poet, storyteller, pragmatist, internet safety nerd. she/her. formerly product @Clubhouse, @Facebook, @HumanInterest. fellow at @integrity_inst. hopeful.
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2008
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My top advice after 10+ yrs in product: prepare to fail
1/ In how you design product,
2/ In how you think abt strategy,
3/ In how you incentivize your team,
4/ In how you design your life.
Success feels like a lot of things going slightly wrong along the way. Stay resilient.
ALT My top advice after 10+ years in product: prepare to fail
Elise Liu retweeted
After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?
I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev
• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions
AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
Why your CEO is out of touch (and how you can help and/or survive)
ALT Why your CEO is out of touch (and how you can help and/or survive)
A few thoughts on the edges of reason:
1/ Why it is impossible to quantify pain, joy, and the value of human life;
2/ The phenomenon of platitudes - advice that seems useless til you follow it;
3/ How pataphysical arguments that break their frames resolve cynical discordances
ALT How to win friends, influence people, and become what you're becoming
I read some stats on how many CEOs are narcissists and the article about the Sheriff in Mississippi, felt cynical, and wrote some disjointed thoughts on catch-22s, zen koans, and public ethics. It might be too spicy to summarize. #ship30for30
ALT Catch-22s, zen koans, and personal ethics
I've been thinking on work, and how to balance hedonic (present-focused) and eudaemonic (future-focused) pleasure.
AFAICT, both are traps, there is no solution, and the problem does not reduce to a single answer on how to live. 🤷🏻♀️ Feel free to prove me wrong!
ALT On eudaemonia and burnout
Why you shouldn't #grind in your work:
1/ Attachment to hard work = ignoring useful shortcuts
2/ Discomfort is a sign of redirection. Success feels easy
3/ Grinding makes you kind of suck
#productmanagement #product #hustle
ALT Don't grind. (Or: How to actually enjoy your job)
Want to read yet another yuppie millennial's take on productivity, mindfulness, corporate malaise, epistemology, and oat milk?
Over the next month, I'll be sharing 30 shorts as part of #ship30for30, a commitment mechanism I paid for bc I wouldn't otherwise. Onward!
ALT Ship30for30, yet another attempt to beat my cycle of perfectionism & procrastination
I just hopped aboard the July Ship 30 for 30 cohort from @dickiebush and @nicolascole77!
Join me and 500+ others to learn the fundamentals of digital writing, form lifelong friendships, and publish every day for 30 days.
Check it out!👇🏼🚢
ship30for30.com
Elise Liu retweeted
I’ve heard people say so many times that deities and spirituality and religion were invented first to explain things that previous civilizations cannot explain
What if it wasn’t invented and it’s just a core part of how healthy human brains see the world, what makes people happy
in my favorite corp satire movie "Up in the Air" (2009), a management consultant/suit travels across the country ambushing people with layoffs on behalf of their cowardly bosses who are afraid to say so themselves. 15 years later, that job has been replaced by batch email
