I found it interesting how almost every point here (except for the last about delegating) is just as applicable to technical leads that choose not to go down the management track.

Was that the one about Instagram?

He had one good idea, and even that one was arguably poorly executed in the long run. Every other thing that company has was bought.

they thought his gift was in revealing Beauty but the beauty was always a byproduct of the Truth, so…

Why is this tiny gesture so funny

Saying this as a data scientist that uses LLMs daily, but still hand-types every letter of every example from new books/courses I work through just to develop the muscle memory.

If you still have an in-person test for midterms and finals, you could always weight them heavily and discount the assignments.

You can LLM you way through an assignment easily, but if you don’t learn the material, you pay for it later.

As a member of your friends to the north, apologies about Lauren. Last I heard about her she was taking money from Russia to influence politics in the US: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Te...

Just started your series and listened to this episode. Can’t praise it enough: it was funny, infuriating and captivating at all once. Really great work.

And how many of those years was it considered the cultural centre of Canada, compared to Montreal?

I get the sense that Toronto is just “young” and only started to come into its own culturally over the last few decades. The people I’ve met that lived there in the 70s/80s said that it’s unrecognizable today.

I’d be surprised if we didn’t see something big come out of it in the next 20 years.