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skills — Skills for Designers and Engineers.
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skills — Agent skills for Claude Code and other AI agents
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kcd-skills
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AI Skills with Matt Pocock
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AI Skills with Matt Pocock
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skills
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aiupdate — Update your AI Agent Tools & Skills in one command `npx aiupdate`
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evals-skills — Skills for AI Evals to compliment the course: AI Evals For Engineers & PMs
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AI agents are now capable enough that they should be trusted to improve the skills and systems that guide them.
Agents are so powerful that we should let them improve our skills and systems constantly.
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You are crazy about skills because you haven't discovered what's better yet.
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Agent skills are now a valuable form of software.
Skills are now a valuable form of software, like Emil's world-class design eng work. Projects like 𝚙𝚐𝚋𝚘𝚝, 𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚙, 𝚞𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 create amazing AI engineering loops.
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AI output quality is mixed at best without strong underlying critical thinking skills.
Without a well-developed set of critical thinking skills, AI outputs will yield variegated results at best
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ietf-skill — Norms and tooling for participating in IETF/IRTF work, packaged as portable Agent Skills
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Kody: Turn your skills into code you can run from any agent on any device... Or even a custom app.
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kun — Think and build like a principal engineer. Leverage Kun's experience, knowledge, tools, workflows, and skills to help you get shit done.
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Trying out Agent Pilot WordPress plugin prototype to self-host host AI skills. Let's you manage and publish agent skills without having to figure out Git or GitHub.
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New agent-browser skill: agent-browser skills get protected-vercel-deployments Now agents can test Vercel deployments behind Deployment Protection, including preview deployments
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guidelines-skills — Guidelines and skills for laravel-boost.
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copilot-cli-power-user-kit — Shareable skills, agents, hooks, and prompting patterns for GitHub Copilot CLI power users
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Unreal
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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Quake
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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StarCraft
I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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UX Roundup: Employers Value Experience Over Skills | Exponential Growth in AI Use | AI Dependence | Undo | Disappointing Suno | AI’s Economic Scenarios | Reflective Design | Mini Maps | GPT Image 2.5
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Software is product management, and those are the skills the agentic era rewards — skills that are not evenly distributed among programmers.
…What do we start with first? What does version one include? All of those skills are not easily or equally distributed across all…
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Economy and AI links,09/12/2026
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pi-skills — Skills for pi coding agent (compatible with Claude Code and Codex CLI)
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eve — Vercel
But how many that give you a Git repo where you actually *own* the entire intelligence stack? Runtime, model choice, skills, tools, connectivity, sandbox…
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My co-founder Colin is not an engineer but he had Pi build a screen recording software to record himself showing off his exquisite slop skills! Unironically I find it kinda cool that you can do that.
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Claude Code — Anthropic
I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.
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Core product skills are the most durable in an AI world, but many people holding the PM title spent five years building the wrong ones.
absolutely agree that product skills are probably the most durable. My build would just be there's a lot of people who have the title PM who haven't spent a lot of time building those skills in the last 5 years, but…
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Most domains are fundamentally shallow: a very smart generalist with a limited set of core skills can get going in them quickly.
I think most domains are fundamentally pretty shallow where like a very smart generalist who's good at like a a limited subset of core skills can like get going pretty quickly.
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A big problem with the AI forecasting discourse is that people ask “when will AI replace X job?” When in reality, AI will slowly replace a bunch of the sub-skills needed to do the job, but rarely all of them.
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…stay on track with the rules of your design system. Meta: verifiers + skills are the new…
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skills-secure-repository-supply-chain
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Common problem… Helps to have templates and skills you can share that either clean it up for you, or politely calls out gaps in what they were going to do.
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skills — Xe's agent skills
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Every six months you should delete your whole AI configuration — instructions, skills and hooks — and find out how much of it the model never needed.
for people that aren't building agentic products, but you're using Claude code, every 6 months delete your Claude MD. Delete your skills. Delete your hooks.
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In Kody, you can have skills, but even better is documented utilities. It's basically a skill + a tool. Resulting in a much more reliable and repeatable outcome. Here's the code that lives in Kody and it's what agents…
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Pretty incredible how the skills repo by @mattpocockuk is only 6 months old, and has more stars than the React one. We had to sit down and talk. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 05:48 How Matt got into tech 10:14 How Matt got…
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…A Clinical Summit for Mind-Body Healing! 🧘♀️Deepen your clinical skills with practical, evidence-based tools you can use with your clients right away. 📅 September 9–10 (Live…
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…a stronger Canada, and as a nation we're happy to help everyone build their skills even if they're too young to take up…
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With Agent Pilot you can create and manage agent skills in WordPress (just like blog posts) and publish them as standard Agent Plugins. Now with OAuth Pilot you get one-click authentication for all the MCP clients…
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From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani
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…to do). But what of I change it up and talk about how it's better than…
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Facilitation Skills - All Things Product Podcast with Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
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…vehicle, or I want to learn more. Then it's really just about acquiring skills, maybe they're productive skills, or maybe they're just for fun. And then, at some point, you have to sit in a room and be able to live…
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by total views, matt’s now the top @aidotengineer speaker in our brief history, and arguably one of the best skills experts in the world — his /grill-me has reached all echelons up to @satyanadella (with some…
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It's a historical aberration that people whose only skill a particular kind of symbolic intelligence and complete absence of social or physical skills are the ones most desired by high paying jobs.
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Empathy, body language and tone of voice are learnable skills, and expecting the world to adapt to how you are wired is not going to work.
…read body language, learning how to read tone of voice, this is not natural skills, but they're skills. They're…
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skills
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There is now a standard for bundling agent skills and MCP configurations as portable plugins (zip files) https://t.co/eAxXQQXWZg This is amazing for self-hosting your AI tools and not needing to publish to individual…
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You improve a model you cannot retrain by writing better guidelines and skills for it, not by adjusting its parameters.
…but from you know creating better guidelines for the model you know writing skills for the model to know how to use different tools that would be incredibly useful for solving this particular class of…
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Evals Skills for Coding Agents
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Homeschooling outcomes are bimodal: families who care about academics beat conventional school outright, and families who reject standards leave their children knowing very little.
…parents have basically abandoned that and said, "I care all about the life skills." For parents who really care about academics, those kids crush…
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Coding agents should read the shared AGENTS.md convention; insisting on a tool-specific CLAUDE.md creates split-brain problems across a team.
I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team…
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Will AI Make Me Worse?
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Weathering a firehose of criticism is now part of a creator's skillset, and it is quietly removing creators whose work the world will therefore never see.
Now part of the skillset is being able to weather like a fire hose of criticism like the world has never seen.
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A correction never travels as far as the scare it corrects: the press said a fifth of the project's skills were malicious, and the measured figure was 0.3 percent.
We did the the numbers and the numbers are more like 0.3%. We scanned all 67,000. We shipped the we shipped the paper. But you know a correction never travels as far as a scare.
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Almost all of education is organised around knowledge and skills, which are exactly the part that does not last.
Almost all of education centers around knowledge and skills rather than vibes.
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How much a pianist practises, not how old they are, predicts how well they play, which makes skill decline with age mostly a training problem.
And what they [snorts] found was that the most important predictor of how well somebody performed at those piano specific skills was not their age, it was how much they practice.
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…VERY quickly. Now I make most models in Onshape, since I've built up the skills to be pretty fast with it, too. I sometimes print stuff I find on Makerworld, but usually the problems I'm trying to solve are too…
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Research taste, the harder-to-learn conceptual skills behind good research strategy, takes a long time to develop but very little time to apply once acquired
My model is that research requires a mix of skills. The day-to-day coding and execution is crucial. But there's also a set of harder-to-learn conceptual skills, collectively called research taste. These skills take a…
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Introducing Vercel Labs Tools for devs in the AI era agent-browser, skills, json-render, deepsec, fx, just-bash, portless, vgpu and more We experiment in public: ship early, learn from feedback, and keep working on what…
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Engineers were promised that understanding the computer would be enough, and the human skills they were told they could skip turn out to be the hard part.
So I was promised just understand the computer and then just kidding understand people from a position where I was already 10 years behind.
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The job of senior people now is to demonstrate not how to use these tools effectively, but how to figure out how to use them, which is a different set of skills.
So, as seniors, I figure it behooves us to demonstrate not just how to use these tools effectively, but how to figure out how to use these tools effectively, cuz that's a whole different set of skills.
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Dissecting history
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A skill being automated is not a reason to stop learning it: practising what machines already do is often the stepping stone to what only people can do.
Very often, learning skills that are automated in practice is a necessary stepping stone to cultivating uniquely human skills.
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Toilet Paper as a Weapon
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The skills America picked up while becoming an industrial power are what set it up for a century of technological leadership.
The skills US workers learned in the process of becoming an industrial giant helped set the US up for technological leadership over the rest of the century.
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Promising twice the work in half the time without the hard-won technical skills is simply a lie.
And there were people who were willing to say, "Nah, no, no, don't worry about that. This is easy. You can do this. Anybody can do this. Twice the work in half the time." From my perspective, that's just a lie.
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Struggling with a hard problem before being shown the answer is not always the best way to learn; a hint or a worked example can beat floundering.
…and the associated mental effort it requires as a way to learn difficult…
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“Work on what you know” is the worst advice there is: knowledge can be acquired, but what you love cannot be changed.
…Anybody with passion and dedication can learn new knowledge and learn new skills. But what you can't change easily is what you…
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Expertise is an enormous accumulated library of small facts and skills, which is why no method can shortcut the sheer volume of learning it takes.
The boring truth is that expertise in most subjects is largely a matter of having an enormous library of knowledge and skill.
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When AI Has Better Taste Than You
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Sell the Truth
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Self-play as it was done in the past is too narrow: it only ever develops a small set of skills like negotiation and strategising.
Now the the thing is that selfplay at least the way it was done in the past when you have agents which are somehow compete with each other it's only good for developing a certain set of skills it is too narrow.
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…had an interesting career doing all sorts of interesting stuff using the skills he developed by spending a decade writing/using theorem provers. At one point, he said, "if you use X like a theorem prover, it works…
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If intelligence is the process of acquiring skills, no single task demonstrates intelligence unless it is a meta-task of skill-acquisition across many tasks.
If intelligence lies in the process of acquiring skills, then there is no task X such that skill at X demonstrates intelligence, unless X is actually a meta-task involving skill-acquisition across a broad range of tasks.
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A language is a set of skills to be built, not a body of facts to be known.
This is an important detail that often gets overlooked, because language learning is, first and foremost, about acquiring skills. About learning how to read, write, speak, and listen, along with all of the countless…
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Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.
I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful…
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Students who learn everything through an LLM are not learning, they are cheating, and the skill loss is already showing up in experienced programmers too.
…they're just doing everything like that. And then they lose a lot of their…
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When a skill becomes widely attainable, people feel pressure to seek a rarer, higher-leverage skill to prove their value.
When rare skills become more attainable, people feel pressure to move "up the stack" to prove their value.
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The New Books to Fight Brain Rot
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Without hard skills of your own, your ceiling as a programmer is whatever the LLMs happen to be capable of.
And so if you don't have those hard skills and you're not ultimately the driver at the end of the day, you're going to really find some hard times, and your ability to progress will be directly bound to how good the…
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A career ladder must not be a checklist that guarantees promotion, because a promotion depends on the organisation’s needs as much as on the employee’s skills.
…boxes; promotions are as much about the needs of the organization as the skills of the…
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The memorize-fetch-apply paradigm behind LLMs can reach arbitrary skill given training data, but it cannot adapt to novelty or acquire new skills on the fly.
OpenAI's new o3 model represents a significant leap forward in AI's ability to adapt to novel tasks. This is not merely incremental improvement, but a genuine breakthrough, marking a qualitative shift in AI capabilities…
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Meaningful learning from incidents requires expertise that most organizations do not have — but these skills can be learned! We're getting a head start on 2025 with a workshop series on Incident Analysis.
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How I build and run behavioral interviews
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Performance-aware programming is a skill a working developer can learn in months rather than years.
Learning basic performance-aware programming skills is something a developer can do in months rather than years.
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The golden age of American schooling that reformers want to return to never existed anywhere.
But please, stop saying things like “I just want us to get back to a world where kids were graduating high school with basic skills!” Because the world you’re referring to never existed.
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Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection — Ximena Vengoechea
Listening is one of the most important product management skills. Learn how to connect to customers, co-workers, and team members with this beautifully illustrated and accessible book.
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The productivity AI creates should be shared out as a universal basic provision, with rare skills still buying you more than that.
…where if you want more than that, you still go and get some incredibly rare skills and things like that and make yourself unique. But there's a basic provision that is…
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Supercommunicators — Charles Duhigg
A simple and tested method for communicating and connecting with anyone, Supercommunicators is an exploration of the psychology and neuroscience of communication — and how to use those skills at work, home and in life.
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The Power of a Positive No: Save The Deal Save The Relationship and Still Say No — William Ury
. Saying no gracefully and firmly is one of the most important skills for a product manager to develop. This is the classic guide for learning to do so.
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Storytelling for Product Leaders
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AI is different
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Delegation: When being helpful is actually hurting
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When learning from someone successful, copy only what is repeatable; the rest of their success cannot be reproduced.
It’s so important to know the difference between the two when attempting to learn from someone. You want to try to emulate skills that are repeatable.
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The person receiving advice usually knows more about their own situation than the person giving it does.
No matter how much I know about a domain, the other person will always know far more about their own situation, context, beliefs, skills, preferences, etc than I do.
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People often say entrepreneurs should find a co-founder whose virtues match, whose skills differ, and who will drive you to do your best work. But what if they turn out to be a blowhard who regurgitates right-wing…
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A model that solves a hard problem has learned nothing from it: the next session has forgotten it, with no new skill to carry to related problems.
Yeah, you you you're on a new session it's forgotten what what it just did. Um, it it has you know, it has no new skills to to attach to to to build on on on related problems.
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Making a living from your own open source means running it as a business and acquiring business skills, not waiting to be funded.
And yes, you are building a business. You need to start thinking of your project as a business and of yourself as a business owner.
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Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software — Michael T. Nygard
A useful read for more experienced engineers and those wanting to improve architecture and devops skills on designing and operating reliable systems. The content is excellent, but the book is not designed to be read in…
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Personalised online entertainment has got good enough to crowd out socialising, and with it the forming of couples.
My suspicion is that massive improvement in quality of online entertainment crowd out socialising and development of social skills, possibly hurting relationship formation as well as desire for children within marriage.
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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership — Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Warner Klemp
…as a leader. If I could recommend one book to help you develop the human skills behind…
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Making management the only path to career progression is a mistake that costs a company the senior engineers it needs.
great engineers really shouldn’t need to manage large teams to get promoted, and companies lose out on a critical skillset when they push all of their good engineers into management.
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An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
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What does make a therapist more effective is trainable interpersonal skill, not treatment technology.
…are more effective (2). More to the point, the evidence shows FIS-related skills are trainable and that such training leads to better results (3, 4,…
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The First 20 Hours — Josh Kaufman
…under researched. Wouldn’t recommend it if you’re trying to quickly develop skills, I’d read 4-Hour Chef…
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AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.
So the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10X even what they are today. And because there, you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.
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Successful open source developers get hired away by companies, which quietens the very people best placed to argue for making a living from open source.
Successful open source developers get “acquihired” by a company who values their reputation and skills, which has the perverse effect of making them less noisy about how to make a living off of open source.
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Understanding the future depends more on imagination and a clear theory of change than on analytical skill alone.
I do not believe that analytical skills are the missing ingredient in thinking about the future. Rather, I believe that imagination about the future and a theory of change that helps to describe it clearly, are what is…
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The point of academic history is to put historical knowledge into the public’s hands so that the public can make better decisions with it.
…in the public, in order that the public can use that knowledge (and the skills that come with it) to make better…
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Solely measuring skill at any given task falls short of measuring intelligence, because skill is heavily modulated by prior knowledge and experience.
…or unlimited training data allow experimenters to "buy" arbitrary levels of skills for a system, in a way that masks the system's own generalization…
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Reading code and writing code are separate skills, and being able to read a language is no evidence you could write it.
At some point you have to take off the training wheels, because I think what you're really spotting is the difference between reading and writing code. I can read a lot of languages very well. I can see what's…
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His prediction that research-level mathematics papers would be written in collaboration with AI by 2026 has already come true.
…to disentangle credit. I mean, these tools, they do not replicate all the skills needed to do mathematics, but they can replicate some non-trivial percentage of them, 30, 40%, so they can fill in…
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Knowing conjugation tables, word lists and the names of the tenses has nothing to do with being able to use a language.
In traditional classroom settings, the development of skills often gets overlooked in favor of facts. Facts in the form of conjugation tables, word lists, grammar explanations, the names of verb tenses, and so on. All…
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That the Best Physician is Also a Philosopher — Galen
…call to arms for doctors to concentrate on the perfection of their clinical skills and to give up on ideas of attempts to get rich through their art. It shows all the ways in which he doesn't trust those doctors who…
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A robot working alongside a person beats either one alone, and that pairing is also what makes the technology possible to bootstrap.
…more potential for the robot to like actually learn on the job, acquire new…