The article argues that managers function as catalysts in technology organizations by lowering the activation energy needed for change, and that recent industry trends declaring management dead have backfired—notably at Facebook, where dramatic manager reductions led to a 40% increase in incidents and declining team sentiment despite higher code output. The author contends that good management has become essential as the industry moves beyond the easy-growth 2010s.
The pandemic accelerated tech adoption and triggered massive hiring by giants like Amazon and Google, fueled by a decade of loose monetary policy. When the Federal Reserve sharply raised interest rates to combat inflation, the tech sector crashed harder than any other, with major firms missing expectations and trillions in market value evaporating.
Circle Crop Image is a free, browser-based tool that converts photos into circular profile pictures locally on your device with no uploads or signup required. It supports multiple image formats and includes presets for platforms like Instagram, Discord, Facebook, and LinkedIn, with output options for PNG or JPG.
A web app operator reports severe bot traffic problems, with Facebook's crawler making 3 million requests in 2 days and AI scrapers using residential proxies to bypass security measures including Cloudflare Turnstile. Despite blocking efforts, costs have surged and the operator is considering switching to hCaptcha as a last resort.
Open source software follows an evolutionarily stable strategy where permissive licensing (MIT, BSD, Apache) dominates because attempts to restrict usage or charge for code are undercut by free forks. Companies like Facebook, Elastic, HashiCorp, and Redis have tried to move away from open source licensing to monetize their work but were forced to revert after losing to competing forks.
Mark Zuckerberg posted about Cambridge Analytica on January 30, 2017. The post received 42K views.
Elon Musk's votesafe.org, run by his America PAC super PAC, collects extensive personal data including names, addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration status—far more than the official vote.gov site. The site's updated privacy policy allows America PAC to sell this information and inferences about users' psychology and behavior to business partners, and shares data with Facebook, Google, X, and other tracking companies for advertising purposes.