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you are right. demonitized means unsuitable for advertisers, which means no ads.

true, yet the same can be said of:

- any new pharmaceutical - diets (keto, carnivore, etc) - 5g

etc

point being: modifying behavior due to decade time-horizon unknowns is not really pragmatic.

...about anything. not just covid.

9 figure deal, 10 figure implications:

"Spotify shares dropped 8.8% Wednesday (Sep. 2) morning, shaving as much as $4.81 billion of its value, following a report Joe Rogan's back catalog debuted on the platform Tuesday without episodes by right-wing personalities"

Case and point: employees at Spotify wanting to censor Joe Rogan.

Whether or not you agree, you can objectively see how this would jeopardize a presumably 10-figure deal for Spotify.

in a perfect world it would. but it doesn't.

Libertarian.

pair programming, for sure

if done right, whiteboarding should be almost the same as pair programming -- an iterative dialogue

100%.

if properly trained, interviewers ask questions that build without throwing the kitchen sink at you.

whiteboard interviews (when done holistically) assess for signal, not binary correctness

- do you have a solid framework to build a solution?

- are you considering multiple approaches / data structures / complexities

- referencing similar problems, vocabulary, situations to illustrate breadth of knowledge

sure, the stress component isn't ideal, but there are multiple relevant capabilities being assessed in a very short amount of time...

in other words it's a much better test of tacit knowledge than alternatives

the truth is probably more nuanced

objectively considering information is further than most people ever get. most people are just out here trying to win arguments

so let's assume you're open minded

you could weave components of this new info into what you already know, and discard the rest

but what do you keep?

does the most convincing empiricism trump everything? are personal values involved?

that's up to you

my $0.02: it DOES seem similar to bitcoin in that

- the technology is intrinsically interesting - there is a ton of hype - but it seems ultimately commercial viability of projects is questionable

Why do I say this?

Well, the "solution" here is instantaneous text generation.

even if it is 99% believable, that 1% error is probably a dealbreaker most use cases

example a: generating code

sure you can generate some simple react components, but snippets already do that.

for anything more complex / production ready, you still need to fine tune it manually

That said, I hope I'm wrong and some cool AND useful applications come out of this

In fact my initial reaction was pure hype but now I'm going the other way

Hey Jash, Curious: with your email list, do you send value-giving emails at regular intervals -- ergo a weekly digest

Or is it more just for paid offers whenever you have one? Or both?

I feel like content strategies are a double edged sword. Sure you could have YouTube, Twitter, email, and a blog but then what time do you have left to work on product?

Anyway thanks for the info

May be a symptom of people sold on "blue ocean strategy" / "zero to one" narrative

"just start a monopoly" the literature says... implying every venture that's not would surely be a waste of time

but even (and especially) if you're the first mover, sharks will come

will you use their presence as a convenient excuse? or are you up for the fight?