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Twitter's acquisition of Revue— —got me thinking about how living in the Netherlands is like living in a big-budget feature trailer for the future. essentially Dutch Substack; founded two years earlier again Not convinced? Here is a short list of things invented by the Dutch: 🔬 The microscope and the telescope 💿 The cassette, CD, DVD and Blu-Ray 🎧 Bluetooth and Wifi 🧑‍💻 Structured programming 🥕 Orange carrots 📈 The Stock Market 🤝 Fairtrade certification 📺 Fear Factor, Deal or No Deal, Big Brother and The Voice 🌴 Ayden and booking dot com Shouldn't be surprising, then, to discover the Dutch were the first to ship something almost identical to Substack, too.* — — *Fast Fun Dutch Fact: The Dutch have a complicated relationship with Calvinism , a major branch of Protestantism that follows the doctrine of some dude named John Calvin. Fascinatingly and despite the fact that Calvinsim dates back to the 1540s, and today, the Dutch are largely atheists their Calvinist roots are still strongly evident in their intrinsically down-to-earth, "moral", and modest culture. An article this promotional of their own national talents would perhaps not sit well well with a Dutch writer - although of course that, much like everything else in this paragraph, is a sweeping generalization. Which begs the question: what else have startups in the Netherlands been working on in the last five years? : From reporting by Mike Butcher for techcrunch.com "...there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam [alone], while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017... [ Amsterdam moved up to 12th place in the 2020 rankings.] The median seed round is $500,000 (above the global average of $494,000) and a median Series A round for a startup is $2.4 million. The average salary for a software engineer is around €54,000." note: by startup analysts Golden Egg Check, 272 Dutch tech startups and scale-ups collectively raised over €1.7 billion (around $2 billion) in venture capital last year. According to a report ( Note: if you're a founder in need of funding, I think Golden Egg Check's Startup Roulette community is a pretty cool idea — could we do with more platforms that successfully and efficiently democratize access pitching opportunities to VC investment?) 👇 Check out their Airtable for the full breakdown of Dutch startups that raised in 2020. For the purposes of this post, I read up only on recently funded or acquired startups founded within the last five years, 17 of which I've highlighted below. CodeSandBox clocks $15 million total funding in two rounds In October last year, Amsterdam-based — the 2017-founded startup that lets teams prototype, build and host web apps with its rapid web development platform — raised a new round of $12.7M (almost €10.83M) Series A funding led by EQT Ventures, taking their total raised to $15M (around €12.8M): CodeSandBox "Also, existing investors Kleiner Perkins, Arches Capital, and Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch accompanied by new angels Andreas Blixt and Daniel Gebler took part in the funding round. This new investment will allow CodeSandBox to continue building the community, providing the tools and support to take it to new heights, including features like opinionated support for larger projects that will unlock new use cases and further existing ones." ( source ) 👆 CodeSandbox Founders Bas Buursma and Ives van Hoorne ( source ). Fun fact, you can embed any CodeSandBox in a Hacker Noon story by pasting the link and hitting enter. Climate crisis startup ideas worth stealing from the Netherlands If electric bikes, eScooters, car sharing, and/or monthly bike rentals sound like smart startup ideas for your city, be sure to check out what ; ; ; ; and (🦄 alert) are doing. And—even though I'd personally rather stick pins in my eyes than drive a car in a cyclists-first city like Amsterdam—I think 's solution to the infernal nightmare that is finding parking would be a hit in cities as congested as Cape Town, for example. VanMoof Felyx Dott GreenWheels Swapfiets ParkBee In the food tech space, being two respective examples of well-funded startups in this space), but they've by no means stopped there. is not only the "market leader when it comes to verifiable and scalable insect breeding," but also in turning aforementioned insects into food for your pets or livestock, or fertilizer, which, hey, great idea? Also will literally , so. 🍳 Meatable Protix their website claims their insect-fuelled chicken feed improve the taste of your eggs Gamers gone viral was founded in 2015 to let gamers "watch, record and share highlights. The startup attained €3 million seed funding in February 2019, as well as closing an €8.1 million Series A round in September 2019. The Naarden-based team was also in the news last year, having acquired to expand to mobile gaming, as well as being one of the apps to technically support TikTok’s new ‘Share’ tool." Medal.tv gaming Megacool.co ( source ) No storefront, no problem in the age of app-only supermarkets and the comfortingly named are among the first to deliver produce to consumers in the Netherlands. Picnic Crisp app- only grocers Image from Crisp's House Style Guide . Picnic raised a $275 million series C round in 2019, and "Crisp raised €3 million seed capital for its launch, which at the time was the highest raised in the past 3 years in the Benelux according to Dealroom. Since then, in June 2019, it raised another €5 million, and has grown its team to 50+ strong, and doubled its number of suppliers." ( source ) Teams who sleep better together work better together ...or something? 🙊 is a B2B sleep coaching platform founded in 2017 to help corporates "improve performance". Shleep Sounds a bit late-stage capitalismy for my tastes, but hey, I'm all for self-improvement on company budget. Lest we forget the challenger banks and the blockchain bros Amsterdam's in 2019 introduced a market place for developers to showcase apps built using the European challenger bank’s open API, and in 2020 became in the Netherlands and Portugal. bunq the first digital bank to offer Google Pay Bunq also turned 5 in December, and I've gotta say—they're the best banking experience I've ever had. (And that's a paid plug—I've just personally been banking with them since April, and their support team's responses are both efficient demonstrative of high levels of emoji-intelligence). not impossibly and I thought ) explained a lot about my experience of their user-centric approach: this reporting (based off the perspective of bunq's CEO "bunq, the Netherlands-founded challenger bank which has so far resisted venture capital (VC) funding unlike its peers, announced yesterday that it doubled its total customer deposits in 2019 to more than €433 million ($476 million). This may not sound like a lot compared to Revolut’s €10 billion ($11 billion) in deposits – based off its claim that each customer holds an average of €1,000 in their account – but without VC funding and huge amounts of marketing, bunq is not doing badly. The average deposit held by bunq’s Premium users in 2019 was €2,322, and since the start-up launched its Green Card in November it’s seen more than 70,000 trees planted for every €100 spent. Niknam points out that bunq, known as “ a bank built by coders ”, has been “less aggressive” in its marketing strategy, preferring the “ build it and they will come ” phrase. Of course you need to do a little bit of marketing just for people to know who you are and for them to trust you, but our main driver of growth has been satisfied users. ” Yep, I can vouch for that. 🖐️ 2020 was also a big year for Dutch acquisitions in the blockchain space: "Leading blockchain infrastructure provider Genesis Group announced the acquisition of [founded 2016] in March 2020. The acquisition comes after a long-standing relationship that Blockchain Consulting provided Genesis Group and its affiliated companies with blockchain software development, crypto market analysis, and strategic consulting services. Blockchain Consulting Amsterdam-based [founded 2018; allows users to find out about trends, funding, and product features in the blockchain industry] was in September. Blockdata acquired by CB Insights " [founded 2017], a social cryptocurrency investment platform, was in January of 2020." Blockport acquired by BUX ( source ) 📍 Notes on looking at startups by location Locating startups within their ecosystems and climates is one way to place ideas, products and platforms in context—which can be useful for forming testable assumptions about product market fit or potential appetite for investment. For example, what's notable about structural and policy conditions for startups in the Netherlands is that they're pretty damn good. Check out a few of the reasons to move your startup to Amsterdam cited in Startup Genome's Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020 : For contrast, here are the numbers coming out of Cairo—the only African City included in last year's report: Global Startup Ecosystem —like people—don't grow to into existence independent of their most immediate contexts, so I think looking at innovation by location can be a useful lens. Startups What are some of the frameworks you use to evaluate startup ideas or investment opportunities? 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says , Engineering Manager at . “I would describe an engineering manager as a Sergeant Major. They are very much part of the mission delivery team and manage a group of experts to perform specific tasks,” David Ives Pusher 1. Motivating their team members Motivation might not be exactly a tool, yet it keeps people interested and driven towards a goal. As a manager, you can do your best to keep the spirits high, but you should know that the most effective way of getting your team motivated is to give them projects that balance their skills with their interests at large while still keeping the tasks challenging. Why do engineers lose motivation Engineers can lose motivation by being regularly assigned to trivial tasks, staying stuck with a problem for a long time, or the lack of recognition. can help you spot engineers at risk of losing motivation and fix issues before they impact the project. Git Analytics tools How to keep engineers motivated Another way to keep the people focused on the final goal is to show them the impact of their work in the company. Everybody likes the sense of ownership, feeling like making a difference, like contributing to something bigger, especially if these individuals value their visibility in the company. 2. Improving team performance You can’t improve something if you don’t measure it. Before thinking about improving your team’s performance, you have to start measuring it. In this way, you can understand your current level. Defining team performance While doing this, you need to create your own definition of performance. Then, compare it with the metrics you’ve gathered. In engineering, we encounter another problem: what metrics should we use to measure our teams’ performance? Several engineering performance metrics that engineering managers follow include impact, efficiency, time to resolve, and review coverage. Aligning engineering performance to business People tend to change their working system to obtain better results once managers evaluate the performance based on metrics. This is why you have to align metrics with your business goals. Sticking to old productivity metrics like Lines of Code or function points delivered, you risk creating an unhealthy team environment. 3. Setting clear goals and expectations One of the responsibilities of engineering leaders is driving the team towards a common goal. To do this, you have to consider the working style and efficiency levels of your team members. After that, set clear expectations from them. , Head of Engineering at Asana, claims that “ Prashant Pandey At Asana, we believe in creating alignment through clarity. It’s how we approach building our product and how we set our goals as a company.” Improving visibility across the engineering department If you want to make your business more agile, you need to improve the real-time visibility across the engineering department. Increased visibility will allow you to prioritize goals and make data-driven decisions. When it comes to engineering leaders and their role in the organization, Prashant also argues that “ .” one of your key responsibilities as an engineering leader is to create clarity out of ambiguity. If you find yourself in this position, think of it as an opportunity—not just a challenge—to take something vague and give your team clarity on how to approach it. You’ll earn credibility when you can create a clear plan for both your executive stakeholders and your team 4. Providing an environment that encourages development When talking about the success of development teams, the working environment is often neglected. A good engineering manager knows how crucial it is to provide a productive development environment. How to encourage personal development Whether we are talking about giving your team the right tools, finding a balance between releasing new features and refining existing ones, or designing onboarding processes for new engineers, managers are the key to creating an environment fit for progress. A good leader will recognize the potential of onboarding as a tool for empowering new hires. It can also give existing team members the chance to share their knowledge and mentor. Like this, your new team members will feel welcomed and able to find their bearings faster. You will also be able to detect team members with leadership qualities and define their growth trajectories. 5. Creating a strong team culture One of the most exciting aspects of engineering management is creating a unique team culture. Our advice is to understand the existing team culture, how the team functions, and what works for them. After you’ve acquainted yourself with your team’s habits and practices, you can build from there and implement new things. The Spotify model A good example of this practice is the now-famous . Spotify started working with the Scrum network. Over time, as their teams grew, they noticed it wasn’t working well for them anymore. Spotify model So, after learning the rules, they decided to break them. More exactly, they got rid of things that got in their way, like Scrum roles, artifacts, and events. Instead, they focused on Agile principles. For instance, they renamed the Scrum Master as Agile Coach because, in their vision, “servant leaders” were more important than “process masters.” This is how Spotify has created an autonomous, people-driven model for scaling agile, all while emphasizing the importance of culture. Improving the team culture After you’ve accustomed yourself to your team’s culture, it’s time to remove the bad habits and introduce some new practices. The best way to determine what kinds of values and practices you should introduce to your team is to define the values that embody the company’s vision and culture. Then, observe if they match your personal preference. The next step is identifying what behaviors align with these values and encourage them. The introduction of new, concrete practices, like code reviews, weekly development sharing, or hack days, should be preceded by building a foundation of strong values for your team. 6. Mentoring your team members You need more than a title to convince people to listen to you; this is why communication skills are high on the list of qualities an engineering leader should have. Everybody can give commands; what makes an engineering manager is the ability to inspire and guide their team members. The benefits of mentorship Firstly, we have to admit that mentorship is no easy feat. It’s time and emotionally consuming, yet the results are worth the effort. Mentoring can be a great tool for managers who want to keep their team members engaged, continuously learning, and evolving. , Engineering Manager at Uber, offers an instructive opinion on this matter: “ .” Gergely Orosz When they learn, they are engaged. When developers are engaged, they are a lot more likely to stay. Thus, recognizing and encouraging mentorship within teams and companies is one of the most important things managers can do and advocate for As an engineering manager, you can facilitate mentoring relationships because you know your team members’ strengths and weaknesses. You also have the authority to reach out to potential mentors and pair them with apprentices. If you want mentorship to be spread across the organization, you have to make it a part of promotions, performance reviews, and competencies. Simply put, mentoring should be an expectation from senior engineers. 7. Taking ownership of your decisions A great leader can make decisions and take responsibility for them. , Senior Developer from KKBox says: Jace Ju “They understand that admitting mistakes is not shameful; instead, it’s a chance for growth. That’s why they’d go back and review their mistakes after the problem has been solved.” Making mistakes is inevitable, and there’s no need to live with the fear of doing something wrong. This is why engineering leaders have perfected the art of handling mistakes and owning up to their decision. After all, there is wisdom in knowing that you’re wrong. 8. Hiring the right talent Hiring new talent is challenging for an engineering manager, mostly because they focus on hiring the best talent instead of the “right” talent. As an engineering manager, you need to ask yourself how much a new hire will impact the team and organization at large. Defining the right talent To define the “right” talent, an engineering leader must understand team dynamics and short and long-term goals. As , Engineering Leader at Uber, eloquently puts it: “ Naveen Veeravalli There are several things that you need to consider while hiring someone for your team. Are you looking to hire someone who can coach other team members? Do you already have a team of leaders who are thrilled by the opportunity to mentor new engineers and scale the team? Do you have a giant backlog, and you are looking to hire someone to help deliver specific features in the near future? Are you looking for a particular skill that your current team does not have? These are just some plots I’ve been in. There is no general hiring advice that works for everyone.” 9. Using the wrong metrics We live in a data-driven world, where statements like “information is power” are universally acknowledged. This is why any engineering manager will agree that metrics are crucial in measuring performance and making decisions. Some even believe that the easier it is to collect a metric, the more likely it is useless. We can give an example in this sense. When Bill Atkinson was a principal developer at Apple in the 80s, he was working on optimizing Macintosh’s fundamental graphics toolbox. He made the region engine six times faster by using a simpler algorithm. While filling out the management form, he was asked how many lines of code did he write. He answered -2000. The meaning behind this story is that . This goes to show that contributions in software take on different forms. Based on these learnings, Git Analytics tools were created. They help engineering leaders measure their teams' performance with respect to software engineering nuances. lines of code are an inaccurate engineering performance metric Also published on WayDev

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Either the industry has yet to find the right use case for voice technology, or perhaps, , “[n]obody wants to walk around their house talking to a computer.” Fun fact: 10,000 Amazon employees work on the Alexa voice assistant. as one founder points out 🚨 An exceptional piece of research from Jordan Dworkin measures jobs, and concludes that service and industrial sector workers are likely to struggle with transitions more than those in business, scientific and medical sectors. the impact of automation in different professions against the ability of workers to transition to new Optimal recommendations should not only consider a new job’s automatability and growth potential, but also its similarity to the job a worker is leaving. Skills most associated with less automatable jobs differ across sectors, and skills that facilitate job transitions may be distinct from those that facilitate within-job skill redefinition. Automation will likely have complex effects on the job market that are not fully captured by the likelihood of individual jobs becoming automated. Instead, it is important that policy-makers, businesses and workers consider the relationships between jobs when determining who is at the highest risk of long-term displacement and which transition or reskilling opportunities they should pursue. ⚖️ . With those two countries removed from the dataset, income inequality has worsened in the remaining 143 countries measured in the study. Growth in regional income inequality in Asia outside of China and India is particularly significant. (Sorry, paywalled!) 📧 He explains: “What I see in Superhuman though is a company that has mistaken taking advantage of people for good design. They’ve identified a feature that provides value to some of their customers (i.e. seeing if someone has opened your email yet) and they’ve trampled the privacy of every single person they send email to in order to achieve that”. To his credit, Rahul Vohra of Superhuman, ending the practice. (This is part of the norming process we are going through as we grapple with these technologies, see the Dept of Surveillance below and my End Note.) Income inequality declined globally between 1988 and 2015, but only if we count India and China Mike Davidson raises an important question about Superhuman, an email client favoured by the digerati. Superhuman tracks when recipients open mail. responded effectively 🌡️ Climate crisis: 413.76ppm | 3,972 days Each week, we’re going to remind you of the CO2 levels in the atmosphere and the number of days until reaching the 450ppm threshold, the point at which significant portions of our planet’s ice will melt away. (as of July 1): 413.76 ppm; 12 months ago: 409ppm; 50 years ago: 326.66ppm; 250 years ago, est: 250ppm. Share this reminder with your community by forwarding this email or . 🔥 . European average temperatures were more than 2°C above normal, and temperatures were up to 10°C above normal over parts of France, Germany and Spain. Globally, the average temperature was about 0.1°C higher than during the previous warmest June. That was only three years ago. The speed at which temperature records are now being broken is an alarming sign of the future we may be facing. 🚫 The tide appears to be finally turning against fossil fuels, however. . Over 100 leading global financial institutions are pulling back from the sector, creating a “progressive strangulation” on access to capital markets and insurance for coal companies. Earlier this week, for example, insurer Chubb Ltd announced that and that it would phase out its coverage for existing risks which exceed this threshold by 2022. Researchers from the US and China find that . If we are to meet that target there is no room for new carbon-emitting energy infrastructure, and some existing infrastructure must be retired prematurely. as much as 200 gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere. The latest measurement tweeting this This June was the hottest ever recorded Capital is exiting the coal business, according to a recent report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis it would not underwrite new risks for companies which generate more than 30% of their revenue from coal committed emissions from existing and proposed energy infrastructure represent more than the entire remaining carbon budget for the 1.5 °C climate target Planting a trillion trees could capture Dept of artificial intelligence Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from materials science literature. . Essentially, a machine learning system, requiring little training, was able to process more than three million abstracts in materials science. By looking at relationships between words and phrases, it was able to suggest hitherto unknown materials with thermoelectric properties. (Find a less technical .) The implications for science are significant. As a reminder, claimed: “on a per-dollar or per-person basis, science is becoming far less efficient.” If science is suffering diminishing returns, this might mean fewer insights to inspire breakthroughs that we need as we strain our planetary boundaries. AI is making progress in helping scientists. Think of Deepmind’s Alphafold predicting the 3-D structure of folded proteins or helping chemists understand millions of reaction pathways. And firms like Zymergen and LabGenius use machine learning tools to accelerate genomic research and drug development. The beauty of this current paper is that the technique, word2vec, is really rather simple compared to some breakthrough approaches. And the authors have . Elsewhere: This paper had scientists abuzz with the potential summary here this excellent essay on the stagnation of science made their code available for all . Sandhu draws out the point that some degree of bias is inherent and even necessary—the important thing is to explicitly recognise and understand which biases are present, how they're influencing the output and what the implications are. An excellent breakdown by Jaspreet Sandhu of the concepts and current state of knowledge about the role bias plays in machine learning MIT researchers . reckon they can predict emotional states by reflected wifi signals Dept of surveillance Worth noting just how surveillance, by government and private sector, has exploded as an issue. We covered this in , but there are a handful of more interesting developments. These indicate we need a new agreement around consumer and citizen privacy, and more clarity on how these technologies could be used. Partly it is about law and regulation. Partly it is about norms and behaviour. See my End Note. 👎 Dave Lee: . “Is Facebook fixing itself, or merely making it harder for us to see it’s broken?” Shoshana Zuboff doesn’t think we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google; . She argues that lawmakers need to “outlaw the secret theft of private experience”, disrupt revenue flows and business models based on surveillance, develop laws and regulations which protect users and empower new forms of grassroots collective action against the tech giants. 🔈Shoshana and I a couple of weeks ago. 🚓 The London Metropolitan Police’s facial recognition program continues to draw attention for all the wrong reasons. The system’s sky-high levels of inaccuracy (with a 98% false positive rate) have been repeatedly in the past. In that context, the revealed in the latest independent report commissioned by Scotland Yard almost looks like an improvement—although, in fact, it could be higher than that, as some of the “suspects” could not be found to verify whether or not the program had accurately identified them. The report also identified significant operational problems and issues around informed consent, or lack thereof. In the US, The group points to a well-known study which showed that major US retailers, Walmart and Home Depot, offered lower prices to users browsing anonymously. (Some anonymous users were offered 15% lower prices than identifiable users.) 🇪🇺 . The group are concerned about both state and commercial surveillance, but their report overall encourages the uptake and expansion of AI across multiple levels of society. last week’s special issue Facebook may be pivoting to something worse she thinks we haven’t really tried had a great conversation about surveillance capitalism highlighted 81% inaccuracy rate a consumer advocacy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the practice of “surveillance scoring” customers’ financial status. An independent group advising the European Commission on whether and how to regulate AI has recommended an outright ban on the use of AI for mass-scale credit scoring and blanket surveillance Short morsels to appear smart at dinner parties 💔 🙈 Waymo has been given the to carry passengers in its self-driving vehicles on public roads. Women in most leadership skills. Could blockchain help ? 👀 Apple is trying to . 🙀 It wasn't your imagination: The world's of individual atoms. 👂 Five couples lined up at Russia’s largest fertility clinic for . Globalisation is already dead. go-ahead by Californian regulators score higher than men save politics from big money make eye contact using FaceTime way less awkward wiggling the mouse in Windows 95 really did make it run faster. smallest MRI visualises the magnetic field CRISPR babies to avoid deafness End note How should we make sense of the surveillance-privacy axis? Well, it is another instance of the ethics of invention. To quote Sheila Jasonoff from her book, (See what I did there?): The Ethics of Invention The challenge for modern societies is to develop sufficiently powerful and systematic understanding of technology for us to know where the possibilities lie for meaningful political action and responsible governance. The bargains struck in enhancing human capability do not have to be Faustian, ratified between unequal bargaining partners under conditions of blind ignorance or irreducible uncertainty. I want to talk about email tracking as such a technology. The story about Superhuman broke this week. The firm’s email client did, apparently, cross a boundary. The product had a tracking capability which meant that a sender could see a recipient’s rough location and online status, without opt-in or opt-out. But understand that elements of this capability are now foisted on us across the board. Superhuman was far from unique. Add-ons like Mailtrack and Boomerang have provided similar email tracking capabilities for close to a decade. Messengers like Signal, WhatsApp and iMessage also give away the recipient’s status information. Superhuman’s response has been rapid and significant. The firm put a moratorium on that particular technology while they figure out what the non-Faustian bargain should be. (I offered Rahul, the CEO, about what a product fix might look like.) some typo-ridden suggestions The reality is that we are all in a process where we figure out positive-sum arrangements for these enhancing technologies. The technologies will shape our norms, yes. But our norms should also shape the technologies. Incidentally, you may wonder what kind of tracking happens on emails sent by ? Well, in the case of this newsletter, every single recipient is on here via a double-opt-in. You have selected to receive the newsletter and confirmed you wanted to receive it. Exponential View In common with virtually every other newsletter, our mailing platform provides us with operational data that includes which users opened the mail, and which links they clicked on. We use this data for operational reasons. Most commonly, we use it to track open and click rates. If we see these changing, usually declining (!!), we can make course corrections. 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