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San Diego, CA
Joined February 2009
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If you want to know how @linear’s sync engine works, Evan Hu reverse engineered it and did a write up that is probably the best documentation that exists - internally or externally: github.com/wzhudev/reverse-l…
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“Build something people want” is such a great mantra for @ycombinator.
Instead of only focusing on “build” and “something”, I wish more builders would also think about “people.”
Human nature is the invariable anchoring all businesses, and it hasn’t changed since we left the plains of Africa.
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It's happening! I just used my credit card to pay for the bus!
MTS has entered the final testing phases of contactless payments ahead of the launch in the next week or so.
WANT.
I think I have finally figured out what I would do if I had to do my own startup.
Electric tuk-tuks on the Seattle Eastside. Community owned (DePIN), electric (zero emission), rideshare style dynamic routes. Revenue model -> Good vibes and a base salary. #publicgood
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The default is no one is willing to tell you that your work sucks. And you go on sucking, forever, feebly attempting to reach your goals but with insane amounts of slack in the system, but thinking you’re doing great.
To me, this is sad. This is delusional. This is the thing we should all be afraid of.
I love when people rip my work apart with useful feedback.
As you get more senior and more skilled at your craft, it becomes harder to find people who are better than you at your craft. And the people who are better than you are often quite busy or unavailable, so it's hard to get them to rip your work apart even if you wanted them to.
If someone is giving me detailed edits and they have the skill to tear my work apart, it means they’re better than me in some way and I am lucky they care enough to help me.
If you have someone like this in your work--a manager, coworker, friend--take the time to thank them and consider yourself fortunate.
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Early-stage product development is no longer about validating novel ideas for new markets. It's about reaching an ever-higher quality bar to compete in crowded categories.
We need to rethink the concept of the MVP.
→ linear.app/blog/rethinking-t…
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I made this guidebook for my 1-1 manager meetings with reports.
What would you change or improve?
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Ok guys hear me out, what if we move Silicon Valley to San Diego.
Best quality of life in US, already pulls 3x capital than Miami. 1.5h flight to SF, 1.5h drive to LA
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Hosting an ice cream social in San Diego at Yogurt World UCSD (9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla) on Thursday (2/8) from 2:30 - 4:30! See you there!
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We are opening a software engineering position at @reflectnotes. If you want to:
1. work with the latest web tech
2. on a product loved by thousands
3. with complete autonomy and only one meeting a week
Then this is your chance. We typically only hire about one person a year.
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People really over complicate companies with OKRs, 1:1s, status updates, roadmaps, blah blah blah.
We don’t do any of that at Reflect. We have one all hands a week and a WhatsApp channel. That’s it.
And yet we ship lots, have >4k customers, and growing faster than ever.
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I want to start a factory nerd tour group:
- Regional chapters
- Arrange monthly insider tours of cool factories via the connections of the folks in the group
- Get food/beers after, since manufacturing nerds are the most fun to hang out with
- Annual overseas trip to tour an itinerary of factories, think Japan, Germany, etc
Not quite sure how to get this started, but it would be very fun.
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Many told me that work trials won't work or won't scale.
Over the last 4 years, we hired 50+ people with work trials and with a 96% retention rate. Everyone from engineers to C-level candidates goes through one.
The best way for both parties to test if there is a fit.
How do you identify the right people to hire?
At Linear, every hire goes through a work trial. In this new post, we share the thinking and the mechanics behind them.
→ linear.app/blog/why-and-how-…
