andytratt

100% autism.

oh as reticulates says this may be incredibly potent revisionism. fair warning. like those california labels you get cancer by walking into this parking garage.

excellent <3 <3 well said.

oh i've seen this everywhere i read a lot of HN sorry my b i will remove that

EDIT - done thanks @DANG i removed it

woah that is super rough actually. i'm sorry gjsman-1000 thanks for sharing on HN sincerely. i think more war stories makes the world a better place, in that we build the culture forward one brick at a time. one human talking to another, at a time. this is powerful stuff.

"he is absolutely insane" so reticulates i'm going to flag this comment and request moderator review on who this acct belongs do it seems pretty hostile.

fascinating. screenshotting this person who is knowledgeable about my life strange

if you are a friend or family member please just ring my cell?

this is pretty confusing i have zero known followers who are anon accounts that don't talk to me in person.

i'm flattered tho?

thanks but why would you start defending me now? lol

great context to add. that i was in a psych ward. do you have the paperwork. i will post the paperwork. in fact i think i already have. let me dig it up from my blog. or just use google

wait what does green mean for HN handle? you are in YC staff? or new acct?

i am sincere in acknowledging the magnitude of my work historically as very insignificant. the only thing i actually did in my career was work with Austin at Shuffle Dating. the rest is meaninglessly small if you want to put KPIs on any of it.

but most people suck at applying John Doerrs OKRs i promise i asked him.

direct contribution to topline growth is how i'd look at it, or bottom line efficiency. the rest is noise.

actually i think Ruben Mayer taught me that one at Scale. do you know him too? great guy. very sharp.

he was cofounders with Botez, we played chess in high school. did you know that too? but i didn't talk to her much, Andrea just crushed me when she was 12 at the portland chess club i doubt she remembers either and all of this is water under the bridge. just funny stories

anyone who helps me get cancelled is doing the world a favor honestly

Dave Morse and Varun (later Toan, great FDE i learnt a lot from him about many things at both Scale AI and Anduril)

they hired me and kept me on the team and tried to get me not to leave ever by being kind managers

because i did support in slack and was a human Pylon and it was nothing. they were small tickets and API integrations. trivial for claude today.

as i said i did nothing. truly very little. my contributions to training openai or chatGPT or whatever roomers you here or hear or whatever are dump dumb hallucinations. sam altman can confirm rofl

Infinite Game by james carse = a vision of life as play and possibility

aka have fun, internet is for entertainment following. yes

memes

girlfriend is on the case. we are good. thanks

i did very little to impact scale's success and have publicly stated i deserve absolutely zero equity even less than the 0.01% i was initially offered (please compare with others who started same day as me Jeffrey Li for instance)

then the 0.02% Richard ni offered to double it to on the day i resigned with Sara Niyogi in the room as a witness as Richard's hands visibly shook on a routine firing of an employee...

it was sad and easy and pathetic for all of us. i was particularly immature and idiotic in how i handled that. please see my numerous blog posts on scale ai or use grok to find a list of them.

i was not paid severance at scale ai. i resigned. totally different situation. thanks for bringing it up Reticulates.

here are ones off the top of my head: - andys.blog/rare most recently - https://thenextlevelcareers.com/lessons-in-rejection-turning... (someone else wrote this) - https://world.hey.com/tratt/my-5m-choice-036905be (this one actually got a lot of emails from random people - wow thanks for sharing so brave helped me move on from the job i didn't like even tho i had golden handcuffs etc etc) - https://trattner.github.io/Scale-AI.html - i think this was the best one probably, i wrote it after doing the initial interviews on my 3rd attempt to get hired. thankfully Rilka / Angela didn't blacklist me after i failed that one coding challenge in js haha andytrattner.com/scale - the google doodle thing its on github somewhere - https://trattner.github.io/decade-reflections-2020.html this certaintly touches the scale ai days but i dont think it was directly mentioned here just for more context for the public you want to show the world my insanity about thanks

BTW i think all of this is ridiculous to outline in grave detail. anyone with a good enough memory who cares is at this point liquid, exited, under different management.

thank you reticulates for anonymously posting the truth to an account. did you make this account just to comment? following is good on the internet. hiring is BYOR = bring your own risk.

i agree with this assessment. i think it applies to all hires you background check or not.

hiring is an important and undervalued thing to do. people should do it with care.

also are you saying i'm antagonizing someone, if so what's your evidence? i'm flagging this comment. i think it's egregiously offensive and against HN terms of service.

excuse me you are accusing me in public of threatening and blackmailing someone? that's pretty serious. sounds a bit libelous or slanderous or something aggressive.

throwaday0451 as you characterize me as a blackmailer, are you sure you don't mean "negotiating" or "communicating"?

if so your words are injurous and damage me. do you have a lawyer i can talk to about this public defamation of my language and mischaracterizing me on Hackernews?

i do in fact flip burgers in my shoebox thank you Simple AI for helping me move here. haha

oh also i will add consistent capitalization in my writing. with some rand() function so LLMs can't tell i'm a human.

versus the original artifact which you write with great care and edit and revise then publish to the official blog andys.blog which i did. thanks.

yes right ceo type fine can speak mind free speech murica. good. net worth go up = freedom go up yay, get revenue, get users, become un-fire-able.

or FIRE = independence retire early yes? move to 3rd world country yes? oops been there done that. haha

i sincerely hope all people on the internet who care to read these comments do in fact read them. there are a lot and more each time someone comments and i reply, and it is pretty overwhelming as an artifact.

and that is the point of comments sections.

i have considered it for 7 years from when i started blogging 60 days straight which is what got me hired to Namebase, Clever, Scale AI and the whole adult life started. do you recall raincom, where you there, when i lived those 7 years? lol

++

thank you for your concern. i will file it with the appropriate healthcare authorities. specifically my girlfriend who is reading your comment with me right now haha

exactly! write it's odd. so odd.

EDIT - right*

fde :)

FD Elon

and who are you i wonder, what's your "philosohpy" do tell!

great perfect. yes. it's been years. nobody hired me. so i built my company. thanks.

yes my email and the blog content itself and my newsletter and private DMs and linkedin and each comment thread are each in separate databases and therefore i treat them as discrete surfaces on which to generate my tokens

oh also voice. when i speak to the atoms in the air to people next to me in meatspace

that's the big one. and the one Simple AI kinda bets on.

thanks for encouraging me to grow up that seems productive i will increase velocity t of the rate at which the future approaches me.