I did not go to MIT but spent my entire career in Boston startups and tech. It is impossible to overstate how influential CSAIL was (and is?) in addition to it sounding here like a wonderful place.
Readit NewsCartyBoston commented on My Time at MIT muratbuffalo.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/rrampage
You'll find plenty of definitions if you google the term[1]. If you would like a more long form explanation I recommend reading what Paul Graham[2] wrote about it. But to quickly answer your question, being woke means being extremely political correct, to the point where it is just a performance. Paul defined it clearly:
> An aggressively performative focus on social justice.
But don't focus on the word "woke" in my comment.
It's a pretty good definition if for some reason you think Paul Graham is in a position to decide what's "performative".
CartyBoston commented on Austin rents have fallen for nearly two years texastribune.org/2025/01/... · Posted by u/matthest
You don't suppose people are choosing to live elsewhere for any "political" reasons do you?
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CartyBoston commented on Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again chrisholdgraf.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/ianrahman
Twitter sucks because it's commercial. Threads sucks because it's commercial. Bluesky will suck because it's commercial.
If only there was a pattern we could detect.
Learn about the Fediverse (not just "Mastodon"), it's the only solution worthy of you.
CartyBoston commented on Mental health in software engineering vadimkravcenko.com/shorts... · Posted by u/cmpit
This piece teaches me almost nothing about Vadim but shows me a ton about the environment he worked in. Someone built that culture, who are they? Why did they do it? Was Vadim complicit? Why did he feel so little control?
Hustle culture is not challenging, it does not help anyone grow, it simply exploits people. It's common, banal stuff.
Well the tech industry is certainly in no position to help or pass judgement, our lack of diversity is a industy-wide disgrace.
“The vehicle is stable near or at our intended landing site,” Steve Altemus, the chief executive of Intuitive Machines said during a NASA news conference on Friday. “We do have communications with the lander.”
This is the quality of communication we can expect from commercial mission CEOs.
CartyBoston commented on Private company landing on the moon today intuitivemachines.com/im-... · Posted by u/SigKill9
The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing.
We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all just egos and entertainment now.
CartyBoston commented on It's time to break free from Corporate Agile bits.danielrothmann.com/c... · Posted by u/pcloadletter_
In the startup world and in much of the tech corporate world in practice predictability is valued above all else. It's because investors, perhaps reasonably, value and therefore demand predictions.
But as we know that is fundamentally difficult. So many tech orgs make up a "hero-hustle" culture to compensate. "We're top 10% and we work all the time, this is the best we can do!"
Strong leadership is strong leadership, building the right product development culture is really hard.