Emil Sit

I lead and develop leaders in technical organizations. This is a personal account.

Also @[email protected]

[Laura Tacho 🌮 @rhein_wein]

If you use metrics to measure team performance and health, do you use them to compare teams to one another?

[Emil Sit @emilsit]

@DinaPortman Sounds like you had a great run. What kind of opportunity might be attractive to you?

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

it's the end of the year and some people have education budgets to spend! What tech books (or courses?) have really helped you this past year?

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

if you are at all able (or able to learn), i highly recommend:
• creating your own website
• on your own domain
• acquiring copies of your data that you care about that's on third party sites (particularly this one)

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.

Well, I have good news.

[Emil Sit @emilsit]

@academic_exit Yes. Where is this not true? (I live in a CS bubble)

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

https://t.co/sn4pTeC6SQ

[Emil Sit @emilsit]

@matthewhirschey You might enjoy also employing https://t.co/TMVSWjc6gA as well!

[Slate @Slate]

The Wikimedia Foundation wants a few bucks from you. But does Wikipedia need it? https://t.co/2QOPevicrl

[EigenGender 🔸 @EigenGender]

Twitter is filled with a bunch of guys who say "ChatGPT is so much better than Google, I'm using it as my search engine now". And like....ChatGPT will hallucinate facts between 1%-5% of the time. That's good for a LLM! And Really Really bad for a search engine.

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

[April King 🌀 @CubicleApril]

Breaking news: scientists are reporting a recent discovery that exposure to Starlink satellite transmissions is now the leading cause of COVID-19 infections worldwide.

[Chief People Officer @jenwiderberg]

What does "research the company" even mean?

Articles & tweets on this topic state it as a fact, a given, an afterthought.

Then give no specifics on how to use this info.

You know, just research the company.

As a recruiter with 15 yrs experience,

Stop.

Do this instead:

[April King 🌀 @CubicleApril]

Tesla should publish all self-driving incidents that affect its customers

[Emil Sit @emilsit]

@molly0xFFF Just finished Staff Engineer’s Path by @whereistanya and trying to figure out how to make time for Toast senior+ engineers to read it!

[Emil Sit @emilsit]

What a great list of books in the replies!

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

on the books topic, what are you reading and would you recommend it?

fiction or nonfiction welcome, always looking to add to my backlog

[Cynthia Graber @cagraber]

Of course. Our roads have gotten more dangerous as other rich countries' roads have gotten safer. And - of course - we know how to fix this. But we don't. https://t.co/cYD95eCbRO

[Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct]

The real reason why some startups flounder is because CEOs/founders have no managerial experience or strong leadership skills, and simply don’t know how to build a high-functioning team.

Instead, bizarrely, we see *employees* being perceived as the major problem at such places.

[Dawn Song @dawnsongtweets]

Congrats to my co-authors @Berkeley_EECS @__apf__ , David Wagner, E. Chin,S. Hanna, for Test-of-Time Award @acm_ccs, for our work on Android Permissions Demystified in 2011, the first paper examining real-world security issues in android apps' use of permissions, ~2000 citations!

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Ask trusted colleagues to name 5 people they know are *really* great in your company. Reach out to them with a friendly message. Not everyone will be able to respond, but usually 4 out 5 of them will. Share what you work on, learn about their work, build rapport, get to know them