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by sshumaker 5y ago
The gold standard job transition book for “leadership roles” is the First 90 Days [1]. I re-read it every time I change roles. The #1 mistake people make is try to apply the lessons of their last job and and propose big changes without havi
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by sshumaker 5y ago
Actually, most tech companies have employment agreements that prevent exactly this sort of behavior. When you are dealing with IP, you don’t want this leaking to a competitor. And when you are a big tech company, almost any other tech compa
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by sshumaker 5y ago
Why no equity?
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by sshumaker 5y ago
I am a former game dev who worked for one of the top AAA game studios in the world in a lead programmer role. At my first FAANG job, my compensation was like 2x higher than game dev. Now it’s many times higher still but admittedly I have be
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by sshumaker 5y ago
I have hired a number of EAs before. Some general suggestions: * if you are flexible about location, consider areas other than the Bay Area. Top talent here is expensive. A top flight EA might run 125k/year in the bay. * great EAs tend
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by sshumaker 5y ago
During the pandemic, crime has shifted from preying on tourists to hitting big box businesses. Particularly pharmacies like CVS/Walgreens and high value items at grocery chains. It’s indeed a problem, but vastly blown out of proportion
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by sshumaker 5y ago
Yes, which is why games that really took advantage of the hardware like Crash Bandicoot just used tons of small triangles.
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by sshumaker 5y ago
I used to think that. Then I started wearing a continuous glucose monitor (levels) for longevity reasons. Holy crap, a latte with Oatly spikes my blood glucose like crazy compared to whole milk. There’s way more sugar in there vs fat and it
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by sshumaker 5y ago
Coach: “What’s the real challenge here for you?” “What do you need to get to an estimate?” Offer help: “What do you need to get unblocked?” “Let’s sit down together and see if we can figure this out.” Hold them accountable: “I understand, b
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by sshumaker 5y ago
Actually there is now a ton of contribution from Microsoft as well.
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by sshumaker 5y ago
I built tech like this at a startup in 2010. It was aimed at musicians but basically the same idea - transparent version control of all of their DAW projects and easy collaboration (sending of huge projects, hard a decade ago). In this case
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by sshumaker 5y ago
Check out mindbloom.com. About 150$/treatment, is done virtually (they mail you the medication). Multiple friends have used and have had great results.
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by sshumaker 5y ago
I use Bear on the Mac. Super simple, works on iOS too, fast, syncs cleanly.
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by sshumaker 5y ago
Walter - no one is advocating for a radical 180 degree change of humanity. But even within the United States we have seen radically different approaches to inequity. Today’s economy most closely resembles the Gilded Age when it comes to con
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by sshumaker 5y ago
They only do so in agricultural societies. Hunter-gatherers (how we spent the vast majority of our history) have fewer children spaced further apart. Being on the move doesn’t lend itself to large families.
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by sshumaker 5y ago
If that’s the case the AI needs some work. :P
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by sshumaker 5y ago
It’s more fundamental than that, it’s just simple economics. If a companies didn’t pay more than people are currently making at their current job, they wouldn’t be able to hire experienced talent in meaningful numbers. So virtually all comp
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by sshumaker 6y ago
This approaches biases against those whose residency status is dependent on employment (e.g. H1Bs). There’s no silver bullet when it comes to hiring.
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by sshumaker 6y ago
Virtually no one is an atheist, if you take the Sapiens definition of religion: “a system of human laws and values, which is founded on a belief in a super human order." (Super human orders are not the product of human whim or human ag
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by sshumaker 6y ago
Yes but this is true of all jobs. If you want to climb the ladder it requires extra work particularly between levels as you typically have to already be doing the job of the next level to get promoted into it. Work life balance doesn’t mean
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by sshumaker 6y ago
This approach also completely overlooks the fact that most sophisticated products are multi-client: web and native mobile app. In this world you want APIs that can mostly be shared across platforms, as mobile should operate as more of a thi
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by sshumaker 6y ago
Love the idea! Is there a place to signup yo get notified when you arrive in SF?
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by sshumaker 6y ago
How do you make 2) happen practically? I’ve done as the sibling poster suggested and just not tell people how much something cost and ask them for a smaller % for their share. But it feels a bit icky sometimes.
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by sshumaker 6y ago
There’s a great interview of Fauci explaining exactly how we got it done so fast. But basically - years of precursor work had been done on both other coronaviruses and mRNA vaccines. So they were in phase 1 trials in 6 weeks. https:/&
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by sshumaker 6y ago
Can you imagine if Google were the ones behind the great filter and panopticon that is the Chinese internet? Corporations are made up of human beings and at some point if you have any values you have to take a stand. The whole current philo
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by sshumaker 6y ago
Indeed. Can you imagine the alternate reality if the Saudi branch of Islam was something more like Sufism instead of Wahhabism, given the number of mosques the Saudis have funded all around the world with petrodollars?
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by sshumaker 6y ago
And just how do you think the school ratings are calculated? Graduation rates. Job acceptance rate into industry. Oh, wait, that sounds like a self-reinforcing cycle. Structural racism runs deep.
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by sshumaker 6y ago
It’s only a “privilege”, by definition, if you have it and others don’t. So the main point about checking your privilege is recognizing the advantages your privileges confer and how to use those advantages to help those without.
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by sshumaker 6y ago
In practice, “internal competition” isn’t competing in the way the free market does. The most politically connected product tends to win, not the one that has the best odds of success. And if you let these all go to market, you risk eroding
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by sshumaker 6y ago
Facebook is used as the public square for a third of the entire world’s population. They have used this platform to extract value to the tune of billions of dollars, making Mark one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. They have more

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