Kyle Schumacher

My family shares a Christmas list every year. I found out my sister has been using affiliate links the last 4 years. Estimates she has made ~$500. Never been more proud of her.

Making slides manually feels especially painful now that you know Cursor for slides should exist but doesn’t.

@victortrac @googlefiber Ahh.. don’t tell me this. If you can get it working, that’s really bad!

@googlefiber I've wasted hours talking to support and dealing with two technicians over the last two days. No one can even give me an estimate for resolution. At this point I'm pretty sure switching back to ATT Fiber is going to be a faster solution.

@googlefiber is unbelievably incompetent. I'm sure it works great as long as nothing goes wrong, but my service was installed on Tuesday, went out on Friday, and no one seems to have the ability to do anything. Two technicians came out and both waved their hands and left.

It’s official: Scott Frost is returning as UCF’s head football coach.

@m2jr Probably why they went with a real outdoorsman this time around.

The fake outdoorsman cosplay strategy has never worked for Democrats in the last 25 years as far as I can tell.

@batwood011 @ketau @aashaysanghvi_ @capitaloneshop @WikibuyDeals You know, in hindsight, I would have definitely settled for Honey’s outcome. 😂 Appreciate the friendly competition and many good times @ketau. And @batwood011 + team for building some awesome things (without PRDs!)

@ketau @aashaysanghvi_ @capitaloneshop @WikibuyDeals 🤝 @SchusWorld and I spent many, many long hours obsessing over it. Congrats on what you built!

Was re-reminded of the PayPal / Honey acquisition. $4B mostly cash. Honey had 17M MAU, was profitable, and only ~$50M in capital raised. techcrunch.com/2019/11/20/pay…

@typesfast @sama I was thinking Dave Clark.

Open AI needs a new CEO. I propose @sama

@mattgratt @BlackLabelAdvsr @JesseLakes @brookschaaf may know of others. Whatcha up to?

I am trying to make a list of the "affiliate network over Amazon" providers - I know of Levanta, BrandRamp, Refersion, Perch Plus - any others? Maybe @BlackLabelAdvsr knows?

@Rengle820 This hits hard. Granted, I don’t think you have it in you to quit (or lose).

Being married with a kid was my secret weapon. 99% chance I would have given up if not for the desire to show my son his dad doesn’t quit.

@victortrac Godspeed my friend!

I'm moving my family to Spain today. My kids are entering 6th and 3rd grade this year - still young enough where moving doesn’t disrupt close friendships but old enough to really remember the experience. I’m fortunate enough to be able to work from anywhere, so we’ve taken a giant leap as a family to leave the amazing, comfortable life we’ve built in Austin to move to Vitoria-Gastiez, a wonderfully located city in the north of Spain, in the Basque region. Why Spain? My kids have been in a Spanish immersion school in Austin since kindergarten, and we hope to build upon this and leave Spain with two fluent kids in a couple of years. We thought about Costa Rica or Mexico as well, but for a variety of reasons, Spain won out. I’m happy to talk through this with anyone who’s interested. What about Austin? Leaving Austin was a tough decision for me. I’ve been fortunate enough to have called Austin home since 2008 when I stepped foot in Texas for the first time ever to join a little startup called Bazaarvoice. Like the city itself, I’ve grown in so many ways and I’ll always be thankful for the experience: I got to experience multiple startups, started two companies, met some of the best people in the world, and most importantly, raised two amazing little Texans. It’s been the longest I’ve ever lived in a single city, and I’ll forever think of it as home. Going forward - most of my work contacts will probably have no idea - I’ll simply take calls earlier in the day. But expect to see more photos and commentary about living abroad in Spain (especially from the perceptive of someone who doesn’t speak Spanish)!

@IbaMasood Also true for sales

60% of tech companies STILL use stack rankings for performance reviews (IEEE, '23). I can't stress enough on how demotivating this approach is. Pitting developers against one another drastically reduces ad-hoc pair programming events. In such a hostile environment, developers are just not likely to lend a helping hand, knowing it might cost them their position on the ladder. Stack ranking reduces collaboration to competition and creates a culture of fear and one-upmanship. Your developers are creators, not competitors in a zero-sum game. Another downside of stack ranking is that it oversimplifies the diverse skills of developers down to a single number. If you wouldn't use a single metric to measure code quality, why use a single rank to evaluate a developer's diverse skillset? Rethink if you still use stack ranking for performance reviews - it is not an effective management practice.

@SchmelebeckPPC Did it beat auto value bidding?

is manual CPC dead? I decided to run a test 7 days with $5k ad spend $50k in revenue later (only mCPC) it's not dead maybe you're just not that good of a media buyer

@Juan_McGnarley There it is! Thank you @Juan_McGnarley

@SchusWorld I just added it today. Go go to settings, beta features then enable it.

I’m pretty sure we have the best conversational speech engine for LLMs on the planet. We are always looking for early partners who want to incorporate speech-based AI into their product with just a few lines of code.

@batwood011 All this Twitter threads had me excited. I guess I’ll need to stay patient.

@SchusWorld Yeah. In the release they said it was rolling out to everyone “in the next week”

one of the easiest policy wins i can imagine for the US is to reform high-skill immigration. the fact that many of the most talented people in the world want to be here is a hard-won gift; embracing them is the key to keeping it that way. hard to get this back if we lose it.

@TrueMedPayments @travelingenes Go Grace!

Hi! I'm Grace, also known as @travelingenes. I'll be running TrueMed's Twitter this summer. I'm a teen on a mission to flatten the curve of cancer cases by 2040, so I'm thrilled to join TrueMed- changing our view on food, exercise, sleep. Here's my "food is medicine" story:🧵

@MartijnSch Congratulations to y’all!

World! Meet Lukas. He came into the world last week, so it's been quieter here since then.

Little known fact: LLMs were first conceived when a charismatic Senior PM w/ a Tuck MBA wrote the following user story as part of Q2 planning to hit top level 2018 OKRs: “As a human, I’d like to access infinite personalized digests of the vastness of human knowledge; extend my universal problem-solving capabilities far beyond the limitations of my working memory; and routinely perform superhuman feats of cognition.” Nonfunctional requirements: - the interface must be entirely natural language Functional requirements: - it must finish in seconds OKRs: - Multiply global programmer productivity 5x by 2023 - Pass all advanced credentialing and scholastic exams by 2024 - 35% white collar unemployment by 2025