Perhaps inspired by my resharing of Thomas's thoughts about the biggest problem in AI (tl;dr: he thinks it's nomenclature; I agree that's a problem but I don't know if it's the biggest issue), Ruth posted some thoughts to LinkedIn that I think are quite well-put:
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scatmania
Nov 10, 2021 11:47
It just passed two years since I started working at Automattic, and I just made a startling discovery: I've now been with the company for longer than 50% of the staff.
When you hear that from a 2-year employee at a tech company, it's easy to assume that they have a high staff turnover, but
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scatmania
Jun 15, 2021 18:35
My employer, Automattic, has a creed. Right now it reads:
I will never stop learning. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I know there’s no such thing as a status quo. I will build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers. I will never pass up an opp
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scatmania
Oct 09, 2019 15:23
Some years ago, a friend of mine told me about an interview they'd had for a junior programming position. Their interviewer was one of that particular breed who was attached to programming-test questions: if you're in the field of computer science, you already know that these questions exist. In
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