I believe that it is our thoughts and actions after a failure that determine what kind of memories we will have of that failure.

Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo in 1969, is the only human, dead or alive, that isn't in the frame of this picture.

In order to solve our world’s sanitation crisis, we need smarter toilets that don’t rely on sewage systems and prevent the spread of diseases. #WorldToiletDay gatesnot.es/3ELri81

Congrats to my co-authors UC Berkeley EECS Adriana Porter Felt , David Wagner, E. Chin,S. Hanna, for Test-of-Time Award ACM CCS 2025, for our work on Android Permissions Demystified in 2011, the first paper examining real-world security issues in android apps' use of permissions, ~2000 citations!

Ask trusted colleagues to name 5 people they know are *really* great in your company. Reach out to them with a friendly message. Not everyone will be able to respond, but usually 4 out 5 of them will. Share what you work on, learn about their work, build rapport, get to know them

The real reason why some startups flounder is because CEOs/founders have no managerial experience or strong leadership skills, and simply don’t know how to build a high-functioning team. Instead, bizarrely, we see *employees* being perceived as the major problem at such places.

Of course. Our roads have gotten more dangerous as other rich countries' roads have gotten safer. And - of course - we know how to fix this. But we don't. nytimes.com/2022/11/27/ups…

What does "research the company" even mean? Articles & tweets on this topic state it as a fact, a given, an afterthought. Then give no specifics on how to use this info. You know, just research the company. As a recruiter with 15 yrs experience, Stop. Do this instead:

Tesla should publish all self-driving incidents that affect its customers

What a great list of books in the replies!

Breaking news: scientists are reporting a recent discovery that exposure to Starlink satellite transmissions is now the leading cause of COVID-19 infections worldwide.

Twitter is filled with a bunch of guys who say "ChatGPT is so much better than Google, I'm using it as my search engine now". And like....ChatGPT will hallucinate facts between 1%-5% of the time. That's good for a LLM! And Really Really bad for a search engine.

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

The Wikimedia Foundation wants a few bucks from you. But does Wikipedia need it? slate.trib.al/hSMlsZN

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(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video. Well, I have good news.

if you are at all able (or able to learn), i highly recommend: • creating your own website • on your own domain • acquiring copies of your data that you care about that's on third party sites (particularly this one)

it's the end of the year and some people have education budgets to spend! What tech books (or courses?) have really helped you this past year?

If you use metrics to measure team performance and health, do you use them to compare teams to one another?