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Monomath, Conformist. Eng @ Co. Previously: Design @ OldCo. Investor: 401k. Finishing something old.

San Francisco
Joined May 2008
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The reason you’re unhappy is that you haven’t found the right thing to buy. There’s something out there you can purchase that will make this all go away
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WiggleMap ahead of its time @vickiheart @ericxtang @kelmiyashiro Andrew Danks
I uploaded a screenshot of Google Maps to Gemini Omni with a route drawn on it. Then I prompted it to create a first person view of someone driving a taxi cab along the route in the reference image. Pretty close to the real thing.
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Discovering I no longer have the patience for anything that doesn’t compound
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We did it Joe, I mean @WisprFlow
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🫡 this energy
what feature should we remove from Obsidian? - something old that no longer serves its purpose - something that could be a plugin - something you never use - ?
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Snopes never asks for donations
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I used to wonder if I would go to design hell for what felt like design sins. My rationalization was that design that isn’t good for business doesn’t ship and design that doesn’t ship may as well not exist. This helped me make peace with that open.substack.com/pub/whydes…
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Saw it put like this recently: What will customers love that also happens to be good for the business
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Unsung qualities that separate good software engineers from bad software engineers: - Fun to work with - Being organized - Giving a shit
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Simplicity will be the next theme in product. If you ask any company what made them successful I don’t think anyone will say their advanced and complicated planning process got them there.
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Replying to @ronyfadel
How to open a window as a programmer: 1. Buy CO2 Monitor 2. Open a window Disclaimer: I own CO2 monitor
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Sometimes I forget: A frictionless life is not automatically a happy life. A lot of effort is spent removing friction as if what’ll remain is joy but adding joy and happiness is its own endeavor.
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The longer you play the short game, the harder things get. The longer you play the long game, the better the rewards. This happens because the accumulation of tiny advantages makes the future easier, but the accumulation of tiny shortcuts makes the future harder.
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Today: Look! There’s no driver in the car! Tomorrow: Look! There’s a driver in the car!
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It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 15 years, since 25 May 2008 (via @twi_age).
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Today in pulp... what shape is the Universe? Does it have an edge, a barrier, secret passages? Or is it 'turtles all the way down'? There are a number of possible answers and - good news - they all involve Lobachevskian geometry! Yay!!
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Jetstream GP: @leepnet Jetstream invests in pre-seed climate tech startups, mostly software. Tommy previously worked with Floodgate, Haystack, AngelList, and Congruent Ventures.
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10. Your primary job is to be obsessively curious about humans and how your product impacts their lives. Moving pixels around on a screen is a communication tool.
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