Jared Silver

It was a tremendous privilege sharing this talk with 500+ engineering leaders at #LeadDevNewYork yesterday. Thank you so much to @TheLeadDev for putting on such a remarkable event. We're so very lucky to have such a thoughtful and inspiring community for engineering leadership ❤️

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.@strickinato @forestfari go behind-the-scenes of our new interactive Python course, where breaking things is expected. With smart autocomplete handling syntax, you focus on the real work: logic, iteration, and debugging. By the end, you’ll have built a cybersecurity system, while becoming skilled at learning from real-world errors.

IDEA ABSORPTION Idea generation is one of my biggest strengths as a problem solver but the inability to watch when / where i was doing it, was a big weakness early in my career as an executive / leader. I didn’t even realize I was inundating my org with ideas, until a peer Eng leader came to me and said “Gokul you’ve got to stop generating idea confetti. The org needs focused execution, not more ideas.” I’ve never forgotten that line from nearly two decades ago. I made two changes: (a) ideating in very small, mostly 1:1,settings with senior leaders, to flesh out a concept (I do this with AI today!), vs in groups, unless the goal of the group meeting was to ideate, and (b) trying to be Socratic in phrasing: “should we consider X” and being clear that X is a suggestion, not a directive, and it’s the team’s job to decide if X makes sense vs all the other things on their plate. Learnt this the hard way after being presented work output by someone who had worked on a project for a week based on misinterpreting a throwaway comment from me at a meeting. It was cathartic to see that Bezos had the same issue early on in his career. From a recent interview: “Jeff Wilke came to me one day he worked for Amazon for a quarter of a century but this is when he probably knew me only for a year and he said “Jeff you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon.” And this was such a shocking idea for me Jeff said you have enough ideas per minute per day per week to destroy Amazon. I was like what do you what do you mean? He’s like you have to release the work at the right rate that the organization can accept it and he was a manufacturing expert and so you know his view of the world was every time I released an idea I was creating a backlog a queue work in process and because it was just stacking up it was adding no value and in fact it was creating distraction and so he said ‘Look you have to figure out when to release these new ideas at a rate that the organization can accept them and this was I mean this sounds so obvious but it was not obvious at the time to me and this was a profound insight for me and so I started prioritizing the ideas better keeping lists of them keeping them to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas and then I also started figuring out how can I build an organization that can be ready for more ideas that’s about having the right senior team and the right leadership and getting those people the executive bandwidth so they could do more ideas per unit time and so and and that is what we built we built a company that’s very good at inventing and doing more than one thing at a time and you do want to build as the company gets bigger you do want to be able to do more than one thing at a time but that idea of releasing the work was very profound for me and it made it made us operationally more effective while still being inventive and do you think you’re a better inventor.”

If you’re passionate about education and have a knack for designing elegant, new interfaces: @brilliantorg is an awe-inspiring product and team to join Few things inject optimism into my veins like the work @suekhim @pcho are leading rn

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I'n hosting a couple of sessions at @TheLeadDev NYC on October 15th & 16th. Should be a fun time!

@suekhim Looks amazing! How much styling direction did they give?

Restored an I.M. Pei townhouse as a little side quest… and then Dwell magazine showed up to photograph it yesterday. AMA!

The work that Brilliant is doing feels as innovative and consequential as it comes. We should make this technology available to every math student under the sun. Get off the timeline and go touch graphs.

we’re hiring product designers @brilliantorg small passionate team, ambitious roadmap, and an opportunity to design interactive experiences that genuinely help people learn hard things. links below

@charmaine_klee He’s burning through 50 H100s every single day. Jared from engineering says we need a bigger snack budget.

It’s been a long 148 days. Let’s go Yankees!

In learning games, “almost right” is catastrophically wrong. Learn how our engineering team uses AI evals to test puzzles for quality and correctness. 👇

Looking good in the iPhone reveal—someone’s getting smarter every day 💪

How learning products give feedback: “Incorrect. You pressed the jump button too early.” Super Mario: Fall into the pit and die. 1/ Since Brilliant’s early days, we’ve been chasing that same visceral learning experience – the kind where understanding clicks through doing, not reading. In more recent years, we’ve been focused on the question: Can AI accelerate how we make interactive games for learning? ⬇️

@shl People offering to work for free don’t understand the difference between “free as in ice cream” and “free as in puppy”

People offering to work for free don’t understand the value of their manager’s time, and are therefore very confused when they keep hearing no

If you’ve also been tweeting for more than half your life, DM me for a prize.

@shl Too many people sent me this tweet, and I don't know if I should be proud or ashamed 😂 Days alive: 10252 Days tweeting: 5405 Days not tweeting: 4847 Percentage of life spent tweeting: 52.72%

Haven’t found anyone who’s been tweeting for more than half their life yet. I can’t possibly be the only one on here. Prize is a 3-Michelin star meal in NYC with the other prize winners. No takers?

When we’re building for developers at @SnapAR, our job is to make a tool that feels like magic. Here are my 10 rules for making that happen: figma.com/blog/charmaine… 💖 Some of my favorites are: #2: Accelerate your users’ time to magic #7: Blur the boundaries between design and development #10: Make space for play Huge thank you to @figma (@msjennyxie and @annie_berrones) for helping me craft this love letter to the art and science of building developer products. It’s a careful balance between creativity, precision, and countless nights spent refining ideas ✨