At @ashbyhq, we use thoughtful communication to be unreasonably productive (engineers can focus 36 hours/week!). In our first (!) blog post, I share our motivations, internal guidelines, and challenges these guidelines can bring to a remote-first company:

Complaining that the proposed CA "billionaire tax" would hit unrealized gains is a distraction from the real issues: - it's a big & gimmicky tax on a v. few people - if it passes, it sends a v. bad signal about how CA will try to deal with fiscal problems in the future 1/2

@johnharrison There are so many other levers that could be pulled. They could cancel the stupid train nobody supports. CA could kill a grab bag of terrible government programs. Heck, they could sell some of the 15 million acres/thousands of empty buildings owned by the state. Doing none

I think in a moment when GitHub’s reputation amongst developers is at an all time low, making the policy change to charge for self hosted runners in any scenario instead of making other technical changes to make GH runners more attractive will go down as a very bad move.

The sheer cruelty of this boggles the mind. Purely malicious.

Awful self-inflicted wound for the nation. Today our federal govt gleefully condemned thousands of kids each year to chronic hepatitis and liver cancer, by denying them a vaccine invented in America, using microbial fermentation, our least expensive and safest technology

The fact that we have political systems that do byzantine things like this instead of just charging a basic tax per litre of fuel to account for environmental costs (or even mileage * weight^4 for wear and tear) in a consistent way continues to frustrate me. When accounting for

A father & Physician was in his car with his baby in front of her preschool when ICE showed up & asked him for his ID which he provided them & then as he’s comforting his baby they break out his window for no reason at all & drags him out.He is a U.S citizen,but they didn’t care!

It really is striking seeing the difference between a politician who is trying to pragmatically run his city well vs others who are thirsting for a crisis to give them some national air time.

A few years back, we published @ashbyhq 's operating principles externally. They are operationally focused and pretty detailed, and represent our alternative to company values. Sharing these has been excellent for recruiting. We've attracted a lot of candidates who were looking

Errant thoughts on a Tuesday morning: 1) The Cook attempted firing will be litigated quickly but not as quickly as folks seem to think. This process will take about few weeks even to wind its way to the Supreme Court on whether the firing will be stayed pending litigation.

Remember, the Trump administration wants to take away the treatments that would save your life from cancer.

This is something Republicans are generally just better at and it really helps them. George W. Bush hasn’t even attended a RNC since his renomination in 2004! Meanwhile Dems were giving the Clintons primetime speaking slots in 2024.

Land use regulation is more important for decarbonization than progressive ideology

Something is fucking wrong with you if you get angry at poor people given free access to museums and aquariums. It’s a $50-65 ticket also free to schools, community groups, etc. Idiots in comments have no clue where Monterey even is, as if poor from CA converging upon aquarium.

God help us if Super Intelligence built @OpenAi's billing portal because it gave me a rate limit of 0 requests/minute to update our payment method.

The two top figures of the Apollo program, Arthur Rudolph and Wernher von Braun, were German citizens who entered the United States as refugees

California public schools removing honors classes from public schools for "equity" is a self-inflicted Cultural Revolution. It will also make those with means defect to private schools, worsening disparities.

There are several problems with this, but the big one is: How do we know who is a citizen and who is a trespasser unless we have some kind of process? What if my house is being robbed, the police arrive, and the robber points at me and shouts "He's the robber, shoot him!" I sure

1. Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social

"we want China to have a country full of wealthy knowledge workers who consume goods and services while Americans toil in the mines and soot-spewing factories" Unreal that people voted for this and still support it in any way