As crazy as this sounds, $1T in SpaceX revenue in 2028 is no longer impossible

Every person that moves to SF goes to a bunch of tech events in the first two weeks and realizes it's a complete waste of time.

This is why the billionaire class is freaking out. Google co-founder Sergey Brin in particular has completely lost it - he has spent 102 MILLION, all to defeat a tiny tax on his ginormous fortune. It's honestly sad to see: so rich, and they still don't understand what's really scarce in life: your fucking time on this planet! Instead, this guy spends hours, days and weeks obsessing over this little tax that he'll barely notice. Pathetic.

It’s incredible how much wealth SF entrepreneurs have created and how little of it has gone toward building culture. Where are the great museums, new architecture, music venues, public spaces? Silicon Valley should aspire to leave behind more than ephemeral software.

Open-source is for millionaires who have enough money and looking for ways to achieve fulfilment in their life. Us, working class, don’t have the luxury to code for free.

This is an insane lineup of people in one room.

Fellow software engineers, we had a good run but I think it's fine to admit that it was the cushiest job of all time. High paying, you got to sit on your ass in front of a computer, and everyone else had to treat you as a delicate genius priest class.

In sports, we identify gifted children, give them funding, then fast track them to the elite level. Why don’t we do this for intelligence? We should be identifying and fast tracking high IQ children. They’ll largely make the most significant contributions to society. While childhood IQ is less stable, it’s still one of the best predictors of later success. Some of the funding wasted on schools should simply get redirected to gifted programs.

Yep. Except: 1. This was about important internal tools. The team was stuck in some architecture nightmare of their own doing (writing it in rails but headless, with graphql api, and a SPA react app, constantly needing frontend engineers for changes). I call this kind of thing 'cosplaying an enterprise production app'. All that complexity was in the way and using straight rails was perfect in that case. 2. I make calls like this all the time. Usually someone on the team asks me to. They see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with the premise. Saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management etc. Sometimes this is jokingly referred to as Founder-mode-as-a-service here. 3. For ten years I’ve also run an internal podcast called Context, where I revisit decisions like these and explain the reasoning so everyone can learn from them. This is helpful to give people all the variables that were considered and why this was the choice made given the information available at the time. I want to teach how to make such decisions effectively without needing me. Sunk cost fallacy is a problem. 4. Any notions that Shopify is succcessful despite of me doing this, instead of because of it, will have a hard time making their argument come together I think 😄 the part of 'two weeks later tobi learns about...' is nonsese and the pivot of that project up there happens one of the more successful examples of interventions. But getting the company to work effectively with great architecture and low technical debt baggage into the right direction is literally the job, so guilty as charged I suppose. But there are always cope stories floating around like this because they are more fun, than saying 'somehow we needed tobi to stop doing silly architecture astronautics'. I can totally see that.