The end of 10+ years of 0% interest rates is set to change the tech industry. What do higher rates mean for software engineering jobs, developers, and careers; and how can you prepare for this shift?

Also: the Humane AI pin flop and how it relates to the “AI goldrush,” and a look at whether developers will move from Redis to Valkey after a license change, or stay.

Compute Resources That Make Everyone Look GPU-Poor

How High-NA EUV can be economically viable at the 1.4nm process node

The success of a software application often hinges on the choice of the right databases. As developers, we're faced with a vast array of database options. It is crucial for us to understand the differences between these options and how to select the ones that best align with our project's requirements. A complex application usually uses several different databases, each catering to a specific aspect of the application’s needs.

Have you ever wondered how a simple SQL command unlocks database power? SQL, or Structured Query Language, is the backbone of modern data management. It allows efficient retrieval, manipulation, and management of information in relational databases.

What is artificial intelligence? How do the different models work? What is generative AI? How close are we to AGI?

Investors are pulling money out of risk assets, Micron receives a multi-billion dollar grant from the U.S. government, and a new House bill makes a TikTok ban more likely

Copper, Cooling, and Compute Density: The Pillars of Nvidia's Data Center Vision

Its a quarter too soon to go dumpster diving in the automotive semiconductor industry. Another round of cuts is likely coming. Consider this my earnings preview.

I got my hands on a VC scorecard circulating among top founders & VCs

Plus, TikTok divestment bill signed into law

A brief introduction explaining what "performance-aware programming" is, and what the course will be about.

Recently, tech people have been posting about the FTC’s new rule banning noncompete agreements. I will leave commentary on the substance of the rule to others, because I like to keep the posts here politically neutral. But I did want to talk briefly about the

Your insider guide to AI and exponential technologies

What matters, and what really doesn't.

One of Product’s ever-changing artifacts

Your Reference Guide to Landing, and Negotiating for, a Great Job

30 Maps to Rethink the World

Real estate has been a great investment all your life, so you think it will continue. But your life experience has been an outlier. Housing prices might stagnate or shrink in the coming decades.

Dear reader, The world can be understood. This may seem obvious to the serial consumer of news, but for the wrong reasons. For the careful observer, the claim should be true, but only for the right reasons. After all, if you want to understand the news, it’s perhaps best

Venture capitalists form an independent culture and distinct tradition of knowledge from East Coast financiers. Their skills in financing software will not translate cleanly to politics or industry.

Implicit feedback is the subtle feedback you likely receive regularly. Don't let it escalate to explicit feedback. I spend time translating subtle feedback to what it really means.

When you're asked questions — do you literally answer those questions, or do you try to answer the root question behind it all?

A no-nonsense guide to build the right things and build them on time.

Refactoring Podcast — Season 2 • Episode 1

The model innovating in the training procedures to improve reasoning abilities in small language models.

The model uses an MoE architecture which exhibits remarkable perfromance on a relatively small budget.

Also: some neat Switch data, follow-ups, platform news, and more.

Also: next week's big releases, and the console charts...

...but the other 10% are worth 1000x

But One What?

What McDonalds and Lyft have in common

How do ChatGPT, Mistral, Gemini, and Llama3 stack up for common tasks like generating sales emails?

Digging into the world of "pig-butchering" scams

Plus: the asylum that raised Will Stancil

Midjourney v6, Chinese LLMs, 2023 annual AI reports, and much more!

Reka Core, Grok-1.5V, frontier model benchmarks GPQA + MMLU, and much more!

I present 35 product frameworks + templates: Prioritization Frameworks (9), Decision-Making Frameworks (4), Stakeholder Management Frameworks (2), Product Metrics Frameworks (3), Strategy Frameworks (7), Strategy-Related Artefacts (5), Agile Frameworks (3), Other frameworks (2)

How to avoid insufficient data, poor insights, and wrong decisions in product management surveys.

FTV Sues Solid and Its Cofounders For $61M Over Alleged Fraud

TabaPay To Buy Assets For $9.7m, Evolve To Cover Shortfall In End-User Funds

A message to the men who don't

in a workforce that is over 70% female a whopping 65% of PPE is default male

The story of why I started and what I’ve learned.

And a great forcing function for the product to pull their sh1t together too :)

The difference between crafters and managers and how Shopify rages against meetings

An inside look at crafting an AI wearable that sold 10K units in 24 hours and Dan's #1 lesson from 15 years of entrepreneurship

Welcome to Best of the Week. Today: An intriguing idea which could see a News Corp tie in with Warner Bros Discovery; Qantas’s odd choice of loyalty chief; the ABC targets its paid streaming rivals; and the arrogance of male founders.

Welcome to Best of the Week, mostly written on a crisp morning in Evandale, Tasmania, after a frustrating evening of aurora hunting stymied by a bright moon. Today: The end of the audit bureau; succession manoeuvres at Foxtel; and big movements on the Unmade Index for Pureprofile and Vinyl.