Startup Archive (Twitter)

Marissa Mayer on scaling Google and the internal black market CEO Eric Schmidt created for new hires

“One of the things that [former Google CEO Eric Schmidt] talked about a lot was that at every order of magnitude, you should expect every process to break—and you should expect to have to completely reinvent it. It’s very different to deal with tens of people versus hundreds of people versus thousands of people”

Marissa shares a story of how one time Eric reinvented Google’s hiring process in a way that initially frustrated everyone:

“We had closed the year at about 200 people, and we had a plan to double the size of the company over the coming year. Eric showed up in March, looked at the plan, and said: ‘there’s just no way you guys are going to be able to double the number of employees and keep the quality and culture the way you want it to be.’”

Eric then told the company that he would let them collectively hire 50 people that year—versus the 200 they we...

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Startup Archive (Twitter)

Eric Schmidt on the common characteristics of the greatest products https://twitter.com/StartupArchive_/status/1741452643430474174#m

Startup Archive (Twitter)

Eric Schmidt on predicting if a startup can become a $100B+ company https://twitter.com/StartupArchive_/status/1731669042845405249#m

Startup Archive (Twitter)

RT @wardwilsey: This is a really cool story. I will be stealing this idea. https://twitter.com/StartupArchive_/status/1747232727894552737#m

Orange Book 🍊📖 (Twitter)

You will naturally get smarter and make better decisions once you learn how to stay detached and how to relax when you feel under pressure.

Reid Hoffman (Twitter)

And here's a demo of @khanacademy's AI tutor Khanmigo from our episode with @salkhanacademy

Reid Hoffman (Twitter)

Sal Khan reflects on @khanacademy's origin story with AI, its early access to and fine-tune training of @OpenAI's GPT-4, and its path to building its AI chatbot tutor Khanmigo:

Paul Graham (Twitter)

The most extreme picture frame I've seen in my life.

‌Paul Graham (Twitter)

RT @Hannahmc_carthy: Doctors in Gaza said that children, weakened by lack of food, had died from hypothermia and that several newborn babies with mothers who were undernourished had not survived for more than a few days.

Naval (Twitter)

Two points only gives the direction, but the third creates the curve.

#ادمین

بعضی از دوستانم به من فیدبک دادند که تعداد پست های کانال زیاده اما دلم نمیومد منابع رو حذف کنم و قبول نمیکردم تا اینکه چندبار به پست های کانال نگاه کردم و دیدم ریشه ی حرف همه شون تقریبا یک جمله است: "آدم باش!"

این "آدم باش!" انگار خلاصه ی تمام کتب تاریخی و مکاتب اخلاقی و دینی و توحیدی و تربیتی هم هست.

پس ظاهرا مشکل من این نیست که نمیدونم چکار کنم که این محتواها بهم یاد بدن و خیلی نیازی به information جدید ندارم، بلکه نیاز دارم تا ییشتر به اون حرف های تکراری و بدیهی فکر و بهشون عمل کنم. پس منابع کانال رو انقدری کمتر کردم که پست ها حدود ۵۰ درصد قبل بشه و تعداد پست کمتری رو بتونیم ببینیم اما به جاش روشون فکر کنیم.. شما نظر یا پیشنهادی دارین؟

Orange Book 🍊📖 (Twitter)

It's much mentally healthier to work hard on something you personally deeply care about, than being forced day after day, to do some "easy work" that you couldn't care less about.

Orange Book 🍊📖 (Twitter)

People say "money doesn't buy happiness" and point out a few rich people they know, who are always angry, stressed, miserable, but truth is, smart and wealthy people with a pinch of wisdom, understood when to withdraw from the race, in order to live a quiet, private, happy life.

Orange Book 🍊📖 (Twitter)

Good people who care are actually very rare, and it only becomes more apparent as you get older: if you are lucky to have such friends, don't let them go.

Orange Book 🍊📖 (Twitter)

You won’t be a “good person” as long as you think of yourself as such.
We are all capable of the best and the worst.
“Good people” are people who make a conscious effort to do the right thing over and over again, people who keep refining their own judgment as they get older.

‌Paul Graham (Twitter)

Chris Arnade may know more about what the world's cities are like than anyone else alive. So if he says he knows what's wrong with American cities, he's probably right.

Paul Graham (Twitter)

It's an interesting data point that companies planning to compete with Google all trust them enough to talk about their plans via GMail without a second thought. It's a good thing to have that level of trust.

‌Reid Hoffman (Twitter)

Actor, @SimpsonStreet founder, and activist @kerrywashington shares what tech has given her: a deeper connection to her audiences, co-stars, family (given & found) and herself.

Spotify, et al. link.chtbl.com/yXU33a4S
YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5x4E9GRL3w
Transcript https://www.possible.fm/podcasts/kerrywashington/

‌Reid Hoffman (Twitter)

“I’m really excited about AI. Anybody who wants to put it back in the bottle… I'm so sorry. That's just not happening.” - @kerrywashington

Kerry, Aria and I talk AI, tech, identity, and connection, with cameos from my AI avatar and @InflectionAI’s Pi:

link.chtbl.com/yXU33a4S

Shreyas Doshi (Twitter)

It took me more than a decade & some timely coaching from my last manager at Google to internalize that it is wise to be dedicated to the end outcome, not be wedded to a favorite methodology / best practice & to never attach any specific methodology to your professional identity.