Last week at work, a sizable portion of my company gathered at a physical office in San Francisco and spent the week working physically together. It wasn’t an offsite — it was actual, regular work. It’s the first time in a few years since I’ve done that with a larger group of colleagues, and it felt refreshing. Everything is just much more dynamic. The side conversations during meetings, the option to have quick “drive by” chats, the ability to “read the room”, and even the small non-work diversions that keep you feeling connected to other people throughout the day. On the flip side, the interactions eat up more time, and finding focus is more difficult when you need to do work that doesn’t involve a discussion. But, the worst part of office work is by far and away the commute, and I was reminded about that when it took me 90 minutes to drive home in traffic (double the time it took to get in).
The toilets in the building we were working in were on the floor above us. That floor also happened to house the company shown in the photo below — a 2 year old AI company of 60 people that had literally just been acquired for a jaw-dropping amount.
MosaicML’s office
DPReview, the authoritative site for digital camera reviews, was scheduled to shut down after Amazon (its owner) conducted layoffs earlier this year. However, I was glad to learn that DPReview was acquired by Gear Patrol and will live on!
The Man Who Broke Bowling (GQ) Aussie Jason Belmonte’s two-handed technique made him an outcast. Then it made him the greatest—and changed the sport forever.
He has flown 23 million miles. Here are his travel secrets. (Washington Post) Several people sent me this article, but I learned about Tom Stuker a number of years ago. He got a great deal, but dare I say that United First would lose its novelty relatively quickly.
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MTV Cribs profiled over 110 celebrity homes.
What was the most popular episode? It wasn’t a big mansion or exotic getaway.
It was Redman touring his modest Staten Island townhome.
Before filming, the MTV producers offered to rent the rapper a mansion but he had zero… pic.twitter.com/mMxkwrbtBC
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