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applied ai @dbt_labs // prev @AtlanHQ

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Joined February 2016
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Wrote about 4 years of using @obsdmd to do self-discovery in markdown files. More than 700 notes later, it's become less about the perfect note-taking system and more about writing regularly to document what life feels like, one draft at a time.
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in light of conductor's acquisition and the ADE market getting so much attention. wrote about how we all need superterminals, how the bloomberg terminal is a great inspiration for the same and how @stencil_labs and @superlogical are leading the pack.
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Junaid Rahim retweeted
You don't need a software factory. You need an abstract software factory provider which can instantiate concrete software factories without coupling the client to a specific software factory implementation. Have some fucking self-respect.
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Junaid Rahim retweeted
It's just a blood test. No one will pay for a subscription. Design is not a moat. Ultrahuman is going to kill you. You don't have healthcare experience. You need to find a co-founder. You're not from an IIT. You have no experience. The CAC will be too high. Orange Labs is going to kill you. India is a trust deficit market. Too early for preventative health in India. Claude is going to kill you. It's too competitive. There are no margins in blood testing. OpenAI is going to kill you. You're not solving a big enough problem statement. People will use AI to build their own software. Blood tests are a commodity. You don't have a moat. It's too expensive. You can't raise funds. You should build your own wearable instead. Google is going to kill you. Indians don't care about brand. You're targeting only the 0.01% of India. You can't scale it with only organic marketing. Your CAC to LTV ratio will be very low. You should pivot. You should be an AI health coach. You can't build both product and distribution at the same time. It's too risky. Consumers won't pay for a premium product. You should target tier 2 and tier 3. Cent is going to kill you. You aren't fast enough. You're not seeing the big picture. You're just a kid. You're just an engineer, you need doctors. ... just keep going. Happy Diwali everyone 🪔🩵
You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️
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tern's git diff is really fast and good
Tern already has diffing and a built in editor.
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love me an afternoon in a cafe with my twsbi
Guy next to me at sf coffee shop is journaling with a fountain pen. The pendulum is about to swing hard into offline / retro / tactile experiences.
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the era of superterminals is here, rex and tern are leading the pack
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dear algorithm, connect me to more people building tern plugins, thanks.
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Junaid Rahim retweeted
its official: all of my homies use omp
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diwali came early indeed
what a day for coding agent bros
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hope wins again
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first in my blood line to read a cabinet minister's substack ashwinivaishnaw.substack.com…
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i love being the dork in printo who gets weird ai memos printed and wiro binded to read over the weekend
The benefits of abundant intelligence will accrue far outside of San Fransisco. Spent the last year writing about capital, sovereignty, and the coming reordering of economic power. THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS Commanding-Heights.com
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fti is a massive time save
the line at immigration while i crossed it in 10 seconds through the FTI e-gates :))
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good time for all techbros to embrace the polymath lifestyle be interested and curious about math, robotics, bio, medicine, neuroscience, art, music, design, culture, philosophy, ethics, history we all should be davincimaxxing
very weird thing happening rn technical people are sad, they think their skills are now useless non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better
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Junaid Rahim retweeted
I’m overwhelmed but also embarrassed by some of the threads going around and need to post corrections, you’re lionising the wrong dude, everyone’s a shithead, I’m proud of my work and good at telling the story but I’m not unique, please go watch tv and spend time with your family
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sunil continues to raise the bar for badass indian mf in tech what a legendary good bye photo
today was my last day in cloudflare (again). the best career and opportunity in my whole life, and the closest friends I would die for. thank you to everyone who made it all so special. I had an incredible time. 🧡
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after all the dust has settled, I think only design engineers and research engineers would be left, each directing a swarm of agents ofc.
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