Vijay Subramanian

building the metrics platform of the future at Trace ( data snorter, product creator; ex-@renttherunway, @oracle

[Vijay Subramanian @vjsubr]

3/3 Here’s a list of 20 such opposing/complementary forces in company building - obviously not an exhaustive list but the ones I’ve encountered most (and remembered!) that need to be managed in harmony.

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@isabelleboemeke Can we find that post and ask him to comment in real time on the consequences of performative activism? How NY has gotten more fossil fuel dependent after Indian Point closure.

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@DSA_Watch What exactly is housing for all and unions for all? They allocate 10 people to every apartment and unionize them?

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@kaitlancollins It’s all about where they win. Winning in deep blue areas means nothing for winning swing districts, the senate or the presidency.

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@omgsidewalks Because you don’t end poverty like it’s a scientific technical problem. You need an economy to sustain the value humans can generate. And plenty of billionaires donate to components of the problem - like Bill Gates does a ton of work around health in areas with the most need.

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@SubwayTakes @DarializaforNY Right. Corporations are coming to our houses stealing our money. And there is mass poverty “writ large” as a result.

This is how the anticapitalist ideology mutates and survives vs reality that hundreds of millions of people are being lifted out of poverty by the market system.

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@MarkLevineNYC On top of the billions on shelters and subsidized housing, we are spending $81,000 per each unsheltered homeless individual on efforts to help them —- what exactly do you mean by porous safety net?

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@Chrisgpt It has 3M views and 125k likes. Hard to believe this isn’t coordinated disinformation

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@harryh Well technically it may help a few teachers but not the students.

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@harryh @ZephyrTeachout At this point we should just assume there will be new angles manufactured to attack data centers - none of this is in good faith.

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@matthewstoller @AOC It’s amazing how much sheer idiocy can be wrapped in well written prose.

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@harryh @ByrneHobart It’s also exaggerated by stats of how many from company X that employs a lot of people are on govt programs - but they never report the %s compared to the average person in the area.

So if 25% are using govt benefits on avg, 3% working at X implies X reduces dependency by 8x!

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@NYCMayor Yes - structural problems as continuing to increase education budgets and spending $40k per student while enrollment is down - and it’s a third of the budget. If you don’t make incremental moves in reducing spending now - you will be forced to make dramatics cuts later.

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@ElizabAdams The free pilot experiment showed that the buses took longer and performance deteriorated - what if we just focused on better performance first and not also seek to reduce revenue into the system as a key goal.

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@ClaudeDevs Having repeated issues where scheduled tasks are not firing in Cowork - it keeps skipping even when the laptop is being actively used.

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@harryh @Sen_Gounardes This seems to be his schtick now. He’s got to keep feeding the pablum that taxation is rigged in favor of the wealthy by finding seemingly plausible but deceptive examples that have no impact while the top 1% actually pay 40%+ of taxes!

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@sarahcat21 Also weird how we ignore the hard part of SaaS isn’t the core business logic. It’s everything else around it: user roles & UX clutter, security & compliance, integrations, edge cases, adoption, change mgmt etc

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@mattturck @rabois Make the exemptions clear. And how it leads to a better system. There is no way any employer can assess who is worth $100k at the beginning of their career - not @sundarpichai , not me (even though I do look like him) or the long list of leaders who have emerged in SV.

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@mattturck @rabois Can, could etc. - then change the law/policy explicitly and make it better.

instead it’s a directive to take power away from an existing system to wield arbitrary exemptions.

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@SergeantSol_ @EvanMcM @signulll You realize over time that people spewing complete fabricated nonsense isn’t because they don’t know or are misinformed etc - it’s 100% unadulterated propaganda in service of an ideology. There is no debating or persuading here unfortunately.

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@signulll @EvanMcM Oh the myth of rampant h1-b fraud. Given how expensive and painful and restrictive this program already is to apply - this isn’t where the rampant fraud is happening.