Rather than whiffing on a joke, I thought I'd use my new twitter power to share the best pieces of advice I've received:
- Find someone who believes in you more than you believe in yourself
- Accept blame in 1st person, credit in 2nd
- Optimize for learning
- Say thank you
- Eat
@nickducoff I found an old Jules Verne (The Master of the World) a few months ago. It was fun to read plus super interesting in what it got wrong and in what felt futuristic back then
all this talk of Claude + Cursor and becoming capable of building anything you put your mind to (no matter your skillset) is warranted
if this is the future, i want to live in it
Your midwestern dad would want you to make sure the excitement translates across the *whole* ballot.
@arenasummit
is doing great work with both GOTV and training staffers.
If you want to support: https://t.co/VfThIlpIaR
I've been trying to think more about the funniest outcome rather just just the most likely, and I'm sorry to say my mind is clearly not creative enough
@aaronwhite I’m not doing anything crazy, but Sonnet 3.5 is the first LLM that mostly gives big-free code (so far). I expect at least two rounds of debugging with others
@NYCMayor Speaking of doing business in NYC, any thoughts on @GovKathyHochul trying to jam in a new payroll tax rather than going forward with congestion pricing as planned?
Impt to recognize this stems from supply/demand pressures. As a country, we’ve cut back on gov funding of universities (esp. post-GFC), which increases pressure for universities to be *businesses*.
Of course universities chase potential students- they have to!
Why is trust in US institutions—esp colleges—collapsing?
Here’s a theory. The 21st c has became the age of the unfocused institution—the age of mission inflation, goal ambiguity, and complex orgs losing any clear sense of priority, or identity.
https://t.co/wOh1R6kSeJ
I sometimes like to think about the small coincidences of the world that aren't actually all that small. Like:
1. We developed the technology to detect damage to the atmosphere around the same time we developed chemicals that damage the atmosphere
What is HAPPENING here?
Between 2012 and 2023, it appears that average OECD reading, math and science scores have declined consistently.
This is not (just) about pandemic learning loss. It’s not about one US city. It’s not even just the US. This is the entire developed world.
@NateSilver538 I have a theory that both companies and government agencies have to deal with politics but in very different ways. Universities can be viewed as either, and the role of their leaders is to walk that line carefully