The Silicon Society Signal: Volume 1
VOLUME 1
Welcome to The Silicon Society Signal—where lifelong learners and lovers of all things tech come to think about our changing field, push boundaries, and be unapologetically innovative in our careers.
If that’s you, keep reading.
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Curated Articles from the past few weeks:
It’s buzzy and everywhere. But what do we actually know and not know about AI?
🗯️Quotable Bit: “Though for convenience we say things like “the AI knows this” or “the AI thinks that,” it neither knows nor thinks anything.”
Brilliant essay with lots of analogies to “becoming” in your career.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “For philosophers…the fundamental question about life is what it means: why are we here, what’s it all about, does our existence even matter, et cetera. But for most of us, most of the time, the chief question that life poses is not about its meaning but about its plot.”
What Andreesen Horowitz got wrong about Engineering Management
Great thought piece on changing management in tech, quoting our COO Rachel Fuld Cohen.
🗯️Quotable Bit: ““The one true skill of a developer in this new era will be learning how to learn and problem solving, so that any senior engineering team member can be staffed on any part of the stack," Cohen says.”
Beta Happenings
➡️ It’s been a busy first week. We held a kickoff celebration, multiple Shadows, Office Hours, and our first member Spotlight (host your own Spotlight any time by dropping a Zoom link!). The talent in this Beta crew is 🤯.
➡️ We’re living our core values of 📹 Build Out Loud and 🔍Normalize Not Knowing Everything by developing our own platform for members. We live for our member feature suggestions and being super agile in our development flow.
📔 Final Notes
ICYMI:We have a killer website relaunch, featuring a visual of how the agency and society sides of Silicon Society interact. We’d love your feedback!