Hammad Khalid

After 12 years at Shopify, I have decided to leave. I worked there just after uni, and it shaped me immensely. I am very very grateful for everything. I pushed myself to learn the whole stack and proud of that: tweaking GPUs, building and scaling @shop, building teams, recommender systems, fire fighting, streaming systems, mobile + web app etc. Next up: Chase my obsessions. Shitpost waaay more. Work through my giant list of things to build.

Bullish on Canada 🇨🇦 Parties are competing on creating incentives for builders and removing barriers! Never too late for this re-alignment towards "what works in the real world?".

The Pantheon show is sooo good. Really well thought out, and perfect timing too. Access to abundant energy, smart people, ideally in a cold climate is going to be the secret sauce of the next century. More points for my bullish case for Canada.

Identity is a trap. Every 30 year old searches for "who they are supposed to be". They default to the easy and externally-imposed: their race, nationality, in-group. They lock that shit in, and reinforce forever. A free person takes the hard path, and builds themselves.

Hilarious to see that all of the shitposts here and reddit arguments are going to be deeply embedded into LLMs for a looong time.

Investing thesis: The data centers will hum.

Planetscale’s engineering blog is :chef-kiss:

Whatever happens is the next decade will put the renaissance to shame

“my team good, other team bad” is a dumb and sadly predictive way of how we think.

There is nothing more humbling than scrolling through Shopify’s Edition. And the fact that this is consistently done is just 🤯