@astro_reid @Astro_Christina This is the coolest thing I’ll see in my lifetime. Thank you.
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Josh Brody
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Josh Brody
@joshmn
I went to federal prison for internet piracy. Startup founder, software engineer, and diagnosed autistic twice to double-check. Would rather be canoeing.
Minnesota Beigetreten Temmuz 2012
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Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
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@Shpigford @maybe the genre of "josh will write about it later" is almost as undefeated as forbes' 30u30-to-prison pipeline. :(
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tl;dr At the beginning of the year we made the decision to shut down Maybe Finance (@maybe).
Over the past five years, we explored a number of directions, from the original personal finance app through legal tech, marketing automation, B2B finance, and financial APIs. None found the traction or economics needed to build a sustainable, venture-backed business.
We're now in the process of, to be very clinical, liquidating all assets.
A couple dozen domains, 40+ git repos (including one of the most popular open-source personal finance apps ever), 100s of Figma projects with thousands frames of design. It's...a lot.
You can see all the details on that here: maybefinance.notion.site/asset-sale
I'll write more about all of this in the future but the reality is it's pretty raw at the moment. It was my first big swing after my last exit and it just...didn't work. ☹️
Regardless, I'm thankful for the dozens of amazingly talented individuals who were involved over the years as well as the nearly 1,800 investors.
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a reorg is the company dropping the mask for a week and then just putting it back on a week later
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the person who's been there five years doesn't have to work at being seen. they were already onboarded in everyone's mental model. sorry but u ain't got shit. tho that's not unfair in a cosmic sense. the problem is that compound interest is a hell of a thing when you're the one who doesn't have any yet. :(
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your manager tells you you're doing great. you walk out nodding. nothing happened. you got fucking pleasanted.
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i never realized that by the time a decision is being formally discussed the actual decision has usually already been made. the meeting is fucking theater bc the actual decision happened last week in a fucking DM
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@streethistory @MarcTwinCities “Where were you in the blizzard of 2026/Iran bullshit/files/NK lobbing missiles at Japan/some guy golfing?”
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Right now we have a 10% chance at seeing 31 inches of snowfall from the storm this weekend.
If this would occur, Minnesotans "might" stop talking about the Halloween Blizzard. Maybe
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@Shpigford @ryancarson @JasonCarpentier @github @kdaigle Hopefully your experience is different than mine; @kdaigle led me on about trying to get my account access restored. It was only after 3 months and a bunch of lawyers and money did GitHub just ask for an affidavit saying I am me. Big waste of time.
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ummm...do i know anyone at @github? i think my account just got suspended?
all sessions logged out and when i try to login it forwards me to github.com/suspended but won't let me do anything/see anything.
i've had this (paying) account for nearly 20 years.
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"good engineer" is not a reputation. it's a shitty placeholder bc it means you haven't given anyone a more specific story to tell about you when you're not in the room.
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being indispensable sounds like a compliment but it's really a cage with excellent reviews. also, friday the 13th.
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tenure is the most fraudulent currency in existence. you can't counterfeit it tho. you also you can't borrow it, and you can't earn it faster by being smarter. you just have to be there. which is a deeply unsatisfying answer to a problem that feels like it should have a better one? idk.
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lol every company has two sets of values. there's the one on the careers page and the one you reverse-engineer by watching who gets promoted, who gets protected, and who gets managed out.
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the engineer who ships a critical fix at 2am gets nothing. but the engineer who mentions it in standup, writes it up in the weekly update, and tells the story at the all-hands? promoted. same shit, different visibility.
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Butt time-in-seat accumulates context, relationships, and institutional memory. valuable stuff, sure.
it does not accumulate capability. someone can be at a company for seven years and have the same year of experience seven times. Groundhog Day with Jira tickets and a slowly evolving Slack avatar.
"they've been here five years—they must know what they're doing." lol
maybe. or idk maybe they've just been here five years?
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Every company has two org charts. The one in the HR system tells you who reports to whom.
The other one—the one that actually determines what happens—is a power network nobody drew for you. The senior IC whose opinion the VP asks before every call (see: not me). The engineer who controls what gets prioritized regardless of the roadmap that's not your EM.
Then there's always the EA who filters what reaches the CEO's calendar and therefore has more practical power than half the directors. Fucking gasp.
You can't ask someone to draw this chart. You learn it by watching.
The org chart tells you who reports to whom. It doesn't tell you who matters.
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Recording a fresh Jon Krawczynski Show this morning. Send in your Wolves questions, please.
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This has been a very interesting thread to read and pure validation about what we are doing @FoundingDev a client of mine was paying $20k+ for two SaaS - DocuSign and CompanyCam and now they are paying under 1k. It's so real and the reason I decided to make gosign.work public. They choose the self-host option and it is reliable AF plus just a perfect fit for how they want it for their workflow. I wonder what @LoganHaskett went with.
Logan Haskett@LoganHaskett
DocuSign renewal just came due. What are the alternatives that won't cost me a billion dollars per year? Need unlimited envelopes and team members. No ghetto shit please.
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