AKHIL 🪡 on Twitter:
> my heretic belief is that it is possible to break out. everything you need is already out there
> who ever manages to pull it off will end up redefining computing and build a multi hundred billion dollar business along the way
> Quote RT of @johnnulls:
> > there does seem to be a problem with constructing a new world for personal/collaborative computing within the old one. “apps” sit at the end of a long chain of constraining factors, and reworking these seems to require effort at an industrial scale
> > the os and web environments are really not that amenable to radical designs, especially not when attempted by a small team
> > in many ways, you have to learn to love big brother (microsoft, apple, google) and conform to the laws within their jurisdictions
> > or, you have to attempt revolution from within their gates—without any real prospect for support or success
> > you have to embrace your role as a second-class citizen, or overthrow their rule and build your own kingdom (an endeavor that would require being an industry player)
Robert Palgrave on Twitter / X
Back in November, Google announced 2.2 milllion new materials.Today, a paper in Chemistry of Materials from Ram Seshadri and Tony Cheetham dismantles that claimhttps://t.co/pjHfNrSsMc https://t.co/MojuB3p7iS— Robert Palgrave (@Robert_Palgrave) April 8, 2024
Luke Jordan on Twitter / X
We researched and testedWe made great content that people found usefulI treated staff wellAnd Google destroyed us pic.twitter.com/BJLNWgLjU2— Luke Jordan (@lr_jordan) April 3, 2024
jacob on Twitter / X
this is the exact moment our coworkers found out we had been laid off while speaking in front of city council pic.twitter.com/IcsCszGe3Z— jacob (@peepaw_) March 1, 2024
AKHIL 🪡 on X: "my heretic belief is that it is possible to break out everything you need is already out there who ever manages to pull it off will end up redefining computing and build a multi hundred billion dollar business along the way" / X
Nabeel S. Qureshi on Twitter / X
Jake Ward on Twitter / X
We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor.We got 489,509 traffic in October alone.Here's how we did it: pic.twitter.com/sTJ7xbRjrT— Jake Ward (@jakezward) November 24, 2023
Max Howell on X
Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.
Elizabeth Laraki on X
breakdown of Google search page design in comparison to competing AI chatbot website designs
Kevin Kwok on Twitter
“Google pays Apple $20B a year to be their default search engine. That's 75% of Apple's entire research and development budget.
@narayanarjun pointed out to me that Google's basically funding all of Apple's r&d haha. Should put that on back of every device”
Spencer | 🏗📈 on Twitter
A lot of people are confused by the Airbnb PM role change.Most people's current view of PMs is often how Google made the role of PMs - eng + product (project management and product strategy).Apple's always had more of an art view of PM - marketing + product vision.Product… https://t.co/dGfjfFa7YF— Spencer | 🏗📈 (@Spshulem) June 23, 2023
prof-g on Twitter
= new paper w/yuliy baryshnikov
Halvar Flake on Twitter
Feedback effects: Google initially relied on the (human-curated) link structure of the internet to derive "importance" signals from the internet graph. As people started using Google instead of links, Google accidentally destroyed the fabric that provided the value.— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) December 5, 2022
Dare Obasanjo on Twitter
Big tech interviews are so much overkill compared to the job. Engineers spend weeks on leetcode only to be asked to create a button in a UI. Product managers memorize product sense frameworks only to schedule meetings and ask lawyers if it’s OK to ship a feature (it’s always no).— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) February 16, 2023
Peter Yang on Twitter
An engineer and ex-founder wrote a long post on Google's culture.This line stands out to me: pic.twitter.com/iDqPeGvhka— Peter Yang (@petergyang) February 14, 2023
Raphael Schaad on Twitter
Still one of the best images on the Internet. pic.twitter.com/33EFb5ZH8I— Raphael Schaad (@raphaelschaad) September 14, 2022
Nando Costa on Twitter
I'm excited to share this collage of animated @GoogleDesign experiments inspired by #MaterialDesign, and created in collaboration with @someformstudio and @zeligsound. 🥳---#DesignLanguage #DesignSystem #UX #C4D pic.twitter.com/WVe4WqLxcK— Nando Costa (@nandocosta_art) August 30, 2022