🇧🇷🇩🇪 5-10Y concentrated bets on asymmetric risk ⚙️7yr bootstrapped ecom founder · building AI tools for my own bizops
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Joined September 2022
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@bot so you’re telling me if I switch direct deposit to x cash, plus move all my HYSA capital into x cash, I’ll receive 6% interest APY? Rip @Wealthfront rip @Chase if true
Businesses were shutting down. I thought it was the best time to start one.
I made this video in 2020 sharing 3 reasons to start a side hustle.
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One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.
Test post via instinct. If this works without opening the app, we can finally be free to create without consuming.
Muse is really, really good. My stepfather passed away this year. Hoarded obscure but valuable belongings for two decades. Sister is overwhelmed trying to sell items to clear the home for sale. Muse created 60 priced listings from photos across platforms in 2 minutes. 30000 to go
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Overanalysis has been my life story. It can be far worse than laziness, as overanalysis leads to the same lack of action but ALSO self-loathing.
What helped me quite a bit was studying military history, military strategy, and decisive battles. The stories informed how I overcame paralysis by analysis.
Step one is set deadlines for decisions.
In warfare, you rarely have complete information, and if you wait to push certainty from 75% to 85%, say, that lag time could cause you to lose advantage and opportunity. It's the same in many parts of life.
So I set deadlines. By X point in time, I must make a go or no-go decision, no matter how much or how little information I have. Furthermore, I try and figure out small, short-term, low-risk experiments I can run as "go" decisions, so that I don't perceive action as high-risk.
In short: Set deadlines for decisions (put them in your calendar or they aren't real) and break large intimidating actions/projects into tiny mini-experiments that allow you to overcome fear of failure.
Once you have a little momentum, the paralysis usually disappears on its own.
August 15 (red) vs September 5 (yellow)
Running to work and back as a commute choice has greatly increased performance. Bonus is mental clarity you get from doing difficult things. Difficult things become easy(er) over time.
This evening run was 10x harder running with a backpack full of things. The idea was 3 miles morning to the office 3 miles evening back home M-F. Easy right? I overlooked the need to transport prepped meals to and from the office. Gritting it out, refusing to give in to a scooter
Waymo makes me carsick. Back seat, front seat same experiences. Just me? Robotaxi doesn’t make me feel this way.
Reminder that you can’t take your millions with you once you go. Sobering when your childhood best friend passes at the age of 35. Not sure how to process this but to say enough is enough. Work hard, enjoy life, let go of all fears. We’re all going to turn into sand specks anyway
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I’ll be actually-homeless soon (living out of my car) if I can’t land a job. Our house is being sold within two months if I don’t find work. I’ve been trying everywhere, but very few companies are answering. So please, email me or DM with literally anything involving computers, or ask a friend, or your business’s HR person. (I’d love to work with you.) I’ll do a good job, and I can learn and adapt to any working style you need.
I was employee #2 at Carmack’s AI lab, Keen. I worked at Groq helping to design and implement their LPU chips. I made Books3, a dataset trained on by LLaMA and Claude. I’ve been programming for 25 years.
Location: Lake Saint Louis MO
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Python, PyTorch, JAX, C++, JS/TypeScript, Objective C, Swift, Rails, Linux, Lisp, and anything else you give me a week to learn.
Résumé/CV: shawwn.net/docs/shawn-presse…
Email: [email protected]
I wanted to avoid the humiliation of begging, but nothing is working. I need money or else our 3yo daughter loses her birth home. I’ve been through dozens of interviews from the companies that do answer, but the market is bad right now. You can have me for a steal.
rt for reach. no good deed goes unpunished — wish i had a role to offer justin!
Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.
It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories.
I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming.
I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing.
Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.
