Being deliberate and focused as a company is much easier when small, much harder when large, but deeply important in all cases.
@gdb
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Developer’s Perspective on Coding Workflow and Rest Recovery
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Love the feeling of coding until you get so tired thinking becomes slow, and then you go to sleep knowing you’ll be refreshed and right back at it in the morning.
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Pursuing Uncertain Goals: The Power of Determined Effort
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something powerful about working hard towards a worthy goal you're uncertain can be achieved
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Scaling Organizations Through Operational Excellence Execution
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building an organization is surprisingly often an exercise in getting increasingly good at executing the exact same activities at increasing scale
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Collaborative teamwork produces better results than individual efforts
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love working together with a great team to produce something better than any of us could on our own
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Predicting Advanced AI Impact: Learning from Recent Progress
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One challenge with predicting the impact of a future technology is anticipating how the world will change in the interim. Describing Uber before the Internet, smartphones, and GPS seems quite hard—and yet for advanced AI we must. Fortunately, lots to learn from recent progress.
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ChatGPT as Empowerment Engine: Setting Societal Boundaries
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ChatGPT is an empowerment engine. You can talk to it about whatever you want, and it does its best to help you accomplish your goals — within broad bounds which we and society must learn to set wisely and fairly.
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Energy Management as Critical Professional Skill
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Personal energy management is as important as any technical skill.
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Precision Engineering: Key to ML Progress and System Understanding
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One trick to making ML progress is repeatedly increasing the precision of the engineering and decreasing the number of mysteries being papered over — i.e. just focusing on improving your understanding of the system you're working with.