{"id":141,"date":"2024-10-16T07:33:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T07:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/reflections-on-palantir-nabeel-s-qureshi\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T07:33:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T07:33:10","slug":"reflections-on-palantir-nabeel-s-qureshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/10\/16\/reflections-on-palantir-nabeel-s-qureshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Palantir &#8211; Nabeel S. Qureshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Being a successful FDE required an unusual sensitivity to social context \u2013 what you really had to do was partner with your corporate (or government) counterparts at the highest level and gain their trust, which often required playing political games. Impro is popular with nerds partly because it breaks down social behavior mechanistically. The vocabulary of the company was saturated with Impro-isms \u2013 \u2018casting\u2019 is an example. Johnstone discusses how the same actor can play \u2018high status\u2019 or \u2018low status\u2019 just by changing parts of their physical behavior \u2013 for example, keeping your head still while talking is high status, whereas moving your head side to side a lot is low status. Standing tall with your hands showing is high status, slouching with your hands in your pocket is low status. And so on. If you didn\u2019t know all this, you were unlikely to succeed in a customer environment. Which meant you were unlikely to integrate customer data or get people to use your software. Which meant failure.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/nabeelqu.substack.com\/p\/reflections-on-palantir\">nabeelqu.substack.com\/p\/reflections-on-palantir<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a successful FDE required an unusual sensitivity to social context \u2013 what you really had to do was partner with your corporate (or government) counterparts at the highest level and gain their trust, which often required playing political games. Impro is popular with nerds partly because it breaks down social behavior mechanistically. The vocabulary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}