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2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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Most out of office messages are a generic courtesy email leading to a dead end. Successful people see out of office emails as an opportunity to not just be courteous, but to add value and continue to make an impact, even when they are not around. Remember, you are your best advocate. Take advantage of an easy, efficient opportunity to keep people updated on what you are doing and show your impact.
Google surveys employees on their leaders using this set of discerning questions.
Google has long been known as a hotbed for attracting, growing, identifying, and even measuring the best leaders (and teams).
This last bit, identifying and measuring the best leaders, is especially tricky, but smart people at Google have found a spot-on way to separate the wheat from the chaff (as the saying goes).
Employees are regularly surveyed about their managers with 13 specific questions. Interestingly, the polar questions fall into three general categories: nurturing growth in others, operating excellence, and emotional intelligence, all intended to discern the strength of a manager.
Many of the best ideas we’ve funded were ones that surprised us, not ones we were waiting for. There are, however, some startups that we’re very interested in seeing founders apply with. Below is an updated Request for Startups (RFS), which outlines some of those ideas in general terms.
At Zapier, we've been working remotely since the beginning. This book shares everything we've learned about running a remote team.
We've developed a simple meta-learning algorithm called Reptile which works by repeatedly sampling a task, performing stochastic gradient descent on it, and updating the initial parameters towards the final parameters learned on that task. This method performs as well as MAML, a broadly applicable meta-learning algorithm, while being simpler to
Nice overview of employee equity and how it evolves during the company journey.
Create “office hours,” and stick to them. No commute. No drive-by meetings. No dress code. Remote working can seem like a dream — until personal obligations get in the way. These distractions are easy to ignore in an office, but at home it can be difficult to draw the line between personal and professional time.
Forget boring traits like leadership and work ethic. Entrepreneurs are really just overly ambitious weirdos.
... every single person I know who runs a highly successful business constantly keeps their ego in check. They surround themselves with advisors and give their employees a voice in the company, too.Think about it: no one wants to work for the person whose favorite pastime is telling everyone else how wrong their ideas are. Real entrepreneurs know their success is the result of a single vision, but many minds.
“Don’t be afraid to change the model.” via Instagram http://ift.tt/2zPw00y
Huge value is being created online in China by companies such as Alibaba, Tencent and a host of other dot-coms. A recent study by Credit Suisse finds growing opportunities in three core areas: data technology, gaming and higher lifestyle consumption.
Neil Hosie, Credit Suisse’s Head of Equities for Asia Pacific, said that China is indeed at the start of a new era, with the nation transforming from a technology adaptor into a global innovator.
The best investment a startup can make early on, may be the selection of its advisory board.
“Money does play a large part in determining the success of early stage companies, it is not the only success factor and having the right network of experienced advisors can really propel a business forward”
(originally published by O’Reilly here, this year in collaboration with my amazing partner James Cham! If you’re interested in enterprise…
A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — and might also explain how human brains learn.
