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Nov 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I'm surprised by how much money individuals make from video.

At the bottom of the high end, there are examples like , where the #137th streamer on twitch has been offered $10M/yr multiple times.

More surprising to me are numbers for "normal" streamers,
e.g, @TechWithLucy says her 50k sub YT channel pays her more than AWS paid her: .

If you think of the top streamers as analogous to movie stars, maybe those numbers aren't surprising, but a 50k sub channel pulling in AWS eng money seems quite surprising.
Seeing numbers like this answers a question I've had for a while, why so many "small time" podcasts, YT channels, etc., have sponsored ad breaks.

It all makes sense if a small YT channel can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from ads.
By contrast, patreon.com/danluu does fairly for text considering that people are mainly paying for non-paywalled content, but it's still "only" $30k/yr.

I could make a lot more with ads but it wouldn't be in the same league as video, per view or per subscriber.

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Nov 8
Now that this prediction has come to pass, I should explain why I thought this was a reasonable prediction and why a lot of other predictions about what might happen were or are implausible.

Some necessary background for this is the state of Twitter over the past few years:
A lot of people are attributing almost all of Twitter's current problems to Elon (and others are attributing almost all the problems to current and past employees), but a lot of what's happening is attributable to past leadership.

Jack misran the company such that extreme
intervention would be necessary to stave off the problems we're seeing now, Parag then significantly accelerated the problems, and then Elon caused things to really come to a head sooner than anyone I know had predicted.

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Nov 7
The project led by the PM director who bragged about how many hours they work and sleeping in the office hit their deadline and shipped.

The product charges people who sign up but it doesn't actually work. But they technically shipped. The best kind of shipped.
I'm curious how adults can really think that skipping sleep adds productivity, even in the short term.

I remember learning this lesson in college. For complex (for college) projects, ~6 hours past my bedtime, I lost about 95% of my velocity and had increased error rate. Screenshot of PM "director" (this is what PM managNat Friedman @natfriedman: This is how great new things are
At my engineering school, it was typical to do all-nighters, so I tried the same thing everyone else was doing on team projects when I didn't know any better.

The 2nd time I tried it, I noticed that something that should've taken minutes took hours.
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Oct 31
This reminds me of an "Ironic. He could save others from provisioning, but not himself" story about MS.

There were, of course, datacenter supply chain issues due to Azure's growth, but the most immediately noticeable issues on joining were things like desks, toilet paper, etc.
I was in building 43, with most of Azure networking. The building was highly overprovisioned pending Microsoft remodelling the building to convert it to open offices, something that was happening building-by-building.

Meeting rooms had been converted to bullpen offices,
Teams had desks in hallways for new hires, permanently booked meeting rooms as offices, took over unbookable rooms by putting up signs, etc.

I attended a meeting about these issues where a new hire said they had no office for months. Photo of meeting room "reserved" with taped up sig
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Oct 30
I often marvel at the dynamic range of productivity that's out there.

Once upon a time, a programmer wanted to make an online Dominion implementation, so they did it as a "weekend project".

To this day, it's the nicest interface I've used for any online board game,
with terra.snellman.net, another spare-time online board game, being the only thing that's in the same league.

Anyway, the creator of the Dominion board game shut down the unofficial implementation at isotropic and sold the license to a VC funded company that had
something like 20-40 employees. After working for ~1.5 years, they released a version that didn't work (had about 1 9 of uptime, implemented rules incorrectly, had major security issues like not escaping JS in chat, allowing you to execute arbitrary JS on your opponent, etc.).
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Oct 28
This, but for cloud migrations. The quarterly "cloud is cheaper than on-prem when you account for all on-prem costs and everyone who thinks otherwise is clueless" thread is happening again.

Every time, people with serious on-prem experience will point out that's false.
The reason these threads always get rebutted is that cloud advocates don't note that a common cause of cloud being superior is organizational dysfunction that prevents the company from running on-prem hardware effectively, which the thread creator incorrectly assumes is universal
It's understandable that people would think that given how many companies are dysfunctional, e.g., at a typical car company you've heard of before they moved to the cloud (and I have enough visibility into various car company tech operations that it's fair to say typical here),
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Oct 26
I find it odd how often the evidence cited for someone being terrible is fiction.

Another example of this is Borat, which I've even seen cited as evidence of Giuliani's bad behavior and general American idiocy, but the Giuliani scene has clearly been misleadingly edited:
time moves backwards due to cuts and things are spliced in the wrong order and/or repeated to make it seem like a movement was repeated.

There's plenty of evidence of bad behavior from Giuliani, so why cite this clearly misleadingly edited scene?
And this isn't just movies. Another example is Stallman's "cancellation". There were quite a few people talking about bad behavior from Stallman for ages, but the thing that really did it was a Vice article that's full of inaccuracies.

Why did the inaccurate thing take off?
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