Thank you! I'm laughing because I first read this as "wow, how could one person manage to make so many mistakes in one post?" :D

I have never hired or managed a research team and I am interested in what you have to say about how it's different. Elaborate if you feel like it!

Difficulty, I claim.

See also: https://aella.substack.com/p/good-at-sex-inside-her-are-two-brains

I think your theories and Aella's line up reasonably well. Ladybrain runs the show a lot of the time.

by a very long shot

... by a sniper?

I worked in engineering at Google from 2007-2015. I conducted ... I can't remember, definitely more than 100, maybe something like 200 in-person onsite technical interviews. (In addition to loads of phone screens, but I couldn't see those people.)

Not a single person wore a suit.

If anyone had, I would have been very surprised and I would have immediately started wondering what other memos that candidate had not received.

I was a little surprised there's not more in land. "The only thing they're not making more of," etc. etc.

A little light poking showed that the most expensive land in the US is in high-end residential real estate, which is largely owned by rich individuals rather than by corporations.

I guess businesses know better than to build on expensive land. They build on cheap land -- or land containing something much better than dirt and rock that they can extract -- and then they make stuff on that land.

The only exception would be for hotels and high-end retail, I suppose? And it looks like hotels didn't make the cut and high-end retail was dwarfed by commodity retail.

So, uh, never mind.

Absolutely yes. Nate is that spokesperson, and he is carrying a far heavier load of interviews and appearances during the book tour than Eliezer is. We are actively passing the torch.

No, you will not miss much, carry on reading!

... I don't think so?

Urs wants DRM-free.
Hachette likes DRM.
We're working with Hachette.
Therefore Urs shouldn't hold their breath.

I think that all just straightforwardly adds up? I certainly wasn't aiming to be sarcastic.