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Drew retweeted
Jun 17
America 250 AND Reindustrialize merch dropping at the same time is so bad for my bank account yet so good for my soul
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Drew retweeted
Jun 11
It’s been fascinating to watch Europeans run around America while here for the World Cup.
They’re eating Texas barbecue, and touring state parks, like it’s a lifelong dream.
And we take it all for granted.
Americans spend so much time arguing with each other, that we forget how inspiring this country is.
Probably by design.
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The good ol days of artisanal code
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People used to post code screenshots on here
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Really good advice.
AI is too much of an accelerant to ignore.
Losing your unique voice is too great a death of one’s soul to blindly accept.
Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:
Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.
1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.
2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.
Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.
Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.
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Drew retweeted
Jun 9
The greatest trick English departments ever pulled was convincing students that analyzing a novel is more important than loving one.
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Drew retweeted
Jun 2
Can't believe it’s already June . Time flies when you work everyday of your fucking life
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Drew retweeted
May 31
America's postal system is a sort of negative lootbox where 99.9% of items are trash but the other 0.1% are special quest items that if not promptly handled result in crippling debts or your arrest.
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Memorial Day is a reminder that freedom isn't the default state of the world. People fought and died for it.
I am thankful America is where you can build, create, and push the frontier forward.
Thank you to the men and women who served and gave their lives. 🇺🇸
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rivers of ink will be spilled about the Luce design
but my biggest gripe with it is that it's clearly made by people with no rage in their heart, and no sex in their veins
ferrari is about love and anger in a way that wholesome california design bois will never understand
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Drew retweeted
if you're not writing at least some code your brain will be mashed potatoes in about a year
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Drew retweeted
May 21
Honestly, this feels like a moment of truth for the industry.
Software development, originally an engineering discipline, has recently been flooded with impostors lacking both skills and education. At its peak, companies started hiring people after just a few months of online courses. Many of them learned only how to imitate competence by repeating corporate jargon and trendy buzzwords.
I’ve personally interviewed dozens of so-called frontend developers who had no idea how computers actually work.
I’ve also interviewed so-called DevOps engineers who couldn’t even explain the OSI model. And over time we were gradually gaslighted into believing that this is simply the “new division of labor”. Once the AI wave started, it became even worse — people began cheating on interviews like crazy.
Poor leadership turned programming into something closer to management consulting, filled with endless meetings and rituals.
Today feels like the beginning of a cleanup cycle.
May 21
We're going to see a lot more of this
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Drew retweeted
May 18
What the students at recent graduation ceremonies are (rightly) booing is not just AI but also an entire society that has made them feel dispensable, replaceable, "less than" the digital "mind."
That is the core of the issue: dehumanization.
We need a society that celebrates human creativity, sees the individual soul as our greatest resource, and is imaginative enough to know how to make each life feel vaster, not smaller.
Listen to that "boo," because inside it is not just fear, but wisdom.
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Good definition. It’s fun to work with people like this.
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I legitimately question companies that use Norman doors at their offices, especially if it’s a new build.
If someone pays attention to the design, the lack of care and detail is a red flag.
If someone goes through life thinking that “that’s just the way things are” it’s also a red flag. Why work with someone who doesn’t see the world as malleable and worthy of improvement?
Norman doors are as good a litmus test as any.
May 17
.@tobi says he removed all the Norman doors (doors that confuse people about whether to push or pull) from Shopify’s offices because they make people predictably do the wrong thing:
“ I cannot surround people with things that are underperforming the quality of engineering we want to do.”
“It’s the most fundamental design error that you can possibly make.”
“Everyone who’s ever been involved in the process of designing a Norman door should revoke their design license.”
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Drew retweeted
May 16
If you want any to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love it, drive through it.
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When I lived in AZ, I took many trips like this. 66 multiple times, 6 and 20 on occasion. Both summer and winter. Mainly free campsites the whole way.
Multiple vehicles over the years too, from an old beat up Altima to new F-150.
I miss those trips dearly, and yes, the experience of getting off the beaten path is on that shaped by understanding of these great states and the people in them since I was an early adult.
May 16
The Knowledge of "how" to drive through America is somewhat a lost art.
On the interstates, you can drive coast to coast and see almost nothing but ugliness, gas stations, etc.
You need to research and follow the old "US Routes" these are 2 lane roads from the old days.
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Drew retweeted
May 11
Opening Twitter is like having a lil phone cigarette
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