Category: News Briefs

This announcement is simply meant to attract attention and rally everyone’s support to help bring this vision to fruition.

For companies, gradually letting go of higher-salaried employees over 30 is the most important thing to do once operations stabilize. Cost reduction and efficiency improvement—this is the true meaning of workforce rejuvenation.

There’s a calculation where age is divided by performance score, and a lower result indicates lower potential.

A common trait across big and small tech companies (possibly beyond just the internet sector): if the project isn't there, you have to go.

Doctors, teachers, civil servants — their income follows a slowly rising parallel line; you can work at it for a long time, even a lifetime. Take software engineers, for example. Their income curve is more like a parabola: it shoots up to a high point early on, then drops off steeply. What awaits them down the road is career transition, a pivot to a different field, or unemployment.

The ones who actually make money usually have a clear long-term direction, stick with it, outlast all their competitors, and are the last ones left quietly cleaning up the battlefield. #BookNotes#

When someone keeps pushing forward, you won't survive for long.