(I briefly considered “Beat Factorio with LLMs” as a project during my sabbatical but it looks very far from being tractable without a team and funding, which defeats the purpose of a sabbatical project.)
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Highest Bandwidth SRE Education Experience Available
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Truly it is the highest bandwidth SRE education experience available.
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Why Big Tech Solves Spam Better Than Telecom Carriers
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It’s interesting that the equilibriums in communications technologies had Google et al basically solve email spam and the telecom carriers do… I’m sure “nothing” is unfair but it certainly rounds to that.
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Premium Features to Scale: The Marketing-Supply Chain Cycle
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There is a fun iterated game between issuer marketing departments which occasionally come up with things which are hard to do at scale, and therefore will be restricted to premium customers, and then become less hard due to the supply chain built to scale them.
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Intellectual Effort in Research Labs and Knowledge Advancement
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(People often undervalue the intellectual effort involved in doing this stuff well. I think “research lab” is the right way to think about a small group of professionals attempting to advance the state of human knowledge in a narrow sub-specialization.)
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Hiring Challenges for De Novo AI Research Lab Setup
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Also it’s difficult to interview for, since anyone who worked on the team or even attended a conference presentation can tell you what worked *for them.* That does not necessarily predict for setting up a de novo research lab.
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Hiring for Growth Often Selects for Pedigree Over Merit
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Painfully true about hiring for growth, which often ends up just selecting for pedigree at companies which did well. Often they did well because of a small team with key insights, but those will not necessarily be the alumni seen by resume screeners in future. https://t.co/4sDzQ8theD
— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) 13 mai 2025Painfully true about hiring for growth, which often ends up just selecting for pedigree at companies which did well. Often they did well because of a small team with key insights, but those will not necessarily be the alumni seen by resume screeners in future.
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Book recommendation on complex project management methodology
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This thread sold me a book (sight unseen); thanks. (Had already been a big fan of Death Star project management.)
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Experts Should Create Limited Run Podcasts Discussing Shop Talk
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Also, meta commentary: world would be improved if there were more experts who would self-justify a limited run podcast talking shop with the people they would normally talk shop with.