I like a good steak but setting off the fire alarms (plural) is a big risk when I cook them in my apartment :-). Scorching hot cast iron pan plus meat means some smoke is unavoidable. And that's the proper way to do it.
The problem with many business leaders is that they don't necessarily understand the businesses they lead very well. That's common for CEOs running a tech company without a tech background. There's a long history of business leaders with MBAs throwing away the baby with the bathwater when they get a bit too enthusiastic cutting cost. It's why Boeing is such a mess. It's why Intel is no longer considered a leader in innovative chips. The likes of Nvidia and Apple are running circles around them. It's why IBM is now a consulting company that hasn't really produced any tech product worth mentioning this century. The only time they are in the news is when they do another layoff round to make share holders happy. They are incapable of innovating because the people that did that have long since left.
In the hands of somebody competent, you can do great things with AI. But if you can't tell good from bad technically, you won't know that you are creating a big stinky mess until it's far too late.
On a positive note, there will be plenty of work for competent techies to come in and straighten things out on a freelance or consultant basis (I'm available for that sort of thing but not cheap). With the help of AI of course. No need to go back to doing things manually. I think a lot of companies will realize they need help in the next years to speed things up, to improve quality, etc. They'll be very opinionated about what they want and used to getting what they want quickly.
Given the current state of global work, for me the more lucrative stuff is internet-related, since it's possible to get developed country rates for software work. I do volunteer in the physical world, so that I can be connected to my local environment.
The whole point of bringing up that (satirical) Winnie-the-Pooh study was to show that very different people can still work and live together in the same group. That mix is part of the benefit.
We don’t always talk about how community itself supports people with different mental and neural traits. It just shows that diversity can hold a group together rather than break it apart.
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Take the lead on projects that power Europe's most advanced grocery delivery tech. And without the grind of Big Tech or the chaos of early-stage startups.
Picnic now delivers groceries to millions of people across three countries and is growing quickly. This includes the tech team, which is at the core of everything from product development (mobile app, store backend, internal dev platforms, etc.) to last-mile delivery optimization using machine learning.
Everything is built in-house, and many of their solutions are open-sourced.
You’ll solve real engineering problems at scale - while shaping the systems millions rely on every week.
There's currently no simple way to import via Facebook, but a workaround should let you do it.
(as a disclaimer, you'll need an unrelated Chrome extension that I didn't build. Hope I can built an official birthdays.app version at some point)
Essentially, you can:
1. Export your Facebook friends to a .ics file using the extension called "Birthday Calendar Exporter for Facebook" from https://chromewebstore.google.com
2. Upload your friends and their birthdays to your Google Calendar
3. Go to https://birthdays.app, login via text code, and click "import via Google Calendar"
Let me know if any thoughts or questions come up :)
Picnic | Multiple roles | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Full-time | ONSITE | Visa Sponsorship & Relocation Support
Take the lead on projects that power Europe's most advanced grocery delivery tech. And without the grind of Big Tech or chaos of early-stage startups.
Picnic now delivers groceries to millions of people across three countries and is growing quickly. This includes the tech team, which is at the core of everything from product development (mobile app, store backend, internal dev platforms, etc.) to last-mile delivery optimization using machine learning.
Everything is built in-house, and many of their solutions are open-sourced.
You’ll solve real engineering problems at scale - while shaping the systems millions rely on every week.
Picnic | Multiple roles | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Full-time | ONSITE | Visa Sponsorship & Relocation Support
Take the lead on projects that power Europe's most advanced grocery delivery tech. And without the grind of Big Tech or chaos of early-stage startups.
Picnic now delivers groceries to millions of people across three countries and is growing quickly. This includes the tech team, which is at the core of everything from product development (mobile app, store backend, internal dev platforms, etc.) to last-mile delivery optimization using machine learning.
Everything is built in-house, and many of their solutions are open-sourced.
You’ll solve real engineering problems at scale - while shaping the systems millions rely on every week.
Apart from that, I want to believe (and even notice tiny signals) that this sentiment is becoming more understandable among business leaders.