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Derek Browers
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Derek Browers
@DMBrowers
parenthood, product management, jiu-jutsu
Los Angeles, CA شامل ہوئے Mart 2009
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@DMBrowers Oh, I mean, I agree with you.
This is an age old case of humans continually fail the marshmallow test.
They prioritize things that are actually not good for them, long term.
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@Kazanjy Engineers prefer it but, in my experience, the best ideas and leaps forward came when we were all in a room together. Probably a context-specific kind of thing.
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Yeah. I tend to agree. Though R&D is the place where it’s least negative as a result of R&D staff being good typers and readers (for asynch comms). And also engineers don’t like face to face communication because it’s exhausting. ; )
This is why the GitHub’s and zapiers and gitlabs and so forth are the standard examples of distributed success.
Though fair to point out that figma fucking rekt invision in no small part because invision was distributed and couldn’t react.
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@packyM Slow and deliberate is great for hardware. Software, not so much.
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@Kazanjy Agreed. And that communication and coordination overhead has a direct impact on the velocity of innovation on the R&D side.
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@DMBrowers They get triggered by it because it offends their current state.
It’s ok to prefer a remote startup. Just recognize that you are eating a communication and coordination overhead that likely isn’t made up for by a potential recruiting and retention advantage.
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@tszzl Literally every company with some modicum of success has former employees that could write this. It’s how Glassdoor exists.
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Low levels of sleep, but insanely high levels of camaraderie.
Lilian Weng@lilianweng
About 650 / 770 signed at this moment. As people start waking up, more will come. All the efforts started after 1:30 AM, 500+ within two hours and all of this after 2 crazy days with very little sleep.
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Never having to go on LinkedIn is a top-5 benefit of being gainfully employed. #ThirstQuenched
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Cut through the (overwhelming) AI-related noise, clout-chasing, and "check my prompts" posts and give my man Emad's newsletter a subscription. Super smart guy with an incredible ability to explain the tech and implications of AI. ehasan.com
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@scottPellett @Plambey No, those were the room names when we were on Ocean Park but they were named after the first two office locations.
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@DMBrowers @Plambey We had conference room names when we were above the Apple Store!?!
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@DMBrowers @scottPellett clearing out some old calendar notifications on the phone and spotted these two

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