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The OP is mostly talking about image, not reality. What image do tech founders choose to project. OPs timeline is somewhat off. They posit a golden era for the 1980s-2007 but that’…

Tools: Claude Code and various VS Code derivatives, and Cursor at work. Generally Opus 4.6 now. I feel it made me better and other people worse. GOOD: I feel that I’m producing mor…

An article hit the front page this morning about when to leave an organization, particularly the author's experience with AWS. But I'm not sure if anyone at AWS needs a bulletin th…

I'm sure it's a coincidence that their graphics make it look like the "arc reactor" from the Iron Man movies.

Thank you for a response in the spirit of good discourse. Anyway, I don't even know if he has moved on from Adjoint. I agree there's something odd about this, but I've also seen ho…

I was surprised by the claim about Stephen Diehl so I did a little googling. I don't think it's correct to say he "works on his own blockchain company". However, relatively recentl…

I'm in the middle of a casual job search, and evaluating companies is difficult. Values are important to me, so people recommend that I try `keyvalues.com`. But that site is basica…

Prank submissions aren't cool here. As far as I know, there are no "crisis actors", in the sense of a conspiracy that pays protestors. At least not anywhere that has a functioning …

There are lots of reasons why a startup might fail. Technical competence and disorganization are way, way down the list. In my experience engineering at successful startups is ofte…

I've had two recent experiences that seem like a new frontier, at least to me. I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this, or if they know who might be selling fake LinkedIn acc…

I'm sure this person means well, and is very intelligent, but I stopped reading at the byline. I went and found what this person's expertise actually is. Zvi Mowshowitz is a former…

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I've been tested and I'm a borderline case. Not enough for a diagnosis.

I like this. I do have large ambitions, swelling even as my daily achievements dwindle. There could be a sort of vicious circle there. If you respond to short-term failure by putti…

You are the kind of person the authors are talking about. You're getting way too much of your information from social media. You think the people who are not in your defined tribe …

I'm not great at finishing projects at work. I'm not great at finishing my own projects. How can I get better at this? I've frustrated managers and even friends. I've tried a lot o…

What is pg trying to tell us with this story? I think it's evidence for "Billionaires Build", which is an apologia for billionaires. pg seems to think we are in a moment where bill…

If rich people are so great, why do founders not want to work for them?

I appreciate what Slava has written here. But I noticed something odd about his recommendation. He noticed that doctors can get through the bullshit because they have contact with …

pg has written some good essays. Unfortunately this isn't one of them. As is increasingly the case, the core of pg's argument is a variant of the Appeal to Authority: the "impressi…

My company is considering acquiring another company. One of the people tasked with deciding this seems to have no concept of integration costs. He thinks that we just grow our team…