Mo Shafieeha
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Mo Shafieeha
Despite its incredible progress, machine learning hasn't moved forward. McKinsey famously estimated that industries could unlock $5T+ of value by integrating machine learning. Although companies have invested a lot in AI, they still don't seem to be getting there. They describe a feeling of fatigue that has started to show that AI is just for elite... See more
Jason Risch • Self-Serve Apps for ML Teams | Greylock
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Are we destined for an even less private web? Who is affected by web3's lack of privacy is not addressed? Crypto users often maintain split identities because they do not wish to be exposed to the public eye. Still, they must be willing to try to maintain privacy, identity management, and pseudonymity.
Sarah Guo • are we doomed to repeat web2 history?
What a mistake it is to title-chase when choosing a startup 🤦🏻♀️.
SVP at a company goes nowhere is SVP of nothing. Early teammate at a company that becomes a $10B+ platform biz, grows into a staff engineer, an SVP of product, an extraordinary leader.
Choose company, not title.
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Is it just about the money, and does that matter? Web3 is absolutely a gold rush. People are very desperate for money (quite quickly) doing what they enjoy. Even if many entrants into crypto "do not fundamentally care about distributed trust models," an attractive alternative would be one where the user base grows to care.
Sarah Guo • are we doomed to repeat web2 history?
Your organization may not be ready for design, good or bad. Design-aware employees can organize brown-bag lunches and evangelize at the water cooler. Your organization will remain design-resistant unless its leaders think in a goal-directed way about its users (and customers). Consider reading some of the fundamental design books if you're a leader... See more
Chris Noessel • Is your organization design ready?
"Organizational Culture and Leadership" by Ed Schein: “Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of culture as a concept is that it points us to phenomena that are below the surface, that are powerful in their impact but invisible and to a considerable degree unconscious. In that sense, culture is to a group what personality or character is to an
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Why Reliability Matters Reliability means you won't have any problems with your services, no matter how complex and dependent. In typical reliability cases, availability is the focus, but sometimes terms get mixed up and misused. Distribution systems can only guarantee two out of three things - availability, fault tolerance, and consistency - so... See more