Your business ideas probably won’t have the impact you hope or think they will! multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2021/11/0… Stitch Fix Eric Colson Daragh Sibley Dave Spiegel

Excellent post regarding ivermectin: astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-m….

petrjanda.substack.com/p/bring-data-a…

when you find a small data quality issue in a table

Is this person going to scale? If you work at a startup, you’ve certainly heard this question before. :) What I learned about people that scale. building.brex.com/what-i-learned…

I'm sure there might be others who have said this, but I think a huge reason that Zoom meetings can be so exhausting, and so inadequate compared to in-person meetings, is the loss of shared information as it arises within a shared room.

A north eastern storm is hammering our coastal defenses. I sit here below sea level, feeling completely safe, doing work on a stable internet, because scientists and engineers have done awesome things.

Great follow up to his Why We Sleep review

Putin's invasion of Ukraine has given us a moment of moral clarity. We can no longer afford to indulge the illusions we spun for our own consumption during the Long Peace. noahpinion.substack.com/p/a-moment-of-…

Long thread about how I think the first 96 hours have gone, still very early/incomplete impressions. The initial Russian operation was premised on terrible assumptions about Ukraine’s ability & will to fight, and an unworkable concept of operations. Moscow badly miscalculated. 1/

1/20 Tomorrow Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition, will be sentenced. The prosecutor's office asked for 13 years of imprisonment. Below is a thread about how Alexei’s trial went and what he is accused of. Please share.

If machine learning were called predictive optimization and neural networks were stacked regressions then we wouldn't even be having this conversation

it's friday, let's fight snowflake about what snowflake is building benn.substack.com/p/i-snowflake

Adam Rackis My question with testing techniques is always "does this improve my overall productivity". I've found that pure write-the-test-first TDD doesn't do that so I mostly avoid it Bundling tests in the same commit as the implementation DOES help my productivity simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/29/th…

it's friday, fight the data deep state benn.substack.com/p/insight-indu…

Adam Rackis Peer Richelsen We should all avoid confusing "don't deploy on Friday" with "don't deploy as you're walking out the door". Wasting ~20% of your deploy time per-week because you fear things going wrong is silly. Deploying as you walk out the door is selfish. Both are true!