A kind reminder to whoever needs to see this, All The Hires (my company) is a boutique recruitment consultancy specializing in hard-to-fill positions across engineering, product, and business operations.
We support high-growth product companies in hiring exceptional talent.
For the history: one of my favorite series ("Mad Men") actors has become a meme this December.
This is also me realizing that my 40 years on this earth are a turning point for the better half of my life that is yet to come.
@allthehires has been doing great since the end of summer this year, after a short spell of tumult and uncertainty. We are beating quarterly records and look forward to the next year.
Seems that 2026 will be the year when social media as a concept will have lost all its attractiveness and relevance.
Something new needs to emerge that brings people a sense of community and belonging.
This is not working.
X as a "global town square" sounds like fun until you remember that the town square was where public executions used to take place on a random Tuesday.
Andrej Karpathy calls AI Agents slop
"Overall, the models they are not there. And I feel like the industry [...] it's making too big of a jump and it's trying to pretend that this is amazing.
And it's not—it's slop!
And I think they are not coming to terms with it. And maybe they are trying to fundraise or something like that, I'm not sure what's going on."
Spent several weeks taking a pause and not producing any written content. The mind really is a vessel, it is a lot easier to pour thoughts out of it when it has rested for a while.
CV's are full of shit. All those impact summaries are all too often exaggerations, and who knows how much of a project listed someone actually did? No, if you want the truth, you gotta look at real work.