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Focus on effort, not outcomes.
It’s insane to tie your wellbeing to things outside of your control, Marcus Aurelius said. If you did your best, if you gave it your all, if you acted with your best judgment—that's a win…regardless of whether it’s a good or bad outcome.
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Mr Bean rocking the Opening Ceremony at the London Olympic Games in 2012
there are a few key engineers that get a lot of things done that you can't lose. not because of their impact, while high, but really because of the respect other engineers have for them. it's the aggregate inspiration buff
hm I wonder what OpenAI will ultimately choose to do
I use service objects in all of my Rails projects.
👷♂️ This is how I engineer them:
1. Define the ApplicationService class with the call class method that does nothing but accepts any params and initializes a service, then calls the call instance method immediately
2. Define the initialize instance method that does nothing but accepts any params
3. Define a service that inherits from ApplicationService and defines the call method. If a service requires params, I define the initialize method, call super, then use the params. If you don't need params, then you don't need to define initialize at all
4. Implement the call method.
That's all!
What are we doing with this capital? Originally we intended to raise $300M which was going to allow us to deploy 108,000 LPUs into production by end of Q1 2025. We raised 2x that, so we're also expanding our cloud and core engineering teams.
We're hiring!
a common theme in @browsercompany:
folks on their team actively explore, design, and build side projects. A++
This response from @jasonfried has made me question so many things about how I approach work.
Job Security through Architecture Obscurity unfortunately works...
I left 4o mini code overnight, look at the results!
1st iterations vs 329th iteration
The @AirbudsWidget app hit #2, ranking just behind Spotify.
The @nikitabier advised startup has a secret TikTok strategy to get millions of users.
They post 300+ videos a day on 50+ accounts, doing millions of views daily.
They will hate me, today I reveal everything 🧵
crazy there's no chatbot to help me figure out what to buy when i need something, would be a great commission business. i should be able to talk to ais that are smart and also know the entire amazon/ikea/etc catalogue, or like literally every restaurant in every city on earth
Topological puzzle
Excellent first-hand account of one person's productivity gains from LLMs:
Intelligence is not the bottle neck to enterprise automation
Human-led bureaucracy and politics is
Crazy how every good thing that happens to me is a random stroke of undeserved luck but every bad thing that happens to me is a direct result of my foolish & insufficient character :/
The Breeders
“Divine Hammer”
Last Splash
4AD Records (1993)
Director: Spike Jonze, Kim Gordon & Richard Kern
the reason AGI is going to kill the software developer slop industry isn't because it's going to automate writing code. It's because we won't be using software that isn't just AGI anymore.
The energy consumption of different programming languages (v/@burkov): bit.ly/3WiXC9M
One finding: Python consumes 76x more energy while being 72x slower than C.
Here's what our solar sytem moving through space looks like.
Focusing on accountability doesn't improve decision quality. Embracing responsibility does.