Once I wiped my account of marketing emails, the new ones that came in were glaringly obvious, and I unsubscribed from each one as they came in.
Gmail has a nice unsubscribe feature that another poster linked to an article about. It’s as easy as tapping the … menu and selecting Unsubscribe in the iOS app. It worked well for almost all of my unwanted subscriptions.
I am now deleting all unwanted email and maintaining a clean inbox with close to zero effort.
That's what I was thinking. For sensitive information or information that's under legal restriction, how are we going to train the models for on-prem AI?
I guess we could train models on similar corpus scraped from the internet - mostly old General Aviation manuals, I guess, but a) that's not enough corpus, and b) those GA docs are so old I'm afraid my AI will start chain smoking and casually using the word "broad".
But also:
1) Actively listen to your direct reports
2) Prepare for and hold 1:1s; don’t skip them, and focus more on their concerns, achievements, and areas for growth than project status
3) Give continuous feedback, especially on areas for growth; give it immediately or in the next 1:1
4) Genuinely care about their success and show them that through your actions; it then makes giving critical feedback a cinch since they know it is coming from a good place
5) Pay close attention to other managers; there are things to learn from everyone
6) Every time you open your mouth, you audition to be a manager; be deliberate in what you say, always take the high road, know the impact of your words
7) Accept that you will have to manage your image, and embrace it. Put focus on this early - figure out the things that a world class manager would do, and then do them. Doing things to build your image as a good manager leads you to actually being a good manager; it’s not corporate red tape, and it’s not insincere or deceitful, it’s a tool for your own success and your team’s
8) Understand that if you put the same creativity and persistence into learning management techniques as you have in learning technical topics, the sky’s the limit
I realized this year that I have been struggling to get into deep focus at work for a long time. In my case, the main two things preventing focus were anxiety and ambient noise, and they play off each other. Ambient noise tends to distract me and keep my anxiety high.
I bought a pair of decent reusable earplugs and built a ritual of throwing them in whenever I want to be productive. To my surprise it was incredibly effective. When the ear plugs go in, I get right into the zone in minutes.
Another trigger I use to tell my mind it’s time to focus is to close my door. Even if I’m home alone, something about closing the door serves as a cue to my mind.
These are low cost things you can try and you will know immediately if they help you. If they don’t, maybe you can identify similar triggers that do work for you.
You could consider an annual O’Reilly subscription if you don’t have access to one through your role.
They have large library of books and videos, and I have found it useful to skim interesting parts of relevant books as things come up over the course of the year. They also have live sessions which span technical and nontechnical topics. I liked Curtis Newbold’s live session on leadership communication.
What’s nice is you’ll enjoy the benefits all year unlike other materials which are often one-and-done.
Experiment with laying out simple elements on a single HTML file (where you can iterate more quickly), then when you have what you want, make those same changes in your React app
If you spend one hour on each of these, you may be surprised by how capable you’ve become. The rest, as others have said, you will pick up naturally as you work on your project.
Depending on browser support, there's a good likelihood just skipping a lot of these things for CSS grid could be a shortcut. As a bonus, gap for gutters is widely supported and takes away a lot of the headaches of float and flex-based grid systems.
To understand this, you should start by understanding the limit order book, which will give you a concrete model with which you can visualize the supply and demand.
In simple terms, when you want to buy 100 shares of a stock at no more than $4, you place a limit order into the exchange’s order book for that stock. Other buyers do the same, as do sellers. The order book is a sorted structure with the orders and their sizes on each side. It may look like this:
Sell 100 @ $7
Sell 300 @ $6
Sell 300 @ $5
Buy 100 @ $4 (your order)
Buy 200 @ $3
Buy 100 @ $2
Notice the gap between the highest buy (“bid”) and the lowest sell (“offer“ or “ask”). This is called the ”bid/ask spread.” Whether we’re talking stocks or eBay or a local outdoor market, buyers always want to pay less, sellers always want to earn more, and there is always a bid/ask spread.
If instead of sticking to your $4 limit, you said “forget it, I just want the stock” you would enter a market order instead of a limit order. In doing so you’d “cross the spread” and pay $5 per share. For a trade to happen, someone has to cross the spread.
If you entered a buy order with a limit of $100 in this example, you’d still buy at $5. If you ordered 400 shares at $100, you’d buy 300 at $5 and 100 at $6. The $5 offer would come out of the order book and the $6 offer would be reduced in size.
When you think of the market as all of this upward and downward price pressure focusing around a spread, you can see that the price the market values the stock at is conceptually the midpoint between the highest bid and the lowest offer, also known as the “mid.”
As prices change, the spread’s price level moves up and down, it narrows and widens, but the price you see always at least indirectly reflects that midpoint of price interest between all buyers and all sellers. There will always be intricacies in price reporting (based on the price feed, the price you see is the last trade made, the mid, or something more complex), but if you understand the order book, you’ll have the basic idea and can build from there.
If you’re really interested, you can google how and when the various exchanges calculate and report their prices, who they make them available to directly, what vendors provide raw and aggregate views of those prices, and more. There are many flavors varying from real-time tick-by-tick reporting to end of day feeds and more.
All of them ultimately begin with what you can now visualize as an order book.
Gmail has a nice unsubscribe feature that another poster linked to an article about. It’s as easy as tapping the … menu and selecting Unsubscribe in the iOS app. It worked well for almost all of my unwanted subscriptions.
I am now deleting all unwanted email and maintaining a clean inbox with close to zero effort.