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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. …
startup Hn Launch - 2024-01-31
Nonestartup Product Hunt Launch - 2024-01-31
Nonenone Weekly Review - 2024-01-21
Recently finished Storyworthy by Mathew Dicks, best known for his record 58-time Moth StorySLAM wins. Dicks talks about the elements of a good story. My biggest takeaway: the 5s moment - all stories build up to an inflection point where the hero has a realization that changes their outlook of the world. Everything in the story should serve the purpose of building up to this moment. This is not dissimilar to product market fit (PMF) in the startup world. Your only real job as a startup founder is finding PMF. Anything that is not in service of this does not matter in an early stage startup. …
books Storyworthy - 2024-01-21
Storyworthy is a book about telling good stories. …
datadog Datadog Tagging Best Practices - 2024-01-19
Datadog has unified service tagging where you can define a set of standard tags for your org. …
aws What is a cloudwatch custom metric? - 2024-01-14
Had someone ask me about amazon cloudwatch metrics - specifically, what counted as a custom metric …
none Weekly Review - 2024-01-14
the failure of the $20 billion Adobe Figma deal sets a stark precedent for potential m&a moving forward. …
none Weekly Review - 2024-01-03
Facinating interview with Beff Jezos (Guillaume Verdon), "leader" of the effective accelerationist (e/acc) movement (not to be confused with effective altruism). …
books The Body Keeps Score - 2023-12-31
The Body Keeps Score is a book about trauma. It covers the landscape of what trauma looks like, how it affects people, especially children, and how the means of survival comes at the cost of burying the "most sensitive, creative, intimacy-loving, lively, playful and innocent parts [of ourselves]". …
none Weekly Review - 2023-12-29
My takeaway from my first million episode with Michael Birch (best known for selling Bebo to AOL for $850M): stick to what works: michael spent his entire career building viral social applications, sometimes copying 80% of the code of a prior project to launch a new business. this is in stark contrast to the state of front end development where there is a new frameworks and shiny technology every month. …
none Weekly Review - 2023-12-27
Andrew Rosener is the king of domain brokerage and has closed over $500 million in domain deals in the last two decades. He talks about his random walk towards the domain business and dives into the nitty gritty of the domain brokerage business. …
none Weekly Review - 2023-12-19
Kim Scott talks about giving effective feedback based on radical candor. This is a subject that she has written a book about. …
journal Weekly Review - 2023-12-11
Eric Migicovsky (founder, formerly founder of Pebble), launched an android chat app that can send and receive messages to an iPhone as an apple device. Apple finds a way to block them three days later. The Beeper team is now working on a patch to undo Apple's block. It's a real time cat and mouse escalation between two tech companies. …