Enjoy this playlist (with 96 videos & counting) anytime you’re looking to watch or listen to (or binge on 😄) advanced product & leadership content.

(this link will open the playlist in the YT app, so you can save the playlist for later)
yt.openinapp.co/shreyas-playli…

Some books I wish everyone read and internalized:

Lessons of history (will and Ariel Durant)
Upanishads (Easewaran translation)
Path of least resistance (Fritz)
Emerson’s collected essays
Labyrinths (Borges)
Bird by Bird (Lamott)
Tao te Ching
Titan (Chernow)
Sidhartha (Hesse)

Congrats to AI at Meta on Llama 3 release!! 🎉
ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llam…
Notes:

Releasing 8B and 70B (both base and finetuned) models, strong-performing in their model class (but we'll see when the rankings come in @ lmsys.org :))
400B is still training, but already encroaching

Very well made argument. Risks of open source are way lower than risks of any one powerful actor owning the most capable model

This was peak software design

The Indian batting line for the #T20WorldCup2024 can be formed just by wicket keepers!

1. KL Rahul
2. Ishan Kishan
3. Sanju Samson
4. Rishabh Pant
5. Dinesh Karthik
6. Jitesh Sharma/ Dhruv Jurel
7. MS Dhoni (because, why not?!)

Form in #IPL24 for them has been good.

What a crazy day. The GrowthX store sold out on the day of the launch. In nine freakin' hours, to be precise :')

Thank you 🙏

BJP has many flaws. NDA 2 has made many mistakes. But if this is what you offer as an alternative then, the BJP and NDAs mistakes/deficiencies pale in comparison.

✨Huge update: my Product Almanac now has 600 of my posts on strategy, leadership, org psychology, communication, product management, product humor, and life.

300+ new posts have just been added. Almost 13k users now.

You can access it all for free here: productalmanac.com

This How I Write guest is an underrated gem of a human being.

She launched Stripe Press, wrote the famous About Us page for Figma, and is an expert on all things business writing.

I bring you Brie Wolfson, and 14 things she's learned about writing:

1. You cannot do great work

DELEGATION AKA HAND OFF YOUR MONKEYS

When I first became a people manager, I eagerly devoured many management books and articles to try and learn 'management'. Most were useless, but one that has consistently influenced me in both work and life over the past two decades is

The Music Academy
Chennai

Dear Mr Murali,

We thank you for the courtesy of providing a response to our letter dated 20 March 2024.
We’d like to clarify that our letter to you was only a notification of our withdrawal without any request for your decisions or actions. We did not

N. Ram This morning this dravida journalist of the ruling party's journalist wing has woken up as a music expert 😀😀😀. 🤦

Too bad that multiple generations of musicians wasted their time with music when being an armchair social critic would have been enough.

Last week, India Quotient published their India Insights report.

It has 20 * 8 = 160 “useful takeaways” about India - one per slide. Fantastic report to read if you’re building a company in India, investing here or thinking about the market.

I had 5 key takeaways from the

Large Language Model Engineering Map

1. Data Collection and Preparation
1.1 Web Scraping
1.1.1 Crawling websites
1.1.2 Extracting text data
1.1.3 Handling different file formats (HTML, PDF, etc.)
1.2 Corpus Creation
1.2.1 Combining data from

Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.

Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.

Devin is

This podcast features Yann LeCun, a prominent figure in AI, discussing the dangers of concentrated power in proprietary AI systems & why open source AI is the better way to go #OpenSourceAI #FutureofAI

So, Lenny Rachitsky's latest podcast is out. youtu.be/RJ3iPWo3-8M?si…

Lenny interviews Ray Cao, the Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations at TikTok. They discuss TikTok's culture. #TikTok #Marketing #SocialMedia

Here's a thread on your top takeaways 👇👇👇

Google’s Gemini issue is not really about woke/DEI, and everyone who is obsessing over it has failed to notice the much, MUCH bigger problem that it represents.

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