WSJ: One useful way to simplify work is to confront a “Pain Point,” a thorny problem plaguing a set of people. Solve Pain Points Together https://xitter.cf/t.co/vgb9G0dBXF
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If you pick an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct?
8%25%
54%33.33%
15%50%
23%25%
13 votes • Final results
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The plan? At dusk, 50 people went to San Francisco's longest dead-end street and all ordered a Waymo at the same time.
The world's first: WAYMO DDOS
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Amazon is a literal trillion dollar company.
If they wanted to have a clean marketplace, they could get it done in 2 days.
But they want to create systems where they never make a decision.
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Hotels > @Airbnb, a horror story 🫠
It’s 2:30am in London. Flight delayed 3 hours. Raining.
I message our host that we’re going to miss the check in window. There’s a fee. Weird since it’s self check in, but ok
We get to the airbnb and the lockbox doesn’t work.
Rain, rain..
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Your database, backend and the user are all beads on a string. If you move your backend closer to the user, it's now further away from your DB. The cost of talking to your DB goes up tenfold and that is now an application concern.
Moving to the edge is not automatically good
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Someone recently asked me "when starting out what do you think is an underrated hack to success?"
Be someone people want to help.
That means being vulnerable, honest, action-oriented, ego-aware and inquisitive.
People lift up people they like.
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Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/…
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Build your startup around the life you want to live and not the other way around otherwise it will consume you.
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A reminder that most of the front end debate on social media is over which abstractions we prefer on top of HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Browser APIs, and SQL.
So guess what’s actually the most important things to learn.
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I’m very sus of AI startups without demos, but…
Today I met a co where the founder literally made me describe an app in text and 20mins later, the entire app, backend and frontend was made, and fully functional.
Feels like the Industrial Revolution of software engineering.
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For startup founders and entrepreneurs:
Having the mindset of consistently making small wins week over week is a game changer that compounds big over time.
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At Facebook, I coined a term called Filipino Product Market-Fit:
Every year a product manager would observe their new product getting intense adoption in the Phillipines and proclaim their idea was working. Directors would quickly staff the team and alert their VPs of the newfound discovery—only to find out that the pattern was not reproducible in other countries.
The Philipines has one of the highest time-spent online in the world and they will try literally anything for a few days.
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