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I designed the RAMBO Model as a simple framework to lead a great engineering organization. It was born out of a recognition that all engineering organizations are made up of the same 5 components: **R**oadmap, **A**rchitecture, **M**etrics, **B**eats, and **O**rganization.
What Is the RAMBO Model?
thecodecompany.com
But here is his best line:
> Taleb had been busy. He had already published two papers since the new year, on statistical concepts that I asked him to explain to me as if I was five years old, to which he said, “you’re not five years old.”
She’s not! That’s the goal, isn’t it? Say smart things about complicated topics in a way that your audience can understand and appreciate, *without treating them like children.*
Money Stuff: SVB’s Depositors Weren’t Very Loyal
Matt Levine
The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what made communicating with each other not fun in the first place. And now, there are corporate-owned A.I. tools that are offering to help us no longer communicate directly at all. And competition from various corporate entities will ensure they keep getting incrementally better, while also, of course, making things more enshitted. Which means A.I. platforms aren’t just enshitting the internet, they’re helping us enshit ourselves.
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Garbage Day
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