Marcus Smith

Life is simple. Every day you wake up and ask: how can I best improve the wellbeing of those around me? And then you do. And then you die.

Your goal isn’t to code. Your goal is to build. If EDM music makes you build faster, listen to EDM. If AI makes you build faster, use AI. Being a great coder + AI will make you build 1000x faster than not being able to code + AI.

i'm not sure man

Perfectionism is often an elaborate form of procrastination.

The best think too much is their fault The rest? Quite the opposite

Spot on From CEO of Snowflake

One of the most frustrating things that holds smart people back from building great things is how uncomfortable they are looking dumb. It’s VERY hard to build things of meaningful value unless you’re ok with people thinking your an idiot for long periods of time.

Is the world a better place if your startup becomes absolutely fucking massive? Hot take but if the answer isn’t “beyond a shadow of a doubt”; go pick something else

@okkervilriver 31 Seasons in the Minor Leagues Song by Magnolia Electric Co.

I'm planning a patreon mixtape highlighting songs about sports. Any suggestions? Ideally looking for great, well-written songs, but I'll take corny stuff too.

AI is going to cause years of total chaos, then a new normal. Like electricity or the internet did.

@lessin TI should do an all ChatGPT newsletter for fun

The New York Times reporters are all striking today ... so they are using pre written stories and a few editors to keep the lights on -- but what i see is a perfect opportunity to test CharGPT for real :) "write a story outraged about X tech in the style of NYT" ;)

We should head down to Twitter HQ and sell some whiteboards out of a truck

Every company is a mess internally, you just need to decide which people you enjoy working on the mess with

this is objective

Nobody will remember: - Your salary - Your fancy title - How ‘busy’ you were - How many hours you worked Everyone will remember: - That you were the on-call - That you applied your SQL fix directly to the prod DB - That you forgot the WHERE clause on your UPDATE

@heybluez well said!

@donohoe Good luck!

@SynesthesiaART Claimed! First time seeing the new site it looks great

If you own a Yellow piece between Y011 & Y020 you should visit Synesthesia website in bio & collect your audio. 💫