For example, I can give it 8 papers on best practices in online marketing, it will turn it into a 20 minute podcast.

There are errors, but also with real podcasters.

When that company moved off of Notes despite the massive investment, the writing was on the wall even if the product survived for a few decades under IBM.

They pay you 0-4% for the money in your checking account and lend it at 1-3% points higher. As long as they have a big enough uncorrelated portfolio, they make easy money.

And if the whole portfolio tanks all at once, the whole industry gets bailed out.

Anyone who has counted on a vendor that went private or was bought by a rollup firm has felt this pain.

Better to do it all at once than repeated declines.

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The one thing that suggests this might be legit is that Pasadena has an elite Math High School. https://www.mathacademy.us/

If a college senior could pull it off, perhaps a properly educated high school junior could too.

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Most books are the other way. Zoom through and you can get most of the value. This is especially true of non-fiction, where most have a message that can be gleaned in 15 minutes. (The exceptions are the great ones)

Podcasts are similar. Most give you 80% of the value at 2X speed. Even my favorites - I’d rather speed listen to get 80% the value rather than get 100% of half the backlog. The best podcasts defy this too.

So in the end it’s a bit of a skill to both choose the right things to slow down on, and then a discipline to force the appropriate speed.

1 - There are two phases of the interview process, where you’re selling them and where they are selling you. These questions are best asked in the latter. To get the most accurate answer, ask to talk to a few future peers after you get the offer in hand. Until you have that offer in hand ask softball questions that can’t be answered via the website, like “What motivates you to stay given all the opportunities in the market?”

2 - Be careful in how you ask, as you don’t want to signal you can only work in a high structure environment. So you can rephrase as “At company X I earned a reputation for fixing process Y. What software engineering processes could I help improve?” or “As you plan to grow 10X what aspects of culture and teamwork do you see changing to enable us to scale”

Leaders value engineers who help them improve over ones who require a perfect end state. So go after the answers you need, just be mindful on when and how you ask.

I guess it’s ok for compliance videos but I’m not sure about retention.

I write this as someone who wants online education succeed.

I’d love to see long term usage data on MOOCs. They had so much promise though I don’t know anyone who uses them post-LLM though it could be I live in a bubble.