Also, on the topic of politicians writing porn, you'd be shocked at what we had to deal with in France

It might be time to admit to having a nerd interest in organizations and decision making 😅
And it's not helped by my becoming a manager about 6 months ago

Next one: "Now it can be told", by Leslie Groves, the general who oversaw the Manhattan project. While the stories and movies about Oppenheimer and the physicists are interesting, this digs into the fascinating details of logistics and organization of a project at quch a scale

All the training and work required to finally just be yourself in front of lots of people 😅

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

Getting engineers to sit in and listen to sales and product calls can do wonders though

Then again, me writing posts that an LLM can't reliably divine the intention of signals another problem.

if you can fund moderately risky products that might 2x your money but you can also fund stupidly risky projects that might 100x your money and if it fails you get bailed out, then your options are clearly:

- modest bet: meek
- moderate bet: stupid, risky
- ridiculous bet: high reward, no real risk

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.

Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined

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