Brian Norton

@auren when you assume that others have it figured out more than you do you end up with a “them”. nothing is quite as unhappy as a successful “them” because they are everywhere

so I'm gonna write a book called "How to be Unhappy" with specific advice on how to guarantee a life of misery and unhappiness. what advice would you have for people that want to be unhappy? (besides to spend more time on social media)

@auren do you read any sci-fi or fantasy? I find I feel the most refreshed after reading about worlds imagined

what were the best books you read in 2024? I devoured too many books in 2024 (around 50 total). Most were not worth the time. but these 16 were all amazing. Memoirs: Troubled by Rob Henderson (best new book of 2024) Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Open by Andre Agassi Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover Foreign Policy: No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal If you want to be really depressed about our adventures in Afghanistan, read this The Achilles Trap by Steve Coll Ibn Saud by Barbara Bray The Quiet Americans by Scott Anderson World on the Brink by Dmitri Alperovitch Sociology: Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Business: The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook Same as Ever by Morgan Housel Financial Shenanigans by Howard Schilit Alpha Dogs by James Harding

@anushkmittal @auren both can be true — reading can give the mind time to process your hard problems in a sort of background task

@auren i read 0 books in 2024. too busy building

@thatstraw I’ve found the best complaint is to fix it and this applies to so many things

Cold response 🥶

@Eric_P8 @dhh posthog comes to mind but curious what else there is out there — can you share who here on in DM?

We’ve found mixpanel competitive (we’re not anywhere near $83k lol), they’re definitely cheaper than hiring someone to replace them. Sure we could throw some other engineers on it part time to get an internal solution up and going, but I doubt it would end up being as fast and feature-packed for less $.

Our renewal bill for Datadog came to ~$83,000/year before we canceled. There's no way, no how the time we've spent replacing the key usage amounts to 1/3 or 1/2 of a full-time employee. Not even close. Enterprise SaaS pricing is bonkers.

@alexisohanian this doesn’t track for a sampling of the people around me, closer to 50% is being generous. does the 94% really hold for the people you know?

We see it

@fly_SAV I heard a report from DIA terminal that an event had closed the runway, any update?

@auren @Blake_Hall 5 years is a short timeline for change, my graph will look like a gradual increase over time with jumps every few years. All that said, the number of logins in my resident set is about 12 and my totals in 1Pass are 74 for work 167 personal

the average american has 200+ different logins. What will it look like five years from now? @Blake_Hall thinks we will have massive consolidation I’m not sure – 5 years from now, it might just be the same as today. your thoughts?

@statsandedits Could they go hybrid like the premier league?

The hope is that they can avoid doing this but given how often the venue is used, this might be a realistic possibility in the near future

SDUT also spoke of the Snapdragon possibly implementing artificial turf in the future Part of the reason why the field is so patchy at times is bcos the university wants to book as many events as possible there and that puts an enormous strain on a natural, grass pitch

@danhightower @lpolovets Time to buy some more!

@lpolovets lol literally just invested 2 days ago.

Frank Slootman retires => Snowflake stock down 20% We should all aspire to create that much impact on the teams we're part of.

@danbarker @owenraisch @Austen @danbarker hearing a lot of "things that do stuff with spreadsheets" but not all that much else -- I am genuinely curious about what I am missing out on

@owenraisch @Austen Nice - what'a an example of that?

I've been watching a few people work who have learned to use AI well. I'm blown away by the times I think, "OK, next step will take about five hours," and it ends up taking five minutes.

@rohitdotmittal @Austen what workflows are you compressing today? do you have a key example of something that is 10x better?

@Austen AI is going to compress many workflows. I am trying to imagine how much it’ll abstract away all mundane things. But also know that it’s probably going to be 10x better.

@auren if it's anywhere near as good as five links, I'm in for the long run

for super nerds that care about DaaS (data-as-a-service) -- this is a weekly news feed on what is happening in the DaaS space

@Austen @Austen I'm interested in what you gleaned from this -- 52% of surveyed said they rarely use AI first to write code. to me this is not super confidence inspiring in terms of the future of AI coding tools for engineers

Engineers: What percentage of your code is currently written by AI first?

@KarleKane @Austen pointing you in the right direction when...? when you don't know where to start? when you encounter an error? something else?

@bitsizejourney @Austen I don't think I have had the same experience, what types of things are you working on?

@Austen you can get 80%+ with current tooling

@dj_roots @pitdesi lol but who do you *allow* to recommend content to you? small inner circle or colleagues or friends?

@pitdesi All those times I have AirPods in when you're trying to get my attention.

people keep recommending podcasts to me that are 3 hours long and I honestly can't figure out when they find the time to listen to these things

@paulg I agree — we use @tuple for most engineering team calls and there is zero expectation of using video. I can’t imagine asking them to be on video, it would take up too much brainpower

One reason I don't like Zoom is that I can't do this. Another is that I have to think about my facial expression all the time.

@lan8ach @Austen yes sort of but I’ve found that when things start asynchronous or are punctuated synchronous they just go better

@Austen almost like... being in a office

Co-sign. In fact I think this may be part of the key to remote work. A lot of the time your options are: 1. Knock it out in 30 seconds now. 2. Spend 30 minutes talking about it three days from now. Keep calendars clear, call people.

@jordanful @Austen waiting patiently for this for my Tesla, I can “feel it” in their roadmap 🤞

@Austen I'm still waiting for someone to build "push button, start talking" micro voice app for teams. twitter.com/jordanful/stat…