🔥High Growth Handbook🔥 Scaling Companies From 10 to 10,000 Topics -Role of CEO -Hiring Execs -M&A -Product -Other company scaling Amazon: amazon.com/High-Growth-Ha… Audible: amazon.com/High-Growth-Ha… Full book online: growth.eladgil.com

Thank you to my excellent audience at last night's SF Distributed Systems meetup. For those who couldn't make it, here are my slides. slideshare.net/slideshow/meas…

4D chess continues

Interesting discussion on careers. I like the phrase “uncapped upside” Nikita Bier

Microsoft just silently dropped Florence 👀Vision model that can tackle many vision tasks (captioning, detection, region proposal, OCR) 🤏Small models (200M and 800M) with ~quality to models 100x larger 🔥MIT licensed Paper and models: huggingface.co/collections/mi…

Ouch… Data lasts forever too…

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Simple Yen Carry Trade (YCT) 101 (it's just a version of a margin call) Because Japan has a massive NIIP it invests heavily in foreign assets. That number is roughly 3.5TN of which most is real stuff not financial assets. BUT some is Some is domestics buying Global risky

As performance review season gets underway in many places now & through Q4, here’s a rough model to help you think about how you are perceived in almost every mid-sized to large company. Your work is generally observed and perceived [0] by others along the following 3

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Introducing 📜DocWrangler: an open-source IDE for AI-powered data processing with built-in prompt engineering guidance and output inspection tools. Code: github.com/ucbepic/docetl Blog: data-people-group.github.io/blogs/2025/01/… Free research preview: docetl.org/playground Built @ Berkeley (1/7)

The most elegant solutions seem obvious in hindsight. This seems to be it for open table formats and catalogs. Nice work DuckDB 👏👏👏

Engineers should code Managers should code Designers should code PMs should code Directors should code VPs should code CEOs should code

the #1 use case for AI coding should be to vibe code interfaces to Look At Your Data

This is good common sense advice for doing well at work.

don’t be afraid to get dressed: in my early 20s, I dressed more in the Silicon Valley uniform (company t-shirt, hoodie, jeans) - because a friend told me not to “scare the engineers by reminding them you’re a woman” and because I looked even younger than I was, and felt nervous

Big companies tend to reward the best politicians, not performers.

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