The video for my ldx NYC talk was posted, I'm proud of this one leaddev.com/management/t...
The manager's path in the age of AI
Which management skills AI is genuinely changing, which stay non-negotiable, and how to tell the difference.
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This blog post by Helen Toner (well-known by some for a stint on the OpenAI board) is *really really* interesting because it is the first thing I've read by someone in Frontier AI that starts to get to grips with sociotechnical concerns open.substack.com/pub/helenton...
Taking Jaggedness Seriously
Why we should expect AI capabilities to keep being extremely uneven, and why that matters
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People keep saying nice things about my course. Wild that over 150 students have participated since July of last year.
watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people this is my story about how they did it
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
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Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
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"Our takeaway is that mainstream fact-based journalism plays a central, if not the central, role in helping extremist politicians capture public attention." www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/how-...
How American journalism amplifies extremism (it’s not the way you think!)
American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news.
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Hi folks—I'm starting a new club for people who want to reflect and learn with others. I promise it will be fun if you are into this kind of thing—request an invitation here: orbital.nyc/membership
Orbital Membership – Quarterly reflection, curated by Gary Chou
An invite-only learning network where thoughtful professionals commit to quarterly reflection and share their key lessons. August cohort requests now open.
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Okay, sorry sorry, I can't let this thing from @ghost.org's post go. When Ghost says it now connects to all these places including Bluesky, what they don't mention is that the Real Heroes, completely unmentioned in the post, are @snarfed.org, @quillmatiq.com & @anew.social and their @ap.brid.gy.
Aidan Moher@aidanmoher.com · last yr.This is excellent. "Ghost publications are now connected with an open network. People can discover, follow, like and reply to your posts across Bluesky, Flipboard, Threads, Mastodon, WordPress, Ghost, and any other social web platform. Distribution is now built-in."
Oh hey, today is the 5 year anniversary of when I originally launched my book tiny.mba. If you don't have a copy, or want to grab a copy as a gift, I set up the discount code 5YEARS to take 25% off the purchase price of both the print bundle and ebook options.
The Tiny MBA Book - Alex Hillman
You don't need an MBA or fancy investors to be successful in business. Use the 100 ideas in this tiny book to evaluate and execute on your built
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As someone who has run platforms with millions of users creating content for communities with large numbers of queer and marginalized creators, here’s what I’ll say: there are, effectively, almost no real choices for payment networks if you want to allow regular people to pay for your service. So…
I'm so grateful for the community that's grown around PHP× in general and PHP×Philly specifically. So I was really excited to find some time to chat with @alexhillman.com about the 20 years he's spent tending the Indy Hall community, and see if there are any lessons he's learned that can translate…
@overengineered.fm · last yr.Episode 30 of Over Engineered is out! 🎙️ Fostering Community w/ Alex Hillman Check it out:
We’ve got our first (of many!) pages up with more to come. First up, details about efforts to eviscerate Medicaid, with up to $880 billion in cuts, likely to lead to millions of people losing their sole insurance: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Unbreaking — How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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NEW: @bloomberg.com analysis of +13 years of ICE detentions shows immigrants transferred to the South and SW from interior US at unprecedented rates. Reducing the odds of winning their cases. w/ @elenamejia.bsky.social @racheladhe.bsky.social @pollymosendz.bsky.social bloom.bg/43am95w
Randomly thinking about how in the future of Firefly everyone spoke Mandarin. I always wondered how that might have happened.
Can't believe it's been 10 years since I posted the RTR engineering ladders publicly. Anyway, I threw together a retrospective on that: skamille.medium.com/10-years-of-...
10 Years of Engineering Ladders
On March 26, 2015, I posted a short blog post to the Rent the Runway engineering blog, Sharing Our Engineering Ladder, with a quick intro…
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I once saved an agency around $2 million on a modernization project because of a bad contract they had, it took me several phone calls and less than a week. You need alignment and air cover to pull stuff like this off, but the game changing is stuff we weren't even allowed to promote or talk about
Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 2y ago18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:
We're live. Excited for you to join us on this journey & for @joelgoodman.co for designing our band photo.
Future Perfect Book Club@futureperfectbook.club · 2y ago🎙️ Book no. 1 is live. This episode @ronbronson.com and @joelgoodman.co discuss 'Cyberboss: The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work' by @vivaharehills.bsky.social Definitely on Apple and Spotify by now. Let us know what you think!
this looks super good I love how things are working out for ke huy quan. he seems like a really good guy
Goofrider@goofrider.bsky.social · 2y agoKe Huy Quan was reluctant to do LOVE HURTS bcuz he didn't think he's fit for a traditional action hero. Steven Spielberg convinced him to give it a go and it turned out 87North created a new type of action role specifically for him. Hope it'll do well! www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
NEW: Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
If you or someone you love is interested in the challenge of funding innovation in the social sector, join me next week on Thursday, Jan 23 as I share lessons learned from my past year of research: lu.ma/vkgy7qb4
Part 1: Funding Innovation in the Social Sector · Luma
What if the social sector could embrace risk-taking and experimentation to unlock transformative outcomes? Join us for this insightful session where I’ll share…
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One Date, add a slob of 🥜 butter inside and a nibble of dark chocolate... Voila, you got a healthy Snickers ✅🤌
What is the healthiest thing that tastes as good as a doughnut (or variant)
Jeff Atwood steps up to be a thing that’s sorely needed in tech right now: a leader. He actually *gives* half of his current net worth (not a pledge — he already cut checks) to 8 organizations helping the most vulnerable. blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-am... An inspiring move, when it most matters.
Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history.
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