Tracksuit, a market research start-up backed by investment firm Blackbird, has lifted its valuation to about $400 million after completing a fresh capital
In June 2025, the screen capture of an alleged post by U.S. President Donald Trump circulated online in which Trump described the relationship between tech
CNN — The acting Inspector General of the Defense Department will review Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal in a group chat with other key
A lot of companies seem to misunderstand the role of pay in hiring and retaining smart people. In my first year at Microsoft Research I listened to a (normally sensible) member of the lab’s leadership team explain that the bonus structure was there to incentivise good research. I looked around the room and wondered who had ever thought ‘well, I was going to do some mediocre research, but for 20% more money this year I will do something world leading!’ My guess: no one.
If you want to hire the best people, you are looking for the people who, if money didn’t matter, would do the job for free because they believe it’s important and care about the outcome. You don’t pay them well to persuade them to work. You pay them well so that they can afford to work on the things that they think are important. If smart people don’t think the things you’re doing are important then you should consider why you’re doing them.
This is especially true for executive compensation. The best CEOs are ones that care about the company’s
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A lot of companies seem to misunderstand the role of pay in hiring and retaining smart people. In my first year at Microsoft Research I listened to a (normally sensible) member of the lab’s leadership team explain that the bonus structure was there to incentivise good research. I looked around the room and wondered who had ever thought ‘well, I was going to do some mediocre research, but for 20% more money this year I will do something world leading!’ My guess: no one.
If you want to hire the best people, you are looking for the people who, if money didn’t matter, would do the job for free because they believe it’s important and care about the outcome. You don’t pay them well to persuade them to work. You pay them well so that they can afford to work on the things that they think are important. If smart people don’t think the things you’re doing are important then you should consider why you’re doing them.
This is especially true for executive compensation. The best CEOs are ones that care about the company’s products and want everyone to use them, not the ones that want to make the most money. This is especially true for non profits where your pool should start with people who care a lot about the organisation’s mission. Paying more (above a certain level) won’t find more of those people it will simply dilute the pool with people who are there for the money, not the mission.
EDIT: A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding this and think this is an argument to pay people badly. It absolutely isn't. If you pay people badly, they will spend a lot if time thinking about money. Your job as a manager is to remove problems. Money removes a lot of problems. But a lot of problems cannot be removed by applying money. If someone competent is being told to do nonsense work that they know will cause problems in the long run, no amount of money will make them motivated. The problems that can be solved with money are the easy ones.
Across the board, the more CEOs get paid, the worse their companies do over the next three years, according to extensive new research. This is true whether they’re CEOs at the highest end of the pay spectrum or the lowest.
@jwcph We pretend that companies are synthetic profit-seeking entities, but companies are still just collections of people working together trying to do their best impression of a ruthless machine.
You hear people say co-workers are "like family" -- and sometimes companies make choices that serve aims other than profit. That meet the needs of communities, or individuals, or even just the vision of doing something that started the process in the first place. 1/
And everyone loves a tale of the dedicated craftsman who still uses the old methods to make a quality product even though it would be more profitable to move on. The story of the person whose wages are more than coins, because they take pride in what they create.
We love this stuff and have made a system designed to destroy it. Which means that the metrics Forbes has used in this article: stocks and accounting can't capture just how BAD the bad CEOs really are. 2/
What kind of profit maxing CEO wouldn't try to max out their own salary? The normal human notion of saying "OK that's enough money." it antithetical to that value system.
It's what's valued most. Though it seems that too pure of a focus in this line might mean that the CEO has lost sight of the other reasons the human organization they run exists.
And since THAT is bad for "the bottom line" we are meant to care, but just a little.
@futurebird We're back at greed as a zero-sum game, as I alluded to a few days ago; the greedy person who will choose having a small cake all to themselves over an objectively larger piece of a much bigger, but shared cake.
Greed isn't just wanting more & never having enough - it's the unfettered desire to have what someone else has, to have all there is to be had.
Which is why the greedy CEO will eventually bite off the very hand that pays his salary.
In Zaporizhzhia, a humanitarian hub of a non-profit that had been providing assistance to war-affected civilians since the first days of the full-scale invasion was destroyed as a result of a morning attack. — Ukrinform.
Iranians had between 1,000-2,000 missiles aimed at Israel
Israel damaged its production capacity (now) and its ability to prepare solid fuel (in operation in October). So it can be assumed that it is very difficult to produce more stock now.
Israel destroyed about 25% of the missiles ready for launch (huge secondary explosions in missile depots in Kermanshah and Tabriz).
Last night, the Iranians launched 5 salvos, each containing between 20 and 50 missiles. #AureFreePress #News #press
A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday stopped Secretary of State Marco Rubio from proceeding with plans to downsize the State Department, saying that it
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, has tasked his command with improving the detection and interception of Russian strike drones that are terrorizing Ukrainian cities every night. — Ukrinform.
Science is asking question, critical questions. And of course realizing that the more one knows, the more questions arise. But mystery, no not really… My drive is asking relentlessly, how, why, what and when, and the perspective is always widening. The tools and intellectual bagage stay the same. It’s a bit like mountaineering in fact. Climbing for the sake of climbing, being on the top admiring the view and realizing there is another mountain to climb… ;)
In Russia’s Stavropol area, the Nevinnomyssky Azot plant, which produces ammonia and ammonium nitrate for explosives and artillery shells, was attacked. — Ukrinform.
Pope Leo XIV decries the military escalation between Iran and Israel and renews his appeal for dialogue and the pursuit of a world free from the nuclear threat.
Design Concept
First I should mention that I know there are many like this out there, but I wanted to make my own version. so this is my original design.
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Following Israel’s strikes on Iran, rising oil prices may increase Russia’s revenues from oil sales and improve the country’s ability to sustain military operations against Ukraine. — Ukrinform.
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The survivors of the Grenfell fire have condemned “a deep and bitter injustice” that many of the officials criticised in the public inquiry in connection to
List of the most abundant pollutants in our potage before I turned and scoured it these last days:
1. Peach pits 2. Bits of plastic 3. Meat bones 4. Fruit stickers 5. String / wire 6. Pottery shards
I was thinking former owners really liked peaches until I remembered we’ve three suffering peach trees: big, medium, and small. Small is about dead and won’t make it this year. Big and medium are slowly dying, too, but have fruit like hard fuzzy walnuts. I’m sure they just got tossed in the patch.
Brits have been warned against travelling to Israel amid fears of an all-out war with Iran. In its latest travel advice, the Foreign Office advises against
Coming up on Friday June 20th is the opening of my exhibition "a workshop for everyday technology", the outcome of my residency at the Leitrim Sculpture Center in Manorhamilton/Cluainín, County Leitrim, Ireland.
It's been a very full two months of conversations around technology, borrowing tools, learning new materials and making art. I'm very grateful to the staff at the LSC for their assistance and support, the ^ collective (@benbo) for lending their space for meetups, @ephemeral for support, stimulating conversations and bringing me into the fold, and the local community for sharing their thoughts and teaching me about non-digital technologies. Thanks also to @cmos4040 for helping me in my research and organising conversations at ^, and @
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Coming up on Friday June 20th is the opening of my exhibition "a workshop for everyday technology", the outcome of my residency at the Leitrim Sculpture Center in Manorhamilton/Cluainín, County Leitrim, Ireland.
It's been a very full two months of conversations around technology, borrowing tools, learning new materials and making art. I'm very grateful to the staff at the LSC for their assistance and support, the ^ collective (@benbo) for lending their space for meetups, @ephemeral for support, stimulating conversations and bringing me into the fold, and the local community for sharing their thoughts and teaching me about non-digital technologies. Thanks also to @cmos4040 for helping me in my research and organising conversations at ^, and @decentral1se for working together with cmos on the archiving software distribusi-verse, and most importantly, the craic!
Here are the exhibition details for those interested in visiting:
Simon Browne, "a workshop for everyday technology" Leitrim Sculpture Center, New Line, Manorhamilton
Exhibition Launch: Friday 20th June 2025 5pm – 8pm Exhibition runs until: 19th July 2025 Gallery opening times: 11am - 1pm & 1.30pm - 4pm Wednesday to Saturday
I love these sculptures. I expect someone has told you about the "Norwich keyboard" already... but just in case there is a concrete keyboard in Norwich, a bit of public art and it's rather beloved. It was made by Molly Sole in 1999 who intended it to be a mystery which for years it was.
It's interesting to think about what these works will look like as they age, and depending on if they are exposed to nature.
@futurebird Thank you! Also, thanks for sharing the "Norwich keyboard", I didn't know about this one. Love the urban myths around it, that it could be "a keyboard that fell into the fresh cement of the pavement"
Since taking that photo I have since slightly polished the keys which spell my password. I suppose these will eventually corrode, but love the idea that radical openness will exist until then 😀
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says
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myrmepropagandist
in reply to JWcph, Radicalized By Decency • • •@jwcph
We pretend that companies are synthetic profit-seeking entities, but companies are still just collections of people working together trying to do their best impression of a ruthless machine.
You hear people say co-workers are "like family" -- and sometimes companies make choices that serve aims other than profit. That meet the needs of communities, or individuals, or even just the vision of doing something that started the process in the first place. 1/
myrmepropagandist
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •And everyone loves a tale of the dedicated craftsman who still uses the old methods to make a quality product even though it would be more profitable to move on. The story of the person whose wages are more than coins, because they take pride in what they create.
We love this stuff and have made a system designed to destroy it. Which means that the metrics Forbes has used in this article: stocks and accounting can't capture just how BAD the bad CEOs really are. 2/
myrmepropagandist
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •What kind of profit maxing CEO wouldn't try to max out their own salary? The normal human notion of saying "OK that's enough money." it antithetical to that value system.
It's what's valued most. Though it seems that too pure of a focus in this line might mean that the CEO has lost sight of the other reasons the human organization they run exists.
And since THAT is bad for "the bottom line" we are meant to care, but just a little.
3/3
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@futurebird We're back at greed as a zero-sum game, as I alluded to a few days ago; the greedy person who will choose having a small cake all to themselves over an objectively larger piece of a much bigger, but shared cake.
Greed isn't just wanting more & never having enough - it's the unfettered desire to have what someone else has, to have all there is to be had.
Which is why the greedy CEO will eventually bite off the very hand that pays his salary.