Do you really pursue "inbox zero" on slack? That sounds like a full-time job in itself.
I do. At Walmart. It drives me slightly insane. Wish I could turn that part of myself off more often.
Readit Newskj4211cash commented on If you're remote, ramble stephango.com/ramblings... · Posted by u/lawgimenez
kj4211cash commented on NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant bsky.app/profile/dangaris... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2
When it comes to the democratic parties loyalty to Israel I think it's mostly the work of AIPAC that is responsible.
There's some truth to this but it's also an anti-semitic trope. There are a whole bunch of Jewish people on the Left that don't support the current Israeli regime.
Tech leads aren't managers.
Tell that to every startup out there
The real mindfuck is that everything that made you successful as an IC - being the person with answers, moving fast, shipping stuff - can actually make you a worse manager if you're not careful.
Your new job is to make other people successful, which sometimes means slowing down, asking questions instead of giving answers, and being okay with solutions that aren't exactly what you would have built.
Yes! And stakeholders will come to you with tasks and expect your team members to deliver as fast as you used to deliver. Sometimes they will ask you to put another "resource" on the task to make it go faster. Which is not how any of this works.
kj4211cash commented on NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant bsky.app/profile/dangaris... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2
I live in Europe and according the common media outlets, the US absolutely, totally, forever support Israel. "largely" is too weak of a word here.
And now honnest question: why is this support so strong in the US ? are the ties with the jewish/israely community so deep between these two peoples ?
You and the other replies focus too much on the Jewish community within the US. Support for Israel is very strong in the US, particularly among Republicans, because of the rise of Evangelical Christians. Evangelicals have ... religious reasons for supporting of Israel. They also strongly identify with Europe and people with European backgrounds. They have an inability to identify with Palestinians.
kj4211cash commented on NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant bsky.app/profile/dangaris... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2
Was it really the Zionists that did this? Or a Trump administration that enjoys disrupting academia and experts in general.
kj4211cash commented on Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering poetsandquants.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/curioustock
Maybe it is because I am not from the US and from a country with a very different work culture, but this whole thing seems ridiculously narcissistic. A person with such a degree becoming my coworker or my boss seems like a nightmare. Even talking to someone who "made it through" such a degree is something I would rather avoid.
It's not as bad as the article makes it sound. It is an operations research program with some startup-y courses tacked on. The post is just LinkedIn style cringe mixed with the hubris of Stanford alumni. The authors seem narcissistic but most graduates of the program are great.
kj4211cash commented on I don't think AGI is right around the corner dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-... · Posted by u/mooreds
can you point to someone as successful as zuckerberg, who was later conclusively shown to be a fraud or a total moron?
are we going to overlook the big orange elephant in the white house? listen to him talk. it's hard for me to believe he wouldn't be labeled a moron by most if he wasn't the President.
kj4211cash commented on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests cnn.com/2025/06/09/politi... · Posted by u/sapphicsnail
Hmm... as someone who lives in LA... I think your news stream is polluted. There were maybe 100 bad actors. Responding to people in military gear vanishing day labourers and fruit sellers and seamstresses. Bringing in 10,000 National Guard and 1,000 Marines is not an appropriate response.
kj4211cash commented on Scientific Papers: Innovation or Imitation? johndcook.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/tapanjk
So much of academic life revolves around bringing in grant money. This is particularly true in STEM fields and at the best research schools. There are ever increasing administrative hoops to jump through to bring in that grant money. And grants nowadays are often given out for research on very specific topics often chosen by bureaucrats. These topics are, almost by definition, not innovative. The NSF is an exception but there are very few NSF grants given out, relative to the number of researchers. My assessment is that the most famous, most published researchers can still afford to explore, if they have the time and inclination, but the rest cannot.