Oxide and Friends
Notes from the Oxide and Friends podcast.
Engineering Incentives… and Misincentives [Oct 2022]
Size of org (bigger is better) and is a very common incentive for management. Leads to hiring people for no reason!
Cheapest thing you can give out is praise, and it matters so much.
If someome tells you praise about someone else, tell the other person that.
Kind words mean a lot to colleagues, open source contributors, etc.
In academia, which is not motivated by words, the currency is "respect from your peers" rather than title, cash compensation, etc.
Problem: If I praise someone else, do I cheapen myself? Is it safe to praise other people?
Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff [Oct 2022]
On RIM, BlackBerry, and BBM. Feature film based on book coming soon.
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Listened to these, didn't have any notes I wanted to take.
- On Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria [Mar 2023]
- Rack-scale Networking [Feb 2023]
