In the Rails ecosystem, 15+ years in: If you follow the conventions, the Rails Way/golden path, and do things like everyone else does, new developers can come in and be productive right away. Deviating from convention imposes big costs on training.

Elon Musk fired 90% of Twitter’s work force and it’s still functioning perfectly. Government employees:

Why can't big companies ship fast? Everyone talks about indies having this advantage. Surely the processes they have in place are there for a reason? (I've never worked in a big corporation)

There is a great clarity in knowing what your users want. Everything that could distract you goes to wayside. There is no confusion. No "growth hacks" necessary. More money often won't help. No what-ifs. Meetings that don't help you achieve it are ignored. Just build it.

Working long and hard doesn’t lead to burnout. Working long and hard without giving your brain endorphin boosts does. If you aren’t getting wins, your brain will rebel by shutting down. Also there is a difference between being tired and burnt out.

There are days where you just feel like you have no path to winning or solving a difficult challenge. And then days where you do and it feels like nothing can stop you. It’s totally normal in a startup. Likely it’s neither and you just gotta keep laying down bricks.

People will say ‘money isn’t everything’ and then spend 40-60 hours per week away from their family working a job they hate to get it.

Once in a decade hiring opportunity for one of the most prolific Rubyists out there.

Stunning. I want to see more great architecture like this in common places. Grocery stores, schools, hospitals, cinemas, pharmacies. Great design isn’t easy, but it helps bring magic to everyday moments.

More and more, I have lost conviction that “minimum viable products” make sense for product development. It makes no sense to release a product with the core flow and then dismiss its viability after the aggregate data says people aren’t using it. Instead, founders should have

Incredible number of people get into smth without being passionate about it even for 10%. “Oh, that’s what makes money now, let’s do it! That’s the latest trend!” is the dumbest approach. Everything is monetizable these days. There is even an air guitar world championship lol.

My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work. The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox grantslatton.com/nobody-cares

2.3k stars on this github repo in 3 days... wat github.com/dzhng/deep-res…

Exciting personal update — I've been working on building the world's brightest lamp, with the goal of getting daylight levels of light indoors. We just launched on Indiegogo an hour ago; I'm especially proud of the video!

Yesterday was the inflection point: being based is now more cringe than being woke. Blindly agreeing with everything because it’s on your team actually makes you part of the problem. If you can’t name one thing you don’t like about your side’s platform, you are no different

Between 25 and 30, a man faces his hardest battles, not with the world, but with himself. You realize the mistakes you've repeated for years and start breaking each cycle, one by one This is the age where men either transform into kings or remain slaves to their past forever.

Being an entrepreneur now has more job security than a job

Most people have no idea what it actually takes to be a founder. They talk about vision, grit, or passion. Those words are props. What you really sign up for is a life where every decision feels like it costs something real. You will spend years being misunderstood. By your

a mistake that cost me 5 years: thinking preparation was progress. reading every book. taking every course. planning every detail. meanwhile, someone dumber than me started badly and figured it out. preparation feels productive but it's often just fear dressed up as strategy. you