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The good times in tech are over

Tue, 19 May 2026 17:08:49 +0000

If I had to choose, I’d definitely choose to return to the job market of the 2010s, so I can be paid more to work less and have more job security. I’m not an idiot. But the silver lining to actually having to ship is that you’re no longer living in a dream. If you’re realistic about how things work, the job of software engineering becomes much easier to understand: Providing value to the company gets you rewarded Not providing value to the company gets you punished “Value to the company” means furthering the explicit plans of your company’s executives

Tags: #business #career #dev #work

Why BYD’s R&D engine is terrifying Western automakers - Fast Company

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:01:36 +0000

The Blade Battery was born from grief. It was engineered by people who had watched their own lab burn, and who decided, with a resolve that borders on the religious, that it would never happen again.

Tags: #batteries #business #byd #cars #evs

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge • The Register

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:29:06 +0000

Despite the CEOs' repsonses, PwC concludes more investment is required. It claims that "isolated, tactical AI projects" often don't deliver measurable value, and that tangible returns instead come from enterprise-wide deployments consistent with business strategy.

Tags: #ai #business #genai #llms #tech

A first interview with Mozilla’s new CEO on AI, Firefox, and the web | The Verge

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:03:50 +0000

It’s no accident that the Firefox guy is taking over, by the way. “Priority one [for Mozilla] is still building the best browser,” he says. “I am very pragmatic that that is our core business, and it would take a lot to prove otherwise.” Going forward, when Mozilla launches new products, they’re likely to be tied to Firefox — Enzor-DeMeo mentions that Mozilla VPN is coming to Firefox next year, just to name one, and says there are other features in the works.

Tags: #business #ceo #firefox #mozilla

Needy Programs @ tonsky.me

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:28:20 +0000

Programs that have their own agenda and that are trying to make it yours, too. Programs that want you to think about them. Programs that think they are entitled to a part of your attention. “Pick me” programs. And you know what? Fuck these programs. Give me back my computer.

Tags: #annoyances #business #internet

As public perception of AI sours, crowdfunding platforms scramble | Polygon

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:10:17 +0000

While the ethics of this technology’s ecological and social impact are debated, use of the technology comes with repeated controversy. This instance of AI-assisted art from the company that made the award-winning Star Realms deck-building game has caused some to take to social media in disappointment and frustration. A few fans of the company state they won’t purchase another game by Wise Wizard, with at least one store stating it will no longer be stocking the company’s products. This anti-AI sentiment is not unanimous, however. Projects like Wonders of the First, Grimcoven, and Terraforming Mars still raised millions of dollars from thousands of backers as recently as June of this year — giving crowdfunding platforms an incentive to keep AI projects on the site, as long as the money is still there.

Tags: #art #business #crowdfunding #gaming #genai #kickstarter #ttrpg

There is mounting evidence that starting a business reduces stress–and persistent myths that are stopping employees from taking the plunge | Fortune

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:34:19 +0000

In recent years, a new wave of peer-reviewed research indicates that launching a business can dramatically reduce stress and improve physical and mental health. That revelation first gained traction with a groundbreaking paper published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. In it, researchers compared a nationally representative sample of employees and entrepreneurs on various health factors, including blood pressure, physician visits, physical and mental illness, and overall well-being. The results overwhelmingly favored entrepreneurs, who evidenced significantly lower blood pressure and hypertension rates, fewer hospital visits, and reduced incidence of physical and mental illnesses. How can starting a business, which many justifiably consider a massive and nerve-wracking undertaking, possibly reduce stress?

Tags: #business #employment #entrepreneurs #selfemployment

In their plaintive call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed | John Quiggin | The Guardian

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:55:20 +0000

As Gideon Haigh observed 20 years ago, the era of neoliberalism has been associated with the “cult of the CEO”. The office has been the shrine of that cult. In their plaintive call for a return there, CEOs are like declining deities who see their votaries deserting them.

Tags: #business #ceos #culture #remote #rto #work

Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification | Techdirt

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:41:43 +0000

Anyway, I’d like to posit seven basic rules for any internet CEO looking to avoid the enshittification death cycle. Think of these as the rules that Steve Huffman maybe should have learned years ago, rather than whatever the fuck he’s doing now.

Tags: #business #enshittification #imported:pinboard #reddit #socialmedia

Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification | Techdirt

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:41:43 +0000

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Nick Szabo -- The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:02:10 +0000

A micropayments system assumes a solution to the mental accounting problem. If somebody could actually solve the this problem, rather than merely claiming to have solved it via some mysterious means ("intelligent agents", et. al.), the savings would be enormous even in existing business such as long distance and Internet service -- not to mention all the new possibilities possible by lower transaction costs.

Tags: #business #economics #imported:pinboard #internet #micropayments

I, Cringely The U.S. computer industry is dying and I’ll tell you exactly who is killing it and why - I, Cringely

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:27:39 +0000

American companies have been pretending to offer a superior product for a superior price while simultaneously cutting costs and cheating customers.

Tags: #business #economics #imported:pinboard #it

I, Cringely The U.S. computer industry is dying and I’ll tell you exactly who is killing it and why - I, Cringely

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:27:39 +0000

American companies have been pretending to offer a superior product for a superior price while simultaneously cutting costs and cheating customers.

Tags: #business #economics #it

What Twitter could have been

Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:39:40 +0000

As I understand, a hugely divisive internal debate occurred among Twitter employees around this time. One camp wanted to build the entire business around their realtime API. In this scenario, Twitter would have turned into something like a realtime cloud API company. The other camp looked at Google’s advertising model for inspiration, and decided that building their own version of AdWords would be the right way to go.

Tags: #advertising #api #business #design #imported:pinboard #twitter

Alex Payne — Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup

Thu, 30 May 2013 18:35:20 +0000

Maybe your goal is best met by building a stable yet undemanding career that leaves plenty of time for family, friends, community, and self improvement.

Tags: #advice #business #career #imported:pinboard #life #self #startups