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Stripe Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2024
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breakdown of how bellingham is working twice as hard and how mbappe isn’t making the runs as he’s supposed to be
mbappe is not your typical 9 per se but he needs to still do it
Living in flow - the secret of happiness with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at Happiness & Its Causes 2014
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LLMs are extremely good at a type of knowledge called tacit knowledge (knowledge about something as it pertains to something else) but are extremely poor at pretty much any other type as far as I can see. It just so happens that tacit knowledge also happens to be the type of knowledge that drives natural language so it makes them looks super smart,... See more
Column: These Apple researchers just showed that AI bots can't think, and possibly never will — Apple’s AI researchers gave these AI systems a simple arithmetic problem that schoolkids can solve. The bots flunked.
why is my job frustrating?
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it gets frustrating when we behave in misalignment with who we are and what our capabilities are.
product work happens at three levels
impact
execution
optics
shreyas doshi’s epiphany here, “i have a preferred level at which i like to operate”
as you go higher up, you have to spend more time on the optics level. the more and mo
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do i have good taste?
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“we don’t need strategy, we need to get things done”, shreyas doshi kept repeating this mantra until he got to twitter
twitter, 2014, didn’t really have a product strategy.
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taste is a factor in everything we do. do we have taste in our beliefs? these eventually bleed into everyday product-decision making
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i don’t have good taste
you spent time building something because you want to get it out of a 2-way door — meaning you can kill it any given point of time.
now during your review, if your feature hasn’t had adoption… you end up finding anecdotal evidence for why it’s doing well when in reality it isn’t really doing well
and the reality is the sales team isn’t able to sell
4 questions Shreyas wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google
youtube.comi am busy because i am not making good product decisions
Sheep hair is sprinkled on the painted bodies to simulate the texture of a tiger
Nithesh Mattu • Pili vesha folk art: dancing to the beat
pili vesha had this texture when i had clicked a picture. turns out that texture comes from sheep hair. who knew