Eric Metelka

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Eric MetelkaMar 17, 2023
Rand FishkinMar 17, 2023

Internet: "Hey, did you want to break your brain today?... And also 10 years ago?"

Me: "10 years ago? What? And also... no?"

Internet: "Ha ha, too bad. Read this: https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvgjm/a-growing-number-of-scientists-are-convinced-the-future-influences-the-past."

A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past

“Our instincts of time and causation are our deepest, strongest instincts that physicists and philosophers—and humans—are loath to give up,” said one scientist.

Eric MetelkaMar 17, 2023
Kevin CarsonMar 17, 2023
"But the groundbreaking new study, co-authored by Berkeley economist Michael Reich, found that small businesses can pass the costs on to consumers with little negative impact."
"Study Finds That Minimum Wage Increases Don't Cause Job Losses" -- Labor 411 https://labor411.org/411-blog/study-finds-that-minimum-wage-increases-dont-cause-job-losses/
Study Finds That Minimum Wage Increases Don’t Cause Job Losses

A new study is further shattering the myth that minimum wage hikes kill jobs. Phys.org reports: "Restaurants, retail stores and other small businesses, long thought to be vulnerable to increases in…

Labor 411
Eric MetelkaFeb 25, 2023
Dare ObasanjoFeb 25, 2023
Average tech PM looking at the stats of how many people actually read their weekly status updates.
Eric MetelkaFeb 15, 2023
Casey NewtonFeb 15, 2023
Phenomenal essay from a recently departed ex-Googler on the systemic forces that enforce mediocrity within the product organization https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a
The maze is in the mouse - Praveen Seshadri - Medium

What ails Google. And how it can turn it around.

Medium
Eric MetelkaFeb 7, 2023
The blue song remix by David Guetta is an affront to nature. True ear bleeding shit. I’m surprised an AI didn’t come up with it.
Eric MetelkaJan 21, 2023
Max KennerlyJan 21, 2023

Layoffs and stock buybacks are usually perceived by investors as savvy business decisions by pragmatic leaders when in reality both are an admission by the board and management that they have no idea what they're doing.

Layoffs are an admission the company doesn't know how to use human resources.

Stock buybacks are an admission the company doesn't know how to use capital.

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News

As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.

Stanford News
Eric MetelkaJan 17, 2023
TIL that greatest hits albums are usually re-recorded versions so artists get master rights
Eric MetelkaJan 7, 2023
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jan 7, 2023
A group of authoritarian supremacists tried to murder their colleagues and overthrow the government 2 years ago, and most of the rest of their team went along with it, and none of them faced any consequence, and we see the inevitable result: they're in charge of the workplace.
Eric MetelkaJan 2, 2023
Coolest gift I got this year
Eric MetelkaJan 2, 2023
When you have a whole house, cleaning up Christmas decorations is quite the job