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Peace is hard. According to the UN, โof the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.โ …
We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. …
A helpful reminder when things seem too serious …
David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way - Herbert Lui …
Over the labor day weekend, I decided to try cursor. I think of this as the next version of github copilot. In addition to autocompletion, the entire IDE becomes a LLM workspace where anything can be used as context and also prompted against. Cursor is a fork of vscode (my primary IDE), which is to the IDE space what chrome is to browsers. When installing cursor, there's a one click process to migrate over all your extensions which smoothes out the transition. …
Atluru opens with the common startup refrain - "do things that don't scale" and spells out the unspoke corollary to that statement: "in order to do things that do scale". The end goal is scale. Its to build a massively successful business that creates huge impact as well as financial gain. …
Koch describes happiness island as the 80/20 of happiness - that is to say the 20% of activities/people that bring 80% of your happiness. …
Some thoughts about flying regularly from Seattle (SEA) to San Francisco (SFO): …
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Amazon MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database …
Martha Beck is an author, life coach, and sociologist. She is best known for her 2005 book, "Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith", a memoir about her upbringing within the Mormon faith and repressed memories of sexual abuse. …
This post was inspired by a recent conversation with a YC grad about post-batch life and lessons learned. …
I get asked a lot about YC and how to prepare for the application. The feedback I've most commonly given, listed below: …
Every once in a while, I do an "energy audit" - I go over a past number of weeks and months and parse out what people and activities have given me energy and vice versa. …
Recently talked to a founder that was struggling with sales for an AWS cost optimization service. They were having a hard time closing deals. …
If you use Datadog with AWS, here is a simple change you can do to save 90% of your egress fees immediately. …
Hugh Howey is known for the Wool series and the most successful self published authors on Amazon. He also happens to be one of my favorite writes. …
Been spending a lot of time studying pricing pages as we're working on creating a public one for Nimbus. …
The Tao Te Ching is a collection of 81 chapters of Chinese classical text that describe the essence of Taoism. Loosely translated as "the way", Taoism is a mix of philosophy and religion that has deep roots in Chinese culture. …
Without careful observation and measurement, the true costs of operating a system remain invisible. Like a utility meter tucked away in a basement, lack of visibility enables wasteful habits. Making meters more visible can profoundly shift behaviors. …
My top three takeaways from Tim Ferris's recent interview with Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of stripe): …
used levels when they were in preview - was super helpful. stopped using after two months because I found that I more or less knew what it was going to tell me. …
Turns out sending email with gmail alias affects email deliverability - this is after having the whole DMARK, DKMI, SPF alphabet soup configured ๐คฆโโ๏ธ …
Enjoyed this interview - more hang out between two friends talking business advice then anything else. Reminicent of Tim's episodes with Kevin Rose. …