Camille Fournier

@skamille

she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now!

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Camille Fournier@skamille· 12d

Don't cancel me but

Camille Fournier@skamille· 20d

Can't argue with her there

highlighted text from the review: For Crabapple, a New Yorker through and through, the best possible outcome anyone can ever achieve is to move to New York City.

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jul 11

VAR? Seriously what the fuck are you people talking about because I know it's not value at risk

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jul 11

Why tho

An orange cat on his belly with one leg out one leg tucked
Also a pair of socks randomly left on the floor

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jul 8

It would be so funny if anthropic and oai got regulated like systemically important financial institutions haha I don't think your AI will save you from that

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jun 30

A photo I took this weekend (I too was surprised to find myself in the house of rationalism for unrelated reasons)

Two of the eliezer yudkowsky harry potter rationalist fanfic books

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jun 30

LMAO I got read for filth by this one

My chart on the AI compass. Text reads:
You are...
The B2B SaaS Consultant
patron saint: Matt Yglesias
AI will quietly boost total factor productivity by some single-digit percentage and you think that's actually a huge deal, wonkily speaking. You're bullish in a spreadsheet way, not a singularity way. You've explained the Jevons paradox to someone who didn't ask.
Impact: +2.3 • Valence: +0.6

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jun 14

Coordinated

Two cats, one orange, one dilute calico, leaning over to their backs to clean themselves

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jun 14

So beautiful

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jun 8

This whole thing is funny but somehow this is the thing that got me to laugh

Property -> taxes (still from YouTube video about how agriculture is bad, actually)

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jun 8

The FT is challenging my breakfast today I just made an audible "ew" reading this

In her former career as an estate agent, Vanessa Martin says her team of eight female colleagues experimented with assigning tasks according to their cycles.

Sales and outreach were given to those in the first half of their cycle, when peaking oestrogen and testosterone can mean “higher energy” and better “communication skills”. Administrative and deep work were allocated in the latter half, when “the calming hormone” progesterone brings lower energy and, for some, a greater propensity for focused, solitary work.

Camille Fournier@skamille· Jun 8

How can anyone say/publish the word "tweakment" with a straight face

Screenshot from an article in the ft with the text: It's very normal to see people who seem to be ageing really well and then you find they actually have lots of tweakments done really subtly," she adds.

Camille Fournier@skamille· May 30

The quantity of cat hair I just pet off this monster

Camille Fournier@skamille· May 27

A fiery explosion with the words SpaceX begins IPO roadshow below it

Camille Fournier@skamille· May 27

This bit also led to some idle thoughts, such as, "how much do we honestly think we can build evals to really control for this in all the cases we care about enough to truly delegate accountability"