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