Performative Bafflement
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Lemon markets: Hiring
Why is hiring so hard?
Why are employers so obsessed with internal referrals?
Why is applying for a job on any career page or job board such a Sisyphean ordeal?
These are all interesting questions, and my approach to answering them was...
Links post #7
Half free before the paywall, and a coupon
- An explicit call for weirdos thinking of entirely different non-AI technologies, ways of working, and paradigms from a VC willing to invest, grant, or introduce, in an article that also looks a...
There’s no such thing as “rich enough”
Previously, we shamelessly objectified women by doing a mathematical analysis proving that the BMI caste chart is real, and that waist circumference and WHR dominates female attractiveness uber alles. In other words, we proved the old adage...
Book review posts index
Now that I’ve been at this ~2 years, I have enough posts that it would be hard to navigate or pick out the most interesting / salient ones, especially with Substack’s awful queueing and UI.
And what’s the answer to “discovery” in a regime...
Against “we need to get voters to Pause or Stop AI” AND against “Plan A”
This post is inspired by many posts, among them Duncan Sabien’s recent post here, and Zac Hill’s post here, and of course the various Plan A posts from and , among others.
Literally every argument of the flavor “we need to let democracy...
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