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Oh I found the commercial (thanks, Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p65btzALVkMDialogue:B: "Why did you become a guard?"A: "I wonder why... oh, I wanted as a kid to become [a superhero] and protect the

A year ago, Stripe opened an all-remote engineering office. We hired ~100 engineers and tripled the number of remotes across the company.Here is what we learned:https://stripe.com/blog/remote-hub-one-yearSome thoughts: All technology improv

In a text-based conversation with an Uber courier and he opened with a salarymanism so I salaryman'ed right back and then watched him, via the typing indicator, draft at least

“Code that runs on organizations” is going to be one of the themes of the next phase of software eating the world, and one entry point will be it starting

I think this generalizes to: can't be fired, can't be downsized, can't be denied a promotion, etc.Granted, you're biting off many of the standard running-a-business risks, but in return for

Almost nobody appreciates how expensive clothes used to be, even as “late” as 200 years ago.A shirt was once thousands of hours of labor; scarcity logic flows directly from that.The

Bad news in Tokyo. We now have a preliminary count of the excess flu/pneumonia deaths for the month of March, from the National Institute Of Infectious Diseases.Green is baseline. Purple

Inbox: "How does Stripe maintain a high level of polish?"Some thoughts, in my personal capacity as someone who writes code occasionally and knows a bit of the story but isn't

Scenes from meeting that never happened:A: Monitoring detected the anomaly at XX:XX on Tuesday. We immediately spun up an incident response.B: You should have tweeted about it.A: ... No, we

A very interesting conversation about forecasting the future (with the Superforecaster guy), where it tends to pick up predictive alpha, the sociological makeup of people who repeatedly make good predictions,

Coronavirus is going to be a close to pathologically misaligned with some of our information distribution and decisionmaking rituals. It's an effective exploit on them almost to the degree it

Last year, I felt it was suboptimal for tech platforms to outsource their governance issues, because giving permit/deny rights on a material portion of all human utterances to parties which