John Amschler

IRL over Online. Outdoor. Nature. Prevent. Seek. Solve. Slap sauce. Wheeled toys. Backpacking. Wireless Engineering.

[John Amschler @jxa]

@JessicaNonGrata Obvs it was pebkac 😳

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@JessicaNonGrata I can’t find you in the blue 😳

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@RepKatiePorter I voted for you to be my senator.

Can you use your whiteboard to do some math on why the Dems should stop sending me so many emails & texts?

Give me one button to stop all the madness!

Time = money.

#stop #knowyoursupporters

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@SDPDABLE what’s the announcement over Point Loma right now?

[TraVoloso™️ 🌈 @travoloso]

@shay3322 @SoGoodWeNamedlt It was updated

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@_MG_ Thanks for clarifying defining 'moving parts'!

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Easy #rightToRepair access has tradeoffs - todays devices are designed as a system, and the entire integrity is important for durability. Frames, adhesives, lenses, EMI cans, etc all play a part in it.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

$5 - Talked to John Ternus - Head of Hardware Engineering at Apple, and it was interesting hearing straight from the top why the iPhone is harder to repair. Take a listen

[John Amschler @jxa]

Ever ask how they know it is waterproof? What rating it should get?

Then check out this thread to see some of the testing that it takes to ship a product.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

I recently got to visit some Apple labs where they durability test new iPhones before they come out, and learned a few things (🧵THREAD)

#1: Have you actually seen how they water test phones for IP ratings? (video)

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Fairy tales just hit differentially these days… https://t.co/ScPm6HSrsX

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@jasminericegirl hey Soup! We went to a restaurant in Tokyo and they have a cover charge that includes a small cup of soup!!!

If it was spicy soup, I’d think it was your restaurant!

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@ckrugo Excellent point. Now there is no doubt that making Hardware is exponentially more difficult 😁

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Holy load balancing Batman!

Nearly empty AA2986 has been doing a bit of musical chairs to balance us for takeoff. #AmericanAirlines #AHRExpo

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Congratulations @lsmarr

2023 Revelle Medalist: Larry Smarr https://t.co/GNnnSY0yuV via @YouTube

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@halletecco @cwhogg Share what you know, let your knowledgeable editor/trusted pre-reader suggest the focus/foci

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[John Amschler @jxa]

@philgaimon Sounds like she needs a new bike to refresh her memory on bike commuting!

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@dashlane is it you? Or is it me? taking a looooong time for authorization this morning...

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@XylaFoxlin B.

Because of the colors.

If A has similar coloring, they’d be equally enticing.

[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