@ptrln

Builder/Engineer. Former: Principal Software Engineer at @Instacart

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined March 2013
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🚀 After a year of quiet building, I’m excited to officially announce @champ_hq out of stealth. We're also announcing our $8.5M Seed round led by @Redpoint with participation from @defyvc , @Max , @svangel, and a great group of angels. Watch the quick launch video below
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Matt Shumer
@mattshumer_Feb 10

Something Big Is Happening

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The Bear S02E07 (Forks) is such a great episode for founders (or really anyone finding value in their craft). Richies change from an eye-rolling-it-doesnt-matter clock-watcher to finding his way is kinda beautiful..
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What if Wes Anderson directed The Lord of the Rings? We asked the community which video they want to see next and Lord of the Rings took the cake… or should we say Elven bread. We hope you enjoy this Midjourney to Middle-Earth. #LordOfTheRings #WesAnderson #MovieTrailer #LOTR
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Good design isn’t rare because it’s expensive, good design is rare because it’s not lazy.
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Paul Graham
@paulg22 Jan 2022
Tech companies must keep shipping cool new things or die. Not because customers require it, but because the best employees do. If your best programmers stop being able to ship new things, they'll leave to work somewhere they can.
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A cheat code for life is just to ask for what you want. The harder part is figuring out what that actually is.
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Every time someone asks me why I am still in SF, the answer is always the same *People* My loved ones & all the cool people I know are still here If they all moved with me, I'd leave in a heartbeat Cities are just places with buildings if you don't have a social circle
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Complexity is often poor thinking in disguise.
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It is hard for less experienced developers to appreciate how rarely architecting for future requirements / applications turns out net-positive.
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Tim Urban
@waitbutwhy5 Mar 2021
We think a lot about those black lines, forgetting that it’s all still in our hands.
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COVID Update November 25: Why I will be taking a vaccine and why I hope you do too. 1/ – at Edina, MN
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Sahil Lavingia
@shl15 Nov 2020
It’s better to have a market decide your success than a boss.
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Decision Desk HQ projects that @JoeBiden has won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes for a total of 273. Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America. Race called at 11-06 08:50 AM EST All Results: results.decisiondeskhq.com/2…

Decision Desk HQ Votes | All Things Elections

The latest election results from Decision Desk HQ, race previews, candidate insights, polling data, and real-time analysis for key contests across the country.

votes.decisiondeskhq.com
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Jack Altman
@jaltma2 Aug 2020
I continue to feel skeptical about remote work as the future. Colocated work still strikes me as more fulfilling and productive for most people over the long term. If it were safe to go back to work tomorrow, I think most of us would.
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Andrew Ng
@AndrewYNg23 Jun 2020
The suspension of the H1B visa program is bad for the US, bad for innovation, and will shatter dreams and disrupt lives. As a former H1B visa holder, my heart goes out to all the families affected.
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Do people think they're just not going to get coronavirus? Do they not care? Do they not understand how it works? I'm just trying to figure out why people are acting like we're not in a deadly pandemic that has killed over 110,000 people.
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Balaji
@balajis2 Jun 2020
I thought martial law might happen when the pandemic started if deaths kept growing, but COVID wasn't the direct cause. Instead, the upstream cause of it all — *uncontrolled* pandemic, riots, and martial law — is a mutually untrusting society and a dysfunctional state.
Tracy Alloway
@tracyalloway2 Jun 2020
So who had 'martial law' on their 2020 tail risk bingo card?
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In the future, there will be two ways to work: Computers tell you what to do, or you tell computers what to do
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Balaji
@balajis13 May 2020
“San Francisco is trapped in the past. The future will be built elsewhere. I left to find it.”
Michael P Gibson
@William_Blake12 May 2020
After 10 years, I left SF for LA in January. There are somewhere north of 137 blog posts and stories that have been written about "Why I Left SF" in the last few years. Here is mine: city-journal.org/thousands-l…

America’s Havana

Increased crime, skyrocketing housing costs, rolling blackouts, and potential tech relocation have all contributed to seven straight years of population decline.

city-journal.org
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