IMHO, the biggest problem with outsourcing is the distance and time gap. There isn’t enough overlap to help people get unblocked in the middle of the day. So they either make stupid assumptions and plow ahead, or freeze up and slow down.

Honestly, the AI information might be better than most of the dog shit insights people post on that platform.

K.

All I can say is that for many of us in people management here,

a) we could’ve paid our mortgage just as comparably on an IC track, and we do this job because we enjoy working with people and roadmap strategy, and

b) I don’t care whether you’re building a fintech bro trading app, public housing in the USSR, or are conducting an orchestra. You get enough people in one place trying to achieve a shared goal, and you need people to manage the people. Otherwise the work becomes messy and miserable.

I say this as someone who has worked for small companies, large companies, NGOs, and non-hierarchical collectives.

When you start working on something that is complex, and has a lot of moving parts, you need conductors. If you’ve got a better real-world example of an organizational model that works, I’m all ears.

Even in Leninist Russia, workplace structures had people managers in place to facilitate planning and to ensure that a team was aligned and set up to successfully accomplish a goal.

I’ve only ever seen one org structure that didn’t need some sort of people facilitation layer. And that was a tiny commune that a buddy of mine lived on. And everyone knew each other for years before they established said commune.

A lot of us here work in software. Often times there are two tracks, IC and people management. Often times both of those tracks pay similarly.

The good people managers and directors are usually folk that were identified as being good at mentoring people and good at providing air cover so people could do good work.

I’m sorry you’ve never worked at a place with good middle management. It does exist in many places, and many people selected it because they like working with the people and the strategy more than the product directly. Often times these people could’ve been paid comparably by working as a staff or principal track engineer or experience designer.

Twitter is mostly verified dicks these days. That might be the better platform.

Yes. This was taken on iOS.

Oh the irony. The site reporting LG’s ads wants people to remove ad blockers.

Midwest.social uses Al oomen umm

Me and my team take our site down the old fashioned way. Code copied from some rando on the internet.

My guess is that the motivation was user feedback and keeping things simple so they’re easier to repair.

I’m more annoyed that Nvidia is looked at like some sort of brilliant strategist. It’s a GPU company that was lucky enough to be around when two new massive industries found an alternative use for graphics hardware.

They happened to be making pick axes in California right before some prospectors found gold.

And they don’t even really make pick axes, TSMC does. They just design them.

both sides of the cake

This two sided cake analogy is a new one for me.

The article’s author seems to think this is an IPO play. Their revenue would spike over 2025 and would inflate the growth metrics for a 2026 IPO.

Does Canva realize that they have more in common with Microsoft’s free power point templates than Adobe CS?

At least they get a chance to leave a 1 star review on their way out.

Obligatory Jurassic Park Melodica Theme

I wish this was an article with some analysis. This is literally just the press release from Panasonic’s marketing department.

IMHO, it’s best to get a TV with CES and a good amount of HMDI inputs with newer specs.

Don’t connect the TV to the internet, and use external media players. That’s what I do with my Samsung.

Basically a lot of shows by former Fox News hosts and other far right vodcasters who are too extreme to be promoted on more mainstream platforms.