MIT Technology Review
This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix
MIT Technology Review
10 min read · From 2019 · Bias can creep in at many stages of the deep-learning process, and the standard practices in computer science aren’t designed to detect it.
Reader View · Shared by 161, including Dominik Grolimund, Debbie Meier ✍️⚖️, Hendrik Dietrich, Vikram Dutt, Tom Connor, Charles Baldwin, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Michael Carroll, Andreas Staub, Dave Nussbaum, Javi Cantón, Thomas Power, Carly, Mila D'Antonio, Bernard Furiatti, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork
Forge
How to Become the Best in the World at Something
Forge
10 min read · From 2019 · With skill stacking, you don’t need to be at the top to be extraordinary
Reader View · Shared by 244, including Thomas Power, Cameron Yick, Johannes Dornisch, Rand Fishkin, Michael Carroll, Alexis Sanders 🇺🇦, Tauno
SearchEngineJournal®
15 Ways to Boost Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
SearchEngineJournal®
5 min read · From 2020 · You represent your business, and for that reason, building your personal brand is a must-do. Discover 15 ways to boost your personal brand on LinkedIn.
Reader View · Shared by 18, including Heather Lloyd-Martin, Danny Goodwin, Michael Carroll
medium.com
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
medium.com
20+ min read · From 2020 · Politicians and Business Leaders: What Should You Do and When?
Reader View · Shared by 1758, including Alexia Bonatsos, Matthew Green, Marc Benioff, Daniel Dennett, Michael Hyatt, BrendanEich, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, zeynep tufekci, Tim Ferriss, Ev, Patrick Collison, Jason Stanley, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, дэн, Mark Manson, Henry Reich, Merlin Mann, Tim Berners-Lee, Jonathan Haidt
medium.com
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
medium.com
20+ min read · From 2020 · What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time
Reader View · Shared by 836, including Bob Wachter, Felix Salmon, BrendanEich, Dr. Alec Couros, Matt Goodwin, Chris Kresser, Semil, Naval, Niall Ferguson, John Cutler, Chris Messina, Tomas Pueyo, Klaus Eck, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Mathew Ingram, Mathieu von Rohr, Matt Cutts, M.G. Siegler, Gary Marcus 🇺🇦, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸
dalton.substack.com
Letter to myself in late 2008
dalton.substack.com
2 min read · From 2020 · [I originally wrote and distributed this post to Y Combinator founders and have been encouraged to share it publicly, so here it is.] For context: in 2008 I was the founder/CEO of a company called…
Reader View · Shared by 53, including Michael Carroll, Sachin Rekhi, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️, Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦
New York Magazine
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
New York Magazine
20+ min read · From 2016 · An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 668, including Mark Kaigwa, Dominik Grolimund, Jane, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Thomas Power, Liv 😷, grimm, M.G. Siegler, Mark Bao, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Stowe Boyd, Inês Silva, Michael Carroll, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Klaus Eck, Mathew Ingram, Nir Eyal, Nick Lüthi, Chris Messina, Katja Evertz
Harvard Business Review
Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
Harvard Business Review
6 min read · From 2017 · “Unfocus” enhances resilience, creativity, and decision making.
Reader View · Shared by 529, including Liv 😷, Thomas Power, Brent Summers, Nir Eyal, Matthias Lampe, Dominik Grolimund, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Katja Evertz, Dez S. Papp, actiTIME, Michael Carroll, Mark Kaigwa, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Stephan Leduc, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Jeremy Caplan, Rodrigo Franco (Caffo), Stephanie A Kowalski, Peter Hogenkamp, Howard Getson
Tim Herbig
Build Your Own Product Discovery Toolbox
Tim Herbig
7 min read · From 2020 · When a Product Team starts a new Product Discovery mission, their primary job is to reduce uncertainty. Initial alignment and research might feel predictable and almost linear. But as soon as the…
Reader View · Shared by 6, including Michael Carroll
Psychology Today
How to Love the Ones You’re with During Coronavirus
Psychology Today
4 min read · From 2020 · Social distancing means extra family togetherness and maybe extra stress.
Reader View · Shared by 21, including Dr Melanie Greenberg, Michael Carroll, Mike Atwater, PhD
Marker by Medium
What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage
Marker by Medium
8 min read · From 2020 · It isn’t really about hoarding. And there isn’t an easy fix.
Reader View · Shared by 341, including Val Head, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Mathew Ingram, hiten.eth, Alexandra Sifferlin, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️, Rutger Bregman, Ryan Hoover, DHH, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Ajit Pai, Chris Kresser, David Wallace-Wells, Adam Thomas, Ken Norton, Martin Fowler, Richard Joerges, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Brian Clark, Christopher Knight
Stratechery
Unmasking Twitter
Stratechery
10 min read · From 2020 · Twitter has a new policy to listen to experts about what content to limit; what happens, though, when experts are wrong?
Reader View · Shared by 188, including Matthias Lampe, tylercowen, Michael Carroll, Stephanie A Kowalski, Katja Evertz, Scott Monty, Taylor Pearson, Thomas Power, Scott Sage, Nir Eyal, Eric Kasyoka, Balaji Srinivasan, Jeff Nolan 🇺🇸🚀, Howard Lindzon, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell
Stratechery
Facebook’s Platform Opportunity
Stratechery
9 min read · From 2020 · Facebook is under pressure from all sides, but that actually means it has an opportunity to build the platform it has always wanted — in digital ads.
Reader View · Shared by 58, including Jonathan Kogan, Katja Evertz, Michael Carroll, Scott Monty, Lelio Simi, Ayala Sherbow
a16z
Planning and Managing Layoffs
a16z
~15 min read · From 2020 · David Ulevitch doesn’t purport to be a lawyer or an HR expert, but as a serial start-up entrepreneur, he has suffered the disappointment of having to lay off faultless employees. In this detailed playbook for managing layoffs, Ulevitch empathizes with firms that must let people go in order to survive and with leaders tagged to deliver the bad news. Rightly though, he reserves most of his compassion for affected employees; especially those let go in a time of crisis and few available jobs.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 167, including Florian Graillot, Cameron Yick, Michael Carroll, Andrew Chen 🎮, Thomas Power, getAbstract, Oliver Raduner
Tomasz Tunguz
What is the Structure of the Typical SaaS Company as it Scales? • Tomasz Tunguz
Tomasz Tunguz
1 min read · From 2020 · This post is part of a series leading up to SaaS Office GTM Edition on June 24 in which we’re reviewing the results of the 2020 Redpoint GTM survey. Today, we’re answering the question: how do teams…
Reader View · Shared by 43, including Andrew Ermogenous, William Toll, Stefan Weber, Ilia Markov, Michael Carroll
Tim Urban
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
Tim Urban
From 2018 · Our career path is how we spend our time, how we support our lifestyles, how we make our impact, and even sometimes how we define our identity. Let’s make sure we’re on the right track.
Reader View · Shared by 1498, including Hampus Jakobsson, Mike Taylor, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Kevan Lee 👋, Zain Fathoni, Dominik Grolimund, Mathias Möller, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Kevin_Indig, Thomas Power, Klaus Eck, Gabriele, Ricky Yean, Todd Henry, Hannah Morgan, Katja Evertz, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, Sachin Rekhi, Tris Hussey, Mikael Krogerus