Hasnain says:

“The process is known internally as a "flattening," the people said. Higher-level managers are sharing the directive with their subordinates in the coming weeks, separate from the company’s regular performance reviews that are currently underway, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing a matter that wasn’t public. Individual contributors aren’t in charge of others, and instead focus on tasks like coding, designing and research.”

Hasnain says:

I’ll admit that this data surprised me a lot - I’ve heard a lot of mumbling about going independent / working for yourself but didn’t realize the sentiment was this common!

“Not quite. While a whopping 78% of Gen Z say that they feel less secure committing to one employer, most Millennials and Gen X-ers do too—as do almost half of Baby Boomers, the generation known for bemoaning the lack of loyalty amongst young workers today. It seems that most everyone is realizing that employers are no longer earning workers’ loyalty: across generations, a majority of knowledge workers say they’ve lost trust in the stability and security of full-time employment. “

Hasnain says:

“When high-ranking executives make a serious blunder, they almost always get the benefit of the doubt. The modern executive lacks any actual responsibility or oversight, only occasionally reporting to typically pliant boards. They're largely insulated from the consequences of their actions, even if they're performing poorly. If any other kind of worker made a series of decisions that led to a double-digit drop in profitability, they'd be threatened with termination or terminated. Instead, tech CEOs have passed the pain off to people who in many cases were performing well in their roles. And while many employees in tech and elsewhere have received generous severance packages, they pale in comparison to the payouts that failed executives have gotten on their way out the door. Take, for example, the car-rental company Hertz, which let go of 10,000 people in 2020 as it stumbled into bankruptcy, all while paying its executives $16 million in bonuses.”

Hasnain says:

Read the whole thing wondering how it would be a pretty obvious next step for Garmin to post about this as a PR/marketing thing. Then I got to the end and realized this was the garmin site. Oops.

Regardless, the GPS definitely did play a part in this person surviving. What a story.

“The story was simple, really, and one that could happen to almost any boater on any given day. Sascha had gone to the side to relieve himself and simply fell overboard. He’d reached for the railing to grab it on the way down, but he missed. And that was it — his boat sped away without him, nearly 40 miles away from shore. At one point, he said, he’d seen another boat, but they’d missed him. He’d been in the water for two-and-a-half hours.

Had his boat not gone rogue, somehow completing its pattern of hard turns and loops with no one at the helm — had it not headed straight for the Shermans, or had the Shermans not been the skilled mariners that they are — had Sascha not tracked his waypoints on his Garmin marine GPS, or had the Garmin technology been less intuitive for an unfamiliar boater in a stressful situation — this story could’ve ended so much differently.”

Hasnain says:

“According to Jérôme Kagan, who authored “Alma de Bretteville Spreckels: The Art of Extravagance,” de Bretteville and the younger Spreckels crossed paths after one of Big Alma’s relatives, who worked at the Spreckels Sugar Company, introduced the pair. Other accounts say that Spreckels admired the angel featured on the Dewey Monument so much that he insisted on meeting the woman who inspired it. Whatever the case, de Bretteville, who was desperate to climb the social ladder, didn’t reject Spreckels’ romantic advances. The couple dated for five years before they married in 1908 and had three children together. She nicknamed Spreckels her “sugar daddy.””

Hasnain says:

“As the sun begins its descent behind the waves, look to the sharp ridges of the Santa Lucia Range, the mountains that rise up from the shores of Monterey and down the Central California coast. If you are lucky, you might see figures silhouetted against them. Some say the watchers are 10 feet tall, made taller or wider by hats or capes. They may turn to look at you. But they always move away quickly and disappear.”

Hasnain says:

This is horrifying. A lot of the stuff I learn about the EA/rationalist communities continues to worry me/give me weird vibes.

"One recalled being “groomed” by a powerful man nearly twice her age who argued that “pedophilic relationships” were both perfectly natural and highly educational. Another told TIME a much older EA recruited her to join his polyamorous relationship while she was still in college. A third described an unsettling experience with an influential figure in EA whose role included picking out promising students and funneling them towards highly coveted jobs. After that leader arranged for her to be flown to the U.K. for a job interview, she recalls being surprised to discover that she was expected to stay in his home, not a hotel. When she arrived, she says, “he told me he needed to masturbate before seeing me.”"

Hasnain says:

“She traded in her apartment in Boston for her childhood bedroom in Bowdoin, Maine, moving in with parents to briefly work at a private school. Eventually, the 28-year-old found a job working on exhibits at a children’s museum a couple of hours away.

That short-term plan has become a permanent one. McGrath makes less than she did in restaurants but has far better benefits, including paid time off, health insurance and a predictable schedule. For now, at least, she’s done with restaurants.

“It feels like a healthy change,” she said.”

Hasnain says:

"But companies continue strategic title-fudging because, well, it pays. In 2019, a year when the Department of Labor won $226 million in back wages for cheated workers, companies saved roughly 18 times that amount by calling frontline workers doing ordinary jobs "managers," the paper found.

"The incredibly high [return on investment] on this activity of avoiding overtime wages might explain why we see firms across every industry — from Staples to JPMorgan, to Facebook, to Walmart, to Verizon, to Avis, to Lowes — engaging in this activity even up through the present day," the paper said."

Hasnain says:

The drama the other day when the internet broke was fun.

"Unsurprisingly, people started to complain. The initial response from GitHub employee (and major Git contributor) brian m. carlson was less than fully understanding:

I'm saying that policy has never been correct and we've never guaranteed stable checksums for archives, just like Git has never guaranteed that. I apologize that things are broken here and that there hasn't been clearer communication in the past on this, but our policy hasn't changed in over 4 years.

This answer, it might be said, was not received well. Wyatt Anderson, for example, said:

The collective amount of human effort it will take to break glass, recover broken build systems that are impacted by this change, and republish artifacts across entire software ecosystems could probably cure cancer. Please consider reverting this change as soon as possible."