Fun fact. Howard Lutnick missed work on 9/11 because he was bringing his son to school..for the first time ever he decided to be a dad. And the date of that school starting has not been confirmed. He lost everyone in his company that day. He also made an automated system that allowed him to not hire back the majority of people killed bc it took their jobs. He also sued American Airlines and won to the tune of $30 some odd million. He took the money and again, didn't have to replace anyone. He also cut off health insurance and payments to the families within 2 weeks. This matters because it sets the stage as to who he is as a human and sets the stage for what he's doing now. Coming tomorrow......bc f*ck you you child predator
Working from home is a luxury, not a human right. The entitlement from people acting like a 30-minute commute is "Oppression" is wild. If your job can be done entirely from your couch, it can easily be outsourced to someone overseas for a third of your salary.
Ford fired a $200,000-a-year employee over a $1.95 cookie he paid for.
Kurt Kromm, 11 years at the Kentucky Truck Plant, felt his blood sugar drop at 3:30 a.m. He's diabetic. The kiosk flashed red on his card, so he paid at the second machine, ate the cookie, went back to building trucks.
A week later security walked him out. Wouldn't even let him take his tools.
Then he pulled up his bank statement. The $1.95 charge was sitting right there. Ford checked with the kiosk company, confirmed he paid, cut him $28,000 in back pay, and begged him to come back.
He said no. Took a job closer to home with a raise.
So the final scorecard: Ford spent $28,000, lost an 11-year veteran, and took a national PR beating to recover a cookie that was never stolen. The cookie cost $1.95. Firing the guy who bought it cost 14,000 cookies.
Asmongold: “I want to live in a Christian country… That’s right.
I don’t want to mandate Christianity, but I want the laws, culture, and the predominant religion of the country to be Christian.
I am an atheist, but I recognize and enjoy the privileges of the Christian culture that I grew up in, and I don’t want my country to change from the way it was when I grew up.”
RIP to the two pizza team. Jeff Bezos gave us an all-time great metaphor: keep the team small enough to feed with two pizzas. It shaped how engineering orgs got built for 20+ years. He was right about small teams. Still is. But in the AI era, two pizzas is too much pizza.
Everyone from the sidelines is very delusional when it comes to how life works
People married for a few years think getting bitches is easy
Employees think having a business isn't that complicated
Random fans think being a UFC fighter isn't that hard
Some worm having infertile sex thinks having kids and raising them is easyyyy
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: People with low competence in a domain overestimate their ability because they lack the metacognitive skill to recognise how much they don’t know. They don’t just perform poorly - they can’t accurately judge how poorly they would perform.
It's only when you get your hands dirty that you start having respect for things & realise your own value.
It's insane how much better GPT is than Claude. Fable must be some kind of psyop, it's like talking to some sweaty guy in fedora that pretends he doesn't understand you. And GPT 5.5 is like this nice ripped lead software dev that actually wants to help you.