Can I change the world?
A debate with Ms Eva Biaudet, Member of Parliament, Finland.
https://t.co/dSAGIwQuMO
24 quotes that cut to the core of the human experience:
1. “The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.” — Thucydides
2. “Civilization expands by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead…
Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/
Nothing like a good hook to reel in the reader!
A Thread of the 50 Best Opening Lines in Classic Literature. 🧵 👇 https://t.co/VsGdMfOEqd
you get rewarded in proportion to the size of the problems that you are able to solve - but how do you get better at solving problems? https://t.co/vzvOTx0DYc
Modi during an interview: What has Congress done to Muslim community. People from Muslim community should introspect. Muslims are in this condition only because of Congress.
Modi in rallies : All your property will be snatched by Congress and be given to Muslims community. https://t.co/DlEjvvDvKR
If you're a senior software engineer, here is an incomplete list of engineering practices you must know:
🔹 Source control / GIT
🔹 Tests (check Test Pyramid)
🔹 Clean code
🔹 Pair / Mob programming
🔹 Design Patterns
🔹 Refactoring
🔹 TDD / BDD
🔹 YAGNI, DRY, KISS, SOLID
🔹… https://t.co/CKgOtmuNQg
@jjude @_zenman @PaddleHQ @siteaudittools Actually the waitlist is already live. Scroll to the bottom of this page :)
https://t.co/bZ9LcSUAhi
"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated." https://t.co/KfFpouh7Dm
We have started using OKRs for Screener development.
This is how we are doing it: https://t.co/hu2o534YfP
Has anyone used OKRs before? Anything we should improve or change?
This might help. My bookmarks of things for kids 😀:
https://t.co/yKWEADwqzQ https://t.co/Zg1Sqlk2zF
What has been the most valuable AI tool for you outside of ChatGPT/Claude?
Can include a tool that you built yourself as well. Let us know in the replies.
6 famous software engineering books to help you master system design:
1. Designing Data Intensive Systems by Martin Kleppman https://t.co/dXmLn4ShlW
Today, Uber is a $140B company with more than 6 million drivers.
But in the early days, we had to overcome the same chicken and egg problem many startups face:
Without drivers ➡️ riders couldn’t get a car
And without riders ➡️drivers couldn’t make $
Here’s how we solved it:
Short on time but want to eat healthy?
Here are 10 easy to make vegetarian and eggetarian meal ideas, which take less than 15 mins of prep time and come with approx. 20 g of protein
Ollamac is a cool little open-source desktop app for mac os to have persistent chats with locally running LLMs! 👏
https://t.co/3KZpufyGs6 https://t.co/x5BYemYI6O
Number of tax-paying businesspeople is unexpectedly close to salaried people in India
Salaries are surprisingly 2x higher than incomes in business, though I am sure there may be undisclosed business income
India is the land of solo entrepreneurs who are not able to scale https://t.co/RUnwhWFhL1
AI and real world : The two shall converge..some day. https://t.co/HX3LSO0T9K
May be only 1% of investors dive to this detail.
Discover the power of cash flow analysis with real examples and ratios in my latest blog.
Uncover insights into financial performance and management strategy.
Check blog for complete details
https://t.co/7hCV979HJI https://t.co/25UxyLao9x
Looking for an open source OCR solution, try Surya!
Surya is a document OCR toolkit that does:
- OCR in 90+ languages
- Line-level text detection in any language
- Reading order detection
- Layout analysis (table, image, header, etc detection)
Pretty much everything you need… https://t.co/vJZT63qlIY
@natfriedman Personal data scientist for my finances. Ingest all my accounts (mortgage, checking, saving, brokerage). Let me ask it question . Suggest tax savings strategies. Nice plots of my asset allocations
What AI product – that can be built today but for some strange reason doesn't exist yet – would you pay for right now? Preference for B2B answers!
The ability to test data eng code with a local DuckDB is such a game changer.
A 2024 Golang Developer RoadMap by @javinpaul
#golang
https://t.co/m85jcZVXou https://t.co/DU9V6pNfxz
Jinnah's grandson Nusli Wadia funded the Jan Sangh and later the BJP.
What do you have to tell the country, @BJP4India? You survived on cash given by the immediate family of Jinnah who split India and created Pakistan, which you 'act like hating' the most? Remarkable indeed. https://t.co/v6h9pmPllI
What's one online service you gladly pay for every month?
Why is it that good?
Over the past 10 years, I have read over 600 business books.
99% were 1 idea stretched across 300 pages.
They should have been blog posts.
Save yourself the time and just read these 10 (on marketing, growth, negotiation, and more): https://t.co/aLBRKldFWD
Most companies often focus on the product as the center of the users universe.
But for users it’s the entire funnel that drives their experience and perception.
Oftentimes product managers get swept by a singular focus on the aesthetics and experience of the core product… https://t.co/UzDCGfFu5m
What is geometry?
And why is it used so extensively in Islamic Art?
Let's explore.
Geometry is not just what we learned in school.
There are 4 levels to it. 👇
“So I asked Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, for a reading list. He gave me a list of like 40 research papers and said, ‘If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.’ And I did. I plowed through all those things and it all started sorting out… https://t.co/kQE9SvqJ2k
If you don't have world-class 1:1 meetings, you'll never have a high-performing team.
Period.
My blueprint to having ridiculously good meetings: https://t.co/1sjtoM4RvT
More people should pay attention to this message. One thing I’d add is that if your pushback is “but how can I measure quality” you are not yet ready, because even if you somehow found a measure, you likely don’t have the creativity & taste necessary to make it work in practice. https://t.co/aHzcLbcWDG
@protosphinx I just read “Running money”. Explained it very nicely and detailed. Do read if you’d want expansion on this thought
11 thoughts from Roger Scruton:
1. Scruton on the fundamental right-wing impulse: "Conservatism starts from the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created."
2. The hypocrisy of liberals: "Liberty is not the same thing as equality, and that those who… https://t.co/TTFf9FBlQ4
Here's a checklist of 60 modern luxuries for entrepreneurs and creators aiming to live well in 2024:
How many do you check off?
1. A+ headphones, A+ coffee/tea, A+ laptop
2. 1+ project that brings in $2k+/month relatively passively
3. International airport within 30 minutes… https://t.co/DUCqDSuDDA
Most of the great minds of history were wage slaves and bureaucrats: Cervantes was a tax collector, Machiavelli was a bureaucrat, Leonard da Vinci was a shape rotator for the Duke of Milan, Melville was a customs inspector. https://t.co/mdLKzldzj4
The responses here are a treasure trove of good writing.
Some of my favorites:
• "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." — Cormac McCarthy
• “When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to… https://t.co/Ox1oKBt6Q8
@tferriss @tferriss Check out the Elements of Eloquence or the Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth @Inkyfool if you haven't.
Quite the wordsmith himself and two books I recommend to anyone who has any interest in writing, whatsoever.
hype cycle kills focus needed to build great products, gen AI is doing that for many founders
Team!
Show off your cool open-source AI projects? (bonus if local & private)
Let's make this thread happen!!! Reply below with your project. 🧵
Let's go open-source! https://t.co/mk4wms68rb
Here's @palkisu telling you why truth really doesn't matter, and resorting to falsehood is praiseworthy when you seek to build a narrative
https://t.co/IHBhjFWUFH
Outlive by @PeterAttiaMD is one of the best books written on managing and understanding personal #Health. It's my bible. https://t.co/X58JLI4jdY
BJP and its agents like Governor Ravi are trying to claim superiority of their mother tongue sanskrit over our mother tongue great Tamil ... In their arguments they never bring any scientific research facts, archaeological evidence, historical proofs.... except propagating few… https://t.co/U5OMaL92yJ
What’s the best sentence or paragraph you’ve ever come across?
This is the worst part of the tech ecosystem. Amplified by social media.
Fake it till you make it.
These kind of "cheating" videos and posts create so much FOMO while generating VC interest for the "faking it" poster.
Do you know how many startups would have(still are?) wasting… https://t.co/cbMIHDGwcs
🚫 What you think managing up means:
- Making a list of your contributions each week
- Sharing your achievements with your boss
- Meeting with your skip level once a quarter
- Talking about career growth
✅ What managing up actually means:
- Framing your ideas to get buy-in
-…
Jensen believes he has great work-life balance 😁:
“I work as much as I can."
"I sit through movies and I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about work.”
“I get my work done before I go to work.”
Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law. If it can do in 20 seconds a task that would have taken a dozen associates 50 hours each, then why would big legal firms continue hiring dozens of associates? https://t.co/07tanfjP66 👇
Here is a question that I have not seen asked, or answered,
Why was Christianity so widely embraced across Sub-Saharan Africa, but extremely unsuccessful in South Asia? https://t.co/mTgWqwts26
@CarlLindesvard For https://t.co/NxtxOPYfVi, I use @Posthog because
1. It has multi dashboards
2. Insights can be written in hogql (a DSL)
3. Events are easy to capture and enrich
But their API can be made easier (for data parsing) 😇
Hope it helps