The scientific integrity referenced in the title is a spreadsheet she made classifying 500 birds across 100 different dimensions. Skip this read, the article is long and goes nowhere.

The quote could mean there’s a significant gap between the best and the rest.

This article isn’t worth reading because no real conclusions are drawn and the points made are pretty scattered.

The idea of differently tiered workplaces is obviously a popular one, with FANG and the academic/consulting/finance/law equivalents.

Why are half the comments complaining about giving name and email? Thanks for sharing this!

They thought it was free.

I’m sad they didn’t get what the expected, but happy that there are still groups of people getting on the internet for the first time.

That's the trick.

$630k a year in profit selling nut butter?

I was surprised by this as well, they have more information here: https://www.eastwindblog.co/?page_id=409

Looks like small-batch-industrial, and their customers are other businesses who make organic health food products containing peanut butter.

Apparently they also make sandals: https://www.eastwindblog.co/?page_id=411

I was blown away by this! At $5 a jar, that’s 10,500 units a year. Or roughly 350 a day. They must have a distribution deal with Whole Foods.

Two large natural food distributors, UNFI[0] and KeHE[1], carry their products[2] and so they're found in many natural food stores and co-ops around the country.

[0] https://www.unfi.com/ [1] https://www.kehe.com/brands/

[2] https://eastwindnutbutters.com/buy.php

People like nut butters, you know? Justin's Peanut Butter got bought for a quarter billion

In forcing the estimate you must mentally walk through the process to execute. This process alone is believed to improve outcomes (reduce procrastination, identify roadblocks, prioritize among other tasks). I would say the estimate is directional, and serves other purposes.

More of a dive into Google and the Google Maps product than a look at how she climbed the ladder. The latter would be more interesting.

What do you like more about the article you linked?

It seemed to me to have more information. They're pretty close though.

How many new studios and jobs created? A Unity study from earlier this year looked at over a thousand studios and almost 50% of the studios were less than 2 years old. Sounds like an industry with high turnover and fluidity, which makes sense given the nature of games.

Anecdotally the number of incidences of zero severance pay on being made redundant in the game industry seems way above the software industry norm to me. You read so many accounts of young people who love games building relatively risky careers fuelled by their passion being really pretty badly screwed over.

Just this week Telltale games announces a major studio closure, assured fans that one of their popular product lines will see further instalments all the while again paying zero severance to the humans who formerly made the game in question. It’s not a good look.

Another pretty bad example is the whole “will I actually get paid this month?” fiasco that dogged Crytek for years, repeatedly failing to meet payroll on time over and over again.

This wouldn’t be half as bad if the working conditions were reasonable, but it seems like working in games dev almost inevitably leads to constant crunch time to hit shipping deadlines.

Yes. I think of the triple-A game industry as a mirror image of the film industry. Many of those who work on games tend to be hired on a per-project basis. When viewed this way, the lack of unions to represent game developers is a glaring issue.