This is part of a series of posts about decisions we’ve made at Sentry over the last 15 years. I genuinely feel we’ve been through a lot with Sentry and our learnings provide value to others. More so,
I’ve been trying to invest more and more of my free time interacting with founders. I genuinely feel we’ve been through a lot with Sentry and our learnings provide value to others. More so, I believe
How I got rich on the other hand 2019-10-30 I don’t usually talk about money, but a friend asked me what it was like to get rich, and he wanted to know specifics, so I told him my story. I had a day j
When I started exploring code in freshman year of high school, I would’ve called it coding . Perhaps even programming . But it wasn’t computer science . What I now major in is computer science — a sim
No skill is more valuable and harder to come by than the ability to critically think through problems. Thinking through things better than others means you’ll have more free time and fewer problems. I
The internet can be bad. But mmm.page might just be good. The platform is hard to explain, but it describes itself as “Tumblr x Animal Crossing x Mii Plaza,” which is somehow more accurate than my ide
Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. I teach many young adults who aspire to be leaders in the private and public sectors. In their cl
No wonder YouTube launched Shorts. A new study of children’s online habits found that children ages 4 through 18 spent a global average of 112 minutes daily on TikTok’s short video app in 2023, an increase from 107 minutes the year prior. And although YouTube remains the world’s biggest streaming…
Two Amazon veterans set off on their own in 2015 to build a platform that would connect shippers with carriers who had extra, unfilled space on their tractor trailers—making supply chains more efficie
Posted: Jan 25, 2024 / 09:14 AM EST Updated: Jan 25, 2024 / 01:25 PM EST SHARE TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A St. Petersburg bar has been named a semifinalist in the James Beard Foundation’s Restaurant and Ch
Next week, executives from some of the biggest social media firms will be called before the US Congress to answer questions about their “failure to protect” children who use their platforms. ‘Fundamen
We’ve all heard of the trophy wife or husband — a partner that’s valued heavily as a status symbol, for superficial qualities over substance. 1 Similarly, I’ve started to think about the idea of the t
Today's links The long sleep of capitalism's watchdogs : "Self-regulation is to regulation as self-importance is to importance." Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. This day in history : 2004, 2
Image: Mozilla Apple’s new rules in the European Union mean browsers like Firefox can finally use their own engines on iOS. Although this may seem like a welcome change, Mozilla spokesperson Damiano D
Semafor Business’ signature interview series, On The Record , brings you conversations with the people running, shaping, and changing our economy. Read Liz Hoffman’s earlier conversations with Mattel
A new open source AI code generation tool, AlphaCodium , was inspired by Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode (and AlphaCode 2 , which launched last month powered by Gemini) but has now surpassed it, setting X
Content Summary OpenAI is currently testing a new beta feature for ChatGPT: multi-GPT conversations. Users will be able to talk to multiple GPTs in the same chat window. This simple feature is an impo
The third edition of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" is almost out! You can preorder it on the No Starch Press website (use code PREORDER for 25% off), where buying the print book will get you
The wait is over: we finally have data to back up the benefits of developer experience (DevEx). We’ve always known that providing a good DevEx is a smart business move, as it enables developers to sol
Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times For a relatively green, relatively unheralded (but very ambitious) member of Congress, Representative Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, has managed to posi
T he death of a public figure of Albert Einstein’s stature is the sort of event that, literally and figuratively, stops the presses. No scientist has been more famous, no antiwar activist ever argued
Somewhere between a 48-hour Las Vegas bender and a nine-month world cruise lies an optimal number of vacation days. In a 2012 study making the rounds again , researchers concluded that a traveler’s he
This paper is from Pat Helland, the apostate philosopher of database systems, overall a superb person, and a good friend of mine. The paper appeared this week at CIDR'24. (Check out the program for ot
Disclaimer: this post is solely based on my lived experience ofworking at Google for 18 years. I don't actually know the reasoningof the company's highest leaders, so all I can do is share my personal
Context: I sent this email to my wife and friends as I was wrappingup my first week of "noogler" orientation at Google's headquartersin 2005. It's a bit of a glimpse into Silicon Valley at the start o
Today's links Sympathy for the spammer : The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. This day in history : 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
I’m fascinated by artists and entrepreneurs whose visions of what can be had a significant impact on our culture. One of these interesting individuals is Steve Jobs. While I don’t agree with some of t
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