Mallory

infinitely curious biblioholic | She/Her

[Mallory @_malzbar]

I wish I had been cast as Brianna in the Outlander series. Used gen AI to visualize what I might have looked like in the role. Absolutely adore the books. #outlander

[Mallory @_malzbar]

@derekmross 💜

[Mallory @_malzbar]

So Met Gala… I thought it was themed but make it high fashion and chic. So many attendees are giving I’m attending a costume party. Which is it? I’m confused. Please clarify. #MetGala #Vogue

[Mallory @_malzbar]

If you’re going to a tech meetup, I’m begging you to please try to gauge someone’s technical knowledge before talking to them (me) like I’m a 5 year old who has no frame of reference.

[Mallory @_malzbar]

Exactly

[akhilesh @akhileshutup]

learning AI skills so that i can stay ahead in a changing world

[Mallory @_malzbar]

@gothburz The comments have been as illuminating as the post. Where did reading comprehension and critical thinking go?

[Mallory @_malzbar]

@alliekmiller At an OpenClaw meetup I attended in Nashville, less than 1% of us were women. Phenomenal meetup. Would love to see more women in the space too. It’s an interesting and exciting time.

[Mallory @_malzbar]

Career coaching seems like it will be a high demand field at least for the next few years. The way we work is changing fast. People will need help with the transition.

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Mallory @_malzbar]

@Zephyr_hg IDEAS

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Our bad.

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

Technology can change the world in ways that are unimaginable until they happen.

Switching on an electric light would have been unimaginable for our medieval ancestors. In their childhood, our grandparents would have struggled to imagine a world connected by smartphones and the Internet.

Similarly, it is hard for us to imagine the arrival of all those technologies that will fundamentally change the world we are used to.

We can remind ourselves that our own future might look very different from the world today by looking back at how rapidly technology has changed our world in the past.

One insight to take away from this long-term perspective is how unusual our time is.

Technological change was extremely slow in the past — the technologies that our ancestors got used to in their childhood were still central to their lives in their old age.

In stark contrast to those days, we live in a time of extraordinarily fast technological change. For recent generations, it was common for technologies that were unimaginable in their youth to become common later in life.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

Charlie Kirk is a father and a husband. He is a human. I don’t care if you politically disagree with him nothing justifies this sick act.

[Mallory @_malzbar]

@r0ckstardev 🤣

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Excellent advice

[Mallory @_malzbar]

Dear USA could we just not have daylight savings time start again? #EndDST

[Mallory @_malzbar]

@r0ckstardev @bitcoinmenaconf Looking dapper Uncle!

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@WildGunblade @joshwolfcomedy Exactly how I feel. I think I’ll be logging off now.

[Mallory @_malzbar]

@CallMeCookie Awww ok! Phew! Worried something happened with your wife.