I know it's easy to piggyback on a trend here, and it may be kinder to everyone involved, but at what point is cutting 0.7% of a company that has grown 18% year over year not _really_ a generic corporate downsizing?
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Other states will reject your application if you don't provide three years of audited financials.
Yet... you're technically not approved to operate until approval. So can't have financials?
It takes at least one full-time (expensive) person + expensive outside counsel to start.
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The regulatory regime for online education is woefully out of date.
Teach any class online and you're regulated separately in every state.
Individual states require 1000+ pages (delivered hard-copy) to teach one person who lives there.
99% of providers are out of compliance.
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I think the former is more frustrating as a user.
"Hi, I have done my research, and would like to buy the thing you're selling. Can you help me?"
And even that doesn't work.
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I don't think this is universally true, but it's shocking how often:
* An incredible product has an abysmal sales team
* An incredible sales team is selling an abysmal product
It's pretty rare to see both be good simultaneously.
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Gyms should simply make a rule that you lose your membership if you post videos featuring other people without their consent to social media
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Nice try Blue Bottle marketing team
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If I was a founder with no network, I’d just go to the South Park Blue Bottle and sit there and code.
Odds are that a VC, usually an older looking dude, will come up to talk with you and ask you what you’re building.
The café is packed with investor-founder meetings rn.
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Sorry you didn’t unfollow hard enough
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Apparently I'm about 4 followers away from 250k, so unfollow me now before I hit a completely worthless vanity metric
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Lol CNBC running a startup awards list and charging $500+ to enter.
What a lame cash grab.
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Apparently I'm about 4 followers away from 250k, so unfollow me now before I hit a completely worthless vanity metric
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Google literally laid off 600 times as many people
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Reading endless tweets about how evil the new Washington Post is all day and only now do I realize it was only 20 people.
It was a <2% layoff.
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More details on @washingtonpost layoffs, per memo from Executive Editor Sally Buzbee:
— 20 newsroom positions eliminated
— 30 open positions will not be filled
— WaPo is sunsetting Launcher, its online gaming vertical, and KidsPost, per two sources familiar
Memo below: twitter.com/sarafischer/st…
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I believe remote work can work very well, and I believe you should optimize for output instead of raw hours spent.
But the number of people I know who admit to basically not working at all in remote environments tells me a lot of companies are not prepared.
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Absolutely fascinating analysis by .
In short:
Tech companies didn’t necessarily overhire in 2021.
They hired according to plan, but had planned on high attrition.
When markets tightened, attrition went from incredibly high to virtually zero.
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@benthompson shared a perspective on the layoffs in his recent update. basically year on year hiring rates has relatively remained stable for these companies. they however, failed to account for a slower rate of attrition. stratechery.com/2023/tech-layo
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Look, people.
If you exclude costs no one cares about (food, shelter, energy, transportation),
And zoom into a small timeframe with a smoothed-out number,
Inflation is pretty much flat.
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But anyway, the truth is striking. Here's 3-month "supercore" excluding food energy shelter and used cars: 3/
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“Most people have a carefully crafted, well-justified story about why they won’t be able to succeed…
You don’t need to rid yourself of them. Where would they go, anyway? All you need to do is acknowledge them, wave to them, let them know you’re aware of them.”
- Gay Hendricks
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Doing the dishes and hear a noise… there she is with her little applesauce
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There’s nothing quite like the combination of smugness and dread when the two year old shows up having climbed out of the crib for the first time
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1/ Introducing AI-first image editing to Playground—a way to instruct an AI to synthesize spectacular yet subtle edits
Try it here: playgroundai.com/create
We are blown away by the creative possibilities with this.
Example: "Make it summer"
(More examples in a thread)
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When there's a metric that isn't being tracked or assigned to anyone and it is still being optimized just consider it a small miracle and never plan on it happening again
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I have the best job in the world
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So at current tech stock prices and with a decade of wasteful spending it seems pretty likely there are about to be a bunch of attempts of leveraged buyouts/activist investors, no?
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I have the best job in the world
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A conspiracy theory I would believe is that these “This is my day in the life of a tech worker” TikToks were created by the PR teams of these big companies after they decided to do layoffs
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Heavily influenced by AP classes, I think. 90% of the great teachers were from AP.
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Mine (example)
1. Public
2. 6/10
3. 25%/50%/25%
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Curious about your High Schools.
Reply to this tweet with:
1. Type of High School (public/private/charter).
2. Your High School’s GreatSchools rating.
3. Your estimate: what % of your teachers were great/ok/bad.
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“Now that ChatGPT can solve all of these questions they’ll revamp education so it’s not solely based on memorization.”
Lol.
Nah they’ll just institute increasingly drastic punishments for using ChatGPT, which will be banned.
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There’s nothing quite like the rush of spending more time outside, doing something physical…
and working 10 hours/day 365 days a year to make literally $0 because your margins are squeezed by mega farms and there was an early freeze this year.
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“I’m going to quit tech and go work on a farm” is really compelling if you don’t know what working on a farm is like
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Alphabet is a holding company. Google is one of the companies within the Alphabet umbrella.
There is no Facebook company now. Meta is the company. Facebook is just one of the apps Meta owns.
People are using the names properly.
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It's funny how everyone agrees that Facebook is called Meta now, but nobody really believes that Google is called Alphabet.
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One way to understand the mammoth scale of companies as big as Apple:
Apple spent $2.97 million lobbying last quarter.
Apple brings in $2.97 million in revenue in <5 seconds. Less time than it takes you to read this tweet.
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Apple spent $2.97 million — a record amount — on lobbying during the fourth quarter as it fended off congressional scrutiny over its dominance and ties to China.
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How to dodge a question like a Jedi master:
"You're a very experienced reporter. You know I can't comment on that. I know you know I can't comment on that. You know I know you know I can't comment on that. In the spirit of shortness of life, why do you ask?"
Way to go 🤣
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If I had to bet I’d put Trump at an 8 (dude plays nonstop and owns golf courses) and Biden at a 30.
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1. No way Trump is actually a 2.7 handicap
2. Absolutely no shot in hell Biden is within a million miles of a 6.7 handicap
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We've seen a number of golfers in office. 
On the anniversary of Inauguration Day, take a look back at presidential golf style through the years: glfdig.st/XGLK50Mw8Mj
On the anniversary of Inauguration Day, take a look back at presidential golf style through the years: glfdig.st/XGLK50Mw8Mj
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One thing folks don't realize:
Yes, BloomTech has FAANG/startup hiring partners.
But even more of our grads work in companies that you wouldn't call "tech" companies.
The demand for talent there is arguably even greater.
Job offers keep on coming in, even today.
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Hey lazyweb,
We have a Webflow site (always use the simplest/best tool for the job).
Does anyone know someone who could do a quick project of optimizing the page load time of that site (especially on mobile?)
It's probably just cutting down on oversize images/js.
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Trying to keep things in perspective re my body/health
Three years ago, I was a broke-ass, food/housing insecure housekeeper
I focused hard on my career, learned to code, and became a successful data scientist who created a line of services w PMF for world governments
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