel Osco, and Whole Foods over this Wal-Mart.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Standardizing equipment can then become a revenue lever for the industry. Want people to upgrade more frequently? Tweak the definition of a 7 iron so 10% of clubs become illegal.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
They probably do. >Continued Altman, “We’ve made a soft promise to investors that, ‘Once we build a generally intelligent system, that basically we will ask it to figure out a way to make an investment return for you.'” https:&#x2F
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by Dwolb 4y ago
There’s interest rate risk, credit risk, and prepayment risk with the securities they buy. On a Treasury or guaranteed bond, there is no credit risk. On a Treasury there is no prepayment risk. Therefore if you hedge out the interest rate ri
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by Dwolb 4y ago
HR can be a great partner, but they're not going to know the role like you do.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
You make an interesting point on career fit. I’ve heard the idea discussed but never explicitly named.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Here’s how I did this at my last job at a growing start-up. My background is in engineering, but I found myself responsible for hiring people outside of my expertise for roles like marketing, sales, finance, and operations. The process: 1)
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by Dwolb 4y ago
They had good relationships with VC funds to top up portfolio companies with extra cash (debt). SVB would be lenient to the entire portfolio in exchange for access to the best performing companies. i.e. Company A is a Series A start-up that
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Interesting I hadn’t heard of that! Is this law often enforced?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Counter example: Cameras often do rely on other professions to have existed to do their thing. e.g. Architects who built city buildings, fashion designers who designed clothes, and engineers who built cars. They don’t get paid every time th
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Duolingo’s product and growth teams fell into a Moloch [1] trap. “From a god’s-eye-view, we can optimize the system to “everyone agrees to stop doing this at once”, but no one within the system is able to effect the transition without great
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by Dwolb 4y ago
In a zero-sum scenario, yes. But the positive-sum scenario would be: employees will be more productive if expectations are clear.
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Hologram announces the next generation of Hyper IoT SIM with network fallback(hologram.io)
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by Dwolb 4y ago
I'm working on a problem in this space and my current line of thinking is... 1) there isn't very good definition of what most jobs are. 2) the definition isn't pulled through all your human capital management systems (recruit
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by Dwolb 4y ago
It doesn't matter if the management team thought the shift was permanent or not. What matters is not getting fired. It's hard to get fired if your actions are in line with the consensus.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
It’s a pretty cool idea and gets to a philosophical question really quick “what do people mean when they say they like similar music?” Era? Artist? Genre? Sound? Tempo? Personally I spend my time finding similar-era music because I like to
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by Dwolb 4y ago
The new facts contradicting old facts thing is fascinating to me. Why can’t graphs properly model time or sequences?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
A couple of weeks ago I was fixing my LG ventless dryer which had a TE3 error. TE3 is coded as a thermistor error. I encountered a problem where the plastic faceplate wouldn't come off as easy as the YouTube videos made it seem. It tur
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Hilarious, thanks for the chuckle. I'd like to ride along on an ERP integration some day. I've been a part of a scaling start-up and it just feels like the kludge of tools small teams buy would be better served by a more integrate
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Maybe manufacturers could upload their design docs and ChatGPT could learn exactly what the object does and what its performance parameters are.
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by Dwolb 4y ago
How do you run financials in SF?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Have you experienced any grid power outages where your solar panels saved your day?
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by Dwolb 4y ago
Therefore they can’t optimize anything. They have 0 visibility into any of the operations and therefore can’t derive any insights or install controls. They have no idea if: Some professors more effective teachers than others. Which days stu
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by Dwolb 4y ago
OpenAI’s advances threaten the entire information production ecosystem Google has created. That is, Google has created an incredible incentive structure for virtually every (dollar weighted, by market cap) business on the planet needs to pr
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by Dwolb 4y ago
The issues with social networks aren't single dimensional. The fundamental issues that arise have to do with the medium of the internet itself. What happens communities when they can reach limitless scale and the communication channels

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