Hasnain says:

And this is in 2021. The school was even named after MLK.

“Despite its reputation as a bastion of liberal politics, Marin is the most segregated county in the Bay Area, with most communities fighting affordable housing or even market-rate apartments. Many cities are 90% white, with pockets of people of color in Novato, San Rafael and Marin City. Racial covenants in decades past prevented African Americans from buying homes in certain cities. The effects linger today.”

Hasnain says:

“So as a longtime childless woman who is now wading through insurance forms and hospital preregistration and breast-pump reimbursements, I’ll offer a personal framework for “solving” the “problem”: My family values are fine. The country’s are not. For many years I did not have children because, in policies and practices, the United States is hell for mothers.”

Hasnain says:

“Defenders of private high schools’ overrepresentation at many highly ranked universities might claim the students have reaped the benefit of a more rigorous education in order to earn their spot. When you control for wealth, however, private school’s academic and social-emotional benefits are basically wiped out. Historically, students from the nation’s elite boarding schools “perform[ed] worse in the classroom [at Harvard] than other students over the entire 1924-1990 period” but went on to make more money than their peers by taking advantage of the connections they made in groups like final clubs, which largely exclude anyone who is not wealthy or white.”

Hasnain says:

Pleasantly surprised this is happening

Hasnain says:

Pleasantly surprised at this - they tapped bipartisan hate of big tech companies to get her confirmed here; and then snuck in a change to make her chair of the FTC, not just a commissioner (which, per reports, the Republican members who voted for the appointment would not have approved of).

This is also great for representation, and getting here at 32 is seriously impressive.

"“The Biden administration’s designation of Lina Khan as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission is tremendous news,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who championed breaking up Big Tech in her 2020 presidential campaign, said in a statement Tuesday. “Lina brings deep knowledge and expertise to this role and will be a fearless champion for consumers.”"

Hasnain says:

I have an incredible amount to learn with respect to product management skills and I’m sure this has its flaws; but this perspective did seem compelling given my experience.

“How many MBA programs are teaching this sort of collaboration, versus still teaching the CPG model where the product manager builds a business case, based on predictions of revenue, and expected expenses for design and engineering, and then defines requirements, and finally looks for someone to implement their brilliant ideas?

My suspicion is that most of the MBA faculty are blissfully unaware of their implicit biases on all this, but I think the evidence that it’s happening, and has been happening for decades, is widespread and compelling.”

Hasnain says:

I really liked Khan’s referenced piece here and now that the senate just confirmed her appointment (72-25, even Hawley and 21 other republicans were for jt, even if for “wrong” reasons) this will be fun to watch how it plays out.

“Khan, 32, currently associate professor of law at Columbia University, rose to prominence in 2017 after her Yale Law Journal article "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" argued that Amazon's retail business should be separated from its selling platform.

Khan is a hero for critics of tech who want to see broader principles replace the "consumer welfare" standard of antitrust, under which harm from a company's monopolistic behavior is judged largely by whether consumer prices rise.”

Hasnain says:

Amazing is not a word I’d use to describe this but then again I’m not an HR exec.

“"I heard amazing stories about people actually sleeping in data centers," Kristen Roby Dimlow, corporate vice president for total rewards, performance and human resources business insights, said during a conversation with Morgan Stanley analysts Josh Baer and Mark Carlucci. "In certain countries there was huge lockdown, and so we would have our own employees choose to sleep in the data center because they were worried they'd get stuck at a roadblock, trying to go home."

Generally data centers are not places where people sleep. Aisles can be hot from air coming off of servers, and cold because of air conditioning to prevent machines from overheating. A Microsoft spokesperson would not say where employees slept in data centers or how many did it.”

Hasnain says:

I like Casey Newton’s take on this: “Google is gradually moving from introducing new communication apps every four months to simply renaming existing ones twice a year. But the overall goal remains: to ensure that under no circumstances do you ever know which Google product you are using”

Also what is going on in this screenshot

Hasnain says:

This was a really solid read and I felt myself nodding along to most things here.

“You’ll see it is a lot of work, and if you think that you still have time to do individual contributor work once you’ve done all of this, then you’re probably working too much. If you’re not doing all of this (and more) you’re probably not meeting my very high standards for management :-)”