Luis M. Castañeda

thoughts on #minimalism, #architecture and #modernism, in software and in the built world -> luismcastaneda.now.sh/when-is-less-m…

@LangeAlexandra Truly the best advisor. A towering, intimidating, challenging figure - but also one of the most singularly generous people one could hope to cross paths with. Very saddened by the news but ultimately grateful for the privilege of having had him as a mentor

Shocked and saddened by the death of Jean-Louis Cohen, or JLC as he always was on my calendar. The best dissertation advisor — intimidating and challenging but never trying to make his students in his own image. An unexpected pleasure to ultimately become friends.

@enriqueramirez I am saddened and shocked by the news, but also grateful for the intensely exciting years we were lucky to share with him. JLC was an exceptionally generous mentor to so many of us.

Jean-Louis Cohen has died. This is immensely sad. He was my dissertation adviser, my mentor and champion, and was generous beyond words. I am in shock.

I'll be live from New York giving a quick talk on going from contributor to maintainer in open-source @OpenSearchOrg today at 11AM. Join in!

After nearly 25 years, I’m publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto in its entirety, an internal document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of our e-commerce platform. allthingsdistributed.com/2022/11/amazon…

✨ Nostalgia...

@DerekBarrera 👀

I’m just waiting for Solana to go down again during all of this

The three seconds that you wait for the 2FA code to roll over bc you don't have enough time to enter the code before it changes; they the longest three seconds of your life

Why are crypto companies launching their own venture arms? @aidanfitzryan speaks to @beardmars, who oversees the team that runs Gemini's VC fund, on the crypto exchange's investment strategy: thein.fo/NO37Xa8

@GergelyOrosz this is ultimately a healthy trend but it is not without tensions - many companies came to naturalize ratios and numbers that were not fundamentally correct or healthy for some time.

Execs and engineers who understand equity RUN from companies where the valuation is overblown several times vs revenue multiples. It sounds cool to raise at $17B valuation on $170M ARR at a 100x multiple… except if you get allocated options, they will be underwater on exit.

@ashleyruba I've seen so much potential for innovation, collaboration and learning lost because of these deeply ingrained biases. Only way to chip away at these is by making alternatives tangible and real

@smtology i like this. Have made a similar transition myself and know of many success stories. But we could use more!

Should I start an bootcamp for architects? 95% joking but only because I am too risk averse/don't have the financial backing to quit everything to start something like that.

@dvassallo excellent thread here 📝

Why bootstrapping is riskier than you think:

There are many people in leadership positions at tech companies that don’t understand: Codebases without the people that wrote the code are just a liability, not an asset.

People don’t just leave managers: they leave shitty oncall rotations as well.

we never really figured out if androids really do dream of electric sheep however, many products *definitely* dream of themselves as platforms and many platforms dream of themselves as infrastructure we may call this the Blade Runner Principle luismcastaneda.com/blade-runner-p…

@thdxr @linear I am not applying to @supabase for a similar reason? 🤔

when I really admire a company I don't want to work there, I want to build something that's worthy of being their peer anyway that's why I'm not applying to @linear

The App Store circa 1978.

This is one of the great approaches to hire engineers with no prior experience: partnering with local bootcamps and hiring in batches, then investing further in these new hires. Hiring and investing in junior engineers is underrated. Well done, @SkyscannerEng!

We get so used to seeing huge numbers in startups that I don't think we fully realize how absolutely ridiculous it is to build a billion-dollar company from zero in a few years