| Aug 30 |
@EamonLeonard Discussions about the things I own which I know aren’t yet up to my own personal standards, whilst working to get them there. Personal: management & organisational skills. Product: Stability, UX. Team: Structure, management, process.
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| Aug 22 |
Related https://t.co/Sx3H2JqeWj
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| Aug 20 |
@paddycosgrave @WebSummit Around for the next 2 weeks? Best day to drop in?
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| Aug 20 |
RT @kevinakwok: @michael_nielsen Modesty norms are weird. Everyone who feels them should weigh them less. Everyone who doesn't should weigh…
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| Aug 18 |
@seanpfee @mckierb @qatarairways Guys, I’m on a plane! They didn’t have my name so I had to wait 3 hours til literally everyone boarded before they would tell me if I was allowed on. But I AM ON A PLANE! May catch you both in Doha
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| Aug 18 |
@seanpfee @qatarairways Man, this place sometimes 😩
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| Aug 18 |
@seanpfee @qatarairways Which one are you looking at from MNL? You think these are accurate? https://t.co/c9SN9UX5lV
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| Aug 18 |
@seanpfee @qatarairways I got moved to the 7:35pm from Clark, just checking in now. Friend meant to be going out on the 11:30pm from Manila but looking like they’re all delayed? Do they have you guys in a hotel?
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| Aug 17 |
@seanpfee @qatarairways Was meant to be on the 18:35 yeah. Got re booked for 11:30 tomorrow after much arm twisting. I think they’re having trouble clearing the runway, 5am seems optimistic judging by this but 🤞 https://t.co/q6BuxRkht2
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| Aug 17 |
@seanpfee @qatarairways When are you flying? We weren’t as fortunate with how we were handled. Staff are great as usual but not equipped to handle & senior people nowhere to be seen https://t.co/VkgiKyXdSh
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| Aug 12 |
This is a disheartening realisation for someone who values nuance. It means:
1. Mainstream culture is not a good place to find deep truth (which is complex).
2. People who have gained mainstream recognition whilst maintaining control of a nuanced narrative deserve serious kudos
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| Aug 12 |
When you expose a *simple* message to a crowd, many will agree strongly, and many will disagree strongly, but everyone will get it, and most will make noise.
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| Aug 12 |
When you expose a *complex* message to a crowd, you’ll have a few who will get it, but the majority will be sufficiently confused as to be non-plussed, at best, so the reaction, whether positive or negative, is small.
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| Aug 12 |
The reason black-and-white thinkers/communicators are more successful is that nuance doesn’t scale.
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| Aug 12 |
One thing that stumps me on the rare occasion I stay in a reasonably nice hotel is all the waiting. 20 mins to get seated for breakfast, 25 mins to check in, 30 to check out. What’s the rationale? 🤷♂️
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| Aug 10 |
As someone who likes to think they have high standards, and hates dichotomisation (x can only be *great* or *terrible*) this is too relatable. https://t.co/Y24bx3dr7G
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| Aug 06 |
@Bellaknit Those were the days
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| Aug 05 |
@patjameslim I like this mental model. Stolen. Thanks! 😁
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| Aug 03 |
Relevant to the above - a nice article by @MrJohnFKennedy in yesterday's @siliconrepublic in which @niamhf articulates why we're doing what we're doing what we're doing. Thanks for the support Niamh! https://t.co/9lJoXHIMS3
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| Aug 03 |
@bkenny Yeah you must! Also I’m back in Dub in a few weeks. Signed up for the Minicorp meetup 😉looking forward to catching up!
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| Aug 02 |
We're now financing hundreds of small businesses each month - focused intently on the customer - next goal is bringing that "Flexibility of terms" metric up. Avg NPS in financial services is 34 🙀 - aim is to bring ours well into the 90s, getting there steadily. https://t.co/C9tFWYQEIM
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| Aug 02 |
I remember reading @AustenAllred tweets and thinking “I really want that" - a product that takes an existing model and makes it *actually work* for everyone & that customers are fanatic about. We got there about a month ago - going to share much more of our journey going forward. https://t.co/h1aVxv2cq2
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| Jul 31 |
@bentossell Happy to help here - have used for prob 4 years and built MVPs on the back of the API so super familiar. How do we sync up?
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| Jul 25 |
@lsukernik 😂. To be fair to fb, twitter can also surface this stuff pretty regularly. But here it's the exception. On fb it's the rule
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| Jul 25 |
@G_S_Bhogal Some relevant thoughts https://t.co/D5Q1NHX6wQ
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| Jul 22 |
https://t.co/OmlXlotYPI
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| Jul 18 |
Having been building a tech company in the Philippines for the past 2 and a bit years, it’s nice to have someone publically draw attention to this modern anxiety inducer. Perpetually on edge... https://t.co/Tklr2C1dmP
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| Jul 11 |
@G_S_Bhogal You might like this if you haven’t seen it: https://t.co/H26bQ65mOf - I think he articulates it quite well
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| Jul 07 |
Are there any good examples of pull (vs push) social networks? I like the idea of capturing highlights that I and people I care about can view and engage with, but I feel like it’d be more authentic if not pushed in real time to a feed (+ limited only to close friends)
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| Jul 06 |
I love @dhh, because he's the poster child for the principle "Critique ideas, not people". I can't think of anyone who has as flat a ratio for *Sentiment I agree strongly with* : *Sentiment I disagree strongly with* - this particular tweet falls under the latter category https://t.co/vfDwfv4MQ8
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| Jul 01 |
RT @naval: The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness.
It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all.
It‘d show opposing…
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| Jun 28 |
@samrosecruz Nice! Good luck! 😁
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| Jun 28 |
@samrosecruz Where you headed?
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| Jun 28 |
@paulbloomatyale I will now no longer recommend people buy your book and refer them instead to this thread
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| Jun 27 |
*there are. 😩
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| Jun 25 |
Just reminded of this again this evening reviewing a proposal sent to me by a friend. In the interest of not seeming anti-agency (I’m really not!), some good ones I’m happy to recommend: @minicorpHQ @builthq @joshsoftware
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| Jun 25 |
In both scenarios you’re going to have to pay more than the actual man hours required to build your V1. Honestly their are pros and cons to each. My personal recommendation, having endured and witnessed heartache in the past would be to pay up front for quality.
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| Jun 25 |
Some agencies are more up front about this misalignment of incentives, and will offset it by charging you more up front. In general these agencies will write better, more extensible code, and have much less onerous contracts and terms.
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| Jun 25 |
These agencies will be pretty vague about what tech they’re going to use because they know you’re not technical enough to know or care. Most often they’ll extend an existing CMS. Their contracts will be strict about what they hand over - often they own all the code they write.
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| Jun 25 |
Many agencies won’t mention this up front. They’ll be the more attractive option because the V1 they produce, on the surface, will look identical to what their more expensive competitors would produce. The differences are hidden 1. In your contract and 2. In your codebase.
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| Jun 25 |
Agencies can be a great way to get your product MVP built, once you know:
1. What you (probably) want: Something you can extend easily (by them or a team you build later)
2. What they want: Something they can maintain and extend (for a price)
You will get what you pay for.
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| Jun 25 |
@visakanv Also on topic of poetry/Irish history I feel like you’ll enjoy this https://t.co/WwByaV64yg
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| Jun 25 |
@visakanv Yep. Co-founder convinced me to move here 3 years ago and we’ve been importing a few more Irish per year since then. You spent much time here?
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| Jun 25 |
@visakanv Onbvious bias notwithstanding Ireland checks all the above boxes. Lots of history, cold, not *overrun* by tourists. Plus English speaking plus easy to get around 😁
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| Jun 24 |
Twitter is instagram for ideas
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| Jun 23 |
@safeortrue https://t.co/R2sLu2MtZ3
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| Jun 23 |
@safeortrue Disagree with both. Feeling others' plight until you side with one of them is a race to the bottom, + affective empathy isn't a very reliable guide of moral reasoning. Cognitive empathy + a simple principle -- does this cause significant harm? (A: Yes) seems to work here
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| Jun 22 |
One of the most counterintuitive parts of building an engineering team early on is navigating the fact that no-one wants to be the smartest person in the room - in a room full of very smart people.
Finding teachers is tough when the best teachers want to be learners.
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| Jun 22 |
@shaunau Example. “We both like animals! People who hunt or harm wild animals for fun are scum and should be locked up!”... Proceeds to dig into foie gras for lunch...
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| Jun 22 |
@shaunau Almost always to do with objectivism - I’ll be aligned with someone on “this is how it’s optimal to behave” but either their reason will be “because it just is” or they’ll describe a principle that it becomes clear they only apply very selectively
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| Jun 18 |
@colmtuite @Modulz @Larkef Nice!
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| Jun 18 |
@colmtuite @Modulz First vote! I actually really like Bridge - monosyllabic, descriptive, memorable, easily brandable, cc @Larkef ;)
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| Jun 17 |
People who de-prioritise building wealth based on the fallibility of “Money solves all problems”, miss the extent to which *not having money* creates problems.
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| Jun 17 |
@thogge “Often wrong, never in doubt” is a heuristic I recommend to others to identify potential co-founders. These types of leaders 1. Don’t waste time waiting around, 2. Inspire people to act strongly. The big wins tend to offset the losses
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| Jun 14 |
@paulyq G'luck!
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| Jun 12 |
I’m not a very disappointable person, but I’d say 90% of it comes when I’m getting on with someone well, only to realise they haven’t yet developed any intuition for identifying their own motivated reasoning and have big epistemic blind spots as a result.
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| Jun 08 |
@bentossell Phenomenal 👌
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| Jun 03 |
@devonzuegel @juliagalef Ah! This was what I was thinking about: https://t.co/ruBWoQ6aWj . I think about this a lot, too. That people only talk publicly about things they feel strongly about must be one of the biggest reasons twitter and other social platforms are so polarised.
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| Jun 03 |
@devonzuegel I'm pretty sure I've seen @juliagalef tweet that before. Or maybe it was you?
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| Jun 02 |
@HPluckrose Congrats! Not that it's any of my biz, but @ScrivenerApp might be worth checking out. Have only used it moderately myself but seems much more suited to writing book length than Word, might save you some time 😁
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| May 28 |
I’ve seen a few people interpret this quote as “Don’t bother speaking to your customers” which is unfortunate. What you should take from it:
Your customers normally know their problems very well - much better than you do. Talk to them *a lot*.
But the solution is your job. https://t.co/saugmX6ibG
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| May 20 |
💯 https://t.co/tL0U028i59
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| May 19 |
@AmagiAlpha Have you met @JohnLilic? Worth you guys chatting if not.
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| May 16 |
@micsolana Such a Laurel thing to say 😏
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| May 16 |
The idea that “There are no truly selfless deeds”
A) Is depressing. Altruism is zero sum. Helping others for personal gain is gross.
B) Is beautiful. Altruism is positive sum. Biologically aligned incentives are wonderful.
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| May 12 |
So much conflict and disagreement is borne from applying our methodology for interpreting the material world (universally applicable rules) to how we interpret the social world. Human behaviour is complex. Guidelines: 👍. Rules: 👎
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| May 12 |
To get better at thinking, there are few ways more effective than to get better at writing
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| May 10 |
@mironieminen Same. And had no issues. Now by default they’re hidden half the time I want to read them.
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| May 10 |
@mironieminen I wasn't big on touch ID either tbh. Agreed they're both unbelievably cool, but sci-fi tech != better solution to problem. Question: before face ID did you have your notifications text hidden by default?
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| May 09 |
How to solve humanity's hardest co-operation problems: I’m not sure
How not to: Incessantly shrieking that everyone outside your tiny in-group is morally corrupt and the world is going down the shitter.
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| May 09 |
Today’s first world problem: Apple's Face ID is a step backwards by any metric I can think of - amazing tech but solves a problem the company had, not the user. Doesn't "blend in", actively gets in the way several times per day.
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| May 09 |
@hadronapp hey guys. Just signed up for early access and this looks like one of the best implementations I've seen so far. Would love to get in asap and play around, happy to provide lots of feedback. Thanks! https://t.co/ZLsojD6gAd
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| May 07 |
@AustenAllred Fave example of this is people on either side of the “You need to work your ass off to be successful” debate. Seems few disagree at the atomic level, aggravation comes from wildly differing definitions of “work hard” and “success”
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| May 05 |
@levelsio Certainly fair to say investors have perhaps unfair bias against solo founders. But great solo founders are rare. Your view here seems coloured by the fact that you are one.
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| May 05 |
@levelsio Surprised at this level of conspiracy theorism from you. Knowing what you know about the breadth of traits and skills required to build something, do you think *most* people are better off on their own? IME investors recognise increased chances when burden is shared.
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| Apr 28 |
@ingridmusic @23andMe Mine was 3 times! Eventually they just told me to give up 😩
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| Apr 28 |
@MikeBoyd That’s the one! A few of your tweets struck a chord (opportunity in trad lucrative, low trust industries not used to tech) as they map on closely to what we’re doing here and the kinds of businesses we meet.
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| Apr 24 |
@davefromdublin Congrats on the launch, looks great!
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| Apr 21 |
Philippines-based friends: I'm speaking this Thursday evening at the @freelancer office in BGC on "Bridging the gap between tech and non-tech" for #productph. Come along if you're around! https://t.co/AdEy4jd0Do https://t.co/Gup5hwlkep
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| Apr 18 |
@sehurlburt I took @paulbloomatyale's coursera course - "The moralities of everyday life" - very broad but a good place to decide where you'd like to branch off and learn more. Also @verybadwizards podcast is great
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| Apr 17 |
@michael_nielsen This thread between @yorl and @tage_rai is a good example https://t.co/cYO46VpROR
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| Apr 16 |
@iam_preethi Also a similar idea: https://t.co/B3xsCtUG31
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| Apr 16 |
@iam_preethi Was pondering this recently, but worded slightly differently. https://t.co/yOpSy71Nm8
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| Apr 16 |
@paddycosgrave @ChMurphy @WebSummit @SaaStock Whaaaa! Congrats @ChMurphy!
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| Apr 16 |
This is a really great piece from @jessitron . Love the idea of building a camerata and the line "When the world is ready for an idea, it doesn't come to just one person" https://t.co/vM8biQAuIJ
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| Apr 15 |
@tjpalanca It's already missed 😢 What's next in store for you?
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| Apr 12 |
@visakanv I like your analogies here. Another one is cognitive vs affective. Society tends to talk about and promote affective traits, but I think we'd be in a much better place if we encouraged people to practice cognitive (for example: empathy) rather than rely on their lizard brain.
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| Apr 12 |
@visakanv Of all the mental models we use, the one I'm most torn about is that of the single self - it prevents us from blaming mistakes on an entity that we're not responsible for, but also leads us to identify with vast shortcomings outside of our control
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| Apr 11 |
@visakanv How many books do you read per week? This is mad pace!
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| Apr 10 |
@salonium I think a lot about this. I think it falls in the category of "cultural phenomenons it's nice to theorise about, but which will likely never change". https://t.co/zNaN86DmLa
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| Apr 09 |
@mmay3r Good rule of thumb: consumer is never the villain and almost always the victim
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| Apr 09 |
@can @80000Hours My understanding is there's "EA as an org" (although I'm not sure of ownership etc.) and "EA as a concept/community". For example, from https://t.co/CjhQtYTq0k https://t.co/lYL4KBrsnW
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| Apr 09 |
@can @80000Hours Donate to orgs who promote effective altruism. Effective Altruism being: "Using evidence and analysis to take actions that help others as much as possible."
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| Apr 09 |
@can @80000Hours Sure. This tweet: https://t.co/flHB45p4b8 seems to imply that @80000Hours are recommending people donate directly to them - "Get a job and donate as much as possible to us", when what they're actually recommending is..
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| Apr 09 |
@can @80000Hours Effective Altruism is “Using evidence and analysis to take actions that help others as much as possible”. If you take issue with that, as you’re entitled to, a more honest thing to do would be to tweet about why you think it’s not a good approach.
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| Apr 09 |
@can I think you’ve misrepresented Effective Altruism & @80000Hours here - whether intentional or not, by conflating EA as a concept, with 80000 hours, an organisation who practices and promotes Effective Altruism.
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| Apr 09 |
@can @can do you think a fair interpretation of your tweet here is “80000 hours are encouraging people to donate directly to them, rather than to important causes”, and do you believe that’s what they’re actually saying?
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| Apr 07 |
@jdanastein @andreasklinger @jdanastein sounds great, how does that work? I’m at tony@firstcircle.com . Thanks!
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| Apr 07 |
@andreasklinger Things I’m most interested in:
- Team, culture, performance & incentives
- Workflow & tooling
- Product, product strategy, technology strategy and the intersection of each.
Highly technical topics have their place but tend not to be as generalizable across orgs.
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| Apr 07 |
@andreasklinger If you decide to open this up to people outside SF I'd love to get involved - mentorship/advice/discussion on these things is something I find lacking, particularly out here in SEA.
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