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Recent Entries
none Weekly Review - 2025-01-14
Self help has been my most read genre. A lot of the advice overlaps but sometimes you just need to hear it from many perspectives before it sticks. …
none Weekly Review - 2025-01-06
Kennedy is a rockstar for a new generation of parents seeking to raise resillient kids with secure attachment styles. Many nuggets in this interview - my main takeaways have nothing to do with parenting: - setting boundaries defines what you are willing to tolerate and have control over. if your kid is doing something that is disruptive, don't just tell them to stop. tell them you're going to stop them if they don't stop. - guilt can be useful to understand when your actions have gone out of line with your values. taking on other people's feelings is not guilt. that's taking responsibility for something that is not yours to take (eg. your mother wanting to come see the kids and you not having time and telling her no. your mom can be upset and you can emphasize with her. but you don't need to take on her sadness). this is where boundaries are useful. visualize other peoples emotions as a physical thing and push them so that they don't come over to your side of the field. no one benefits when you take responsibility for other people's emotion …
thoughts Making Peace - 2024-10-27
Peace is hard. According to the UN, “of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.” …
books How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - 2024-10-14
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. …
books The Power of Now - 2024-10-06
A helpful reminder when things seem too serious …
thoughts Longcuts - 2024-09-15
David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way - Herbert Lui …
projects Address Mapper - 2024-09-02
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. …
journal Notable Things of 2024-08-17 - 2024-08-20
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. …
journal Notable Things of 2024-08-10 - 2024-08-10
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. …
etc Seattle to Sf Guide - 2024-08-04
Some thoughts about flying regularly from Seattle (SEA) to San Francisco (SFO): …
self How to Work With Me - 2024-07-29
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books Nonviolent Communications - 2024-07-19
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books Crucial Conversations - 2024-07-18
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books The Untethered Soul - 2024-06-01
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books Learned Optimism - 2024-05-04
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aws Memory DB - 2024-04-27
Amazon MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database …
review Martha Beck interview - 2024-04-20
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. …
none Email Deliverability - 2024-04-11
Noneadvice Notes from YC W21 to W24, with Love - 2024-04-11
This post was inspired by a recent conversation with a YC grad about post-batch life and lessons learned. …
advice Yc App - 2024-04-04
I get asked a lot about YC and how to prepare for the application. The feedback I've most commonly given, listed below: …
journal Energy Audit - 2024-03-31
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. …
startup Context Dependent Painkiller - 2024-03-29
Recently talked to a founder that was struggling with sales for an AWS cost optimization service. They were having a hard time closing deals. …
datadog Save 90% on Datadog Egress - 2024-03-27
If you use Datadog with AWS, here is a simple change you can do to save 90% of your egress fees immediately. …
review Hugh Howey Interview - 2024-03-23
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. …
review Warpstream Pricing - 2024-03-22
Been spending a lot of time studying pricing pages as we're working on creating a public one for Nimbus. …
books The Tao Te Ching - 2024-03-09
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. …
thoughts Frugal Architec - 2024-03-07
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. …
til Claire Johnson - 2024-03-06
My top three takeaways from Tim Ferris's recent interview with Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of stripe): …
etc Glucose Monitoring and Level - 2024-02-12
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. …
etc Gmail Alias Bad for Delivery - 2024-02-05
Turns out sending email with gmail alias affects email deliverability - this is after having the whole DMARK, DKMI, SPF alphabet soup configured 🤦♂️ …