Principles of Effective Research | Michael Nielsen
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An Opinionated Guide to ML Research
Why Figma Wins - kwokchain
Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood relative to its existential impact on a company’s trajectory. Figma is a … Continue reading Why Figma Wins →
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise: For Kubernetes Networking & Security
eBPF-powered Cilium has taken the world of Kubernetes connectivity and security by storm. With their Series B funding, Isovalent will continue to remain the leading force behind the eBPF community and continue the rise of Cilium as the leading technology for Kubernetes networking, security, and service mesh.
How WebAssembly Could Streamline Cloud Native Computing
Stop saying WASM is the end of containers, start saying WASM plus containers
A Brief History of Application Development
A look at how the architecture and ecosystem around modern application development have evolved. HHHYPERGROWTH A Brief History of Application Development By muji – 02 Sep 2022 – View online →
Starting a technology business: Part 1 - Full-stack business
Take two pieces of paper. Stack them on top of each other. To make them stick, throw some glue between them. You get a big messy middle of glue. What has a mess of glue got to do with anything with...
Infrastructure SaaS - a control plane first architecture
A few months back, we saw a tweet about how every Infrastructure SaaS company needs to separate the control plane from the data plane to build a successful product. Reading this got us excited since we were working on a platform that would make this really easy. We would love to talk to you if you are already familiar with these patterns and are building an Infrastructure SaaS product
Why Are Enterprises So Slow? – zwischenzugs
tl;dr In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in place to make change come about. Hav…
8 Lessons from 20 Years of Hype Cycles | Michael Mullany | Pulse
As a VC at Icon Ventures and a twenty year veteran of productizing and marketing high tech for VMware, Netscape and others, I've always been
(6) 8 Lessons from 20 Years of Hype Cycles
As a VC at Icon Ventures and a twenty year veteran of productizing and marketing high tech for VMware, Netscape and others, I've always been fascinated by how new technologies emerge and come to market. One of the major artifacts that tries to capture the state of our market and industry each year i
Nadia Asparouhova | Reimagining the PhD
I recently decided to wrap up my time at Protocol Labs, and along with it, my time in open source research.
Electric Sheep Blog: The future doesn't need you: 8 pieces of advice to myself as a new graduate
A couple of weeks ago, the engineering college I graduated from invited me to join an industry panel to give the graduating batch some advi...
Electric Sheep Blog: Everyone is running a business, including you.
If you need to make money for any reason whatsoever - food, housing, fun, whatever - you're in business. Being employed is simply a lower-r...
Electric Sheep Blog: From programming to business: Lesson 0
When you ask people for tips in their area of expertise, they often gloss over the most basic things they do because, you know, it's obviou...
Electric Sheep Blog: No virtuous circle, or how India's Silicon Valley is... different
I've lived in Bangalore since I was three - we moved here in 1987 after my father retired from the public sector that year. Bangalore, the...
RubyMonk - ruby lessons right in your browser | Hacker News
Electric Sheep Blog: C42 Engineering, Year One.
We've come a long way since that evening in December 2009 when a handful of colleagues spent an evening drinking Highland Park and trying to...
Modern Indian Careers. Why IT Services is in decline and so… | by Sidu Ponnappa | Medium
Why IT Services is in decline and so many engineers hate their jobs
Google Links — a Boost from Browser Co
Ray Dalio's Hyperrealism
A non-comprehensive summary of the first section of Ray Dalio's Life Principles, which concerns itself with ‘dealing with reality’.
In the years since my first reading of Principles, I've found there to be a difference between what is useful and what is factually accurate. (For philosophy nerds, this is the difference between the ‘pragmatic’ theory of truth with the ‘correspondence’ theory of truth.)
Dalio's book is very much oriented around what is useful, not necessarily what is objectively true. T
The method that reality uses to teach you its rules is that it causes you pain. Your partner dumps you; the job you desire rejects your application outright.
Principles presupposes that we cannot change the hand we're dealt, but we can learn to play it well.
Don't get hung up on your views of how things should be, because you will miss out on learning how they really are.
When I began to look at reality through the perspective of figuring out how to really works, instead of thinking things should be different, I realised that most everything that at first seemed “bad” to me—like rainy days, weaknesses, and even death— was because I held preconceived notions of what I personally wanted.
Pain + Reflection = Progress. Therefore, Dalio argues that you should learn to see pain as a signal for reflection. It is too much to ask for most of us to recognise pain during the event that causes us pain. But it's enough if we can look back on periods of pain in our recent past as opportunities for us to grow. Therefore: learn to go to the pain rather than avoid it.
Don’t worry about looking good — worry instead about achieving your goals.
The tricky thing about life decisions is that what is good as a first-order consequence might be bad as a second and third-order consequence.
My previous company was stuck in the ‘SME-loop’, because we found it difficult to stop customisation work (immediate money!) in favour of proper general product development (scalable business model!).
Don't blame bad outcomes on anyone but yourself.
My point is simply this: Whatever circumstances life brings you, you will be more likely to succeed and find happiness if you take responsibility for making your decisions well instead of complaining about things being beyond your control.
Execution is Exponential
The math that quantifies how much execution matters
My perspective is that good execution mostly comes from experience and skill, not from simply trying harder. This is why investors often bias towards people that have worked in hyper-growth startups in the past. If you don’t know what “good” looks like, you will have a hard time replicating it and might prematurely conclude you have a bad plan when actually you just didn’t execute it well enough.
Watch "EP000: Operation Aurora | HACKING GOOGLE" on YouTube
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An inside look at the historic attack where Google’s network was breached by a foreign government trying to access the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. In the wake of the breach, Google revolutionized its approach to security - overhauling everything and developing highly specialized teams of elite experts to stay ahead of the ever-evolving threat landscape.
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Being thoughtful in the Information Age, demo’ing the Muse App with Adam Wiggins - Events - Fission Talk
Muse is an iPad app built as a “tool for thought in the Information Age”. It’s officially launching out of beta at the end of August. Muse is a spatial canvas for your research notes, reading material, sketches, screenshots, and bookmarks. Arrange, scribble, find patterns and insights, make sense of your world. Creator Adam Wiggins @hirodusk is joining us to demo the app, but more importantly to cover the philosophies and ways of working behind Muse—how to approach problems thoughtfully, h...
How to see the future
An MIT PhD reveals his process for researching the future of programming
What motivates me as a CEO - PostHog
PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed, series A and B raised, $MM revenue) before I really…
Noosphere, a protocol for thought
Your brain on IPFS
Learning is Remembering
The importance of memory and how it relates to learning
Steps to autonomous cars: where, not when — Benedict Evans
We talk a lot about levels of autonomy, and ask when the first ‘fully autonomous’ cars will appear. That might be the wrong way to look at it - there will be lots of different kinds of ‘autonomy’, and the ‘where’ and ‘what’ may matter as much as the ‘when’.
The Development Abstraction Layer
A young man comes to town. He is reasonably good looking, has a little money in his pocket. He finds it easy to talk to women. He doesn’t speak much about his past, but it is clear that he sp…