I recently wrote the Foreword for Unshackled, a new book co-authored by Soundarya Basubramani, a writer from India, and Sameer Khedekar, a veteran immigration lawyer. Unshackled breaks down how legal immigration works in America in a way that is friendly, accessible, and human. It’s filled with raw stories of high-skilled immigrants who walked unconventional paths […]
Sometimes I think about all of the societal issues I cared about 10 years ago: privacy, government overreach, and platform accountability. More and more as I look at the technological landscape it feels like none of that care seems to have mattered. When I worked on the Societal Health team at Twitter I had a […]
#215: Pull on That Thread July 16th, 2023 · 89 minutes Threads Vibe Check, Danny Ric returns, celebrating anniversaries, and avoiding reunions. This episode of Analog(ue) is sponsored by: Human Creator Alliance: Empowering creators to thrive in the age of AI. Get 20% off your annual subscription. ExpressVPN: High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service. Get […]
Introduction Personalization is vital to connect our unique marketplace to the right buyer at the right time. Etsy has recently introduced a novel, general approach to personalizing ML models based on encoding and learning from short-term (one-hour) sequences of user actions through a reusable three-component deep learning module, the adSformer Diversifiable Personalization Module (ADPM). We […]
Photo by Vladislav Babienko on Unsplash After a good ~2.5 years, I’m going back from being an engineering manager to being an engineer, and will continue in one of my teams as an engineer. This post is about why I reached this decision, and it has a few observations that could be interesting for anyone […]
Humans have always created. But historian Samuel W. Franklin argues that “creativity” didn’t become a social value until the Cold War. Today, we’re at another inflection point for humanity, technology, and national identity. The meaning of originality is blurring; there are legal disputes about what constitutes original art; and AI can write a song like […]
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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android In this episode I Kathleen Dollard, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. Kathleen has been writing software in .NET and other Microsoft technologies for over 20 years. We talked about how systems have evolved and how the process of developing software has improved. Kathleen also talked about different programming […]
In agile development, it’s important to eliminate work in progress (WIP) as much as possible, since it can reduce productivity, scatter focus, and increase wait time for new functionality. But what if the same were true for WIP challenges we face in life? That was the revelation of today’s guest, Brian Lam, whose recent new […]