Joel on Growth @joelisjoel

Thoughts on using engineering principles to Make Life Better. A heap of opinion with a side of research. YMMV. Rants - https://t.co/hYdOHjXg3f Joined March 2008

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Joel on Growth @joelisjoel

5 days ago

#percentOfPercent antipattern Many metrics are percentages - Ctr, conversion rates, etc. If you set a goal to improve, make it an absolute delta percent, not a percent of a percentage. Why? - percent of percent is confusing to talk about - the absolute change requires…

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Joel on Growth @joelisjoel

a week ago

#wheelsWithinWheels antipattern In big tech, we have multiple "M" ladders - PM, PGM, EM. Each has a different scope and is incentivized to draw an ownership circle around a set of things and call it a "project". When these projects are out of alignment you can wind up with N…

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Joel on Growth @joelisjoel

2 weeks ago

A few weeks ago I created a second Twitter account to focus on tech and blocked all political tweets. It has become an awesome learning tool. This feed is still flooded with political news that I can’t do much about and which I hope will blow over. For now I’ll just experiment…

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Joel on Growth @joelisjoel

2 weeks ago

#soloFounder is a multi-level marketing scheme

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Joel on Growth @joelisjoel

2 weeks ago

#epstein meme lasted about a month

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Joel on Growth @joelisjoel

2 weeks ago

#Bookmarking a couple definitions here mostly from engineering management and business. I've been impressed with the power of words to anchor thought. As an LLM we might have some embedding vector that precisely represents a concept. As a human we have only words and #hashtags…

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Deedy @deedydas

2 weeks ago

Engineering graduates by country: China: 60k (PhD), 400k (MS), 1.5M (BS) India: 6k, 60k, 850k USA: 12k*, 50k*, 140k *50%+ of US MS/PhD are Chinese / Indian. Even if you assume the US ones are better, at +3SD, the best engineers in the world are overwhelmingly Chinese.

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Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

3 weeks ago

The greatest threat to American greatness in the next half-century is the educational achievement crisis. When students in China are four years ahead of U.S. peers, we have a major problem & our leaders have ignored it for too long.

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John Arnold @JohnArnoldFndtn

3 weeks ago

The current Senate includes 47 former lawyers but just 1 engineer according to the Congressional Research Service.

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Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman

3 weeks ago

Too many still think of China as it was decades ago instead of the accelerating peer it has already become. China has immense second-mover advantage and they are not afraid to take on the big, bold projects that once defined America...they built a 16 GW dam in 4 years, rapidly…