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Joined April 2008
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Today, I got rejected by an AI company, because they are not looking for engineers heavily reliant on AI. Wait, what? 🙈
I’ve not been using AI for 90% of my career, they really think engineers can’t go back?
An example of the industry shooting itself in the foot.
Amarjeet Rai retweeted
.@DHH says 37signals was built by doing almost everything Silicon Valley said not to do:
- No VC money
- 40-hour workweeks
- Fully remote
- Tiny teams
- Actually making profits instead of chasing higher valuations
“You mentioned the lifestyle business thing. I always love that because people are like, ‘Oh you're just running a lifestyle business.’ Yeah I have a business and a lifestyle. What the fuck do you have? You just have a business? Why would you not want a lifestyle?’”
“And my lifestyle happens to include a fucking yellow Lamborghini. So it's not like I'm giving anything up in terms of the material fruits of capitalism right?”
“ That was our motto. Tiny team building great software, having good success, not taking any money, then producing profits.”
“I know this is a bit of a foreign term in much of Silicon Valley. That's the money you get to keep when you've taken your revenues minus your expenses.”
My conversation with @dhh, co-founder of @37signals.
0:00 Cutting Rework From 50,000 Words To 25,000
2:54 Basecamp Was Built In 380 Hours
6:46 Unlimited Resources Build A Blob
10:22 Terminator Beats Avatar By A 1000x
15:24 The Printer DHH Never Wants To Upgrade
17:31 Millions In Profit From 16 Year-Old Software
20:10 The Beauty Of A Finished Product
22:54 I Would Quit Before Working In An Office
25:41 Four Uninterrupted Hours Or The Day Is Lost
31:21 Tobi Lütke Saw The AI Future First
38:51 Apple Pissed Him Off Enough To Switch
42:47 The 19 Year-Old Who Beat Apple
47:16 If Nobody Else Will Build It, I Will
52:02 The Need For Control, Independence, And Freedom
53:44 Chef's Choice, Not A Construction-Kit Burger
56:50 A New Computer Ready In 2 Minutes
1:00:33 A Cheaper Mac Will Never Win
1:02:27 The Best Ideas Sound Stupid At First
1:03:47 Out-Teach Your Competition
1:06:57 The Algorithms Broke Reciprocity
1:10:53 No Investors Is Freedom. No Customers Is Transcendence.
1:13:25 No One Gets To Tell Me What To Do
1:16:49 Your Moral Obligation To Buy A Ferrari
1:23:19 Costs Are The Only Thing You Control
1:26:49 Bezos Paid For The Promise
1:30:17 The Confidence To Say No To Everyone
1:32:59 The Day A Third Of The Company Left
1:36:49 Marc Andreessen Came To Help
Includes paid partnerships.
Amarjeet Rai retweeted
Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. goo.gle/4fBYnWO
We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...
Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!
Amarjeet Rai retweeted
Replying to @borrowck_novel
This is already the status quo; we havent been typing code ourselves for many months now. Even pre-acquisition this was pretty much accurate.
Amarjeet Rai retweeted
This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.
From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.
0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.
Bonus points if you get your blood checked.
Start here, it will change your life.
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