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The other day I noticed a tweet from Justin Duke which outlined a plan to get his company’s codebase ready for Devin—a programming focused generative AI product.
Net magic number is a measurement of go-to-market (GTM) efficiency for SaaS businesses.
Most managers, at best, are a form of benign neglect. Continual attention (micro management) usually results in the opposite of what a manager hopes for—less motivation from employees, learned helplessness, and worse performance.
A survey from Deloitte found that 43% of companies see compliance as their greatest challenge and several key trends.
When companies run surveys and industry analysis that they share with the media, they’re gaining exposure for themeselves.
The “the first AI software engineer” Devin, from Cognition Labs, was found to be fixing bugs of it’s own doing, solving problems in a roundabout way, and taking a long time, in a debunking video by a human software engineer.
What if the entire services industry merges with SaaS when it becomes possible to deliver a service with artificial intelligence?
I try to be careful about what I read in the morning as that has a way of setting the tone for the day.
Henrietta Lacks passed away from cervical cancer in 1951, but her cells have been continuously used in medical tests due to their ability to replicate quickly.
A products is not just collection of features, but a promise to solve a problem or enhance the customer’s life in some material way.
The energy spent making a decision should be proportional to the consequences.
While well intentioned, a utilitarian approach to maximizing expected value of the greater good (or minimizing suffering) has unintended side effects.
Knowledge collapse is the paradox where increasing access to certain types of knowledge actually harms understanding.
Business strategy should concisely answer who the most import customers are, how to attract them, and what the entire company must work towards to win that market.
The big orange cones with steam coming out of them in Manhattan are from the leaking network of steam pipes that heat commercial buildings.
A theory of how plants cooperate comes from research of how fungus connects tree roots together into common mycorrhizal networks (CMN).
In a two party system you never want both party A and party B buffering at the same time because it creates artificial delays in the system.
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Between 2008 and 2021, the market was operating under zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP).
I received a one question feature survey from Screen Studio and I thought it was the best survey I have ever received.
When employees lose their sense of agency they start to look outwardly as the source of their problems and solutions.
The parable of the six foot man who drowned in the stream that was five feet on average is a reminder to plan for the possibility of low ends when building a portfolio.
Contempt undermines any rational argument you might make to convince another person of anything.
Anthropologist Marilyn Strathern summarized Goodhart’s law most succinctly saying, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.