A look at Palantir's new four-month “Meritocracy Fellowship” for high school graduates, which offers a path to a full-time Palantir job without a college degree
I'm 100% choosing the palantir grad every single time. … Dileep Rao, Ph.D. : Alex Karp: Is College a Waste? — Alex Karp is encouraging students to dump college to work for him. This is a very inter...
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, its EU focus, being a nonprofit, Pavel Durov's arrest, X, the US election, and more
On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. Mastodon: @KathyReid@aus.social and @baldur@toot.cafe X: @a_greenbe...
An interview with Morris Chang on starting TSMC at the age of 55, the company not designing or selling its own chips, returning to Taiwan from the US, and more
“Older entrepreneurs are more common and more productive than younger founders.” … Jim Kyung-Soo Liew, Ph.D. : The economists also determined that 50-year-old founders were almost twice as likely to a...
Startups are using remote work to attract talent; report: 81% of companies with fewer than 5K employees offer remote work vs. 26% for those with 25K+ employees
Big tech companies like Google, Meta, and Amazon increasingly require employees spend a minimum amount of time in the office. … Bruce Daisley : For a long time start-ups asked themselves, “how can we ...
Memo: Microsoft plans to give US salaried staff unlimited Discretionary Time Off plus 10 corporate holidays, leaves of absence, mental health time off, and more
surprise—away from the worker. https://twitter.com/... Amy Diehl, Ph.D. / @amydiehl : Unlimited PTO is a trick. It sounds good, but it actually encourages presenteeism. Instead companies should give e...
An in-depth look at Silicon Valley's historical corporate culture, how straight white men benefitted, and efforts by women and minorities to push for change
A new generation of tech activists, organizers, and whistleblowers, most of whom are female, non-white, gender-diverse, or queer, may finally bring change. Tweets: @patrickmcgee_ , @adrianafreitas , @...
Marc Benioff says he expects 50% to 60% of Salesforce employees to work from home even after the pandemic ends, up from about 20% before the pandemic hit
Ari Levy / CNBC : Tweets: @amydiehl Tweets: Amy Diehl, Ph.D. / @amydiehl : “The past is gone”: Expecting 50-60% of employees to work remotely, @salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is downsizing office needs....
In a letter to Tim Cook, written and edited by about 80 people, Apple employees push back against a policy requiring them to return to the office in September
and Leaks to The Verge — Pushing Back Against Returning to the Office Dan Pontefract / Forbes : Is Apple In Trouble With Its Hybrid Work Model? Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Apple Employees Ask Tim Cook t...
Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first 20 members, out of a total of 40, who will oversee challenging content issues
“We want to make sure the content people … Steven Levy / Wired : Facebook Names the 20 People Who Can Overrule Mark Zuckerberg Chinmayi Arun / Just Security : The Facebook Oversight Board: An Experime...