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Yeah this trope won’t die. You can win an internet thread with data that tells people they don’t know they’re better off, but you can’t win an election when they don’t believe it. …

This is how I’ve implemented login several times now, and it comes from repeatedly having to undo a ton of assumptions about what a User Account is when attempting to modify a funn…

> The semantic web has been, in my opinion, a category error. Hard agree. > Maybe this all changes when AI takes over, but AI seems to do fine without us defining ontologies, etc. …

VCs with board seats vs you are trying to run your company with all its intricacies while VCs are often managing you as yet-another-in-some-tranche.

Great read, especially from the perspective of just trying to understand why people overfit certain thinking to certain problems. My startups perspective: I think it’s hard for peo…

Speculation would qualify almost everything, so that would be more of a statement on macroeconomics beyond Bitcoin. BTC is liquid enough while seeing billions of dollars in inflows…

Begging the question. What makes the prices inflated today?

I’ve used FusionAuth as well and found it to be quite good.

I suck in the kitchen. If you asked me to make you a sandwich, I would have to go to the cupboard or refrigerator a few times to end up with all the right ingredients. Then I could…

I had to work on an architecture like this for a company that had no business employing such an architecture. It sucked, but in attempting to help people on team "this is good" com…

Central Banks have allowed for the creation of tens of trillions of dollars / euro into a bases that were only in the tens of trillions. That glut of new money took a flight to qua…

Yeah not feeling like I’m going to fall out of alignment doing learning modules, but umm, ok thanks

Do people really need to check in with their manager about doing some task work?

My thought when I read it as well. I've owned Nexus 4, 5, 6, Pixel 1, 2, 3, 4 and finally gave up. Half of these phones were purchased because the previous model crapped out. I am …

Where did YouTube enter the discussion? Also yes the things I search for would be in the minority of overall searches, but apparently finding Google unable to fulfill searches for …

Not as weird as this meme. You assume it’s some signal expression rather than that I would just pay Google money every month to provide search results that don’t prioritize adverti…

Google search has become nearly unusable, while Microsoft’s core consumer products still seem OK - you can still install Windows 11 without a Live account through a workaround. I c…

The unions aren’t that bad, but if there was any kind of accountability on budgets, they would be crushed or, more likely, just be better and faster. Between ZIRP and infinite debt…

Because most of the gravy is in getting those things wrong. The bank or the government will find more money to keep the work going. I worked with a GC who bragged about tripling th…

I worked in construction for ten years and then worked at a construction management software startup for a year, where maybe I could see the writing on the wall better than others.…

Having worked in climate tech for a few years and also following the VCs in that space intently, I believe you've completely nailed it. Seriously, this comment is worth two trillio…

I figured a modern stack would involve modern tools and not be a head first dive into enterprise SaaS contracts and integration hell, but what do I know. At this point I’m diversif…

On the subject of modules, I often recommend “Composite / Structured Design” and/or “Reliable Software Through Composite Design” by Glenford Myers. It’s old. The examples are in PL…

The analogy is apt in at least defining a separation between the overall complexity of what SpaceX produces compared to NASA, to say something of how the two different models of R&…

I think clarity on what “level of leadership” (link, Netflix presentation) is expected is a good thing and also helps people understand that such a hierarchy exists. It gets people…