“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”

- Maryam Mirzakhani

.Rob Henderson's memoir 'Troubled' is powerful, touching, and really important for anyone who cares about poverty, social class, or inequality. It's full of sociological insights, and you can get a preview in his WSJ essay:
wsj.com/us-news/educat…

Aaron Slodov Long live freedom, dammit!

My advice to engineers starting out:

Find an important open source project on the way up and fix a bunch of issues and then go cold email a bunch of startups you know use that open source project.

Langchain or Chroma are a couple to start with

One of the most thoughtful analyses I've read recently:

For decades, Narges Mohammadi has been a vocal advocate for women and girls in Iran. This The Nobel Prize is a well-deserved recognition of her courage, and the hope that she represents—not only for the women in Iran, but for women fighting repression and violence around the world.

Great news.

washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/10…

I used to feel like a weird outlier for being so ambitious and optimistic — but when I go to things like the YC alumni reunion I feel surrounded by my people.

Y Combinator is a community of builders who want to pull and lift humanity up, no matter how difficult or long the…

This was my first meeting with Elon Musk . We tried to pull some of the best of the best folks at twitter product. Some are still at X and doing great work. Some left and a few randomly fired. I remember I told my best ICs:
“I think no matter what these will be good memories…

Creating the life and engineering career you love at Pinterest 📌 Our newest Engineering Blog features a special interview with Behnam Rezaei, VP for Monetization Engineering. Read here: bit.ly/rezaei-aug-23

Keeping it real like she always does. ❤️

My first piece in a while, How to Blow Up a Timeline, is on how Twitter lost its vitality as a social network.

(I wrote this before the rate-limiting fiasco and accelerated launch of Threads, so I'll have to leave that discussion for another day)
eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/…

Threads is one of the best V1 apps I have seen. Even though it feels the launch was pulled forward a bit, it is still holding up great. Kudos to the team behind it. I heard it’s a very small team of engineers and designers and PMs. Respect.

Both twitter 1.0 and twitter 2.0 are…

David Kettlebell Ben 💯 I don’t know who needs to hear this but it is totally possible to communicate an opinion (even a controversial one) without resorting to insulting, harassing or degrading another human being.

threads.net/@behnamrezaei

I admit that I didn’t have anything to do with the idea, and execution. it started before I joined Pinterest but very proud of this innovative team.

Congrats to the team!