Dillon Cower @dcower
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there is no better time in tech than now to be a jack of all trades, master of a few. just make sure to keep adding to the few year over year, such that the cumulative breadth of expertise you collect becomes an increasingly rare combo. remember, if you're top 10% in 3 different areas, that already makes you top 0.1%. keep switching it up until you get to "your best", and then switch it up again (great for a particular flavor of people who don't enjoy resting on laurels, maybe not so great for others). question all institutional value and pedigrees, all traditional career paths or corporate ladders: the college industrial complex is getting shaken up, alongside a disappearing managerial class, so if you're pursuing either make sure you are fully internally aligned with why. social/political capital in a particular institution can feel incredible, but if you're spending all your energy on complex political people games, you're not a technologist anymore, you're an unelected politician. if you're ok with that, then all's well. critical thinking is more important than ever: take nothing at face-value, question everything and everyone. the equivalent of ai slop can be found in humans operating under misaligned incentives and interests. the sooner you're clued into disambiguating the talkers/larpers from the doers, the better off you'll be figuring out where and who to invest your time in. the anxiety of job displacement is very real, since a surprising amount of white collar work/prestige is built on a performative house of cards, significantly lacking in correlation with technical breadth, depth, and skill. as long as you keep learning, keep building, keep producing receipts, you will be fine. if all that sounds ok to you, welcome to the world of technology! it's truly one of the few places you can experience child-like wonder every few years, and be constantly humbled & excited by new adventures, as scary as they may seem at first. don't give up, drink your water, get your sunlight, and take breaks as needed. tech careers are notoriously nonlinear, so you might as well embrace it and enjoy the ride!
@suchenzang morning existential nanodread and evening microburnouts are the way to go. keeps you vigilant.
Waymo's Perception system, which uses lidar, radar, and camera, sees even in extreme lighting conditions. If the headlights on this car were to go out, we would still detect all the people. Check out this side by side of a camera image and our detections overlaid on top.
Are autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars) “less able to detect people of color”? That’s what I read in The Atlantic this weekend, in Xochitl Gonzalez’s “People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All of Our Decisions.” It appears to be entirely false.
@MikeIsaac the original Dean Browning, if you will vox.com/the-goods/2020…
@chandler5554 @reed @Waymo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Fa… (but like... car, not face)
@jackclarkSF Link for the lazy: jack-clark.net/2026/05/04/imp…
This simultaneous launch of 4 fully autonomous cities (a @Waymo & industry first) brings us to 10 metro areas: SF Bay Area, LA, PHX, ATX, ATL, MIA, DAL, HOU, SAT, and ORL. And more to come.
Starting today, we’re welcoming our first riders in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Orlando. ✨Be one of them — download the Waymo app today & sign up.
Meet Ojai, equipped with our 6th-gen Waymo Driver now driving fully autonomously. 🚙 We’re excited to begin welcoming riders this summer.
Incredibly excited to share our most recent work: the Waymo World Model. We leverage the broad world knowledge in Google DeepMind's Genie 3 and bring it into our most advanced autonomous driving simulator to date, with emergent transfer of world knowledge even into the 3D domain.
We’re excited to introduce the Waymo World Model—a frontier generative mode for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation built on @GoogleDeepMind’s Genie 3. By simulating the “impossible”, we proactively prepare the Waymo Driver for some of the most rare and
DOOM didn’t just change games, it changed how games were made. And uniquely, much of that story happened in public. While #DOOM was taking shape, the id Software team casually engaged with fans on Usenet; openly discussing tools, engine tradeoffs, features, leaks, and shipping realities in real time. This wasn’t PR, and it wasn’t written in hindsight. It was devs talking openly while the game was still being built. Primary sources, straight from the moment. 🧵👇
Left hand on the ground trying not to hit the pavement; right hand still holding a cell phone. ICE person standing with a one handed grip pointing his gun right at the man’s head. There is nothing about this that we should accept. We all must reject this. This is our government
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