One of the bills Elon Musk has decided not to pay as part of Twitter 2.0 is coming through with checks as an LP in various VC funds.

It seems Twitter had committed to participate in a bunch of minority led VC funds which Elon has now decided to ignore. 🙁

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/04/24/twitter-backed-a-bunch-of-underrepresented-vcs-under-elon-musk-its-trying-to-dump-them/?sh=4d658c8c6954

One of the most valuable habits you can adopt in tech is to be curious and be alway open to learning something new.

Too often companies and employees hit the rocks because people stop looking outwardly at new ideas and just assume everything that's worked before will work again

Too late for Slack but just in time to prevent an antitrust investigation against Microsoft. Another masterful play by Satya and Brad Smith on managing regulators.

https://www.ft.com/content/be838956-7038-4179-8a1c-851b83048d5d

Tucker Carlson is another victim of confessing to a grift on company internal channels only for the truth to come out during discovery for a lawsuit.

He was Dominion Systems star witness and a key reason Fox News got a $787M judgement against them.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news-in-wake-of-dominion-defamation-settlement.html

Given what we’ve observed from how he’s run Twitter, Tesla shareholders should be thrilled he isn’t there and instead his subordinates can make decisions without having to talk him out of childish ideas like Fart Mode.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/business/tesla-shareholders-object-elon-musk/index.html

A good list of common mistakes as a manager.

A fundamental insight is different people need different levels of oversight and you can’t have a one size fits all approach to managing a team. What is micromanaging for one is providing guidance for another.

https://www.benkuhn.net/newmgr/

The reason many bosses don’t like employees working from home has little to do with productivity and more to do with the fact they hate working from home.

A lot of trappings of power from corner offices to large staff meetings are lost when they WFH.

https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-return-to-office-sexism-women-bosses-employees-2023-4?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-author-post

Apple is about to take the Tim Cook GTM approach to launching their AR/VR headset.

It’s an expensive compared to competitors and it’s not clear why you should buy it but look at the specs.

It worked for Apple Watch but failed for HomePod.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-04-23/apple-s-ar-vr-headset-plans-ipad-apps-fitness-sports-viewing-gaming-music-lgtgopgx

Working in big tech today is like going to work after the Thanos snap.

Lyft to layoff 30% of employees. The company still operates at a loss and has about 2-3 years of cash left.

Ride sharing as a business model looks to have been a zero interest rate phenomenon.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lyft-to-cut-at-least-1-200-jobs-in-new-round-of-layoffs-to-reduce-costs-da423e53?mod=djemalertNEWS

Being busted for leaking classified documents on Discord because you paid for your premium account with your credit card is the top 2 in opsec fails and it’s not #2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/04/14/fbi-used-discord-billing-records-to-identify-alleged-leaker-of-classified-military-documents-report/

Imagine leaking top secret US intelligence about the war in Ukraine to impress a bunch of kids on a MineCraft Discord server. 🤦🏾‍♂️

This is in the top 5 dumbest things done for online clout.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-14/pentagon-leak-human-vulnerability-in-us-national-security/102211120

Google is going to stop allowing fintech apps to access user contacts & photos because loan apps have been contacting the friends of debtors to embarrass them into paying.

They’ve banned hundreds of predatory loan apps in Kenya and thousands in India.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-ban-financial-lending-apps-from-accessing-user-photos-contacts

This presentation on expectations of junior associates in a Big Law firm shows how much of corporate culture is just hazing.

The best part is having the principle “I don’t know” is not an acceptable answer right next to “don’t ask questions”

The real -10x engineers are the product managers who prioritize the wrong features for the wrong audiences at the wrong time.

Of course they pale in comparison to -100x VP or the -1000x CEO.

https://taylor.town/-10x

It’s the end of an era in tech.

Google cutting back on lavish perks like on-site masseuses, yoga classes and free food will trickle down across tech.

These perks won’t come back because they weren’t rational in the first place. They were quirky ideas from Larry & Sergey.

It’s striking how much of the return to office pressure is actually from local governments that have built an entire economy around commercial real estate and business from daily commuters.

The problem with nostalgia is that you can’t tell if what you experienced was actually good or if you were just young when it happened.

Whenever I see the Shark Tank guy quoted, I immediately remember that the sharks are actually terrible investors.

Every time I see VCs talking about technical topics.