I admit that I am a skeptic, but my first try [1] gave an intriguing response, so I will continue playing with it.
[1] https://galactica.org/?prompt=what+is+the+relationship+betwe...
Readit Newspatkai commented on Meta lays off 11,000 people about.fb.com/news/2022/11... · Posted by u/technics256
Where would you advertise for ex-Meta or ex-Twitter developers?
patkai commented on A singular scientist: James Lovelock aeon.co/essays/james-love... · Posted by u/Schroedingers2c
I've just finished his autobiography "Homage to Gaia". I've read dozens of scientists' biographies, but this stands out. Funny, unusual, very warm and humane with a lot of good thoughts about work, freelancing, science and history. Very recommended. My favorite story is when NASA asks him how to detect life on Mars and he answers "by an entropy reduction meter". The rest of the story is epic and very educational!
patkai commented on The Peter Principle (1974) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=39wzk... · Posted by u/nyc111
Hasn't it been superseded by the Gervais Principle? https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Yes, by far! The Gervais Principle is brilliant and after reading it a lot falls into place. It also corroborates with Slava's experience https://www.spakhm.com/p/how-to-get-promoted
Dr. Gabor Maté appears to be a quack trying to sell some dubious books and courses. His hypotheses are not supported on an evidence-based medicine basis.
I thought that the emotional life-history pattern of cancer patients is quite well researched and linking trauma, anxiety and stress to cancer is not his hypothesis, he is just popularizing it.
Presumably at least half of those people would still get Cancer just later.
Correct! Worth checking the work of Gabor Mate on this. He claims that trauma is the key.
patkai commented on Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier ycombinator.com/blog/lear... · Posted by u/alexzeitler
It's interesting as it's often the CTO (or early technical lead) who will get pushed out as a company grows - particularly true for non founders.
My impression has always been that there's an assumption the CEO can grow, but the technical person can't.
> it's often the CTO
This is interesting. Do others have the same experience? (I don't have a large enough sample to tell.)
patkai commented on Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier ycombinator.com/blog/lear... · Posted by u/alexzeitler
>How were these people able to transition from founders of a tiny company to successfully running and managing large (people or revenue) companies? Many of them had never done this before so how did they figure out what to do and how to do it?
lots of mentorship from investors and others with experience. Even the most famous young founders had a veteran executive running a lot of things behind the scenes. Steve Jobs had Mike Markkula, Eric Schmidt was running the show at Google, Facebook had Thiel and Sean Parker. This applies to pretty much every one of these companies
most of the startup myths about these companies are embellished because having a young prodigy founder is good for marketing. Of course some are never able to make the jump and get replaced by the board
> Eric Schmidt was running the show at Google
Was he really? I always thought he was more of a coach to the founders.
Happy to see their success. Especially so if you've been following their journey through their podcasts (easily the best tech podcast out there if you care about your craft; no filler, all killer).