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Strategy is far from the bulk of their work

Most of their job is about people, leverage, and execution. It's not a sit and think job, it's mostly 1:1s and coalition-building

Theyre also utilizing LLMs to augment themselves. And are getting more data, from off-record convos to reports from trusted smart colleagues who used an LLM to refine their intel

Could be, or the Ukraine war, the pandemic, or some other policy

It's nonfalsifiable. People will settle on the simplest observation:

it happened under Biden

yes, the quote is what I'm referring to, directing the AI is part of it, people use these to quickly brainstorm and refine ideas. I'd be more charitable and wouldn't hastily assume it was some skill issue, especially them being a principal engineer

they said 90% of it was spent on ideation and exploration

they didnt specifically mean they built a wordle clone, just a game like it. if they wanted just a wordle clone, they wouldve gotten one within a few minutes of using codegen tools.

Is there any source for first-hand specifics of what she does?

I used to argue in reddit (same username as my HN) basically calling Musk a fraud and Gwynne Shotwell being all the brains 6 years ago, but I've since changed my position after seeing engineers in spaceX give props to Musk at podcasts, twitter, and various interviews.

CP just teaches some familiarity with DSA/algorithms, and there's much more to perf than DSA. Even assessing algorithmic performance requires real benchmarks and profiling, while the complexity analysis people do in CP disregards other factors like hardware, architecture, format, and other abstractions. Squeezing perf via DSA is much more easier/straightforward, people don't need to grind CP to learn that

Author is probably young, that's how gen-z are these days, if they dont have autocorrect on, the whole text will be in lowercase.

Also it looks more casual and authentic, less LLM generated

Happy New Year hackers! Here's to the crazy ones

I guess lots of people find him interesting (see HN guidelines)

Charlie (and Buffett) are often recommended here for their mental models as their approach to investing and finance are very transferrable in startups/engineering. At the end of the day, large scale software engineering is mostly about managing risk, strategy, and corporate finance/value. Often, Poor Charlie's Almanack is recommended by my top Staff+ colleagues.

This month I'm reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Used to think fiction was a waste of time a month ago. Not anymore.

I wouldnt say so. I think it's the same HN. Although when it gets political, I've noticed that the discourse does degrade a bit faster than it used to be for such topics, for there's a bigger pool of users who'll get provoked by the opinion

A book that has a similar style to this one (teaching algorithm design) and my personal favourite is Algorithmic Problem Solving by Roland Backhouse.

It just teaches algorithmic problem solving via math, but unlike mathy algorithmic books like CLRS, you only need algebra for this one.

I like how the book, IIRC, starts with invariants, providing the reader the foundational skill needed to notice underlying patterns and to decompose problems.

That's why I said karmic justice.

I think it's a close book. The book details the decision process from both sides. Japan's plans to continue the war. The way the high command coped with the first atomic bomb, etc. It does not sway you into thinking any side was justified, but it expands one's perspective to help you understand the other's side.

I was born in Southeast Asia, lived in China for a while, everyone I've met views it as some kind of karmic justice. It's the idea you get from school (we were living peacefully, then we got attacked and they did all these brutal crimes) and from our grandparents.

I've only seen the contrarian opinion coming from westerners. Perhaps because there's barely any media from Hollywood about the pacific theater, and if there was (eg. HBO's The Pacific), it does not show the horrors of it.

If one is more interested in an objective take on history, especially those using the argument that the Japanese were already "defeated" before the bombs came, then the book Downfall by Richard B Frank is a good book to start with for those who hold a firm anti-nuke stance.