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The Hardest of Scrabbles: Solopreneurship (opens the original)
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I’m launching a YouTube channel and podcast, Hidden Track, which is all about the side interests of people otherwise famous for something else. Check out the first episode, an interview with former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, about cow burps, offshore datacenter pirate risk, and other ways in which green tech can be made cheap.Please share with your friends and subscribe. Thank you so much for supporting me!Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. I keep relearning this lesson.The
Mini-Microsoft Wins At Last (opens the original)
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From 2004 - 2014, an pseudonymous employee called Mini-Microsoft frequently posted critiques of Microsoft management from the perspective of a technically-literate manager in a series of hot takes. Top hits include:Vista 2007. Fire the Leadership Now! I echoed this sentiment more extensively in my Broken Windows Theory post, for which I nearly was fired by Jim Allchin. (You’ll have to do some serious internet sleuthing if you’r
Baumol Jevon Capital Labor Purpose (opens the original)
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Much has been said about how AI will distort the economy. The arguments are each compelling on their own, but there’s no coherence across thinkers about what will happen. The observations most often made include:Jevon’s Paradox: we tend to consume more of something when it gets cheaper. Jevon originally studied how the use of coal increased with production efficiency. People sometimes map this argument to software engineering and other jobs: maybe as the cost of building software goes down, we’l
“Taste” Will Not Save You (opens the original)
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In sixth grade (mid-1980’s), I won an award at school for my project about the state of Earth’s drinking water. What I had researched back then (with as much “research” as a sixth grader could do prior to the internet, which basically amounted to World Book Encyclopedia and a few newspaper microfiche) led to the inevitable conclusion, reinforced by numerous news articles, that humanity would be out of drinking water by the year 2000. It was a young age to acknowledge the sobering conclusion that
The Folly of First Jobs (opens the original)
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I was fired from my first job within weeks. But to make matters worse:I was making below minimum wage. You have to be a special type of worker to be fired when making $3/hr.My cousin fired me, because our mutual boss was too conflict-avoidant to do it herself.My first job was making sandwiches at a Subway in Beltsville, MD. (Not the current one; the original has long since been demolished.) I worked the 4-7pm shift after school, having gotten a work permit the moment it was allowed (which in MD
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