iamstupidsimple

> £4800/yr is a shit ton of money? Things must be pretty rough over there!

For the average person in the UK, it definitely is.

In the north of the UK, dinner=lunch and tea=dinner.

> However, tools, you can make a killing selling simple tools with sexy UX on Mac.

I've been thinking about doing something like this recently but I'm not a heavy mac user these days. Any tips on what people are looking for in small tools?

These missing TotW's are usually about internal tools that aren't open source.

And having execs who design the organizational structure around those goals is part of what makes good engineering :)

Crab bucket mentality. Those salaries are fine, what went wrong is Meta overhired. FAANG companies don't have enough work to go around as it is.

> 1) How can you write this whole article without saying "Kythe"?

Well, it does discuss Grok (the closed source predecessor) extensively.

@dang doesn't work, you're best off emailing [email protected]

Just personal opinion, but if this product is as valuable as you're suggesting, then definitely try selling at a higher price point! - Your target market can afford it.

Valve is also a games developer, and they never pulled any of their old or failed games. You can still play Artifact or Ricochet multiplayer (if you really want).

Those are 'third places'. The workplace was always the second place.

Sibling comment has a good point, this number includes everyone from software engineers to kitchen staff. Very few of my direct peers have left and the Google is growing still.

I joined Google ~6 months before COVID. More than 60% the company was hired after my start date, so that 1/3 stat is probably higher.

A more generalised approach: structure emails in importance order, top down. So, actionable stuff at top, rationales further down, in descending importance etc...

This becomes more critical when talking to execs.