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Ambition Is Frozen Desire(pmillerd.com)
1 points by bwest87 3d ago|1 comments
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by bwest87 21d ago
Many comments are missing the point or just totally backwards. I have been both an IC eng and a founder / CTO (though me and my cofounder ran it more like co-CEOs). AI's will not be replacing CEOs (or other great execs) because be
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by bwest87 29d ago
I am in nearly the exact same boat as the OP. I'll observe a few things after having 2 kids and running a startup at the same time for a few years... * Your amount of "lost" time with kids is often less than you think. On one
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by bwest87 1mo ago
Has anyone seen any tools for enforcing that people understand each PR? It feels like there's a new missing piece here that is like CI for humans, where you as the code owner need to basically pass a test (auto generated by AI) about w
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by bwest87 4mo ago
He forgot the tokens! It's not simple weights and numbers all the way down. The available output is pre-set by the tokens we allow it to predict. There was a whole bit in there about not having a language module or using words. But it
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by bwest87 9mo ago
Sure there is some minimal marginal cost, but it's so close to zero that it's usually negligible, and the incentive is to basically give it away and "monetize" something else. Your point about games actually just makes m
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by bwest87 9mo ago
But focusing on production cost is silly. The cost to consumers is what matters. Software is already free or dirt cheap because it can be served at zero marginal cost. There was only a market for cheap industrial clothes because tailor made
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by bwest87 9mo ago
One thing that has become clearer to me over the years is that reasoning by analogy (like this article does) sounds a lot smarter than it is. If you look from first principles, it's clear that physical goods and software don't sha
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by bwest87 1y ago
This video was fascinating. I didn't know about "open endedness" as a concept but now that I see it, of course it's an approach. One thought... in the video, Ken makes the observation that it takes way more complexity an
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by bwest87 1y ago
I did a chat with Gemini about the paper, and tldr is... * They introduce a loop at the beginning between Q, K, and V vectors (theoretically representing "question", "clues" and "hypothesis" of thinking) * This
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by bwest87 4y ago
Appropriately prioritizing problems has never really been society's strength...
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by bwest87 4y ago
I think we're not factoring in that people will react. We're already all starting to realize that the free for all is getting quite hard to navigate. My hunch is that within 10 years, we will start to see an "information immu
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by bwest87 4y ago
Ok, echoing my top level comment... An alternative framing that I've come to find more helpful is to take your life expectancy, and cut it by 2/3. For example, if you're 20 years old and your life expectancy is 80 (ie. 60 mor
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by bwest87 4y ago
> You should organize each day as if it were your last, so that you neither need to long for nor fear the next day. I've come to find this "live each day like it's your last" advice to be pretty unhelpful. My favorite
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by bwest87 5y ago
Guided aspects... he sent over a questionairre ahead of time with a lot of broad questions. We then did a one hour zoom call going over the questions and getting to know him. It's all designed to help you figure out what you want the s
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by bwest87 5y ago
One session meaning one time. Both of us think it would be valuable to do, but on the timescale of like... once/year or once every few years. But there are people who do it once/month for several months if they have a lot of speci
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by bwest87 5y ago
I'm located in San Francisco. I asked around a bunch of friends, got intros, and talked to a few potential guides. Eventually got linked up with someone who's been doing it for a number of years, and we vibed. We had a few phone c
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by bwest87 5y ago
This actually took me a bit of time. I had to search around. But can give advice. If you're serious, email me at bwest87 at gmail.com
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by bwest87 5y ago
A friend and I did a "guided" psychedelic session earlier this year. We did it individually over one weekend. It was great. She did it for more therapeutic reasons. I did it more for philosophy/spiritual reasons. But the two
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Solidity Learnings: How to Save 50% on Gas Costs(medium.com)
4 points by bwest87 5y ago|0 comments
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Crypto Won't Fix Music Streaming: A Lesson from History(medium.com)
3 points by bwest87 6y ago|0 comments
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Crypto Won't Music Streaming: A Lesson from History(medium.com)
2 points by bwest87 6y ago|0 comments
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A Token Doesn't Make You Decentralized, So What Does?(thedefiant.io)
1 points by bwest87 6y ago|0 comments
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by bwest87 6y ago
Oakland relaxed a lot of zoning, and permitting regulations about 5 years ago, and so now you're starting to really see production sky rocket. This article [0] mentions 2019 was had 15x more units completed than 2018. And 3x the total
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by bwest87 6y ago
yes, I should have clarified. They still do hack weeks AFAIK (I left about 6 months ago), but they no longer do continuous "20% time"
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by bwest87 6y ago
Eh, maybe. Your core responsibility is to ship on time. Especially at a startup, it's not only "ok", it's usually the "right" call to ship faster, and accumulate technical debt. This is constant, and never real
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by bwest87 6y ago
You can do it a few ways. But in my experience, the simplest and best way is to force people to demo something at a pre-specified time. If you're doing it "hackathon" style, then it should be at the end of the hackathon. If
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by bwest87 6y ago
I never worked at Google, but I did work for a different, fairly well known consumer tech company doing a lot of work around "hack time". While there, they didn't have any such program, and I really wanted there to be one. So
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Perfection Premium(journals.sagepub.com)
2 points by bwest87 6y ago|0 comments
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by bwest87 6y ago
Author here. Happy to discuss things or answer any questions!

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