Nope, this isn’t Downton Abbey. The further you go in competitive tennis, the tighter the community gets. Also, playing tennis and stringing rackets are two distinct skillsets. For elite players the strings are just as crucial as the racket itself. Check out this interview with the stringer who traveled the globe with Federer for 15 years, ensuring he had nine freshly strung rackets for each match.
Sounds very similar to the Seagull manager, described as someone who "flew in, made a lot of noise, dumped on everyone from a great height, then flew out again, leaving others to deal with the consequences"
I was curious too because reading from zero context, it sounded like a founder was in jail. Turns out "DJ OT" is their mascot, and the cartoon on the page makes a lot of sense.
I've definitely felt this problem! Web app development can feel like 'playing detective' and chasing down lines more than problem solving. I'd download right now but will it help debug chrome extensions?
Hey I just tried this out. Most of the content and features look "great" but the auto-generated crossword is a game changer. How come you don't mention this in the launch?
GPT-2 was launched in 2019, followed by GPT-3 in 2020, and GPT-4 in 2023. RAG is necessary to bridge informational gaps in between long LLM release cycles.
Whenever I was in a meeting with a former Apple employee who wanted to win quickly. Their next sentence always started with “when I was at Apple…” and ended with “Steve” yelling at someone or proclaiming “this better not break or everyone here is fired”
This speaks a lot to me. If an integration was new, or I'd never managed resources before, or worked cross-org in any way, I'd just pick it up. I'd even do the PM's job of interviewing the customers, validating if we were targeting real painpoints, and attempting to drive product direction.
Over a few years I worked on several projects, which all became the company's product suite. They all gained adoption, became very valuable and were sold to several customers, but they were not reliable. Even less so after they moved me off. But they were solving real problems, and customers were still happy, and so the company still kept them alive with bigger teams.
The company attained unicorn status, but I never really got ownership of any 1 project or product. I'd get increasing requests for help across the growing product suite, was able to help effectively, and simultaneously took on new feature development work.
In the latter part of my time there, I found out I may have been in the bottom quartile of pay for the team I was in, while being perceived as the top performer by coworkers.
I was in a slow 'burn out' but never fully checked out. Maybe because I think I rarely put in over 50 hours a week. Never touched comms during weekends.
What's your advice to someone who lives this dynamic? I've experienced it, and felt it slowed down my career trajectory. I want to make a change in my story and will try my best to listen.
I think I found myself in this situation believing it was "generally good." Both for me to learn more things, and for the company to succeed. Then I would be rewarded with promotions in the future. Although I had fun and felt some purpose, the fast career growth did not follow.
I was in the mindset to follow Sheryl Sandberg's advice “If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat.” But what ended up happening was the people who knew how to ask for better seats actually got them.
I made a UI that allowed call center managers to search through historical transcripts by keyword. Previously they clicked through a table of chatlog popups and CTRL+F'd for hours.
Any recent books you suggest on "direct response marketing and copywriting"? I've tried to read "how to win friends and influence people" "ogilvy on advertising" "traction" but haven't taken actions yet.
I was curious about this article. How much of the AI hype was demoralizing to his perception of the company's future? Attempting to read between the lines, maybe he was down no more than just no-code. He might have thought AI would outperform in the same space where internal tools platforms (Airtable/Retool) currently live. Following that thought, perhaps Airtable/Retool may be looking to pivot away fast from low-code/no-code into AI-first connections to internal knowledgebases & databases.
I'm sure you've heard AI is taking off. I can't help you bridge what I'm perceiving as lack of confidence. But if you know python + telecom, that's a valuable skillset at a few enterprise-facing AI companies. Think Twilio, Gong, Callminer, Dialpad, etc. They tend to have smart, motivated developers who get stuck debugging essentially modern wrappers on top of legacy telecom systems, and no idea what's going on underneath. That's just an idea off top of my head - where maybe you could help out.
Congrats on the launch! How does this compare to https://www.patronus.ai/ ? They seem to offer a very similar solution for getting on top of unpredictable LLM output
I did 2200 miles last year and trained closer to 8min/mile. My half marathon time was ~1:27 or 6:41/mile pace on the San Francisco hilly course.
I learned through pain that stacking up miles is about patience, not pushing harder. Right before tapering, I was averaging 80miles / 10.5 hours per week for 4 weeks in a row. About 1.5 hours per day.
As a thought exercise, running avg 7min/mile (MUCH harder + higher injury risk!) would decrease daily time by 11 minutes. 6 min/mile average (~olympian level training pace) decrease daily time by 22 minutes.
If you want the miles, you can get them. But you have to wake up 2-3 hours before work and run every day. And don't drink too hard on any weekend, otherwise you can't get quality long run in. And don't run too fast, otherwise you get injured/sick. And don't build weekly mileage too fast either for the same reason.
How come I couldn't keep my peak 80mpw average and hit >4000mi last year? Well firstly I wasn't fit enough in Q1. And then I failed to adhere to the simple rules above 39 weeks in a row afterwards!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sRSqSupzyM