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We'll be in New York next week for #TechWeek 🎉 Looking forward to connecting with founders and folks building with #AI
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I'm heading to HumanX 2026 in San Francisco, where 6,500 AI leaders go to stop guessing and start building actual strategy. DM me to connect and chat about how we can help your business adopt and leverage AI to reach new heights. #HumanX #AI
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Software engineering changed more in the last 3 months than the preceeding 30 years. Everything about running a software company needs to be rethought from first principles.
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Personally, I’d rather have someone who executes a mediocre idea brilliantly than someone who talks about a brilliant idea forever. Execution beats perfection every time.
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The ultimate life hack: Quiet progress. No announcement. No hype. No applause. Learn to work without validation. Build when nobody’s watching. Write when nobody’s reading. Train when nobody’s cheering. It doesn’t take talent, just courage. Quiet progress creates loud results.
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RT @JamesClear: New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, all…
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After @obie 's talk last week at @sfrubyconf, we were inspired to write up this blog post
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Check out our latest blog post! Tips for effective prototyping with Rails 8 and Claude Code wyeworks.com/blog/2025/11/26… #ai #rubyonrails
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Spotted in Amsterdam, @josevalim converting people to #Elixir one developer at a time # MyElixirStatus
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29 Jun 2025
Stay healthy, get wealthy, seek truth, give love, and create beauty.
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16 Jun 2025
How lucky are we? To belong to the generation that got the before and after for personal computing, internet, smart phones, social media, and now AI. Can you fully understand something without knowing what was there before? How will these decades be remembered?
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7 May 2025
Yup. Assignments should be like “use AI to do ___ complex project” and then have an oral component where the student explains each step of the process they used and their thought process behind it. Schools should prepare kids to accomplish things with the tools of their world.
The solution is to embrace LLMs, encourage students to use them as "thinking buddies" or private tutors at home––which is how I use it, and how they'll be using it for the rest of their lives. For exams, pivot to ~100% in-class essays and oral exams. Worked like a charm in my University of Austin seminar. I'm not sure this is a net-bad change over the status quo. And even if it is, it's inevitable anyway. Resisting it is like resisting the advent of calculators. The alternative route is a stupid & unwinable arms race between cheaters and cheat-detection. Professors are destined to lose this arms race, b/c the incentives to successfully cheat will always be stronger than the incentive to catch cheaters.
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When a news organization gets a meaningful percentage of its revenue from the government, it's not really a news organization anymore. It's a like a glorified PR firm with press credentials. And this happens in non-obvious ways: advertising, subscriptions, tax-breaks, grants—all framed as 'supporting journalism.' This kind of dependency corrupts subtly at first, then completely. Self-censorship becomes instinct.
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“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.” — Neil Strauss
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24 Dec 2024
Here are 35 of the most interesting facts and stats I came across this year! đź§µ
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21 Dec 2024
Here’s how I would prepare for AGI: Work is going to become a lot less important. If you are the sort of person who ties your self-worth to what you do, I would start decoupling that. We might live for a very long time. You are going to want to be as healthy as possible. Get scanned, MRI, blood tests. Lift weights and build muscle. Work out for an hour every day. Your friendships and relationships are going to become even more crucial as you look outside your work for meaning. Invest in them. Have a large family. Develop hobbies. Learn how to cook, garden. Read books for pleasure. Study that subject you’ve always been fascinated with. Learn for the sheer joy of it. Spend more time doing your favorite sport. Skiing, kite-boarding, tennis, whatever it is. And marvel at your good fortune to be living through such a historical time.
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Commitment starts when motivation stops.
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We often fixate on the visible and exciting, overlooking that most success comes from consistently doing the mundane, unglamorous work that few notice. The 98/2 Rule: people spend 98% of their time talking about flashy things that contribute only 2% to the results, while overlooking the fact that 98% of the results come from consistently doing the boring basics that few notice. Ask yourself: Does the attention you give to something truly reflect its importance?
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30 May 2024
Dear software engineers: your 40s is mid career. Title inflation, ego and managers struggling to provide career path doesn’t change that fact.
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21 May 2024
Focus is only a good strategy if you've figured out what you want to with your life/career/business. Until then, dabble in as many things as possible to increase your surface area of finding that thing worth focusing on.
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