WSJ: “Many people spend two full days a week on email and in meetings alone, new data shows…“People feel quite overwhelmed, a sense of feeling like they have two jobs, the job they were hired to do, but then they have this other job of communicating, coordinating and collaborating,” said Jared Spataro, who leads Microsoft’s modern-work team and who spearheaded the research. Granted, communicating and going to meetings are a big part of the job for many workers, especially managers. Yet, many workers and bosses say all of the time spent talking and collaborating isn’t necessarily improving workplace communications.”
Robert Rubin: “At the heart of my own approach is “probabilistic thinking,” the idea that nothing is 100 percent certain and that everything is therefore a matter of probabilities. Whether my choices would affect a few people or millions of people, my preferred tool for applying probabilistic thinking has always been the same: a simple yellow legal pad. On my yellow pad (or more recently, my iPad), I’ll list possible outcomes in one column, and then my best estimates of the probabilities associated with those outcomes in another. My goal has never been to quantify every aspect of every decision; that would be impossible. Instead, my yellow pad has become both metaphor and means, a way of applying a questioning mind-set and incorporating probabilistic thinking into the real world. There are, of course, decisions throughout my life that looking back I should have made differently. But the yellow pad has served me well, allowing me to think in disciplined ways about risks, probabilities, costs and benefits, and substantially increasing my odds of making the best possible choice.”
Harold Demsetz in 1982:”Competition in a private property system is expected to guide resources to those uses that maximize the value of production secured from them. This value is measured by what consumers are willing to pay, making due allowance for the implicit value of leisure and other goods consumed outside the formal market arena. The profit criterion stops uses of resources that would result in more cost than benefit as these are measured by the money votes of consumers.” [via CafeHayek]
Matt Rickard: “There’s WebGPU shipping in Chrome, providing a more general interface to the underlying GPU APIs. In addition, WebGPU lets developers use new native accelerations like Apple Metal, Microsoft Direct3D 12, and Vulkan. This means that GPU acceleration in the browser won’t just be used for drawing on a canvas. Matrix multiplications in Tensorflow.js are already supported with a WebGPU backend. There are a few LLMs that have added support for it as well. WebGPU makes browsers start to resemble a more traditional operating system.”
