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How to set compensation using commonsense principles

Erik Bernhardsson

Good/bad compensation systems. A bad system keeps people below the salary that you would give them to keep them. A bad system gives raises mostly when people interview elsewhere and get offers. A bad system gives raises mostly when people interview elsewhere and get offers. In general, market rate ? replacement cost ?

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Reinvention Risk Trade

The Agile Manager

Southwest Airlines has made headlines in recent days for all the wrong reasons: bad weather impacted air travel, which required Southwest to adjust plane and crew schedules. In other words, hope is all too often the insurance policy against having a huge hole blown in the income statement by the failure of a high-risk technology.

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From Hype to Hope: Key Lessons on AI in Security, Innersource, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

Coveros

Result: Disrupted production led to product shortages and a 23-28% loss in net sales for Q1 2024. Open source developers merged 60% more automated Dependabot pull requests for vulnerable packages than in 2022. More developers are building LLM applications with pre-trained AI models and customizing AI apps to user needs.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

TechCrunch

Expenses were higher than expected, it plans to slash production by about 50%, and the company reported zero revenue and a net loss of $125 million. “But there’s more to the Lordstown mess than merely a single bad quarter,” writes Alex Wilhelm. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap.

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A List Apart - Untitled Article

A List Apart

You can cloak this basic economic trade-off in fifty layers of b t—say you believe in freedom of speech, or that the antidote to bad speech is more speech—but the fact is, hate speech is profitable. Existing products or services in a given category have a big weakness. Which was not a bad thing.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

mRNA vaccines have given us a promising path to COVID immunity, developed in record time. And mRNA vaccines are also easily tweaked, raising the possibility of even quicker response to mutations, and even the creation of a framework for rapid development of many more vaccines. Climate change and the energy economy.

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Global Software Architecture Summit 2022 Recap

Apiumhub

Here’s a breakdown of the profiles: Software Developers (66,4%) Tech Leads (8,5%) Software Architects (8,1%) CTOs (6,2%) Principal Engineers (5,6%) Recruiters (3,4%). Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a free resource website devoted to helping developers in the journey to software architect. Attendees Profiles.