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Well, I find this post looks good, but a like lot of 'data for developers' posts it's just a list of tools. As if a collection of tools banded together actually makes your customer…

I hope so, plumbers are damn expensive

The SAT, like general intelligence, is half hard work and half inherited ability, from what I've read. Characteristics that you have no control over, like height, intelligence, rac…

Neither statement is true, unfortunately. The reports that you read in the media don't reflect the state of the world. In the US, most plumbers and SWE make between 100-200K. The w…

The dude has obviously never met a multimillionaire owner of an auto body shop, a house demolition business, or a plumber. Did they do well in high school calc class? No. Are they …

Congrats from a fellow software boostrapper (12 years in, similar size). For a laugh, here is our founder chat from this weekend: GB: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/englishpaulm_ju…

Many data teams often find themselves as 'tool jockeys' instead of becoming true engineers. They primarily learn some company data, and then rely on drag-and-drop or YML configurat…

My mantras in management: Love Your Errors It's not a failure, it's an opportunity for improvement No shame, no blame

You should be proud…you’ve learn the difference between the pursuit of value vs. the pursuit of valuation. Congrats.

Jesus H Christ, the Universe is big.

So, this explains the average aging Trump voter's cognitive impairment? Well, at least it's not leaded gasoline or reality TV.

This is great. I have personally gone through a half a dozen toasters. It such a waste. I want to buy one for my lifetime

I like brutalist architecture. And I am not the only strange one: r/brutalist has 174K members and the original fuckyeahbrutalism on tumbler. Think of it like being a fan of 486 PC…

We'll check another website, no biggie

There was also a lot of other cool stuff happening in Vienna in that time period - Math, Philosophy ( https://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/deep-roots-digital-era-five-v... ), the Arts ( …

Why is Japanese software so bad? Chip shortage or not using the card purchase UI at train stations is confusing, even in English. As a US software engineer, I can not figure out ho…

read the book. Overall, since the 1990s total global inequality (inequality across all individuals in the world) declined ... In 1990, 36% of the world's population lived in extrem…

This is too full of Silicon Valley VC language. ugh Go to the source materials. - Rational Optimist. Matt Ridley - The Better Angels of Our Nature. Steve pinker - Progress: Ten Rea…

It's no surprise -- being good at work is not the same as being good at school.

Optimizing for unit economics vs. top-line growth are opposites in building a company. In the years of free investor money (2020, 1999, etc), companies choose growth over unit cost…

Fiber. Dot.coms, housing, crypto, AI, ….

Bootstrap software founder here This is just bullshit Unlike many companies in the software industry, we have grown profitably for nine years without the need for any funding. Our …