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thoughts Making Peace - 2024-10-28
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 - 2024-09-16
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 - 2024-08-11
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 - 2024-08-05
Some thoughts about flying regularly from Seattle (SEA) to San Francisco (SFO): …
self How to Work With Me - 2024-07-30
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books Nonviolent Communications - 2024-07-20
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books Crucial Conversations - 2024-07-18
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books The Untethered Soul - 2024-06-02
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books Learned Optimism - 2024-05-04
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aws Memory DB - 2024-04-28
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 - 2024-04-12
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 - 2024-04-05
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 - 2024-03-28
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 - 2024-03-24
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 - 2024-03-10
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 - 2024-03-08
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 - 2024-03-07
My top three takeaways from Tim Ferris's recent interview with Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of stripe): …
etc Glucose Monitoring and Level - 2024-02-13
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 - 2024-02-06
Turns out sending email with gmail alias affects email deliverability - this is after having the whole DMARK, DKMI, SPF alphabet soup configured 🤦♂️ …
none Weekly Review - 2024-02-03
Enjoyed this interview - more hang out between two friends talking business advice then anything else. Reminicent of Tim's episodes with Kevin Rose. …