the most valuable phrase in any language is “thank you.” it’s super fun to visit a new country in Europe and learn the local equivalent. appreciating others is a very simple and rewarding gesture with an outsized return

one of the things i love the most about my young son (15mo) is that he’s generous. he will offer toys to other kids without asking. he constantly tries to share what he’s eating with anybody around. he will engage with and hug strangers. sometimes it’s actually a little much! he

new parent. can confirm. common sentiment. it’s not as hard as it’s made out to be and it is order of magnitudes more rewarding than is able to be conveyed by language.

cursor's bank statement is great

PSA: Have kids.

realizing most of my recent tweets are about my son or having kids reminder that birth rates are falling precipitously in developed nations so I personally just feel like I’m doing my duty on the timeline

my 15mo son got home last night and immediately picked up my PlayStation controller, handed it to me, and started waving at the TV that’s his Astro Bot signal - he loves waving at Astro while I play i was like hell yeah brother i’ll play with you, video games are sick. you rule

i have many, mostly fish out of water in silicon valley experiences. - after pitching 100+ investors and failing to raise institutional funding, the 1st term sheet i ever received for my 1st company was a result of frustratedly googling "how do developer tool companies raise

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LLM Plans 🤝 Hygiene Products

I was one of the 16 devs in this study. I wanted to speak on my opinions about the causes and mitigation strategies for dev slowdown. I'll say as a "why listen to you?" hook that I experienced a -38% AI-speedup on my assigned issues. I think transparency helps the community.

this is pretty crazy. empirically AI helps me most with high-boilerplate tasks and the least with problem domains I already understand. it’s nuts to think we could simply be burning cash on tokens that make us less effective just to offload having to think…

just watched Disney’s Tarzan w the family … and TIL that Jane Goodall was inspired to do her life’s work by Jane Porter and the Tarzan stories art and storytelling have a very special place in human civilization

POV: Canadian suburb backrooms