The Nonintuitive Bits

• iOS 14 is here
• Apple vs EpicGames
• Rus: a new git 101 course from Slava
• Best meeting hardware in the world
• Nikola track never worked
• WeChat and TikTok might be banned

Today: Communication and building for customers

It's impossible to over-communicate. Think repeating a message five times is to much? Try repeating it twenty one times instead!

Not all features you build will bring paying customers. Sometimes there might be people who really want it, but they're not the ones who can pay for it. If you want to sell, focus on features for people who can buy

Show notes:

• Rise: 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, and Liking Your Life 
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
• zainrizvi.io/newsletter

• Zain's newsletter
• Book: "thinking fast and slow"
• Course: "learning how to learn"
• "How to fix Intel"
• Massive Data Breach Exposes Intel’s Intellectual Property for Its Flagship CPUs and SpaceX Sensors

We discuss the psychology behind gamification, how to be a senior and staff engineer, and how to have great ideas

With returning guest host Yun Lu

Show links:

• Zain Rizvi's newsletter
• Getting in the Room where it Happens
• The Psychology of Gamification
• The ultimate guild to becoming and idea machine
• What it's like as a senior engineer

• Twitter claims 'social engineering attack' led to crypto scam tweets
• Hacker ransoms 23k MongoDB databases and threatens to contact GDPR authorities
• Windows DNS Server RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1350)
• Building a second brain

Are smart phones becoming less addicting? Can a plugin weaken the hooks social media sites embeds into it's viewers?

Show links:

• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/amazon-bans-tiktok-on-employee-phones-as-us-govt-scrutinizes-chinese-app/
• https://www.nirandfar.com/google-apple-less-phone-use/
• https://howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20Website-20I-20Visit.html
• https://zainrizvi.io/blog/the-interview-advice-no-one-gives-you/

• TL;DR bot got a huge update (with the site: tldr.cloud)
• our views on WWDC 2020
• Apple Silicone
• Windows also have tried and still trying
• Intel have tried also with ARM (Atom) and own 64bit (Itanium)
• Amazon have acquired Zoox

What does reducing scope have to do with being a senior engineer?
When have you crossed the line into cutting corners?
How to hack your motivation when working on your side projects?
And what are Raspberry Pis best used for?

Zain and Slava discuss all that and more!

• How we hate/love asana
• TL;DR news telegram channel (and an article with an architecture)
• To Stadia or not to Stadia
• Neural network based Pac-Man

In this episode, we do a dive deep into #nvidia #ampere #A100 architecture announcement by #NVIDIA. The A100 GPU enables building elastic, versatile, and high throughput data centers. A100 is powered with 54 billion transistors.

#InformationFasting - Zain also talks about his week where he is not consuming any information from the internet. Challenges to achieving it, positive impact, and more.

References

1. https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-ampere-architecture-in-depth/
2. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/05/14/multi-instance-gpus/
3. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/05/14/sparsity-ai-inference/
4. https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/gjlwd7/nvidia_ampere_architecture_indepth_nvidia/