Marissa Goldberg

The top 5 things every remote worker should have (but most don't) ⬇

@SoniaBaschez Especially when it’s healthy like berries

you don't have to do a lot of things your kids like, but if you can, why wouldn't you??

@zebriez @alexhillman @zarazhangrui @lkr

who posts about the cool work they're doing in a way that you enjoy? who sounds smart and impactful but not ick and self-promotional?

Many of us are trying to figure out where the AI labor market transition may be going. But that's fundamentally unknowable. So instead of trying to predict the future we can instead look back to try to figure out what may be coming...by reading 19th c english literature 1/

The fastest way to lose a great employee: Make them carry people who don’t care.

@amix3k I use projects as the goals level currently

A lot of interest in Todoist Goals! Follow up: How do you manage goals today, and how would you expect goals to work in Todoist?

@mkobach Yes! People always get annoyed when I keep bringing this up (because it’s boring), but it’s true.

@lkr I created a smart bookmarks setup which auto routes everything I save to my various projects and if it requires action, takes it for me. There’s a “fun for later” bucket which basically auto archives if it’s not in an active project. It scratches the same itch for me.

My workflow for saving useful Claude code stuff I find on Twitter: Share the tweet or GitHub link from chrome into Google tasks Next time I'm in claude code, ask it if each one is useful for my setup Usually the answer is no (or some small part of it is), but that scratches the itch that I'm not missing out

every tech brings new ways to moralize work nothing has been more awkward than seeing people try to copy paste the industrial moralizations of discipline and "hard work" to this new paradigm it just doesnt fit

You know there are companies that work fully async, right? So that means zero meetings. You can find a couple of them on calmcompanies.club 😉 Just sayin'. For $5/yr, you get a curated weekly newsletter of job openings at companies renowned for their great work culture.

Guys, stop building tooling for meetings. Just stop having meetings. Ultimate hack.

@p_millerd But for real. Actually might be a good deal now lol

Hold on. Going back to college

friendly yet uncomfortable reminder that if someone is micromanaging you, it's because they don't trust you

You can keep your fancy watch. I just want to be able to take my son to the playground at 1pm on a Tuesday.

@zebriez That was how @remoteworkprep was born in 2018. Very good timing for me. On the work side, ended up with a promotion and later entrepreneurial leave.

who got their big break at work from doing a side project vs being great at their core role? stories please!

@HannahWardEdu I loved those!

I'm still emotional over the fact that these are out of print and rescue them anytime I see them. Why did this happen? The Royal Diaries were THE BOOKS all the girls loved growing up.

The token cost to build a production feature is now lower than the meeting cost to discuss building that feature. Let me rephrase. It is literally cheaper to build the thing and see if it works than to have a 30 minute planning meeting about whether you should build it. It’s wild when you think about it. This completely inverts how you should run a software organization. The planning layer becomes the bottleneck because the building layer is essentially free. The cost of code has dropped to essentially 0. The rational response is to eliminate planning for anything that can be tested empirically. Don’t debate whether a feature will work. Just build it in 2 hours, measure it with a group of customers, and then decide to kill or keep it. I saw a startup operating this way and their build velocity is up 20x. Decision quality is up because every decision is informed by a real prototype, not a slide deck and an expensive meeting. We went from “move fast and break things” to “move fast and build everything.” The planning industrial complex is dead. Thank god.

How it works: - 2x usage on weekdays outside 5–11am PT / 12–6pm GMT - 2x usage all day on weekends - Automatic, nothing to enable

New @nberpubs: "Work from Home and Fertility" nber.org/papers/w34963 "Estimated lifetime fertility is greater by 0.32 children per woman when both partners WFH one or more days per week as compared to the case where neither does."

AI is very weird for me because normally I'd be the guy who'd argue that it's crazy we're not more excited about this miracle technology, but I completely get this sentiment. AI companies have clearly botched telling the story. That's a big piece of this. Telling people, "We built this thing that is definitely going to take your job and hopefully we can figure out how to give you handouts or something on the other side, or come up with even better jobs or whatever, say thank you" is clearly terrible messaging. Part of the issue is that what you need to say to raise tens of billions of dollars is very different from what you need to say to get the public excited. "This is definitely a better Google, it does some other cool stuff, too, and we think it's going to really help make you and your loved ones healthier" doesn't fund data centers. Then there's the gap between hype and the average person's experience with AI. Models are getting more useful for a small number of people - if you're a coder or a mathematician or someone who wants to make software but never learned to code, the last few model upgrades have felt really big. That's like ~5% of people, maybe? 2%? If you just want it to answer your questions or do your homework, it's gotten a little bit better, but it's also gotten better for everyone else, so it's not like you have a magic A+ machine all to yourself. Meanwhile, that very small group for whom it's more useful (or who at least say it's more useful because they don't want to be the one who admits it's not) is flooding the zone telling people, "If you don't use these tools as much as / as well as I do, you are completely screwed. You're going to lose your job to me and my army of bots. You (and your kids) are going to be part of the permanent underclass." If you dare question how incredible it is, you are told that you just don't get it, either because you're not smart enough, are too low agency, or don't pay for the latest paid models, which are the really good ones and don't even bother with the free stuff, you dumb poor. And you hear stories like the guy making an mRNA vaccine to fight his dog's cancer, which is awesome, and you're told that everyone will be able to have personalized medicine like that in the future, which sounds great. But like, are you, who can't even make a website with Claude Code, going to start using AlphaFold to whip up your own peptides? Are those dickbags telling you that they're going to be so much richer than you also going to live so much longer than you?? Plus, you hear creepy stories about AI encouraging people to kill themselves, and you know those people were probably unstable anyway and that AI is just a tool and it'll tell you whatever you want, but is it worth the risk? Pretending to be afraid of it might be the best way to stop it from taking your job, which, remember, all of the leaders at the big labs are promising it will do, unless you want to go be a plumber or something, work with your hands (they will not, of course, but you, you should probably seriously consider getting your hands dirty). Or maybe you're not pretending about being afraid, you actually are, which would be totally justified because the leaders of the big labs have told you to be afraid, that they're afraid, that these things are like nuclear weapons in the wrong hands and that there's a 10%? 25%? higher? chance that they'll kill us all, but it's worth the risk, because this is how society progresses. There's no turning back. "We have achieved Recursive Self-Improvement!" they squawk. "This is the big one! Humans are really and truly useless meatbags now! Ha ha!" And you're so confused, because most of the AI you actually encounter is slop. Poorly written social media posts, fake images, etc. Some of it is very funny, but if this is the stuff that's definitely going to take your job and then probably kill you, you don't quite see how? Are you that replaceable? Would you be more excited than concerned? Or would you be more concerned than excited? Personally, I'm excited, because I think LLMs are overhyped. We'll spend bajillions of dollars on inference in a Red Queen's Race, the slop will runneth over, some people will certainly lose their jobs, but a lot of things will genuinely improve, and a lot of people will end up being able to do more at their job than they can now. Plus, the non-chatbots, the models that power embodied AI and help crack biology, are showing early signs that they're going to be magical. In the past week or so, Travis Kalanick, Bob McGrew, and RJ Scaringe all said they're going to be building AI-powered factories. Yann LeCun raised $1 billion for world models to accelerate AI's impact on the physical world. Robots can play tennis now. We'll all have personal tennis coaches or coaches who teach us anything we want when we're around, and spend the rest of their days making our beds, doing our laundry, cooking healthy, delicious meals. The near future is going to be insanely cool, and different in all sorts of ways, some of which we can predict, and some of which we can't. But my god you weirdos need to stop shilling your dystopian fantasies to the people if you ever want them to feel more excited than concerned.

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I had no idea what SSH meant 24 hours ago and now I have an AI assistant on Telegram. Welcome to my Claw Mom age. 🙈