Viewing profile — Wump

Maybe they'll finally remove "iPod Touch (7th generation)" as the default selected simulator in XCode :)

Leap | https://leap.so | SF Bay Area | Full-time | Founding Engineer Leap is a social learning platform for a traditionally underserved market — people 55+. We're building a platfo…

"Now I'm wondering if my idea is bad or if my distribution is awful." This is a false dichotomy, I think. Trying to grow is an essential part of how you evolve the idea and discove…

Leap ( https://leap.so ) | Full Time | SF Bay Area ONSITE | Founding Team Leap is the social learning community for people 55+. We are building a platform to power classes and conv…

Leap ( https://leap.so ) | Full Time | Remote | Founding Team Leap is the social learning community for people 55+. We are building a platform to power classes and conversations in…

Reminds me of the equation: Pain x Resistance = Suffering If you accept pain fully (Resistance = 0), then you won’t suffer. The more you resist, the more you suffer. And if Resista…

Absolutely agree. I've been reading a lot about this recently, recommend: Lost Connections by Johann Hari The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg Better Together by Robert Putnam

For anyone who's interested, I put together a repos to bootstrap a react with typescript and tailwind project. It's intentionally fairly barebones, but I've found it useful to get …

Reading PG's essays and Hackers and Painters back in 2005 got me to believe that entrepreneurship could be something for me, too. It changed the course of my life, both personally …

> I program because I like to, and because I can. Well said! There's a joy to be found in doing things for the sake of it.

> spent his time on backups instead of solving millennium problems The fundamental issue with this comment is that it assumes that solving millennium problems is obviously a high i…

> A lot of times writing, to me, feels like sitting alone and talking to myself. I write stuff, I publish them, and nothing really happens. The lack of feedback – good or bad – mak…

Another way of framing "the price is too high" is "the value is too low -- here are the things XYZ that I would love for you to add to justify that price for me." It seems the seco…

There seems to be a lot of griping about the $100/year price here. The folks behind Muse have made what seems to be a solid product and want to charge for it to build a sustainable…

> Over time I’ve realized that action precedes motivation Interesting insight. Usually we think of it the other way around.

Chris Rock had a great sketch about minimum wage: 'I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your…

This reminds me of something Alex Honnold said in the fantastic documentary Free Solo: “She [his girlfriend] sees things in a different way. For Sanni, the point of life is happine…

The thesis is more that we don't actually know how to "do good" because the world is complex (nth order effects, unintended consequences, etc). So the intention to do good isn't en…

If you’re looking for someone to talk to about how you’ve been feeling and how better to cope, I highly recommend texting crisistextline.org (I’m a volunteer counselor there.) The …

The people you choose to work with is a first-order decision. The ideas, money, technology, or impact of your work are deriviatives of that: https://vishalkapur.com/people-first-de…

I think DDG is decent and getting better. The tough thing though is that for search the bar is high. Alternatives need to be as good as google, not 80 or 90 or 98% as good. Most us…

I did this during jury duty, it’s the only way I was able to take in all the information.

Flow is key. At the same time, I agree on not having to (or trying to) memorize everything. I've been exploring building a tool which is sort of a "universal search bar" for progra…