Declan J

Technology, engineering, cycling, running, nature

[Declan J @DT35K]

@gcntweet @jessecoyle1 @chrismiller27 new bike for the UCI World Tour! Big step for Decathlon

[Dan Hockenmaier @danhockenmaier]

The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia is wild:

40 direct reports, no 1:1s
- Believes that the flattest org is the most empowering one, and that starts with the top layer
- Does not conduct 1:1s - everything happens in a group setting
- Does not give career advice - "None of my management team is coming to me for career advice - they already made it, they're doing great"

No status reports, instead he "stochastically samples the system"
- Doesn't use status updates because he believes they are too refined by the time they get to him. They are not ground truth anymore.
- Instead, anyone in the company can email him their "top five things" with whatever is top of mind, and he will read it
- Estimates he reads 100 of these everyone morning

Everyone has all the context, all the time
- No meetings with just VPs or just Directors - anyone can join and contribute
- "If you have a strategic direction, why tell just one person?"
- "If there is something I don't like, I just say it publicly"
- "I do a lot of reasoning out loud"

No formal planning cycles
- No 5 year plan, no 1 year plan
- Always re-evaluating based on changing business and market conditions (helpful when AI is developing at the pace that it is)

This org is optimized for (1) attracting amazing people, (2) keeping the team as small as it can be, and (3) allowing information to travel as quickly as possible

[Gal Pal Sports @GalPalSports]

Helping your bestie parallel park:

[Matt Rickard @mattrickard]

Obama's career advice for young people --

Just learn how to get stuff done. What I mean by that is I've seen at every level people who are very good at describing problems, people who are very sophisticated at explaining why something went wrong or why something can't get fixed. But, what I’m always looking for is, no matter how small the problem or big it is, somebody who says, ‘Let me take care of that.’ If you project an attitude of whatever it is that’s needed, I can handle it, and I can do it. Whoever is running that organization will notice.

[Zain Kahn @heykahn]

4 business functions will account for 75% of the total annual value of generative AI:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@wholemars Too many journalists want to shape your opinion, rather than inform you

[Lotto-Intermarché @LottoIntermarch]

A touch of elegance.

The ultra-light 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜𝗥 𝗖:𝟲𝟴𝗫 ☄️

📸 @cyclingmedia_ag

[Lotto-Intermarché @LottoIntermarch]

A masterpiece.

Our revamped 𝗖𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗘𝗥𝗢 𝗖:𝟲𝟴𝗫 for 2023 🔥

📸 @cyclingmedia_ag

[Daniel Lloyd @daniellloyd1]

psssssstt - it's exactly 24 hours until the first live coverage of WorldTour racing in 2023.

[Ray Maker @dcrainmakerblog]

Strava Spokesman Brian Bell “assessing what needs to be done to provide additional clarity”

Here, I’ll make it easy:

1) Send email to users that prices are increasing w/new price/when
2) Outline why price doubling is justified
3) Actually list prices on site

It’s not that hard

[Ray Maker @dcrainmakerblog]

Strava has just started doubling its prices, but they concurrently refuse to tell me what the actual price of Strava is now. This is arguably the most insane post I've ever written, as I try and get to the bottom of the unannounced Strava price increases: https://t.co/ATJeY3CG6B

[Christoph Espunkt @__Espunkt]

@engineers_feed Germany, early 2000s.
Older Lady working in a lab calls Hotline late in the evening: "The russian machine is broken again."
Operator: "You have a russian machine in the lab?!"
Lady: "Yes, it says POWERONOFF right here!"

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

POV: You're a Senior Data Engineer at Twitter. Elon asks what you've done this week. You've done nothing.

Frantically, you open ChatGPT.

[Jono Baruch @JonoBaruch]

Good morning Australia 🇦🇺

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

Sometimes I wake up grumpy.

But other times I let her sleep in.

[Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Qantas still at it - the 6.00am flight to Melbourne has been postponed to 10.20am... Yep over 4 hour delay.
What a crap airline
@qantas

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Programmers will command armies of software agents to build increasingly complex software in insane record times. Non-programmers will also be able to use these agents to get software tasks done. Everyone in the world will be at least John Carmack-level software capable.

[Dr. Tech @doctechmd]

When your code works, but you have no idea how

[cats being weird little guys 👅 @weirdlilguys]

look what I can do

[Zoos Victoria @ZoosVictoria]

It's the video you've been waiting to see. Healesville Sanctuary’s adorable baby Tree-kangaroo, Ori, is out of the pouch 🧡