No one warned me how much joy I’d get from spoiling my baby in all ways.

There’s a lot of pressure on creators to put something out this time of year. Wallets are out. Jump on the bandwagon. And if you have something that lights you up, by all means, take advantage of the moment. But if something doesn’t feel right, or you’re not excited, here’s

Would love a feed of what all my mutuals are purchasing for Black Friday

Boomerang hiring is becoming more and more popular. The drivers: • Companies want to reduce bad hire risk & former employees are a safer bet • Boomerang hires need less time ramping up and already know internal systems and processes But there is a massive bottleneck. Most

Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask: "What do you think about xyz"? There is no "you". Next time try: "What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?" The LLM can channel/simulate many

The most destructive belief in the world is that sleep deprivation produces better results.

It's can be hard to run work programs that benefit moms. The famous "pause the tenure clock" experiment for parents in academia let dads massively leapfrog moms. A new NBER paper suggests work from home could help close gender gaps for new parents: nber.org/papers/w34147

When WFH went up by 10%, moms' employment rates increased by 0.78 percentage points relative to other women’s The result was stronger for women with more or younger kids, and vanished for moms with kids over 16yo nber.org/papers/w34147

The availability of WFH made a big difference to whether women kept working after a new baby: "Nearly a quarter of women who could not WFH stop working after childbirth compared to essentially none of the women who could WFH" p-val: 0.018 [I'm a mom who kept working due to WFH

But––take it from a NYC mom who has started work at 5 a.m. every weekday for the past three years to work a staggered shift, where husband does a.m. childcare while I write a newsletter that publishes at 9 a.m., who has brought a kid along to numerous work events and trips––there

This is one of those rare bodies of research where everything points in the same direction. Historically. Cross-nationally. No matter how you slice it: commutes are bad for moms!

Meetings should compress uncertainty. If they expand it, something is wrong. Either the problem is framed poorly, or the room is avoiding the test that would settle the argument. Talking is not the same as learning.

My unsent holiday cards are staring me down from the kitchen table, but all my gifts are wrapped so at least there’s that.

“Can I bring my baby to the interview?” The message came in at 11 PM: “Hi, I have an interview with you tomorrow at 2 PM. My childcare fell through. Can I bring my 8-month-old? I understand if you need to reschedule.” Old me would have rescheduled. Unprofessional. Distraction.

This year, I’d love to write more handwritten letters. If we’re mutuals and you want to be penpals, dm me!

Can’t relate to anyone who doesn’t enjoy New Year’s energy. Hope is a beautiful thing, and we should always embrace whatever bit comes our way.

A lot of high agency people who would make great executives would make terrible middle managers, because they don't understand the "desire to be led" that many people have—because they have never experienced this themselves

We need a shorthand way of saying: "An AI did the work, but I vouch for the result" Saying "I did it" feels slightly sketchy, but saying "Claude did it" feels like avoiding responsibility

Sometimes I miss working with people in an office everyday But I just left my backyard shed to come back to the house for another cup of coffee, and walked in on my kids dancing to ABBA with their abuela So no I won’t be returning to office anytime soon

We shut down the company for 2 weeks during Christmas. All team members got full paid time off. Not allowed to open Discord or do any work. Support sent an auto-reply to everyone to either wait or request a refund. Refunds got automatically accepted for everyone. And guess