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PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White

2026-05-04 ยท 44 min ยท 30 entities

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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://linkedin.com/in/john-myles-white-115697180
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/Foundations-Agnostic-Statistics-Peter-Aronow/dp/1316631141
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-Springer/dp/0387402721
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    Feed author/publisher: Ryan Peterman
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/Foundations-Agnostic-Statistics-Peter-Aronow/dp/1316631141
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/Foundations-Agnostic-Statistics-Peter-Aronow/dp/1316631141
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-Springer/dp/0387402721
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-Springer/dp/0387402721
  • โ†’ discusses Technology company
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  • โ†’ references cursor.com website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://cursor.com/
  • โ†’ references developing.dev website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://developing.dev/
  • โ†’ references @Ryanlpeterman website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman
  • โ†’ references read.compose.llc company
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://read.compose.llc/
  • โ†’ references Msl Eng Director Promo Hacking Industry website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://developing.dev/p/msl-eng-director-promo-hacking-industry
  • โ†’ references johnmyleswhite.com website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://johnmyleswhite.com/
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://github.com/johnmyleswhite
  • โ†’ references Evaluating The Design Of The R Language website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://researchgate.net/publication/240040602_Evaluating_the_Design_of_the_R_Language

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  • mentioned cursor.com website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://cursor.com/
  • mentioned developing.dev website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://developing.dev/
  • mentioned @Ryanlpeterman website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://developing.dev/p/msl-eng-director-promo-hacking-industry
  • mentioned johnmyleswhite.com website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://johnmyleswhite.com/
  • mentioned Johnmyleswhite website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://github.com/johnmyleswhite
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://researchgate.net/publication/240040602_Evaluating_the_Design_of_the_R_Language
  • references cursor.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://cursor.com/
  • references developing.dev website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://developing.dev/
  • references @Ryanlpeterman website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://developing.dev/p/msl-eng-director-promo-hacking-industry
  • references johnmyleswhite.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://johnmyleswhite.com/
  • references Johnmyleswhite website
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://github.com/johnmyleswhite
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://researchgate.net/publication/240040602_Evaluating_the_Design_of_the_R_Language

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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-Springer/dp/0387402721
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/Foundations-Agnostic-Statistics-Peter-Aronow/dp/1316631141
  • 0.77
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-Springer/dp/0387402721
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/Foundations-Agnostic-Statistics-Peter-Aronow/dp/1316631141
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    evidence rules-v5
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-Springer/dp/0387402721
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-Springer/dp/0387402721

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  • mentioned John Myles White person
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://linkedin.com/in/john-myles-white-115697180
  • references John Myles White person
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://linkedin.com/in/john-myles-white-115697180
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  • mentioned Technology company
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  • mentioned read.compose.llc company
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://read.compose.llc/
  • discusses Technology company
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    Feed category: Technology
  • references read.compose.llc company
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    Link in episode "PyTorch Eng Director: Promo Hacking, Industry Shifts, Regrets | John Myles White": https://read.compose.llc/
Episode description as stored
John Myles White recently left his role as a director of engineering at Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) so we spoke freely about promo culture, how big tech has changed, and how his career grew. ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ธ๐˜€: โ€ข YouTube: https://youtu.be/aPfnP4iAIH8 โ€ข Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835 โ€ข Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/msl-eng-director-promo-hacking-industry ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฏ๐˜†: โ€ข Cursor 3: a unified workspace for building software with agents, check it out at https://cursor.com/ โ€ข My ergonomic keyboard project, you can follow along here: https://read.compose.llc/ ๐—ง๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜€: 0:00 - Intro 0:54 - Is he bullish on MSL 5:23 - Running promotions at Meta 15:15 - Growing at Meta 22:22 - Julia core language contributor 29:24 - Academics failing into industry 31:48 - Stats book recommendations 38:02 - Biggest career regret 41:05 - Advice for his younger self 42:46 - Outro ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ป: โ€ข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-myles-white-115697180/ โ€ข X/Twitter: https://x.com/johnmyleswhite โ€ข Personal Website: https://www.johnmyleswhite.com/ โ€ข Github: https://github.com/johnmyleswhite ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฅ๐˜†๐—ฎ๐—ป: โ€ข Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/ โ€ข X/Twitter: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman โ€ข LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/ โ€ข Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman โ€ข Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlpeterman โ€ข TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanlpeterman ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ: โ€ข Evaluating the design of the R language - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240040602_Evaluating_the_Design_of_the_R_Language โ€ข Stats book he mentioned (not affiliate link) - https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Agnostic-Statistics-Peter-Aronow/dp/1316631141 โ€ข Stats book he mentioned (not affiliate link) - https://www.amazon.com/All-Statistics-Statistical-Inference-Springer/dp/0387402721