Dave Dennis Imagine you've got both football and soccer refs on the field, but we're actually playing pickleball (fastest growing new sport in America). The refs can't really agree on the rules of this new game, and one of them decides to change a call they made back in April 2021.

Thinking about all the horrible ChatGPT generated code that is being blindly pushed into prod around the world right now makes me shudder.

I’ve managed software engineering teams in Dublin, Ireland, and Bangalore, India. And I have a different take on this. Nobody keeps you around because of a physical office when they can hire someone 5x-10x cheaper elsewhere. They have offices there too. They keep you around

And if the Putin example seems too toxic - consider Napoleon. If the French Revolution had not occurred he would have been a talented - but largely unknown - artillery officer serving the Bourbon monarchy. We wouldn’t read books about him, debate his character.

I don’t think people realize how much hung on that launch. If Starship blew up on the pad, causing the largest non-nuclear explosion and destroying Starbase, the anti-Musk cynics would have come out in droves to block a second try. By clearing that tower, SpaceX unlocked Mars.

The Naval episode on Joe Rogan is still my favorite podcast episode ever. I listen to it whenever I think about what to do next in life. Here are the key takeaways:

AI Twitter is flooded with low-quality stuff recently. No, GPT is not “dethroned”. And thin wrapper apps are not “insane”. At all. I feel obligated to surface some quality posts I bookmarked. Every one of them should've been promoted 10x, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In no particular order:

day 415 in legacy code: the phrase 'best practices' is but a distant memory. performance is not a concern and sanity has departed this ship long ago. the code that once resembled hieroglyphics is now all too familiar to me. i see it everywhere i go... even when i sleep. theres

A little secret for building tight teams. I often get asked about what’s the best way to build tight/strong teams. So, here is a little counter-intuitive “secret” on how to do that. It’s not fancy team building dinners, outings, etc. It’s not the coaching exercises, mentors or

Every win is intoxicating when you're unaware of what else is out there. You got the job. You're beaming, until you find out about the thousands of people making your salary in a month online. Ignorance is bliss, but eternally stifles your potential in this beautiful game of

the male urge to get a giant warehouse and put a squat rack next to the air mattress with one desk, a projector, massive speakers, a cnc machine and a 3d printer

There are two impressive signs here: that Replit's programmers were able to ship something the CEO was skeptical about, and that the CEO adjusted his own opinion after seeing it.

Peter Thiel on the best idea he had for managing people and why: "The best thing I did as a manager at PayPal was to make every person in the company responsible for doing just one thing. Every employee's one thing was unique, and everyone knew I would evaluate him only on

Fraai staaltje leiderschap, hoor: dat je een knul van 20 na een half uur wisselt, beschadigt en vervolgens geen blik waardig gunt, laat staan dat je even opstaat, contact maakt of hem even bemoedigend toespreekt Omdat hij in z'n eerste topwedstrijd ooit helaas door het ijs zakte

You know podcasting is out of control when podcasters are interviewing other podcasters about interviews they had with other podcasters.

getting things done without an external forcing function

I really like the new Coinbase ad. Big reason many people are in crypto is because the current system is broken in so many ways and yeah, why wouldn’t you try to fix it. Better to build than to complain.

theres this guy i work with who is always like "hey everyone, im sure this isn't important or anything and probably its a bad idea but maybe we should..." and then follows up with an absolute banger of an idea like every single time. I sit up in my chair when I see him unmute

The problem is that the Europe of 30-50 years ago, or even 10 years ago, is long gone. 1. As a starting point, there would need to be a reversal of Green Energy policies, and a return to fossil fuels in bulk (from where?) 2. The Social Welfare state of Europe is incompatible 1/