Tech & Science & Business stories
Stories about tech & scientific endeavours, as well as business ones. People who have done stuff, whether they succeeded or not. Also, tech culture reflections.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
Gates Foundation
Artificial intelligence and our future
3 min · · Bill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it. · Shared by 385, including AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Nige Roberts-Willson, Nathan Benaich, Mike Tamir, PhD, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Yves Mulkers, Sam Altman, Cristina Tardáguila, Scott Santens, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Chris Messina, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Luke Wroblewski, Tom Vander Ark, Klaus Eck, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Dr. Marie Haynes🌱, Nicolas Babin, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, James Wise
The Verge
Welcome to hell, Elon
5 min · · Owning Twitter means owning a host of impossible political problems. Is Elon ready? · Shared by 1195, including Margaret Sullivan, James Fallows, Kevin M. Kruse, Casey Newton, Scott Monty, Scott Hanselman 🌮, Scott Santens, Frank Luntz, Martin Fowler, Dan Primack, Peter McCormack🏴☠️, Scott Galloway, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Kara Swisher, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Chris Messina, Anne Helen Petersen, Jay Rosen, Coronado 'Porch' Lindzon, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
Paul Graham
How to Make Wealth
20+ min · · May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters.) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable… · Shared by 63, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, 0xTatooine, Joona Tuunanen 🇫🇮, David Perell, justin, Martina Pugliese, Zack Kanter
twitter.com
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· We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our… · Shared by 5, including Martina Pugliese
a16z
Building for the 99% Developers
11+ min · · Software development is not all clean code and automated processes -- and it never will be. Buyers and vendors both need to realize this. · Shared by 235, including Martina Pugliese, Mark Birch AWS Startup Advocate, Chris {he, they} , Scott Brinker, Steven Sinofsky
Google AI
Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021
20+ min · · Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health, on behalf of the entire Google Research community When I joined... · Shared by 87, including Oscar MacDonald, Vikram Dutt, Jeff Dean (@🏡), Martina Pugliese, Jenny Halasz, sircharlsxavier, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Carla Gentry 🎶, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦
Bloomberg Graphics
Why Making More Chips Is So Hard
· To continue, please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot. · Shared by 55, including Elena Neira, Martina Pugliese, Nathan Benaich, Phillip Murphy, Luca M. Sergio, Ha Duong, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Michael (मुकेश)
giovanniorgantini.wordpress.com
Il caso AstraZeneca
3 min · · Da qualche giorno è in corso un’isterica reazione alle “notizie” secondo le quali si sarebbero verificate alcune morti “sospette” dopo l’inoculazione del vaccino… · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
nature
Ten computer codes that transformed science
15+ min · · From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed. · Shared by 389, including l. ones, rogerverhoeven, Stephan Woodtli, Francesco Corea, Martina Pugliese, Reto Knutti, Nathan Benaich, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Isak, Howard Getson, Rifki Caesar Novaldin, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
MIT Press
Data Science in Times of Pan(dem)ic
· What are the priorities for data science in tackling COVID-19, and in which ways can big data analysis inform and support responses to the outbreak? It is imperative for data scientists to spend time… · Shared by 5, including Martina Pugliese
linkedin.com
(1) My 10 Biggest Mistakes As BrewDog's CEO
· Since Martin and I set up BrewDog in 2007 as 2 wide-eyed 24 year olds, it has been one hell of a ride. The business we set up in a garage now employs over 2,000 team members, has over 100 bars all over the planet, we are the most valuable independent beer brand on the planet and we are embarking on · Shared by 5, including Martina Pugliese
WIRED
The Women Who Invented Video Game Music
3 min · · Composers like Eímear Noone and Manami Matsumae created some of the most iconic songs in games that have defined the industry. · Shared by 97, including Martina Pugliese, Nicolas Babin, Chris Isak, Bas Grasmayer, Sam Proud, Stephanie A Kowalski
The Verge
Emotional baggage: inside the toxic work environment at Away
20+ min · · Away promised a company culture of travel and inclusion, but former employees say CEO Steph Korey uses the company values to get people to work harder and longer. · Shared by 282, including fantastic ms., Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, DHH, Eithiriel DeMeré 🏴🥀🏳️🌈, Goldie Chan 💚, Nilofer Merchant, Bob Sutton, Shelly Kramer, Kyle Chayka, Andy Budd, Jeff Nolan 🇺🇸🚀, Khoi Vinh, Kathy Klotz-Guest, 7/27 Comedy @ SF Marina Theater, Chris DiBona, Cameron Sinclair, AisleOne, Mathew Ingram, Marcin Wichary, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Safia
CB Insights
21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos' Annual Letters To Shareholders
20+ min · · Each year, Jeff Bezos writes an open letter to Amazon's shareholders. Over the last two decades, these letters have become an unparalleled source of insight into how the world's richest man — and his… · Shared by 150, including Martina Pugliese, Esther Schindler, يونس بن عمارة, Arne Keuning, Kevan Lee 👋, Oscar MacDonald, Adrian🇨🇭, Jakub Ferenc, Tendayi Viki, Jose Paul Martin, Marc Zenger, Tom Connor, Howard Getson, Fanzo, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Developer to Manager
Motherboard
The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software
20+ min · · A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development. · Shared by 127, including Corbett Magotra, DHH, Romain Lalanne, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Open Source Initiative @osi@opensource.org, tcherno, luis antónio santos, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Charles Baldwin, Martina Pugliese, Thomas Wong, Daniel Bentes
Aeon+Psyche
Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires
9 min · · More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components… · Shared by 418, including Inês Silva, Martina Pugliese, Tom Connor, Konrad Lischka, Nir Eyal, Thomas Pleil, Oscar MacDonald, Bertrand Maltaverne, ThomNagy, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Michael Gisiger, Stephanie A Kowalski, kp, Jean Decherf, Larry Balaclava, Katja Evertz, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Christian P. Stobbe, Dominik Grolimund, @mainec@fromm.social