I recently left Stripe after 4.5 formative and magical years. Some reflections on what made working at Stripe feel different than working other places:
1/Turpentine
2/Writing
3/Meticulousness
4/Principled decision-making
5/Ambition
6/Talking up
7/The API metaphor
No matter what language they speak, people around the world exchange information at an average rate of 39 bits per second in conversation. That may be the optimal language-processing speed of the brain. cnrs.fr/en/similar-inf…
companies throwing the term "sustainable" around like I used to put a "W3C Validated HTML" badge at the bottom of my websites; no-one knows the practical implications of such a thing, but it seems to comfort people.
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