Thank you so much for offering such great insights. I love the general flair of keeping the process light. I do have a couple more questions:
a) When does your google doc go "stale"? (The next 1:1? At the end of the year? When you stop having 1:1s with that person?)
b) In your approach, are there things you don't want to share but want to make note of (performance related notes, future ideas etc)? What do you do in these cases to stay organized?
c) If you are managing a team of several people over large time periods, that's a lot of google documents. Do you have the need to stay organized over time? How do you do it?
@janee - This is an industry I am trying to learn more about and get into as well. Would love to get some advice. Is there a way to get in touch? My email is on my profile if you'd prefer to not leave info on here.
More importantly, how do you know Dominoes (or someone else with an incentive) is not driving you down a certain path?
This happens today already with Ads, Fb feed, instagram etc... but there is something distinctly suspicious about taking away specific control points in the decision making process.
For those who are interested in the topic, i just finished reading this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3109.The_Omnivore_s_Dile....
The author follows the ingredients of a meal he makes all the way back to the farms. He seems to romanticize certain notions of naturally grown foods and at other times, is given to polemic against the agriculturally industrial complex (quite justifiably at times). The book itself was a lesson in the history of agriculture, nutrition, politics, policy, cooking, animal husbandry and the organic food industry. There is a part of the book where he talks about the huge industrial setup behind organic food and tries to distinguish it from the vicissitudes of the small scale farmers life. He even turns into a hunter gatherer for a little to experience life as it was before agriculture. It was a totally fascinating read and i recommend it.
Earth would keep contact with colony A which would be slightly different. Colony A would keep contact with colony B which would be slightly more different. It would only take a few tens of hoops to get to something different enough that would classify as alien. At interstellar distances, this is a definite possibility. Isaac Asimov's empire, foundation and robot series have some fascinating (hypothetical) examples of this.
Richard Dawkins has talked about this fascinating subject several times in interviews (and in his books). It is a beautiful demonstration of how complexity and seemingly magical things can emerge from small changes over large periods of time.
e.g:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzERmg4PU3c
As far as i can see it, to be conscious is to have a subject experience of reality and (this is i am sure about yet) to have some sense of purpose (however mundane).
To talk about the universe being conscious in this sense, seems to be meaningless to me. I get this strange feeling that we are trying to force something that is vastly mysterious (numinous, not divine) into our world view of how lifeforms work on earth.
Reminds me of a fascinating discussion with Richard Dawkins from a while ago. If you can ignore the pseudo-scientific babble from Deepak Chopra and the annoying host, Dawkins makes some deeply interesting points worth thinking about.
Just the quality of the writing is poor overall. It's not exactly grammatically incorrect, just seems like it was done because someone asked them to do it and not because they were really excited about the product.
At one point, the blog entry says: "In product making, we believe every detail matters. ". Those of the type of things Steve Jobs would never let Apple push out as PR.
If you found the article interesting, i highly recommend this book: "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness". It is a fascinating description of how cephalopods are the closest thing to intelligence that is built vastly different from us. The author also explores philosophical questions (à la Thomas Nagel) What does it feel like to be an octopus? Does it have multiple selves? The book doesn't have all the answers and sort of fizzles out at the end, but definitely one of my better reads this year.
If you are interested in deep learning and how the space is evolving, this is the place to be. Floydhub is working on tons of super interesting problems, the solutions to which will make DL algorithms and GPU cloud infrastructure accessible to everyone.
Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B
Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer in test (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B
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I know from personal experience that they are working on very cool and important problems at the forefront of the deep learning space. Seriously, talk to them.
Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B
Amazon Developer Platform | Software development engineer in test (multiple) | Seattle, WA | Onsite, will transfer H1B
Come be part of a team that is building the next generation developer platform for our digital stores across Alexa, Twitch, Amazon App Store, Lumberyard and many others. Our team builds developer.amazon.com & drives developer relationships for Amazon. We are also building a product that makes standing up new digital storefronts easy. We are changing the way digital economies are setup. For you, that means solving problems that haven't been solved before at massive scale & make breathtaking impact for hundreds of millions of customers.
We are growing rapidly and are looking for engineers to the build the future. Reach out to sarthomp at amazon.com to learn more about the team and positions we have open. If you are in the Seattle area and want to chat over coffee, ping me.