Barry Welch

@Jason Uber-physics-nerd love triangle. Suuuure sure. Happens all the time.

In breaking news situations it’s important to not speculate… that being said, 90% of the time these situations are a love triangle, disgruntled student or mentally ill superfan … but with a nuclear scientist as the victim, this instantly becomes an international espionage story

Welp, we're going to have a lot of interesting things to talk about at Thanksgiving, aren't we?

@mattwensing You forgot to add the exciting conclusion of the matter: x.com/mattwensing/st…

Outside of nepotistic birthright. exceptionally consistent hard work is necessary, but insufficient. You can’t control the insufficiency of it, but don’t take your eyes off the necessary part. It could be you.

@jessethanley @TropicalMBA Yeah 2019, that's about the time that @patio11 was called up to the high mountain to dwell among the immortals and speak the language of the gods. :) This generation of bootstrappers needs him to come back and be our spirit guide.

I posit that the current wave of people making software start with discipline first because it's all they are being shown online in the past 5 years. They've forgotten what motivation is. Even in the podcasts I listen to, like the @TropicalMBA, there's a lot less storytelling going on these days — it's all focused on metrics and taking action. There was something special going on from 2010-2019 but I think that's now gone. Romanticism is dead.

I feel as a community [bootstrappers, indiehackers, etc], there’s been an effort to move away from running on motivation to running on discipline. Daily habits and Woop trackers rule our lives. We always have to be stoic, void of emotion. One bad sleep because we ate a muesli bar and we get thrown off the wagon for the week. We’ve forgotten how to be self-motivated and energetic towards our goals the minute our routines aren’t perfect. But if I look at most of my successful friends, almost all of them were fueled by pure delusional thinking for years. They were pursuing a life and story they heard about online in some niche, obscure forum or podcast (hi @tropicalmba); it was what pulled them to their laptop every single day. No habit trackers. No morning routines. Pure delusion. These days people are different. They have to track everything, obsess about their MRR in their bio but if you ask them WHY they are doing it they can’t answer. They’ve turned their lives into a bookkeeping job. BORING. We need to teach ourselves how to motivate ourselves again. We need to get better at changing our own perception of our lives. That, I think, leads to success.

@patio11 An unusual case of the revolving door of government to be sure.

Huh, government remembered that if there is ever a lack of state capacity it can just start putting uniforms on private sector people w/ relevant expertise/skills.

@destraynor @darraghcurran What are your benchmarks here? How do you know when you've reached 2x?

We're taking a simple idea, and we're taking it seriously. We're aiming to 2x our productivity with smart deliberate adoption of AI across the board in our R&D org. @darraghcurran is driving this effort, and we're sharing his email to the team. (🔗in🧵)

@andrewculver I should say: I always felt that first seeing someone else's approach informed my path forward in a very useful way. But, the explicitly-stated freedom to diverge unlocks the creative powers.

@andrewculver The worst handoffs were where I just ran with what they gave me without challenging their assumptions. The best ones were where the other person said: "You can use what I started, or you can start over", which allowed me to build my own mental-model around the problem.

Curious what everyone's experience has been in situations where you or another developer start a feature in some way and then hand it off to someone else to push it over the finish line? What makes for an effective handoff? What are the pitfalls?

@harisenbon79 Step 1: Commit, Step 2: Own it!

This is how every sponsor shoutout should be done. Thanks to Shiv and then entire Kit team!

@intern We got our problem-resolution ideas from the back pages of Archie Comics, and our basic theology from Chick tracts.

guys basically believe that you can solve every problem in your life by getting jacked and making more money

The whole "AI is coming, nothing we can do, and it won't be stopped." is going to look pretty silly soon. Key capitalists will probably realize that, at the current pace, they can't participate and its just going to deleverage them and usher in Socialism. Then, as if by magic ...

@nivi Hmm, but why wouldn't the proper criticism of law be the measure of it's justice?

Rapid progress requires distinct and accessible forms of criticism: In physics, it is experiment. In math, it is proof. In philosophy, it is reason. In history, it is evidence. In engineering, it is performance. In design, it is usability. In entrepreneurship, it is customers. In art, it is wonder. In morality, it is freedom. In medicine, it is health. In law, it is equality. In economics, it is wealth. In politics, it is revolution. In comedy, it is laughter.

The Shopify CEO's leaked memo is another data-point that indicates hesitancy in the broad adoption of AI, and that its not happening organically... thats the story.

@eglyman @arakharazian @tryramp The simple reason that marketing is said to drink more than sales.... is that sales are a bunch of lying alchies. :)

If you've been meaning to get into drinking, ask your friends in marketing to take you to a business dinner - almost 20% of the check on average will go towards booze. @arakharazian and the data team at @tryramp are finding some incredible things.

@cgenco Doop is a rizzler's paradise, no cap.

The ideas we were taught during the "AI Winter of Fear" are now being put to trial in the courtroom of small-but-mighty tech conferences around the country.

@Garrath_R @delk Educators have always wrestled with the question: "How do you prepare them for a future that none of us can predict?" Up 'til now, its: A little music. A little art. A little math. A little foreign language. A little history. A little physical education. What would you change?

@delk 100%. We need to fundamentally revamp our education system. Otherwise we're trying to force kids to grow up with a systems that fits a world...that is about to no longer exist.

The primary value K-12 schools provide for ~80% of American families isn't education — it's childcare during working hours. Something to keep in mind as the AI tutor hot takes fly.

Todos: Vibe-laundry, vibe-dishes, vibe-graphql-upgrade, and vibe-android-release.