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who is building the equivalent of 1Password for Operator?

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i love reading unsolicited reviews like this from real people who can file their taxes in under 10 minutes using our software and call it all-caps FANTASTIC!

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switching like this between IC Software Engineer and Manager actually seems like the perfect career path ??? being a manager makes you a better IC and visa versa

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the real Premier 1K status is actually spending time with your friends and family and not between a United Clubs in Newark and SFO

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“executive coaching” was a good rebrand to get men to go to therapy

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it's important to remember during this zuck rebrand era that: - facebook is a terrible product that tricks baby boomers into liking AI slop content - instgram is a time suck and anyone who wants to accomplish anything important in life tries to minimize their time on it

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got an absolutely quintessentially perfect top HN comment on this blog post

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not today, satan!

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seeing an in-person NFT art gallery is the equivalent seeing one of those covid floors circles: reminiscent of a bygone ZIRP era

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there’s something incredible (and maybe slightly disconcerting) about getting on a plane built pre-9/11 and has flown ~5 times a day for the past 25 years. truly incredible engineering

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i’ve asked every uber/lyft driver i’ve had for the past 4 years how they filed their taxes last year 😅

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i mindlessly pass on more deal flow each week (just because founders are coming to me to chat) than most professional VCs see in a year

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not today, satan!

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airbnb is hiring interns again we are so back

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I totally forgot about it, but someone just reminded me I made an Anki deck for the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications @intensivedata and...people left really good reviews!

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

i knew i was always meant to start Column Tax...but i didn't quite realize i had literally predicted starting a company to help low income people claim money (tax refunds) when i was 5 years old until i found this in my childhood home (don't ask me about the religious reference haha)

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In 2020, I had a conversation that changed the way I look at startups Turns out there's a repeatable process that can find venture-scale startups and, crucially, keep you sane in the early idea maze This knowledge has been locked up, and I finally just had to write it down:

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

it's always fun when the charts are basically vertical 😄

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NOTHING, not even fires will stop the @equinox sales team from trying to sell you a membership

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happy 12 year anniversary to my first-ever git commit

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what's the equivalent of SEO in a world where people search via LLMs?

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

no one knows this because Apple doesn't advertise their best features, but there's now a way to avoid getting motion sickness in cars/trains. it's great! go to: Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Show Vehicle Motion Cues: Automatic

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uber better honor this push notification 😅

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incredible: the CTO of Duolingo's name is literally "Hacker"

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I think I could start a pretty successful VC firm by investing in companies based on response rates to cold recruiting emails by where people currently work

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for the good of the country, Trump should pardon Hailey Welch

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nothing incredible has ever been built by starting with a RICE analysis

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holy shit they yassified our boy Ezra Klein

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

hey, this tsunami warning made me think of how we used to make waves together

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it’s 2014, you just posted in the fb group “Hackathon Hackers” and now you’re boarding a redeye to PHL (paid for by UPenn) to attend PennApps IV. you’ll spend the next two days building an app and then rewrite it at all in the 6 hours before the deadline.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

one of the best things about turning 30

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

you should absolutely be able to mute heart/thumbs/emoji reaction notifications in iMessage

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waymos don’t go to the valley, that’s how you know they’re smart cars

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

ah yes, the classic load-bearing mac & cheese every software engineer can relate

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

there's nothing better than working from your parent's home during thanksgiving week so your mom can ask if you can go out for a long lunch at 1pm on Tuesday and be surprised when the answer is "no"

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really cool Claude use case: upload your Apple Health / Fitbit / RescueTime data and ask it for analysis and to find correlations. insanely good and you’ll be surprised at how accurate it is.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

only in SF do realtors advertise ordinary office space as “AI space”

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Coinbase is a truly incredible business: you get to trade fake digital coins and pay them real US Dollars for that opportunity

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

if you offered me a million guesses i still would not have been able guess the three locations for the House of Air Trampoline Park

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

only 3 things in life are certain: death taxes by 4:55pm every single person has left a WeWork in Austin, TX

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

what is the best / most unique company event you've done in SF? already thought of: ping pong, mini golf, escape room, dinner, bowling, etc. and want to hear something more interesting!

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every week i ask myself "what are the top 3 things i can do this week to make the business successful?" and then try to maniacally focus on those things i find thinking "from the top" at least once/week really helpful

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