Laying off half the company?

Director Michael Kratsios on Twitter / X

Today, roughly the same amount of basic research is done in industry as in academia. It’s time our doctoral training reflected that. @NSF is launching a first-of-its-kind 4-year PhD program at more than 30 universities. Students will spend a year+ embedded with industry… pic.twitter.com/8BzVoRRkBj— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) July 29, 2026

The Real Story Of How I Sold Two Startups, The Chaos Afterwards, And What’s Next – The Health Care Blog

Today we’re starting a series of more personal stories, looking at what makes interesting people in health care tick. Alex Carmichael is a rare multiple time CEO in health technology, and she has a very interesting tale to tell–Matthew Holt

Layoff University, Vol. 2: Progress Made, Lessons Learned - excellent notes

Reflections from my first month of unemployment

Ryan Briggs on Twitter / X

These are my notes going into the first meeting of my dept's AI working group (in 30 min). We need to come up with advice for the profs in the dept. Anything I missed? pic.twitter.com/AleJQmm1bR— Ryan Briggs (@ryancbriggs) September 22, 2026

davidad 🎇 on Twitter / X

No one:Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: your message is wearing content-clothes,…— davidad 🎇 (@davidad) June 2, 2026

Andrew Yeung on Twitter / X

There's a new role every startup is desperate to fill:"Head of IRL"And they're paying $150–$250,000/year for the right personEvery startup is looking for someone to host events and build critical relationships with the stakeholders around the companyLike VCs, talent, and… pic.twitter.com/qswZ1Wy9Ri— Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) December 10, 2025

Apple CEO Tim Cook Responds to Retirement Rumors

In an interview with Good Morning America's Michael Strahan this week, Apple's CEO Tim Cook responded to rumors about his potential retirement. Cook said the idea that he wants to step back at Apple is merely "a rumor". Cook did not explicitly confirm or deny that he will be stepping down as CEO any time soon, but he said "I can't imagine life without Apple". The full interview clip is available on YouTube below.

Former Tesla AI boss Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic.

Karpathy, who had also been on the founding team of OpenAI, says he will be working on R&D at Anthropic. Previously, he had been working on “new kind of school that is AI native,” and he says he’s still “deeply passionate about education” and plans to go back to it “in time.” [Image: A screenshot of an X post from Andrej Karpathy. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-19-at-8.38.56AM.png?quality=90&strip=all]

Brendan Carr Crafting ‘Patriotic’ Call Center Onshoring Plan To Provide Cover For Mass Looming Telecom Layoffs

When he’s not busy trampling free speech, crushing the First Amendment, and destroying media consolidation and consumer protection standards, Brendan Carr has other hobbies. Like helping the …

the senior engineer death spiral

on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate

Andrew Yeung on Twitter / X

Holy crap. This is possibly the most insane job posting I've seen.Founders School is hiring a "Simulation Game Director" for $400,000 a year. That's just the base salary.If you haven't heard of Founders School, they're a radical new high school launching in New York City this… pic.twitter.com/sYjJZGkGA9— Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) July 27, 2026

Dan Singleton 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ on Twitter / X

1. Ok, this is the thread to end all threads, or possibly my career. I am about to trash a new paper in @sciencemagazine, its editors, its reviewers, C&E News, others who stated or wrote adoring commentaries, anyone who looked at the paper or its commentaries without seeing pic.twitter.com/K5O1cX1BJP— Dan Singleton 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@dasingleton) April 8, 2019