Nick Turner

Sharing some personal news today! The TLDR: I'm building a startup, Antenna, SaaS software focused on leadership development, remote leadership and employee engagement. Read on for more details! 1/12

@chrisisnapping I’m as surprised as you are. I thought we were going to make you guys look good.

@danprimack Welcome back from summer

@depthsofwiki @TerribleMaps

there's this one person on Wikimedia Commons who went through a phase of making maps like this. They're not used in any articles, probably because they're pretty weird, but I like staring at them

@paulg @NateSilver538 How many institutions in the US are considered “elite” and what is the related capacity? The population of schools that are considered elite should be growing alongside the population of people. It is not and that’s a problem, just from a point of view of proportions.

@NateSilver538 Social clout and quality of education aren't the only two factors in the value of a university. There's another that's even more important: the quality of the other people there. And like it or not, that will be higher at an elite university.

Just go to a state school. The premium you're paying for elite private colleges vs. the better public schools is for social clout and not the quality of the education. And that's worth a lot less now that people have figured out that elite higher ed is cringe.

@messedupfoods These are actually just American serving sizes.

this would pop off in America

@Kellblog “Might” is doing a lot of work here. I’d prefer an org that has a clear plan for a change like that. Either you are joining as a CRO for your tenure or you are joining as a successor, they should try to make it very clear (allowing for acceptable risks of it not happening)

A company has strong founder/CEO who might run out of organization leadership gas in the next 1-2 years. The company needs a new CRO that they're willing to up-level to president & CRO to attract top talent. They offer you the job, saying you'll be a clear #2 at the company and one day they might make you CEO. Should you take it?

@CollinRugg My father led the engineering team that made the switch from steam catapults to EMALS on carriers from the late 90s-2010s. They’ve been using dead loads for decades (even before EMALS). Especially brutal to see when seagulls were hanging on the bow…

NEW: Aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is catapulting objects into the James River in Virginia to test its plane launching capabilities. The footage was recently released by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), a ship building company. The Kennedy features an electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) which makes it just the 2nd US aircraft carrier to have this advanced system. The vehicles it launched in testing reached speeds of 150mph and experts estimate it will be able to launch jets at speeds of 240mph. The Kennedy was launched in 2019 and has a price tag of $11.3 billion.

@Kellblog (I said deals, but may also work for code reviews!)

@Kellblog Somewhat disagree with Erik. I think you’ve got to set a standard for what you expect to happen on deals in the beginning of someone joining the team. Once it’s clear they are meeting it then you can back off - unless someone starts to underperform then reinstate. Thoughts?

I can substitue "deal" for "code" and this still works

@jasonlk Have you written your take or been on any podcasts regarding the “SaaS is dead” cries we are hearing lately?

Perhaps the biggest category of all getting crushed now is “pseudo SaaS” Services, courses, subscriptions that are packaged like SaaS but aren’t really for software This stuff got valued like software, but in the end, doesn’t have the retention or other characteristics

@RadioFreeTom 100% agree with the thread. In my teens/early 20s I spent time in service industries and in one role we had a training session specifically to stop us all from saying “no problem” and to say “my pleasure” to guests. My pleasure > you’re welcome > no problem

@Hadley Meeting fatigue, just hoping for a break.

Often when the other person is late to a zoom meeting I find myself hoping they won’t show up. Then invariably I question why I accept meetings with people I hope don’t show up 🤨

@bryantc3 I thought this said “in DC” At first. If Snyder was still around 100% he would have a 1 yr $8mm contract or something stupid like that.

@emollick letmegooglethat.com

Based on this, two thoughts: 1) GPTs can be a simple way to build tiny useful services, very much a shareable swiss army knife. 2) Personality is not a long-term differentiator for AIs, ChatGPT can be as snarky as Grok, if prompted. It is just a matter of the guardrails of the AI

I don't always post links to papers (Twitter de-prioritizes links and they don't always fit in the character limit) but then I post the title page. People complain, and ask for the link. I made a snarky GPT to solve this: "Fine, I'll Google it for You" chat.openai.com/g/g-HThV0Y8e2-…

@thesamparr I’ve only done short loop ultras. I’d try to avoid those : ). Go for something like Leadville or Western States.

For my followers who done an ultramarathon: Which race was your favorite?

@MartinGTobias If you’re going to outsource, you’ve got to have your specs nailed down to very very specific levels. Best way to do that is to use something like Figma to mock up every single screen your user interacts with, and provide notes/formulas/behaviors for every input/output.

I generally prefer start-up teams to build their MVP themselves, although I have occasionally seen teams that successfully outsourced MVP building. What are the best approaches, vendors, etc. for a team to outsource the building of MVP?

@asanwal I’m not sure who kills who, so many options here, but whatever the plot one of the offsite activities has to be them doing a team building exercise by reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

Crowdsourcing here I'm thinking of writing a murder mystery about a murder that happens at a company's C-suite offsite To make this realistic, which exec do you think would be murdered? And who would the murderer be? And what would the motive be?

@paulg Probably. But this is the behavior of most large organizations - whether public/private companies, governmental or higher ed. Even worse so for those with more power/prestige concerns. Most people have huge problems admitting fault.

Prediction: Harvard will simultaneously deny that Gay resigned due to plagiarism, and add plagiarism to the checklist of things they vet potential presidents for.

@rohindhar No brownstone?

Urban townhouse for sale, but plunked down in the countryside. Located on 5 acres in the Catskills, the home features a roof deck with artificial turf and six bedrooms. On the market for 54 days Listed at $750k

@StephNass I understand, but I guess what I’d reco is - deliver on the promise to review. Then see their response and decide whether to continue support. Your current decision feels as emotional/abrupt as their outburst and you’re the business, not the customer. Just my thoughts. G’luck!

@StephNass Why didn’t you just review his deck once you realized the error? Throwing him off the platform for saying something that’s likely out of frustration from your not delivering on your business’ promise exacerbates the problem and could lend credence to his argument.

Tricky case. I'll admit that this founder didn't have a good experience on OpenVC. We failed to deliver and we failed to reply. 1 in 1,000, but it happens. Sorry. Still, I can't accept that last email. Just can't. What would you have done?