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In honor of @jimweirich we're having a remote group co-watching of his Play-by-Play video at @chargify today at lunch
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The thing that you have to understand about leadership levels like mine and above: by the time someone has drawn the courage to ask you for help on something, it’s at the point that you have to make absolutely sure you’re paying attention and willing to help.
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Folks, the time to run debirdify.pruvisto.org or fedifinder.glitch.me is now.
You don't need to have an account elsewhere yet. Download the CSVs while you can, and you can import them later.
go go go go
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.@awscloud #awswishlist Let me set the ENTIRE console to UTC. Always. No local time zone. Just UTC.
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Elon suspending the account that tracks his jets but allowing the account that tracks Bezos’ jets shows what type of “free speech” he wants with the Twitter acquisition.
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one of our most consistent sources of leads continues to be engineers who leave a job where they could use honeycomb, and join a job where they can't 💜🐝
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GPT can iteratively write, debug, and test programs to accomplish arbitrary goals.
Pictured: GPT reading snippets of HTML from HN and building a headline scraper in Python, overcoming bugs by simply reading the errors and self-judgments and hypothesizing to itself.
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Yeeesssss!! Lowkey obsessed with decision records/ADRs right now. If I were starting a new company (which I *am not,* and *will never*) I would be using these from day one.
And not just for technical decisions, either. For any decision with a blast radius of >1 group.
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Today one of my team said to me that he thought my job was to create the conditions where people could choose to be happy at work, and the rest was up to them. I really love this way of expressing the power and boundaries of management.
AI will be a huge force of change over the next two decades. But it’s a parrot. It gives you the avg; middle; common. & reinforce the norm. But we’ll leave even more opportunity to innovate at the edges. Creativity is how to win. Just make sure your answer is above avg, not below
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Gf: How are you feeling?
Bf: I dunno
Gf: Tell me a story about how a man like you might be feeling. Make sure to include plenty of detail about…
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New wave of startups coming. Their stack:
- landing page
- form input + stripe button
- ChatGPT api
- output displayed/emailed
Who can make money the quickest?!
The 'net has powered the boom of the last 20 years.
I'm not one to make sensational statements, but it's 100% clear we're about to see the next boom from GAN-AI for text & art. It's going to explode as its engines become exponentially more powerful and change humanity forever.
Doing my advent with go, using generics (github.com/samber/lo) is delightful
github.com/drewblas/advent20…