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Yes it is!
I know we are well into spring 2023 and this is my first post of the year. No I have not abandoned this passion project. I consider this important but not urgent. So there will not be a fixed cadence. I really wanted to have one but then with a busy day job, travel, a toddler, running a house, trying to nurture a few other hobbies, family commitments, meeting friends IRL time really has become a very scarce resource.
A public commitment helps ensure you deliver but it also creates unnecessary stress. And I didn’t want that. I want this to be source of joy and not another chore!
So well I will send these posts out when I can mostly on Saturdays.
☕ Now, on to today’s coffee chat…
No coffee chat today! It is kinda still brewing ….
I had a bunch of very interesting conversations over the winter holidays, still working through the backlog to clean and transcribe them before I share with you all!
📖 My private thoughts from my very public diary…
(I have also kind of stopped using Twitter. A long long time ago it was actually a fun place to hang out …)
🤓 Open tabs…
(I have modeled this section after those “open tabs” that we all have with a few (okay 30-40) interesting links that we promise we will eventually get to one day. These are the links that I had open for sometime that I finally got to …)
⭐It’s time to talk about male mediocrity at work
"Strategic incompetence is the colleague who claims to be terrible at math, so that you handle all the spreadsheets. The husband who does such a bad vacuuming job that you take on the chore yourself. It’s not straightforward laziness—it’s a reluctance to do the lower-value jobs that Vesterlund and coauthors Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, and Laurie Weingart call “non-promotable.” This is the work that doesn’t get much credit or garner accolades; work that’s often invisible. It’s not just men who avoid it—but who am I kidding? It’s mostly men.”
⭐ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
“Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same way that a jpeg retains much of the information of a higher-resolution image, but, if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it; all you will ever get is an approximation.”
⭐Bad moms with Emily Oster
A podcast episode well worth the 1 hour 20 mins. It is a conversation with Oster about why a Harvard-educated economist at Brown University decided to become a parenting guru, how she used her parenting framework to become a leading expert on pandemic policies, and the unwinnable position of actually following the science.
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