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WHOA.
Yes- Microsoft laid off 6,000 people BUT... they dropped a pretty brutal new policy overhaul:
-2-year rehire ban for anyone pushed out over performance
-A new “good attrition” metric (yes, they track if they’re happy you’re gone)
PLUS... you have 5 days to choose:
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Amanda Goodallx.com
Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow.
In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes time to spend, and adding the ... See more
Patrick Collisonx.com
Our model is also pretty good at doing useless but fun stuff!
@OpenAI https://t.co/R8iZ95tZF9
OpenAI has published a new prompting guide for GPT-4.1
Agentic prompt that OpenAI used to achieve its highest score on SWE-bench Verified is added here and blog link in 2nd post.
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You will be tasked to fix an issue from https://t.co/prWJrFZ88m
Dropbox, in the years before its IPO, came to orient itself in a new direction—to focus on highest-value users in the highest-value networks interacting with the highest-value files.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Steve Jobs Content vs Process
youtube.com
americans treat optionality like a virtue when it’s actually a pathology. ppl optimize for keeping doors open indefinitely, never committing, never locking in, because they conflate flexibility with freedom. but optionality is not freedom, it’s just deferred responsibility.
eventually, optionality maximization leads to a life of passive consumptio... See more