The Silicon Society Signal: Volume 4
VOLUME 4
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.
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Curated Articles from the past few weeks:
Everything You See is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look
An ode to the intersection of simplicity and complexity of computational processes, and how a love for understanding machines can drive a passion and career.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “This innate sense of a machine at work can lend a computational perspective to almost any phenomenon, even one as seemingly inscrutable as the concept of randomness. Something seemingly random, like a coin flip, can be fully described by some complex computational process that yields an unpredictable outcome of heads or tails.”
Harvard Innovation Lab’s Path to Product-Market-Fit
In these 91 slides, there’s a plethora of hidden gems about building in tech, how not to waste time in the ‘pain cave’ pre-PMF, leveraging sales to learn and other poignant lessons. Real. Relatable. Honest.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “You have no control over demand. You don’t create demand. It exists whether or not you exist.”
Technical writing is too important to leave to language models
Written by SiSo friend, Elliot Gunn, this article is a well-researched and practically optimistic piece on the future of Technical Writing in the age of LLMs. If you like having an opinion, giving proper context, and helping tech teams scale, then read on!
🗯️Quotable Bit: “The interesting thing about this is that your opinions don’t have to be right to have an impact. What matters is whether it’s authentic–and developers have finely trained bullshit detectors. Just the act of making the case for your ideas produces professional trust in that you, too, are in the trenches trying to chip away at a shared problem, and not some growth hacker trying to SEO optimize another tutorial-listicle.”
We’re building the future of learning, out loud.
➡️ We’re hosting a technical workshop for our Beta crew this Thursday afternoon on “Maybe, Optional & Nullable” and we’re opening it up to our Newsletter Subscribers! Drop us a note if you would like an invite.
➡️ It’s been a blast chatting with Sales, Engineering, and Community leaders about bringing Shadows to their companies. If you want to learn more about how Shadows can help upskill talent at your organization, grab time here. We’d love to brainstorm with you!
➡️ Growing the skills and careers of our Beta members is always on our mind, as we focus on critical career progression moments. Join our Beta community if you want to think about annual reviews, keeping your code challenge skills fresh, Shadowing senior devs, and continuing to learn within your career.