Tinkerer, developer. A better future is possible if we work together.

Joined May 2009
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Maturing is realizing that we are all sIaves to the bottom 20 percent of society, far more than we are to the top 1 percent.
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This app is a bit too Bay Area centric
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Someone in an adjacent team once told me that because leadership doesn't acknowledge pre-incident bugs that were fixed, some people resorted to storing these kind of information with them till the incident happened. Once the incident happened, they would jump in, solve the incident in record time, and then get credited with solving a S1/S2 incident. Next review cycle, they would either get promoted or get good ratings. Not saying this is ethical or good for the team/company, but the entire perf review process needs to change if companies don't want these kinds of things to happen.
Engineer prevents $80-90M recall. credited as a "good catch" lol CFO mentions the release on the earnings call six months later. The problem isn't that companies are ungrateful. It's that there's no mechanism to reward the person at the start of the value chain. Senior engineers: how do you make invisible impact visible before review season?
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There are too many emails. Too many texts. Too many accounts. Too many logins. Too many apps. Too many rewards programs. Too many fundraisers. Too many appointments. Too many virtual meetings. Too many newsletters. Too many forms. Too many social media platforms. My brain hurts.
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Version control like "git" is just creating more work for everyone involved. There is no reason for this to be so complicated, convoluted, opaque, and behaving like it knows best. It should not require the user to know a billion commands and "tricks" to use. It's unscalable.
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People without chronic illnesses really don't get just how bad many doctors are at their jobs.
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“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” - Henry Ford
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Manager: We lost our best engineer today. CEO: The one leading payments? Manager: Yes. CEO: Did another company offer more money? Manager: No. CEO: Then why leave? Manager: He said he was tired of fixing the same production issues every week. CEO: That’s part of the job. Manager: He didn’t mind fixing issues. He minded that nobody wanted to fix the root cause. CEO: We prioritized speed. Manager: He wanted quality. CEO: So he left over that? Manager: He left because he felt like a firefighter, not an engineer. Good engineers don’t just want to solve problems. They want to eliminate them.
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My best engineer stopped complaining about our massive tech debt. I told myself they had finally accepted the roadmap. Six months later, I understood what they were actually telling me:
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Let's be clear: Spain: enacts rent control -> no more homes Argentina: ends rent control -> tons of new homes Rent control is a better way to destroy cities than dropping bombs on them.
Spain froze rents and capped increases at 2%, but rent control is already cutting supply by up to 50% and not improving conditions for renters. Spain should follow Argentina, which ended rent control in 2023 and has seen housing supply rise 180%, reports Cato’s @hiperfalcon. ow.ly/k7Mx50YztmZ
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SoCal has the best climate on Earth and for the last 15 years invasive mosquitos have been spreading, making it very difficult to actually be outside, risking disease. Official guidance is "err, eliminate standing water". It's 2026. We have crispr, gene drive, and a local pest control budget that's high though to run a space program. Who do I have to fuck to get these mosquitoes extincted? They aren't native, they're displacing local species, they spread disease, they don't have rights. Kill them all!
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2.3 MILLION barrels of oil…GONE! Every. Single. Day. Let that sink in for a second. In 2025 alone, electric vehicles are expected to displace 2.3 million barrels of oil per day globally. It’s no wonder the fossil propaganda machine is running 24/7. This isn’t a “future prediction”, this happened in 2025, and is expected to grow. At $100 a barrel, that’s roughly $84 BILLION staying out of the fossil fuel system. And by 2030? That number could more than double. But here’s the part people don’t talk about enough… Every barrel of oil NOT burned means… • Less emissions. • Less reliance on unstable oil markets. • More money staying in people’s pockets. • More energy independence. This is why EVs matter. It’s not just about “cars”. It’s about reshaping the entire energy system. And it’s already well underway. People still say “EVs are a fad” and “EVs won’t make a difference”. Meanwhile… They’re quietly removing millions of barrels of oil demand every single day
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You can’t afford a coal mine. You can’t afford a gas turbine. You can’t afford an oil rig. Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can. But you can afford a solar power station on your roof. Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
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Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPMzlv…
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First view of the 100kw AI Mini Sat with solar panels and heat radiator to scale. “And that’s just the Mini version. We expect future versions to go to the megawatt range.” — Elon The key missing ingredient is a terawatt of AI compute. Fully integrated fab with recursive improvement locally. Will explore non-traditional computing. Austin, TX. Optimus robots: 1-10 billion units/year. D3 chip optimized for space, designed to run hotter to minimize radiator mass. It will be the vast majority of the compute 100-200GW/yr on Earth. 1TW/yr in space because of power constraints on Earth.
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I hope some people do realize after the recent events why we needs EVs and solar. Specially in Europe
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The only reason AI is so valuable is because we babysit it to generate value based on our human agency
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Being likable is actually more important than being good at your job.
What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you
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Space X Dragon reentry from San Diego
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The most real, authentic people in the world all tend to be losers because they refuse (or just can't) play the hypocritical and artificial game that modern society has made out of life. They see through the empty, emotionless facade and opt for something better.
A big revelation I've had is that Romantic men are actually losers
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