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My read is that we're traveling along Gartner's hype cycle. Tokenmaxxing/"who needs developers anymore" is the top of the peak. "oh no we ate our entire budget in 3 months" is head…

Old-fashioned I guess: LinkedIn I applied for a CTO position out of curiosity, had a conversation with the CEO (now my cofounder) and hit it off. I was "lucky" to have worked with …

I suppose you've fundraised at some point in the past 13 years. If you have, the advice you probably received was to start with the tier 3 VCs, hone your pitch, and move on to the …

I have an email address with a personal domain, and my "legacy" Gmail account. I like having an email address with a custom domain, and I think that it's a (weak) signal about your…

I signed up for the ChatGPT Premium waitlist a week or 2 ago; I haven't received anything as of today. In related news, my beta access to Mistral was just approved (I signed up thi…

Define "middle class Americans"? Hard to give a precise answer otherwise. A few (other) explanations: * QoL is hard to be rational about, and is something that (I think) has to be …

I did a (regular, non tech-focused) executive MBA at 35, after about 3 years as a developer and 10 as a technical manager. I would absolutely do it again. After my MBA, I transitio…

A few observations from your initial description to maybe help you figure out how you want to handle this. 1. Most people calling the helpdesk are in a very specific state of mind:…

Good call. A lot of red flags in here, including one I haven't seen in the other comments: the relationship with the brother. If you're both technical, you have more seniority than…

I love 202 for sentimental reasons (latest problem available when I picked up PE, seemed impossible at the time, felt thrilled to solve it) and 422 because I find the solution so e…

This problem holds a special place in my heart. When I first discovered PE* I checked the latest available problem, which was 202 that week. I remember thinking at the time that it…

The answer to this question is almost always: "the stack you're most comfortable with". In your case, given that you have (apparently) a strong Python background, you should try to…

If you want a nice tour of classical CS concepts in bite-size chunks, give the "Advent of Code" a try (adventofcode.com) It's a collection of 25 vaguely Christmas-themed problems p…

Seems I can't reply to parent so putting the link here: https://www.tlt21.com/the-product-leader-reading-list/

Moonshot-Internet | Lead developer | Paris, France | ONSITE (WFH 3 days/week) | Full-Time Hi, I'm Laurent, the CTO of Moonshot-Internet. We're an Insurtech aiming to make insurance…

Also, you might find the Rand leadership Salck ( https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/ ) to be a good place to have discussions with peers on all sorts of to…

Unless I misunderstand your concept, using your website would entail granting it rights to my AWS account to access billing info and shutdown pretty much any service. So, something…

Daniel Jarjoura recently published a fairly complete reading list that might be useful: https://techleadership.substack.com/p/the-product-leader-rea... Some books I’ve read and enj…

Matt Levine (Bloomberg) gives a convincing explanation in a recent newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-01/stocks... In a nutshell, he argues that stock p…

I would start with a basic question: what do you want to do? Your current job let you explore a lot of topics and roles: which did you like best? Which do you see yourself pursuing…

1) I usually bike on a low-resistance setting where I can talk without being out of breath (similar to talking and walking). If I’m on a higher setting and I need to talk, I just s…

I have an exercise bike to which I added a tablet (an old bookshelf plank I had lying around) on which I can put my laptop. It’s pretty hard to type but it’s perfect for conf calls…

Microsoft Powerpoint (and to a lesser extent Word). I lost count of the number of days I spent trying to make my presentations and documents look good (which for me means pixel per…

I went through the same question a few months ago. I settled on OCaml. Pros: it's reasonably straightforward to pick up, and it shines as a functional programming language. There a…