Alberto Muñoz

Deeply trying to get by.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

It's hard to oversell this map - make sure to bookmark it and share it with your friends. Fantastic research that must have been soooo labour intensive: How has the population of evert single small geographic region across Europe changed from 1961 to 2024? You will want to study this map in detail. Source (keep scrolling for a while): https://t.co/2akdcsaBpm

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

A persistent headhunter, a charismatic hiring manager and a flattered candidate. This is all it takes. #Recruitment

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

This man exhibits the supreme confidence of someone who has no idea that he has no idea what he's talking about

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

Qué cosas más increíble son la percepción, lo que decidimos que nos importe, lo que deciden que sea noticia... y qué difícil es coger distancia para analizarlo todo.

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

Vivo con la enorme, enorme, enorme curiosidad por saber qué postura tomará @rockdelux ante Angine de Poitrine.

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

@SchezHugo Nop

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

This is an absolute eye-opener indeed. #deadlines

[hagaetc @hagaetc]

Marathon finishing time distribution proves one of my biggest leadership lessons:

Deadlines work! … even if they are somewhat arbitrary

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

Brillante 👏👏👏

[Alan Daitch @AlanDaitch]

Un tipo en Londres le tiró 100 estupideces disfrazadas de preguntas técnicas a las IAs más inteligentes del planeta para descubrir si realmente son brillantes o se hacen. Me encanta porque agarró conceptos que no existen, los vistió con jerga técnica convincente, como la 'tasa metabólica cognitiva' de alumnos de secundaria, el 'índice de acoplamiento gravitacional' entre microservicios… Basura, digamos.

Lo que encontró es un delirio: los modelos con razonamiento extendido, los que supuestamente piensan paso a paso antes de responder, no rinden igual. Rinden MUCHO peor. El problema está en el entrenamiento, porque los evaluaron toda la vida por producir respuestas, no por cuestionar preguntas.

 Es como un alumno que aprendió que siempre hay que responder algo en el examen: nunca le enseñaron que a veces la respuesta correcta es 'esta pregunta está mal planteada' y, cuanto más razona, más elaborada es la justificación que inventa para una premisa simplemente absurda.

Cuando a un humano le tiran una premisa dudosa, la cuestiona más o menos el 40% de las veces. Cuando a una IA le tiran lo mismo, solo el 10%, y esto no está mejorando mucho. GPT-5.4, el modelo más nuevo de OpenAI, queda número 16 en el ranking y su versión con más razonamiento puntúa todavía peor. La única IA que viene mejorando consistentemente es Claude, de Anthropic.

No siempre necesitamos modelos más inteligentes. Yo me conformo con que saquen uno con la valentía de decirme que mi pregunta es muy estúpida.

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

These graphs are definitely eye-openers. More of these, please.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

84% of people have never used AI, and just 0.3% of users pay for premium services.

Anyone who thinks AI is a bubble isn't paying attention.

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

Percentage of people employed in technology in Europe 👇

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

This👇needs a reminder from time to time.
"How much more I realise there is to know"

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

#Cropland in #Europe

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

How amazing... World GeoHistoGram https://t.co/89JVVU5zuh

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

It'd be cool to see all the world's #languages and try to find gender-inclusive language implications.

[OnlMaps @onlmaps]

Does your country's main language(s) use grammatical gender?

(by u/CuriousWandererw)

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

Esto que cuenta @harari_yuval en #Nexus es de lo más inquietante que leerás hoy.

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

Reminder

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

I do recommend to all my friends to read (and listen to) the free article in the app every week.

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

On #reference check.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on how to interview and reference check new hires

Brian’s first piece of advice comes from Steve Jobs:

“Start with the results and work backwards to the people. Most people start with resumes. They start with brands — ‘Oh, this person worked at Google.’ But you should actually ask yourself: What products do I admire? And then who built those products?”

With respect to actually interviewing them, Brian’s first tip is to ask follow-up questions:

“Ask them to explain how they did something, and then the key is to ask two follow-ups. You never want the first answer. You always want the third answer. And if people don’t know what they’re talking about, they struggle. They might be able to follow-up, but the second follow-up, they become absent of details.”

But more important than interviewing, Brian argues, is references:

“I prioritize references over interviewing, especially with executives who have more experience BSing you than you have experience detecting their BS.”

Brian recalls that Andreessen Horowitz would tell him to do 8 hours of reference checks per employee:

“[That’s] probably over the top, but you should probably spend as much time referencing as you do hiring.”

He also believes the CEO should interview and reference check new hires as long as possible. Brian interviewed the first 400 people at Airbnb, but he wishes he interviewed longer.

And with respect to tactics for reference checks, Brian offers the following advice:

“A lot of people are polite. They’re afraid of the feedback getting back. So the first thing to say when you start the call is that everything is off the record — and it should be off the record. It should never be attributed to them. The more it’s unattributed to them, the more honest they’re going to be.”

On this topic, Brian recommends avoiding disqualifying questions:

“A lot of people don’t want to say somebody sucks or is not good… Say, ‘Okay, separate from this topic, I just want to know who’s the best person you’ve ever worked with?’ Do they say the person’s name you just asked about? They usually tell the truth and if they don’t say that person’s name, they’re not the best, right?”

And then ask for specifics:

“They said they’re amazing — well why are they amazing? What would you point to? If they have no specifics, maybe they weren’t really good… Then ask questions like, ‘Okay, what do I need to watch out for if I were to hire them?’ or ‘What’s the one area of development you would give them?’ If you say that, they have to tell you something because they’ll feel like they’re not thoughtful enough…. And then you ask them at the end who else you should talk to: ‘Can you give me two more names?’ And then you use that to build a network.”

Brian believes recruiting should be more like building a talent network than a sales pipeline.

[Atlas @DentesLeo]

10 years ago I made the decision to never correct anyone who’s wrong unless I’m paid to do that.

Never been happier.

[Alberto Muñoz @Alberto__Munoz]

#English in #Europe