Summarizing, drafting things, understanding complex things that are filled with jargon, etc.

IMHO, the biggest problem with outsourcing is the distance and time gap. There isn’t enough overlap to help people get unblocked in the middle of the day. So they either make stupid assumptions and plow ahead, or freeze up and slow down.

Still holds up https://youtu.be/2B-ekl_cEWk

Honestly, the AI information might be better than most of the dog shit insights people post on that platform.

K.

All I can say is that for many of us in people management here,

a) we could’ve paid our mortgage just as comparably on an IC track, and we do this job because we enjoy working with people and roadmap strategy, and

b) I don’t care whether you’re building a fintech bro trading app, public housing in the USSR, or are conducting an orchestra. You get enough people in one place trying to achieve a shared goal, and you need people to manage the people. Otherwise the work becomes messy and miserable.

I say this as someone who has worked for small companies, large companies, NGOs, and non-hierarchical collectives.

When you start working on something that is complex, and has a lot of moving parts, you need conductors. If you’ve got a better real-world example of an organizational model that works, I’m all ears.

Even in Leninist Russia, workplace structures had people managers in place to facilitate planning and to ensure that a team was aligned and set up to successfully accomplish a goal.

I’ve only ever seen one org structure that didn’t need some sort of people facilitation layer. And that was a tiny commune that a buddy of mine lived on. And everyone knew each other for years before they established said commune.

For those who like to comment without reading the post :/

The figures from TD Cowen say that a 256GB iPhone 16 Pro Max costs Apple about $485 to manufacture, including the components, box, and assembly process. By comparison, the iPhone 15 Pro Max had a so-called Bill of Materials (BOM) of $453, about $32 cheaper than the newer model.

A lot of us here work in software. Often times there are two tracks, IC and people management. Often times both of those tracks pay similarly.

The good people managers and directors are usually folk that were identified as being good at mentoring people and good at providing air cover so people could do good work.

I’m sorry you’ve never worked at a place with good middle management. It does exist in many places, and many people selected it because they like working with the people and the strategy more than the product directly. Often times these people could’ve been paid comparably by working as a staff or principal track engineer or experience designer.

Twitter is mostly verified dicks these days. That might be the better platform.

They stopped selling products in Russia during March 2022.

That said, there is still a Russian language App Store, and they were letting people in the country get access to platforms and software that would allow messages to be obscured from the state.

Apple stopped operating in Russia over 2 years ago. That said, there is still a Russian language App Store, and they are not bricking anyone who bought a device before the embargo or anyone who brought an Apple device into Russia from another country.

I don’t quite know the nitty gritty details of what can and cannot be access via the Russian language AppStore within Russia, but it looks like Apple left some stuff accessible so dissidents could have access to secure messaging and computing platforms.

Yes. This was taken on iOS.

Oh the irony. The site reporting LG’s ads wants people to remove ad blockers.

Midwest.social uses Al oomen umm

Me and my team take our site down the old fashioned way. Code copied from some rando on the internet.

Yeah, they put product compatibility for everything on the site. But we also enjoy shit posting about this over priced microfiber cloth every year.

My guess is that the motivation was user feedback and keeping things simple so they’re easier to repair.

Sounds like a joke.

You might be on to something

When I upgraded it wasn’t so much about the minimal updates in this year’s phone. It was the sum of 5+ years of updates that was compelling.

Dynamic Island, a big camera spec jump, much faster Face ID, smoother scrolling, USB C, better Siri, MagSafe, etc.

If you want to give the big phone a try, you have 14 days to decide if you like it or not.