The magic loop: A framework for rapid career growth
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-magic-loop Do your current job well Ask your manager how you can help them Do what they ask Ask your manager if you could help in a way that also grows your skills toward a particular goal Do as they suggest, and repeat in a loop from step 4 Advanced...
4 equity terms startup executives must understand when negotiating their compensation package
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samfjacobs_startups-activity-7031736651403907072-yNgq/ Double trigger: This clause ensures that, in the event of two important things happening (typically your company getting sold and you getting fired) some or all of your unvested options vest and you’re able to exercise them. You want to change the language in the double trigger from simple...
What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/ The specific engineering of ChatGPT has made it quite compelling. But ultimately (at least until it can use outside tools) ChatGPT is “merely” pulling out some “coherent thread of text” from the “statistics of conventional wisdom” that it’s accumulated. But it’s amazing how human-like the results are. And as...
Deep learning tuning playbook
https://github.com/google-research/tuning_playbook Deep Learning Tuning Playbook Currently, there is an astonishing amount of toil and guesswork involved in actually getting deep neural networks to work well in practice. Even worse, the actual recipes people use to get good results with deep learning are rarely documented. Papers gloss over the process that...
Small habits co-founders can hang on to as they build the plane while flying it
https://review.firstround.com/small-habits-co-founders-can-hang-on-to-as-they-build-the-plane-while-flying-it Technique #1: Get explicit about decision rights. “In the early days, the co-founder who cared about something more was given the green light to own it. We’d have a very direct or frank conversation about ‘I care about this more’ or ‘I think this is a good fit for...
Wondering how to motivate imployees is a management fail
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/work-smart/202301/wondering-how-to-motivate-employees-is-a-management-fail KEY POINTS Great leaders do not ask this question. Below-average managers confuse employee motivation with a failure of management systems to deliver desired results. Approaches that improve outcomes for colleagues and organizations are hiring systems, clear expectations, rewards/results alignment. Simplifying a half-century of research in motivation theory and expectancy...
Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x Theories of scientific and technological change view discovery and invention as endogenous processes1,2, wherein previous accumulated knowledge enables future progress by allowing researchers to, in Newton’s words, ‘stand on the shoulders of giants’3,4,5,6,7. Recent decades have witnessed exponential growth in the volume of new scientific and technological knowledge, thereby...
Is a lack of role clarity hurting your engineering team?
https://michaellin.substack.com/p/is-a-lack-of-role-clarity-hurting As a temporary CTO, I thought I’d spend most of my time helping startups solve engineering problems. Yet one year in, I’ve found that most engineering issues I deal with are actually organizational issues. And the most common organizational issue I’ve seen is a lack of role clarity on...
Virtual teams in a gig economy
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206580119 While the gig economy provides flexible jobs for millions of workers globally, a lack of organization identity and coworker bonds contributes to their low engagement and high attrition rates. To test the impact of virtual teams on worker productivity and retention, we conduct a field experiment with 27,790 drivers...
RT-1: Robotics transformer
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/rt-1-robotics-transformer-for-real.html https://robotics-transformer.github.io/ https://github.com/google-research/robotics_transformer Several factors contribute to this challenge. First, there’s the lack of large-scale and diverse robotic data, which limits a model’s ability to absorb a broad set of robotic experiences. Data collection is particularly expensive and challenging for robotics because dataset curation requires engineering-heavy autonomous operation, or demonstrations...
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