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Recruiting Brainfood - Issue 524
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Ramp / Revelio combine payments & payroll data to tell a story on AI impact on employment, Bill Boorman crunches through 40+ earning calls transcripts from global staffing firms and a whole lot more..
Hung Lee retweeted
This is why people hate greedy, unethical @Microsoft. They’ve just installed an update on the computer of every user of Mac @Office 2021 that bricks Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.
We all have perpetual licences for Office 2021 but apparently Microsoft decided it was time to try to make everyone pay them money, even though the licence was supposed to be a one-off purchase.
After some trial and error, this fix worked for me – posting here for anyone having the same problem:
1. Delete the Office apps (Word etc.) from the Applications folder
2. Download and run the Microsoft licence removal tool: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?lin…
3. Download and install the version of Office for Mac from 6th October 2026: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/of…
4. Enter your original licence code for Office to activate it
5. In the Finder, go to Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Microsoft and delete the MAU2.0 folder
6. Open Word, then go to the Word menu, then About Microsoft Word and check that it shows your licence
7. Still in Word, go to the Help menu, and make sure that the Check for updates option isn’t there
8. Don’t update Office for Mac and it should keep working – you need to keep updates off or Microsoft will install an update that bricks Office all over again
What a waste of time.
Hung Lee retweeted
According to the book, Kushner got Tillerson fired for a $50 million UAE payment because Tillerson supported Qatar. This panicked Qatar because they realized Kushner was a pay-to-play operative, so they bought Kushner's New York City apartments, which were in the red, hoping this would help.
Hung Lee retweeted
About the ongoing revolution in America, Swedish King Gustav III writes: “It is such an interesting drama to see a nation create itself, that I, if I now had not been who I am, would go to America to follow up close every phase in the emergence of this new republic. This is perhaps America’s century. This new republic […] may perhaps take advantage of Europe some day, in the same manner as Europe has taken advantage of Europe for two centuries.”
Also worth noting Japan was deeply factuonalised in this era, army vs navy vs civilian govt, no one faction fully governed the other.
Wasn’t the Mukden incident, which triggered China vs Japan war, the inititiave of local commanders, forcing their superiors hand?
知道偷袭珍珠港最不可思议的是什么吗？日本人打一开始就知道，跟美国开战，必死无疑。真不是他们多狂。是真没油了。
战前日本自己产油极少，八成以上原油靠从美国买。美国一看日本不停在东南亚抢地盘，直接把石油、钢铁全禁运，还冻结日本在美国的资产。
算笔账就懂了，当时日本海军手里存的油料，撑不了太久，不抢南洋的油田，军舰、飞机跑不动，在中国战场的部队也维持不住。
摆在日本面前就三条路：收手放弃扩张，北上打苏联，或者南下抢油田。北上之前跟苏联打过，吃了大亏，不敢再碰。收手，军政高层不愿意。最后定下方案，南下抢石油。
可南洋那边有美国、英国、荷兰的地盘，动手就等于跟美国开战。山本五十六牵头拿出计划，先偷袭珍珠港，把美国太平洋舰队打残，争取半年到一年时间，安稳拿下南洋油田。
日军集结六艘航母，带着几百架飞机，悄悄摸到夏威夷附近，夏威夷当地周日早上，美军不少人休息，军舰一排排停在港里，飞机整齐摆在机场。雷达早就扫到飞来的机群，值班人员当成自己这边飞来的飞机，没发出警报。
两波飞机轮番轰炸，前后不到两个小时。炸沉、炸伤美军八艘战列舰，还有多艘巡洋舰、驱逐舰。一百八十多架美军飞机被毁，两千四百多名美军阵亡。日军这边只损失二十九架飞机、几艘小型潜艇。
打完之后，日军舰队直接掉头撤走，没有继续进攻港口的船坞、油料仓库。
偷袭消息传到华盛顿，罗斯福第二天到国会讲话，国会投票对日本宣战。太平洋战争正式打响。
日本人短期目标算是拿到了，之后顺利占领马来、婆罗洲这些产油区。但是美国工业底子厚，造船、造飞机的速度远远超过日本。之前被炸伤的大部分战列舰，后来都捞起来修好，重新投入战斗。
往后几年，海上仗一场接一场，日本的海军力量一点点被消耗。石油运输线被美军潜艇反复切断，新拿到的石油，经常送不到本土和舰队手里。
最后日本海军失去制海权，舰队出不了港，本土持续遭到轰炸，直到投降。
我觉得这次偷袭本质就是一场没有胜算的豪赌。日军战术打得很漂亮，短期战果亮眼，但从根子上，解决不了和美美国巨大的工业差距。缺油是导火索，就算偷袭成功，也只是短暂拖延失败的时间，改变不了最终结局。
Good / But Not Good that you have to announce that you're NOT sacking your manager. Man Utd press on, somehow have become an unfixable club
🚨 Manchester United have decided to continue with Michael Carrick as head coach.
Despite Bournemouth and Como defeats, #MUFC hierarchy decides to give Carrick more time to fix things. Player also informed.
Up next: Chelsea-Man United on Saturday. Carrick will be there.
Relevant, for recruiters
Storonsky describes Revolut as a professional sports team.
1. You're as good as you score
2. Nobody stays in the team forever
3. Revolut hires elite athletes who want to win and to be number one
4. The pressure is real, and so is how fast you learn from the best
The trade for employees: faster growth as a person, Revolut on the CV and the know-how of running a business at scale.
That's the culture behind launching every paid product in a single year.
Full breakdown here:
productmarketfit.tech/p/revo…
it's a total over reaction. Mao was unequivocally a dictator, and he probably would not have minded the label at all. Additionally, not sure where the insult is here? On team Mbappe on this one
Acemoglu won some sort of prize for talking about the superiority of institutions. It was obviously ideological crazy talk.
Daron Acemoglu has a theory of why nations fail and it informs his views on AI.
It overrates broad political participation and poorly explains the post-WWII world.
It underrates human capital and the extent to which productivity boosts raise all boats. richardhanania.com/p/daron-a…
Hung Lee retweeted
In fact, it's time to carefully revisit what OpenAI predicted on job market impact in early 2023.
Mathematicians were #1 on their list.
arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
I made this prediction 3 years ago, in July 2023. Few attending my talk believed me back then.
In retrospect, replace was not quite the right word. AI won’t replace any fields. Instead, it will fundamentally reshape, and is already reshaping, fields by rewarding deep connections to real-world challenges and other disciplines.
Hung Lee retweeted
EU gas is above €90/MWh, its highest since Dec 2022. Brent is above $115, its highest since June 2022.
The EU has already paid €100bn+ extra for oil and gas since Hormuz closed. Not one extra molecule.
Best defence: electrify.
janrosenow.substack.com/p/eu…
Hung Lee retweeted
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Tomás Amaral as the club's new Head of First Team Recruitment.
Tomás arrives with extensive experience across European football, having built a reputation for talent identification, market intelligence and strategic squad planning through roles in Portugal, Spain and Russia.
Welcome to the club, Tomás 🙌
ALT Tomás Amaral, Head of First Team Recruitment.
bbc.co.uk/future/article/202…
China overcapacity = material abundance = energy transition
Hung Lee retweeted
I've spent 20+ years launching products and features.
I finally wrote down the early access playbook I wish I'd had when I started.
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Hung Lee retweeted
The Dutch government aims to cut 25,000 civil servant jobs in an AI-led efficiency drive targeting annual savings of €3.5 billion bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Hopin was peak
Everyone keeps a list of unicorns.
Nobody keeps a list of what happened next.
So we did. 🦄📉
440+ startups once worth $1 billion or more. Not anymore.
Over $1.4 trillion of valuation, gone.
Meet the Unitard Index: unitard.io
Hung Lee retweeted
Everyone keeps a list of unicorns.
Nobody keeps a list of what happened next.
So we did. 🦄📉
440+ startups once worth $1 billion or more. Not anymore.
Over $1.4 trillion of valuation, gone.
Meet the Unitard Index: unitard.io
