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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I’m in tech and It’s literally not falling.

    People are still hiring, just the bar is no longer absurdly low.

    During the pandemic, everyone was hiring like crazy, and people coming out of boot camps were instantly hired even when they didn’t understand algorithms, didn’t understand system design, and didn’t understand engineering principles.

    Now, you actually need to have a brain to be hired.

    Tech is also not a bubble, because tech is in every single industry now. You might get froth in certain segments of tech (crypto, AI, whatever is the current “hot thing”), the market fundamentals are absurdly good. Operating margins of mature software companies are consistently in the mid 20s to 30s.






  • I’m not convinced by any mass society that is altruistic, but it’s very simple to see that the natural state of human small groups is quite communal.

    What mother has a ledger for the child’s share of food?

    We have an entire feeling brain that’s dedicated to relationship building that’s very much the core of most small group relationships.

    I’m also very convinced that this model does not work past Dunbar’s Number (~100-150 individuals), and most attempts at building communal society outside of that without some cohersion and some better way of organizing incentives is not possible.