Benjamin Feifke

@nicktrimmer Awesome.

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Do you agree: The founding team (CEO + CTO) should be able to build the MVP, sell, and reach ramen profitability without external funding? If you can't do this, you don't have a complete founding team. (For software startups only)

@zebulgar Where in Europe are you?

currently in europe and man it really is noticeable how much poorer it is than the united states now and that gap just keeps widening every year wild to watch that gap be created over the course of my life, when I was a kid the two continents were equivalent...

@Sowndharkrishna @dakshgup Yeah but also money is a really nice thing to have. Do it like Bezos and Zuck (forgot where I read this first): "Get wealthy, then get healthy, then get happy".

@dakshgup "Working 80 hrs/week isn’t just exhausting—it’s harmful: 🛑 💔 33% higher risk of heart disease 🧠 Mental burnout, 15% more depression ❌ Productivity tanks after 55 hrs 💤 Sleep deprivation = 23% more errors Work smarter, not longer. #Health #Productivity"

i have nothing against having work-life balance. in fact, i recommend it to all our competitors.

A client recently gave me some feedback, and it made me really reflect on how to build successful client relationships... Here's what he told me: “With you, Ben, what I see is what I get. If you tell me something is going to take 10 hours, it takes 10 hours; if you tell me you can deliver something only by a certain date, you deliver that thing by that date.” And it made me think... So much about being a good professional service provider is the same as being a good friend or person: - Be punctual, and when you can’t be, let people know as far in advance as possible. - Have integrity. Set reasonable expectations, and then meet or exceed those expectations. - Be honest. - Communicate optimistically—always give people the benefit of the doubt. It's a lot easier than people think to start building a clientele. So if you want to start, then just start! #entrepreneur #data #ai #ml #freelance #consulting #python

@mikestrives Love it!

Framework that simply just works. 1. Go to Reddit 2. Search on “alternatives” 3. Find pain points of existing products 4. Build a better alternative

Me: "Ugh, I hate working with date times. Time zones are especially so annoying!" Google Calendar: "Do you want a separate start and end time zone for that event?"

Sometimes I intentionally write poorly formated #python code so I can let @astral_sh #ruff work its magic. Every time it formats my code in .2 seconds, it feels like a birthday present. #Python #SoftwareDevelopment

@d4m1n protobuf FTW

why is JSON so popular? honestly it’s not even that good or efficient, is it?

@iamfra5er search

What was the last “successful” product Google developed and didn’t buy?

Don’t respond to user feedback the way google’s head of ai does 😂

Overheard in a #Boston coffee shop just now: "I've been working at my current job for 4 years. Legally I have to give them just 2 weeks notice before I leave [to join your company], but I love my colleagues and they depend on me, so I'd want to give them 3". #Berlin will never understand the hustle that this lack of a safety net can offer you. Labor laws drive labor culture.

Is it just me, or did @joerogan and @lexfridman decide together to start saying "Steel Man" all the time on their episodes a few weeks ago?

@jevon @Replit Scrolled through the comments and couldn’t find the answer… what’s the app? And congrats to you on raising such an industrious kid!

I don't mean to like ... alarm anyone in the software business... but my 11 year old had an idea for an app and I told her to go use @Replit. Between dinner and bedtime she made a rock solid app with every feature she could come up with. Her friends are all using it now.

@levelsio And it all could have been avoided if he hadn’t skipped leg day.

Imagine being Sundar Pichai now: - you had the largest continually updated data set of any company to train AI on (the Google Index) - you invented the underlying technology of LLMs like ChatGPT in 2017 called Transfomers - you had complete search dominance: all you had to add was AI and you'd own the market And yet: - you managed to complete fumble your massive head start and was late to everything - you made your APIs so hard to use nobody seriously integrated it into their apps and people instead went Anthropic and OpenAI - you now see your search dominance quickly slipping away to Perplexity and yesterday's launched ChatGPT Search This will be a business case studied in universities for decades

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In case you missed it... I had a great time with @ShawhinT and The Data Entrepreneurs yesterday discussing hourly vs project-based pricing for data consultants! This workshop is a collection of some of my learnings as I've been building beyonddataconsulting.io over the past few months, and it was a pleasure to hear from some other current and aspiring data consultants who had their own thoughts and experiences to share on the topic. The recording is live on YouTube here: youtube.com/watch?v=86tVg8… Thanks to everyone who joined! #dataentrepreneur #data #datascience #consulting #ai #machinelearning #pricing #freelancer #ml #python

@shl Super astute, thanks for sharing.

AI is killing remote work Software that once took days to ship can now happen in hours or minutes, enabling people to ship 10-20 times faster than before. This all changed on the day Claude 3.5 Sonnet came out. But it’s hard to get this speed-up with remote work. Even short communication delays have become significant bottlenecks in an AI-accelerated workflow. What used to be acceptable async delays now represent a material slowdown in potential productivity. When teams work together physically, they can leverage their human peers at the same pace as they use AI for immediate experimentation and refinement - testing ideas, generating alternatives, and making decisions in rapid succession. Why spend more money for a slower answer? With AI handling much of the execution work - writing code, generating content, creating designs - the main bottlenecks are now cognitive: getting stuck on problems, running low on energy, or struggling to generate fresh ideas. In-person collaboration is particularly powerful for overcoming these barriers. The spontaneous discussions, quick whiteboarding sessions, and energy of working together help teams think better, learn faster, and get unstuck more quickly. The primary advantage of remote work in the AI era may be the ability to maintain 24/7 operations through distributed teams. While an in-person team can ship 8 hours a day, a globally distributed team can ship 24 hours a day. 3x more! However, this works best as a complement to, rather than a replacement for, a strong in-office presence. The reason is less about speed and more about velocity. The optimal approach might be a core team working together physically, supplemented by remote team members who can maintain momentum across different time zones.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ To acknowledge this fact, we’re adding a cost of living adjustment based on the purchasing power parity of each country, capped at a ⅓ discount to our NYC rate. We’re also capping remote positions at 25 hours a week, to be clear that they’re not close to full-time employment. We still pay well–you’re being comped to the most expensive city in the world, after all–but the dream of the future of work being fully remote is over. But that’s okay–it was fun while it lasted!

Looking forward to it @ShawhinT !

@ShawhinT @cursor_ai @pycharm Yeppp it’s pretty nice 😎

@benfeifke @cursor_ai @pycharm The autocomplete can be disruptive sometimes, but I find easily querying Claude with code context makes up for it

Switched back from @cursor_ai to @pycharm . Sorry everyone.

It's true.