The Nonintuitive Bits

We talk about:

• How do folks proved their value to their management chain?
• Bottoms up vs top down selling
• Asking for what you want
• And, of course, some gamestonk

• Why education is so Antifragile?
• How to make it Antifragile?
• Kovalevskyi Academy as a solution
• Lambda School
• Home office setup that we have
• Parler is no longer with us

Feeling energized by your work, managing teams on a death march, and how the game Factorio is like software engineering.

Resources:

• Zain's newsletter
• Do work that energizes you
• Positive moods make you smarter
• Learn to not suppress your own ideas
• Factorio

• Slava got a new Mac Mini with M1
• GeekBench 5 shows that the new MB Air with M1 faster than almost any Intel-based models (comparable with iMac / Mac Pros)
• Slava's personal results also show the same speed
• Intel has a HUGE problem with 10nm
• Docker on M1 does not work, yet
• HomeBrew also not yet
• TensorFlow for M1 already here!
• Slava's list of top apps for the Mac
  • arq
  • Little Snitch
  • iStat menu
  • Bartender
  • Alfred
  • Hazel (I forgot to tell about it, but it is on the list :) )

How to make better group decisions? How do you understand what your management chain actually values? And how can you better retain what you learn?

References:
Get into the leader's head by Alex Danco
Start with Principles technique by Shreyas Doshi
Incorporate Space Repetition and Reflection by Zain Rizvi

Our main topics of the show:

• request to remove (from github) the SDK that allows users to download videos from the YouTube
• Cruise One is coming to SFO
• Google Duplex been updated
• Hummer is back
• Didi's IPO in HongKong

News source: TL;DR bot

We ask "when is establishing psychological safety more important than holding people to standards?", discover some time  zone madness, and hear the principles Jeff Bezos relied on when deciding Amazon's business model.

References:

• Falsehoods programmers believe about timezones
• Nailing the things that never change

Our main topics tonight:

• Wikipedia did it
• Amazon allows you to pay with your hand
• OpenAI and Azure are now best friends
• No new gasoline cars in CA after 2035
• Amazon now has a game subscription service
• Windows XP source code has been leaked

How we got into software engineering. sending a bat signals to attract like-minded people, and building your personal network.

Show links:

• https://charity.wtf/2020/09/06/if-management-isnt-a-promotion-then-engineering-isnt-a-demotion by Charity Majors
• Interviews with the Masters, book by Robert Green
• https://lethain.com/network-of-peers by Will Larson

Snowflake IPO - a group of cloud service startups are coming to the market.

Linux OS is once considered safer than MS Windows. Is that true?

Do you enjoy working from home? Will it revolutionize the tech industry?

Show links:

• Warren Buffett invested Snowflake IPO
• Linux servers and workstations are hackers' next target
• The future of tech hubs