I wouldn't be so tough on the online certificates. The key value I get out of Coursera is an unbeatable "time to knowledge" and some proof it was me who attended the course through the id verification.
Compare that to traditional in-person education, where you are bound to fixed course dates, long approval timelines etc. Until you get feedback from HR that you are eligible for a course/training, i've probably already completed it via my Coursera complete subscription.
Claude.md is an input to claude code which requires a monthly plan subscription north of 15€ / month. Same applies to Gemini.md, unless you are ok that they use your prompts for training Gemini. The python script works with a pay per use api key.
pptx-tools, a collection of cli tools for interacting with Powerpoint presentations. Covers use cases that PowerPoint doesn't support. Currently in the making:
* pptx-grep - find text across multiple powerpoints, yield file/slide no and text excerpt of match
* pptx-dump - dumps extended info about a powerpoint, such as number of slides, applied master slides, used fonts etc.
* pptx-lint - allows to define validation rules for pptx based on content and/or formatting. E.g. presentation must not contain word "TBD", all text must be formatted in Arial etc.
Boah... fallacies everywhere in this piece. Let's start:
> Picasso, Jeff Bezos, Mozart, Steve Jobs, Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk, Robert Oppenheimer, Peter Thiel, Leonardo [... would be amazing PMs]
I beg to differ. Mozart died at 35, completely indebted after years of excess drinking. Jobs ousted from his own company after poor strategic decisions and intolerable behaviour. Picasso / Leonardo were geniuses of their own without need for co-workers.
> None of them [geniuses mentioned before] were motivated by OKRs, KPIs, data, or other people’s opinion.
Wrong. We know from another genius, Kurt Gödel, that even intellectually brilliant people struggle with procrastination. In Gödel's notebooks we find a multidimensional planning system (goals for the day, week, quarter, next year) and clear OKRs ("finish preparation of Princeton lecture until end of this month").
> The enormous mistake you can make is to adopt a model that requires tremendous people, without having these tremendous people.
Again wrong. Great discoveries are made by employing great discipline over a long time, not by hiring some rock stars. Why else would Elon Musk call one of his most ambitious ventures "the boring company"? Why else was Katalin Kariko, who "invented" the Covid-19-vaccine and received the nobel prize for Medicine in 2023 ousted twice from Penn University, because her research was deemed "not sexy enough" for grants?