'Stop Lecturing Us': Guyana President Shuts Down BBC Journalist, Exposes West's Hypocrisy
Guyanese President Mohammad Irfaan Ali had an heated exchange with a BBC journalist over climate change issue. The fiery exchange took place during BBC Hardtalk show, hosted by Stephen Sackur. Ali was questioned about Guyana's plans to extract oil & natural gas from its coastline and carbon emissions it may produce. Ali also highlighted Western “hypocrisy” towards developing nations exploring oil & gas reserves
"If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they will fly away. But if you spend your time making beautiful garden the butterflies will come to you." African proverb? #munyainthewild
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
It's crazy to me how many people suggest growing your own food as something to do in a climate crisis scenario. The professional growers will have tons of trouble navigating the changes in climate. It seems like quite a bit of hubris to assume amateurs will do it better.
For years
the newspaper of record
featured a tracker
devoted to the pandemic
but once the virus
became normalized
the tracker disappeared.
And now
the newspaper of record
features a tracker
devoted to dangerous temperatures
I wonder how long
before these too
become normalized.
Golf courses in Spain use more water than Madrid & Barcelona combined
Each hole requires more than 100,000 litres of water a day to maintain the greens
An elite pursuit that wastes precious natural resources https://t.co/TDh9ANFtor
Switzerland embraces #climate protection ‼️ The nation voted 59.1% in favor of a law to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 🌍. This commitment supports Swiss #glaciers and recognizes the collective scientific efforts of decades 📢. We're overjoyed with this incredible result! 🎉