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Side Effects of outsourcing our Thinking

Poems, Short stories and other things.. • 29 implied HN points • 08 Jul 25
🕹 Technology Cognition Productivity Thinking Digital Tools AI
  1. Relying too much on smart tools makes us lazy thinkers. We should still use our brains to analyze and understand things instead of just taking shortcuts.
  2. AI can help us save time but it's important to keep our memories and reasoning sharp. We shouldn't let AI do all the thinking for us.
  3. While AI has the ability to remember everything, it's not always a good idea. Sometimes forgetting helps us move on and making tools that remember everything can be harmful.

When You Don't Know It All

QUALITY BOSS • 39 implied HN points • 13 Dec 23
💼 Business Mentorship Career development Leadership Personal Growth Impostor syndrome
  1. It's normal to feel like you don't know everything, especially when starting a new job. Accepting that you don't have to know it all can help ease your fears and open up opportunities for learning.
  2. Building relationships with your new coworkers is really important. Connecting with others can help you learn and grow in your new role.
  3. When feel like an impostor, try to focus on what you need to learn. Ask questions, celebrate small wins, and remember everyone starts as a beginner.

4 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Mastodon — The Anti-Twitter

Kristina God's Online Writing Club • 119 implied HN points • 17 Jan 23
🕹 Technology User engagement Social media Content creation Digital Communication Platforms
  1. Mastodon is growing while Twitter is losing users. Many people are leaving Twitter, and Mastodon is gaining traction as a new option.
  2. Creators are seeking alternatives to Twitter due to the changes made by Elon Musk. Mastodon offers a decentralized space where users can have more control.
  3. On Mastodon, you can post short messages called 'toots' that are up to 500 characters long. This is a great way for users to connect and share their thoughts.

Prompt Engineering for AI: A Valuable Skill for Security Professionals?

Rod’s Blog • 39 implied HN points • 13 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Tools Security AI Jobs Training
  1. Prompt engineering is a valuable skill for leveraging the power of AI in creative and efficient ways by improving the quality and accuracy of AI outputs.
  2. Effective prompt engineering can expand the capabilities and applications of AI systems, enabling them to perform tasks beyond their pre-defined scope using general knowledge and reasoning abilities.
  3. Prompt engineering is important for enhancing interaction and collaboration between humans and AI systems, making AI more human-like and relatable by crafting well-designed prompts.

How we increased execution by 10x at Coda | Oliver Heckmann - Head of Engineering at Coda

platocommunity • 39 implied HN points • 13 Dec 23
💼 Business Execution Management Planning Productivity Tools
  1. Cutting down planning time to 10% allows for better focus and higher quality plans, leading to increased execution speed.
  2. Bridging the Planning-Execution Canyon by synchronizing OKRs in planning and execution documents improves insight, accountability, and progress tracking.
  3. Creating centralized Team Hubs with all important information in one place reduces information silos, fosters transparency, and promotes unified teamwork.
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The KQL Mysteries: The Holiday 2023 Episode Part 3

Rod’s Blog • 39 implied HN points • 13 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Data Analysis
  1. The mysterious numbers given by the hacker were not random, but dates with a hidden significance, leading to a revelation about impending events.
  2. Through identifying patterns in network traffic using KQL, Jon and Sarah uncovered a hacker exploiting a security vulnerability and resolved to apply a critical patch.
  3. The duo set a trap to stop the hacker's planned attack, showcasing the importance of proactive security measures in monitoring and defending against cyber threats.

Hidden Tasks of Product Management

Sarah's Newsletter • 159 implied HN points • 28 Jun 22
💼 Business Stakeholder engagement Management Data-driven Quality Assurance Leadership
  1. Product managers should oversee their company’s offering like any manager oversees people.
  2. Being data-driven is crucial for product managers. They need to question data, consider various types of data, and course correct based on data-driven decisions.
  3. Product managers play a critical role in owning quality assurance and getting stakeholder buy-in for successful product launches.

Why I Write My Newsletter, Content Ideas, OG CrossFit Workouts

Austin's Analects • 19 implied HN points • 22 Mar 24
💼 Business Content creation Personal Finance
  1. The purpose of writing a newsletter evolved to creating authentic relationships with readers, rather than just growing an audience.
  2. Struggling to come up with content ideas? Use prompts like TED Talk topics, life events that made you stronger, or public bets you'd back up.
  3. Explore the original CrossFit workouts from the early 2000s, maintaining their essence even after 24 years.

This is the Most Interesting Time in Human History. So far.

The Digital Anthropologist • 79 implied HN points • 22 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Capitalism Democracy Artificial Intelligence Digital Genetic Engineering
  1. This may be the most interesting time in human history due to the rapid advancements in digital technologies and societal changes.
  2. Humanity has always progressed through massive societal changes driven by revolutionary technologies, and the pace of such changes is accelerating.
  3. Key changes underway include a shift in our relationship with nature, advancements in genetic engineering for longer lifespans, the evolution of capitalism and democracy, and the impact of invisible technologies.

What IS OCEN? What would it look like?

Turnaround • 494 implied HN points • 05 Oct 20
💼 Business Fintech Credit Lending Banking Small business
  1. OCEN is a new credit infrastructure that could revolutionize lending in a way similar to how UPI transformed payments.
  2. It is a protocol, not a switch, and its potential lies in the consumer products that can be built on top of it.
  3. OCEN aims to address India's credit distribution problems by making access to credit easier for the Next Billion Users and SMEs, potentially reducing the concentration of capital.

Welcome to Ronin, Transak!

Ronin’s Newsletter • 86 implied HN points • 06 Dec 24
🔮 Crypto NFTs Payments Onboarding DeFi Blockchain
  1. Transak is now a part of Ronin, providing more ways for users to buy crypto easily. It helps people convert their regular money into digital currency like RON and USDC.
  2. You can now buy NFTs on Mavis Market using a debit or credit card. This makes it a lot simpler and faster to get NFTs.
  3. Users in many countries can buy RON, USDC, and SLP directly with their cards through Transak. KYC checks might be needed depending on where you are.

The Fed left rates steady as expected at 5.50%, stocks and gold at all-time highs

Global Markets Investor • 19 implied HN points • 21 Mar 24
💰 Finance Monetary Policy Market Reaction
  1. The Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady at 5.50% and foresees 3 cuts in 2024. First cut likely in June despite some inflation increase.
  2. The Fed plans to slow down the balance sheet reduction pace in the upcoming year, affecting market movements positively.
  3. Market reaction to the Fed's decisions saw all-time highs for stocks and gold, with bonds and cryptocurrencies rallying, and a drop in US dollar and VIX index volatility.

The Return of Private Miners as Halving Approaches

Miner Weekly • 19 implied HN points • 21 Mar 24
💰 Finance Markets Mining Regulation Companies Bitcoin
  1. Publicly traded mining companies are progressively mining less of Bitcoin's rewards, indicating a potential return of private miners.
  2. Since bitcoin's hashprice rebound, even older mining machines like M21S could turn a profit at certain energy rates, leading to an uptick in private mining activity before the upcoming halving.
  3. With the halving approaching, there may be a correction in hashrate levels post-halving, as older generation equipment is expected to phase out unless there's a significant increase in bitcoin's hashprice.

Tell me what you want (in this publication)

The New Urban Order • 39 implied HN points • 12 Dec 23
💼 Business Social Impact Urban Development Real Estate Environment Consulting
  1. The author is looking to engage with their audience through new ways like podcasts and events in 2024.
  2. The publication features a diverse range of subscribers with unique backgrounds and focuses, such as urban housing design, homelessness initiatives, and carbon footprint awareness.
  3. There is a call for readers to share their thoughts and preferences through a short survey, encouraging engagement with the publication.

Weekly Notes

Rethinking Software • 99 implied HN points • 21 Oct 24
🕹 Technology Agile Methodology Software Development Team Dynamics Coding Practices
  1. Managing programmers can be unpredictable. It's important to accept that things may not always go as planned.
  2. Euphemisms in corporate language can hide unpleasant truths. Words like 'alignment' often mean forcing compliance rather than true cooperation.
  3. Scrum practices may not be effective for all teams. Some core principles can actually create stress and hinder productivity instead of helping it.

The KQL Mysteries: The Holiday 2023 Episode Part 2

Rod’s Blog • 39 implied HN points • 12 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Data Analysis Coding
  1. The hacker in the story had a personal connection to one of the characters, making the situation more intense and personal.
  2. Using Kusto Query Language (KQL), the characters tried to analyze the hacker's network traffic and database activity to uncover clues about the hacker's identity and location.
  3. Despite challenges in decoding the hacker's data, the characters discovered a message from the hacker in the database logs, prompting them to solve a mysterious puzzle involving numbers.

AI Foundations Part 1: Transformers, Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning, and Scaling

Mule’s Musings • 378 implied HN points • 11 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Fine-tuning Model Scaling Machine Learning AI
  1. The Transformer model revolutionized Large Language Models (LLMs) with its parallel and scalable architecture.
  2. Pre-training and fine-tuning, as seen in GPT-1 and BERT, significantly improved model performance for various tasks.
  3. Bigger models, more data, and computing power have shown to lead to better performance in LLMs, but the relationship between model size, training tokens, and performance is more complex than initially thought.

Saying No to Drama, Disorder, and Failure: Creating a Great Leadership Team

The Leadership Lab • 59 implied HN points • 29 Jan 23
💼 Business Effectiveness Communication Teamwork Leadership Coaching
  1. Improving consciousness, connection, and effectiveness are key for creating a great leadership team.
  2. Being conscious helps improve connection and effectiveness by focusing on truth and taking responsibility.
  3. Working on connection involves improving communication, getting to know team members deeply, and understanding motivations.

Jobs and Opps at ITV, The Guardian, BBC Asian Network, Global Witness, and Many, Many More ☀️

Journo Resources - The Opportunities • 119 implied HN points • 18 Apr 23
💼 Business Jobs Newsletters Grants
  1. Newsletter recommendations can be considered a source of comfort and quiet time, away from social media clutter.
  2. Keeping things simple and focusing on core strengths can be beneficial for success.
  3. Various job opportunities in journalism are available at organizations like ITV, The Guardian, BBC Asian Network, Global Witness, and more.

Mixtral: The best open model, MoE trade-offs, release lessons, Mistral raises $400mil, Google's loss, vibes vs marketing

Democratizing Automation • 237 implied HN points • 11 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Community Models AI Ethics Machine Learning
  1. Mixtral model is a powerful open model with impressive performance in handling different languages and tasks.
  2. Mixture of Expert (MoE) models are popular due to their better performance and scalability for large-scale inference.
  3. Mistral's swift releases and strategies like instruction-tuning show promise in the open ML community, challenging traditional players like Google.

Asset management is not a meritocracy

Klement on Investing • 3 implied HN points • 05 Jan 26
💰 Finance Labor Market Asset management Compensation Diversity Career progression
  1. Asset management is not a meritocracy: even when fund performance and asset gathering are easy to measure, pay and promotions often don’t follow actual results.
  2. Female and minority fund managers deliver similar performance and flows as their peers but earn far less — roughly 27% less for women, 20% less for minorities, and about 44% less for minority women — and their wage growth over time is weaker.
  3. Women and minority managers are more likely to be laid off and less likely to be promoted (for example, women ~1.7% and Asian managers ~2.4% less likely to be promoted), showing persistent unconscious bias and a need for stronger DEI action.

The TikTokification of Work: Navigating the Video Revolution in the Future of Work

Workforce Futurist by Andy Spence • 195 implied HN points • 11 Mar 24
💼 Business Employee engagement Recruitment Marketing Workplace Trends
  1. Video is now the dominant content on the internet, and platforms like TikTok are changing how we consume information.
  2. TikTok has become a significant tool for employer branding, with companies leveraging its short video format to engage with a younger audience.
  3. Authenticity in videos, like showcasing 'A Day in the Life' experiences, can provide richer insights for potential candidates and lead to more engagement and positive PR.

Micro-Benchmarking a RISC-V SBC (CanMV K230)

Fprox’s Substack • 20 implied HN points • 23 Aug 25
🕹 Technology Development Computing Benchmarking Hardware Software
  1. Micro-benchmarks help you measure how fast different instructions run on the RISC-V K230 chip. This is important for understanding the chip's performance.
  2. Data values can change how fast instructions execute, especially for operations like division. It's crucial to consider these variations in performance measurements.
  3. The RISE development image is a stable and feature-rich option for developers working with the CanMV K230. It makes connecting and running programs easier compared to earlier images.

Enterprise General Intelligence: The Emergent Mind of Organizations

Nano Thoughts • 1 implied HN point • 02 Feb 26
🕹 Technology Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Software Organizational Design Systems Architecture Product Strategy
  1. Companies need a nervous system — continuous sensing, shared memory, and homeostatic regulation — not a single omniscient center, so drift gets detected and corrected early.
  2. Culture is the organization's decision procedure, so make decision logic visible and teachable. Provide contextual memory that surfaces the right information at the moment of choice and traces provenance to resolve conflicts.
  3. Build a continuous, stateful, symbiotic system with clear governance and privacy (including a right to forget) rather than a stateless rented model or surveillance tool, because surveillance drives real thinking underground.

Security Throwing Toil Over the Fence

Resilient Cyber • 99 implied HN points • 10 May 23
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Software Development DevOps Application Security Innovation
  1. It's important to shift security measures smartly rather than just shifting them left in the development cycle. We need the right context to effectively identify real risks in applications.
  2. Many security tools produce a lot of noise and false positives, which frustrates developers. If security teams provide context-rich insights instead, it would help everyone work better together.
  3. There’s a cultural gap where security teams dump problems on developers without proper context, leading to resentment. Improving communication and collaboration can help avoid this issue.

What if there's no U.S. recession?

Jon’s Newsletter • 59 implied HN points • 05 Aug 23
💰 Finance Economy Investing Banking Market Trends Recession
  1. Bank of America has changed its prediction and now believes the U.S. might not face a recession. This change happened after positive statements from the Federal Reserve about the economy.
  2. Despite rising interest rates, the economy has been doing well with job growth and spending in new areas like AI and renewable energy.
  3. Historically, when there wasn't a recession after rate hikes, the stock market usually performed better, suggesting a positive outlook for investors.

Breaking the wall between teams

Leading Developers • 100 implied HN points • 22 Oct 24
💼 Business Organizational Behavior Team Collaboration Employee engagement Knowledge Management
  1. Encourage horizontal communication between teams to break down knowledge silos. This can be done through initiatives like Engineering Guilds where team members can share ideas and strategies.
  2. Develop a strong documentation culture to reduce redundancy and ensure important information is easily accessible. Using standardized formats can make documentation simpler and more effective.
  3. Focus on improving onboarding experiences by providing new employees with guides and introductions to other teams. This helps build connections and ensures they have the resources they need from the start.

Prompt-RAG

Cobus Greyling on LLMs, NLU, NLP, chatbots & voicebots • 19 implied HN points • 20 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Data science Natural Language Processing Computing Machine Learning
  1. Prompt-RAG is a new method that improves language models without using complex vector embeddings. It simplifies how we retrieve information to answer questions.
  2. The process involves creating a Table of Contents from documents, selecting relevant headings, and generating responses by injecting context into prompts. It makes handling data easier.
  3. While this method is great for smaller projects and specific needs, it still requires careful planning when constructing the documents and managing costs related to token usage.

A UXer's guide to neurodiversity

UX Psychology • 158 implied HN points • 13 May 22
🕹 Technology Accessibility Design Neurodiversity Inclusion User Experience
  1. Neurodiversity encompasses a wide range of neurological variations in the human population, emphasizing the positive aspects and uniqueness of different thinking styles and cognitive functions.
  2. When designing for neurodiversity, consider factors like font choice, error prevention, clear copywriting, sensory issues, and consistency in design to create inclusive user experiences.
  3. In the workplace, it's important to foster understanding and flexibility to support neurodiverse individuals, from adjusting hiring practices to creating accommodating work environments and providing education and resources.

Japan’s Vulnerability If There’s A New Recession

Japan Economy Watch • 179 implied HN points • 07 Jul 22
💼 Business Economy Geopolitics Finance History
  1. Japan's vulnerability to economic shocks like a new recession is high, historically showing outsized reactions that affect living standards and geopolitics.
  2. The Japanese economy takes bigger hits from global shocks compared to other rich countries, recovering more slowly and experiencing slower growth.
  3. Japan's economic vulnerability stems from imbalanced growth where GDP growth hasn't translated effectively into wider population benefits like wage growth, creating long-term instabilities.

Why you should analyze the distribution of your Data [Math Mondays]

Technology Made Simple • 59 implied HN points • 14 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Statistics Data Analysis Math Software Engineering Modeling
  1. Analyzing the distribution of your data is crucial for accurate analysis results, helps in choosing the right statistical tests, identifying outliers, and confirming data collection systems.
  2. Common techniques to analyze data distribution include histograms, boxplots, quantile-quantile plots, descriptive statistics, and statistical tests like Shapiro-Wilk or Kolmogorov-Smirnov.
  3. Common mistakes in analyzing data distribution include ignoring or dropping outliers, using the wrong statistical test, and not visualizing data to identify patterns and trends.

Digital Twins in Supply Chain Management

philsiarri • 22 implied HN points • 11 Aug 25
🕹 Technology AI Manufacturing Logistics Data Simulation
  1. Digital twins are real-time models that reflect physical objects or systems. They help businesses keep track of operations and respond to changes quickly.
  2. Using digital twins can help companies test different scenarios and spot issues before they become big problems. This leads to better decision-making in logistics.
  3. However, challenges like data quality and costs can make it hard to use digital twins effectively. Still, they are becoming popular tools for improving supply chain management.

We need to start marketing… Now what?

Etel’s Substack • 10 HN points • 20 May 24
💼 Business Content creation Marketing Email Marketing Social media
  1. Key channels for building awareness include YouTube, Events, Written Content, LinkedIn, Discord, and Email.
  2. YouTube is a powerful platform for showcasing products, reaching new audiences, and collaborating with content creators.
  3. Creating original, valuable content and using various channels like LinkedIn, Discord, and Email can be effective in building awareness for a startup.

Digital tug-of-war

Working Theorys • 72 implied HN points • 19 Jan 25
💼 Business Education Entrepreneurship Corporate Governance Economics
  1. The debate over banning TikTok is making people more aware of digital trade. It shows how important it is in the economy, making up a big part of global trade now.
  2. Business schools, especially MBA programs, are facing criticism for not preparing students for job markets well. They're seen more as a time to learn and network rather than just a pathway to a job.
  3. Many CEOs who step down often come back, bringing fresh ideas and perspectives. This trend shows how important past experiences can be in reshaping a company's vision.