by austin-cheney on 5/15/2025, 11:35:52 AM
You need to get your sleep issues under control. It is directly deteriorating your intelligence and indirectly destroying your cardio health. This will take years off your life. No amount of tricks, tools, or gimmicks will solve for this, not even a little.
Otherwise, big companies are just big. Nobody inside the big company has a wholistic view of how everything comes together except senior managers, kind of. Know what your team does, what their processes are, and eventually you will learn about adjacent teams and supporting infrastructure. Unless you are in management this is not the part you should be stressing over.
by swah on 5/16/2025, 9:45:15 AM
Nowadays I would test Gemini... give context to it and ask away.
About six months ago I started a new job at a "real" tech company after a decade working in startups, scale-ups, and relatively "non-tech" tech companies. Now I work in an org with hundreds of services, many teams from acquired buinsesses, and a mountain of terminology and acronyms. There is a lot of context switching.
At the same time I've been battling insomnia, which is impacting my memory and recall.
Basically I am looking for systems, techniques, tools to cope with a complx environment whilst operating at less than my best.
I've been using Obsidian and paper notes to capture information but to be honest it has devolved into chaos.
What do new joiners at big tech orgs use to manage their knowledge?