4 Kinds of Beliefs

I’m on BART right now, headed to my 4th day at Slack. 2 biggest observations: there is a strong culture of consideration which means doing things to help make your coworkers’ lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. Like starting meetings with an agenda, always giving a chance for…

Give me some Slack

Last Wednesday was my last day at Twitter.

As is common, I then decided to take some time off to rest, spend time with family, and think about what’s next. I did those on Thursday, Friday-Sunday, and this morning when I woke up at 4:30am and couldn’t get back to sleep…

Why Interviewing Should Be Really Difficult

I have a fascination with interviewing. I think it’s one of those practices that only get more difficult the better you get at it.

It’s easy to get started. “Where do you want to be in 5 years?” “What are your biggest…

The Wisdom of Uncertainty

Imagine two robots that are designed to learn about the world by recognizing patterns and constructing an internal model of the universe by connecting up a network of known patterns.

We Are Merely Tubes

Happy Monday. The fog is thicker than usual on the Berkeley side, but it feels nice. A gentle nudge to take it easy.

My son Niko has a weird habit of asking for a fresh cup of water when he sits down at the table and has a cup of water already. It made me try to…

The Hacker Craftsperson

Two quotes from Tony’s article:

Hacker is the only job title that consistently implies having responsibility for impact.

And:

Probably my least favorite characteristic to hear within a job description is…

A case of the ups and downs

A weird comic about cycles.

Explosion

Ubiquitous Machine Listening and Watching

I’ve seen a few articles recently thinking through what will happen when the technology to record everything arrives. One was about whether or not toys with the ability to be “always listening” should be expected to report possible occurrences of domestic…