I thought the same (“corporate junk”) early in my career... then I had to start getting dozens/hundreds of people to execute in a coordinated fashion against a defensible plan...
Some comments in this thread make me take for granted how junior people are, some of this stuff is table stakes big co stuff and sometimes not even enough, you make these docs that answer everyones questions but maybe 2 out of the 12 people who should know actually read it
Interesting - these have exactly the design polish I'd expect from working at FB, Twitter, DBX, etc... From what I've seen most of the people I've worked with at those companies care more about the quality of my thinking than the polish of my docs.
Paul - great work. Was thinking of doing the same. I'd love to collaborate on some sort of shared resource/repo of docs like these (github?) and contribute a few of my own.
I don't know why you're getting down voted, this is an absolutely apt comment.
A shared repo on github would be great! I was wondering....where am I going to bookmark this so I'll remember to go back to it in the future. Though, how many of the people who would benefit most from these docs don't use git?
Though I may copy the docs into a confluence template.
Yeah, love that Sam. I'm not much a github user myself but if there's some existing body of best-in-class templates I'd love to be a part of that. For me, it's all about having a quick thing bookmarked that I can just duplicate from.
Wonder if CRV is reacting to the same underlying trends causing Warren Buffet to sell stock (e.g., Cape / Shiller PE ratio is close to an all-time high)...
P/E ratios are not going to drop until some kind of socialist revolution reverses the movement of money from the budgets of people who spend it to the bank accounts of people who invest it. When control over dollars shifts from people who want goods and services to people who want capital assets, the price of a capital asset (P) must go up as demand rises even while the price of what it manufactures (E) goes down.
Ever hear "there are no alternatives to stocks?" The alternative to stocks in the past was consumption; not so when concentrations of wealth cannot be spent in a thousand lifetimes. It's the perfect storm for crazy P/E. If you believe Piketty's work, that kind of reverse shift never happens gradually, and these P/E ratios represent the "maturity" of a period of relative peace and stability.
It's worth mentioning, as an aside, that as long as inflation is positive, investors do not actually need to see earnings.
I work with Drew (the DBX CEO) on 0-1 bets at Dropbox. I'd love to chat with former founders/early employees passionate about project management, task management, calendaring, or the intersection of the above products with ML/AI. Send your LinkedIn to odio+vip@dropbox.com.
This is an special problem for the uninsured that struggle with mental health.
A close friend struggled with bipolar. She was uninsured and making close to minimum wage…calls to suicide prevention hotlines resulted in thousands of dollars in new bills from ER visits and even involuntary psychiatric care.
She was struggling to pay rent. Being discharged in effectively the same condition as before but with new debt she wouldn’t be able to pay off for years…the medical bills for involuntary psychiatric care were their own special sort of crazy.
For those that believe Brad's take on Wikipedia's content isn't adding a fair amount of value...
Presumably, if Legiblenews takes off and doesn't add value, Wikimedia is free to compete with it. Wikimedia could form a for-profit company that donates more of user revenue to the foundation and feature that company on Wikipedia. Therefore, for the foreseeable future, Wikimedia effectively retains the option to copy & crush Brad's side-project. And if Legiblenews takes off Wikimedia does nothing at all...they will still almost certainly receive more $$$ than the current state of the world.
In that way, Wikimedia is outsourcing innovation to Brad, who Wikimedia is well-positioned to copy/compete with in the future, and being paid to do so. While Brad loses money.
I'm not 100% sure who is on which side of "fair," but ultimately if it complies with Wikimedia's license I'm good with it. And if you don't like it, why not start something better?
