Reda OUAHMANE

🏎️ @f1 Enthusiast

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

@samkohl Wireless charging is ruins the battery 🪫 fast ! Are you using it ?

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

That’s hat @Apple should be doing with #Siri, #Homepod and #iPhone

[Justin Alvey @justLV]

I “jailbroke” a Google Nest Mini so that you can run your own LLM’s, agents and voice models.

Here’s a demo using it to manage all my messages (with help from @onbeeper)

🔊 on, and wait for surprise guest!

I thought hard about how to best tackle this and why, see 🧵

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

Threads reminds me of @facebook Paper launched to compete with Flipboard and shutdown years later

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

I don’t think @threadsapp should be considered as a complete new platform, it got all it’s users from Instagram ! It should be considered as a new major feature/app added to @Instagram ! Same as @messenger and @facebook

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

@mweinbach This happened to me before, and I putted my previous iPhone in a bowl filled with rice for a night and it was perfect the next day

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

Elon Musk fired 6,500 employees at Twitter.

A little birdie told me it's down to:

- 2 designers
- 6 iOS developers
- 20 web developers
- Around 1,400 sales and operations people

How is it possible that we are still using this website?

Two words:

Parkinson's Law.

Have you ever wondered why seemingly simple tech companies have tens of thousands of employees?

Sometimes, it's because they have huge sales forces or tech support/operations people.

But often it's also due to Parkinson's Law.

Parkinson's law is like lighter fluid for bureaucracy.

It's a business tapeworm that slowly eats away at companies, making them less and less efficient and innovative over time.

Parkinson's Law is the idea that the work will generally expand to the amount of time, budget, and number of people allocated to it, and no matter how many people you allocate to it, those people will feel busy.

They'll feel busy because, due to the excess time/slack in the system, they'll start focusing on less and less important tasks.

Here's how it manifests on an individual level:

Let's say you have a report due in a week.

The report might only take you around five hours to finish if you really focus and work efficiently. However, because you know you have a week to complete it, you might find yourself spending a lot more time on it than you need to.

You'll be more prone to distractions, take longer breaks, or perhaps decide to add more details, tables, graphs, and so forth.

Essentially, the task becomes more complex and time-consuming purely because you have more time in which to do it.

And here's how it manifests across organizations:

Imagine a big tech company. A social media company with various departments. Each department has tasks that it must complete to contribute to the overall productivity of the company.

Now, suppose each department is given a budget and a set amount of time to complete its tasks for the year.

According to Parkinson's Law, each department will use its entire budget and the entire allotted time, even if the tasks could have been completed more efficiently.

This is because as resources and time increase, departments tend to become more complex and less efficient.

For example, a department might add more steps to its procedures, requiring more approvals and creating more paperwork, which slows down the process.

Or it might use the full budget on additional personnel or equipment that doesn't necessarily improve productivity.

The department might also use the full budget to justify the same or larger budget for the next year, since budgets in many organizations are often determined based on the previous year's spending.

This is a phenomenon known as "budget padding" or "spend it or lose it" mentality.

Inefficiencies can also develop in staff allocation. If a department expands, it might add managerial positions that aren't strictly necessary.

More employees are hired to manage, creating layers of bureaucracy that may not contribute to productivity and can even slow decision-making.

I have seen this occur over and over again in my career. The larger the team, the larger the budget, the longer the timeline, the less gets accomplished.

I'm very curious to see how many more tech companies come to this realization.

So often, good times + revenue growth = Parkinson's Law.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

We’re back.

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

@zakelfassi Steve Jobs and @elonmusk in the same podcast having a conversation about the future of #AI

[Joanna Stern @JoannaStern]

My AI voice clone fooled my family, bank and Evan Spiegel. And my video clone + a script from ChatGPT made a pretty decent TikTok.

We’re all going to be just fine.

My latest video and column on the crazy—and creepy—world of voice and video AI: https://t.co/wjWjZlUNVU

[Product Hunt 😸 @ProductHunt]

Researchers predict AI could replace 19% of highly-educated, well-paid workers, with programming being particularly at risk.

Coders, do you fear AI will steal your job or improve it?

📸: @BusinessInsider

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

@hunterjisaacson Congratulations !
What do you think was the key factor of success that helped you reach these numbers ?

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@NathanLands How did you get access to the Plugins ?

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary
14 Years on Twitter !

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

@RecallMyName I think they would look even better without the rear cameras

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

@AiAndyhafell Isn’t that a Bot 🤖 ?

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

@NathanLands And probably a hook generated by ChatGPT 😂

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

@CommunityNotes I think this has the potential to grow as big as @wikipedia

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

Eid Mubarak Said to all !
May this day be filled with joy, love, and blessings for you and your loved ones. #EidMubarak #EidAlFitr

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

Imagine playing this in #VR !

[Alexandre Spindler @esankiy]

First early gameplay trailer for “UNRECORD”, the bodycam FPS. Wishlist on steam now!

@unrecordgame

[Reda OUAHMANE @RedaOUAHMANE]

It’s amazing how realistic the movements are !

[Alexandre Spindler @esankiy]

For those who thought Unrecord was fake or a video, sorry. 😌