Emil Sit

If you use metrics to measure team performance and health, do you use them to compare teams to one another?

@DinaPortman Sounds like you had a great run. What kind of opportunity might be attractive to you?

I was laid off on Friday from my SRE role in Google Ads. I was at Google for 8 years: on 4 products, in 4 different roles, with 3 promotions. I don't know what I want to do next, but I'm looking for new opportunities.

it's the end of the year and some people have education budgets to spend! What tech books (or courses?) have really helped you this past year?

if you are at all able (or able to learn), i highly recommend: • creating your own website • on your own domain • acquiring copies of your data that you care about that's on third party sites (particularly this one)

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video. Well, I have good news.

@academic_exit Yes. Where is this not true? (I live in a CS bubble)

PhDs working outside of academia: do you make more money in your post-academic role than you did in academia? Inquiring minds (of PhDs still in academe) want to know.

@matthewhirschey You might enjoy also employing liberatingstructures.com as well!

What do you think of flipped lab meetings? Could it work for your lab?

Benefit 2. PAUSING PRESENTATIONS! Whether you spaced out, needed to look up something, or missed a key point, pause, go back, and play it again.

The Wikimedia Foundation wants a few bucks from you. But does Wikipedia need it? slate.trib.al/hSMlsZN

Twitter is filled with a bunch of guys who say "ChatGPT is so much better than Google, I'm using it as my search engine now". And like....ChatGPT will hallucinate facts between 1%-5% of the time. That's good for a LLM! And Really Really bad for a search engine.

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

Breaking news: scientists are reporting a recent discovery that exposure to Starlink satellite transmissions is now the leading cause of COVID-19 infections worldwide.

What does "research the company" even mean? Articles & tweets on this topic state it as a fact, a given, an afterthought. Then give no specifics on how to use this info. You know, just research the company. As a recruiter with 15 yrs experience, Stop. Do this instead:

Tesla should publish all self-driving incidents that affect its customers

@molly0xFFF Just finished Staff Engineer’s Path by @whereistanya and trying to figure out how to make time for Toast senior+ engineers to read it!

on the books topic, what are you reading and would you recommend it? fiction or nonfiction welcome, always looking to add to my backlog

What a great list of books in the replies!

Of course. Our roads have gotten more dangerous as other rich countries' roads have gotten safer. And - of course - we know how to fix this. But we don't. nytimes.com/2022/11/27/ups…

The real reason why some startups flounder is because CEOs/founders have no managerial experience or strong leadership skills, and simply don’t know how to build a high-functioning team. Instead, bizarrely, we see *employees* being perceived as the major problem at such places.

Congrats to my co-authors @Berkeley_EECS @__apf__ , David Wagner, E. Chin,S. Hanna, for Test-of-Time Award @acm_ccs, for our work on Android Permissions Demystified in 2011, the first paper examining real-world security issues in android apps' use of permissions, ~2000 citations!

Ask trusted colleagues to name 5 people they know are *really* great in your company. Reach out to them with a friendly message. Not everyone will be able to respond, but usually 4 out 5 of them will. Share what you work on, learn about their work, build rapport, get to know them