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It's all fun and games until they run into another branch of homo sapiens ala the descent....

I wonder how much the founders are making here. They just started this a few years ago and now it has sold for 60B.

When you have companies like SpaceX and Anthropic raising billions, it is hard to believe that private credit isn't virtually infinite.

Dead capital. There's no need for public funding until they are reasy to cash out at the top, if ever.

I don't doubt it. We had a massive edge on the internet for several decades. That's come to an end now. Somehow Western Europe squandered it though.

Good talent is still hard to find so that's not going to happen for large companies, but lots of startups are going in that direction.

I visited the Balkans recently. One thing that is very clear to me as a n American is that the rest of the world is catching up. English taught at a young age, internet access is easier than ever and in aome cases superior to US options. Like it or not, people from the developed countries are competing much more on the world stage than they realize. For companies, why pay 2x the price of a developer in the US when they can find good talent elsewhere? I'd love to leave the US and geo-arbitrage while I still can, I'm on a slowly sinking ship.

Revenue, not profit. A lot of that is likely inflation. I suspect we'll see this pattern repeat quite a bit with the oncoming oil shock

Bonus focus points if you paint the wall and watch it dry.

And the spice must flow

and all are wrong, but some are more useful than others

How did they deal with non-competes? Are they in CA or somewhere those aren't enforceable?

I wonder what is driving this. I too sense that people are really guarded these days. For me, I work remotely and it's hard to build true rapport through Slack.

This is starting to become my latest pet peeve, people using Claude to write their messages in Slack. I'm going to just stop communicating via text with these people.

It's one thing to have Claude polish a message and another thing for it to write out an entire message.

At lot of this isn't true in practice because we live in an async word. Perfect example is giving bad news. So much dancing verbal dancing around it when people really know the answer.

The best team I've ever worked on had little social cushioning. This doesn't mean people were being mean to each. The directness of everyone on that team was great because we could work towards resolving issues quickly and without any fluff. This also allowed us to find the best solution.

That comment is nice, but virtually meaningless as there's no way to enforce it, even if there were mods.

You don't go far enough, every flu season should be lockdown and social distancing protocol should be followed on pain of death.

Kith looks interesting, but the main problem there is verifiability. How would it keep bad actors out? How does it verify posts by invitees aren't AI generated?

Lol, 1 to 4 is just called "knowing how to drive". These cameras aren't a serious value add unless you're driving a massive tank, err car.

Shoutout to Adam Wathan and team. I rarely shell out any money, but Tailwind was an exception. They actually made front end development fun for me and added tons of value with their UI kit etc. Even though I rarely use it, I bought the lifetime to support their mission. Hope they can continue supporting the framework. It was the best thing to happen to front end in a long time imo.

When you're a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. Good thing you were able to find a good alternative solution. I suspect a lot of ailments could be resolved with non-medical interventions, but there's little money to be made there and also, a lot of people want the perceived "easier" way out.

I'm with you all the way. It's always much easier to strike up conversations with foreigners on my travels (or the locals) abroad than it is with people from the US, even when abroad. I was on vacation taking a tour when another American family joined. It didn't take long until they started to talk about politics. We could have talked about so many other things, but that's the reality for the vast majority of Americans. Politics is the only sport left and all consuming for most here. The worst part is like you said, they are rooting simply for their own team and aren't looking for an actual intellectual discussion on anything.

That's not what I'm saying. There needs to be a collaboration with product ofc, product shouldn't be the boss though.

No, product shouldn't be the head of an engineering team.

I agree with this 100%. The thing you have to watch out for is when they try to pin similar levels of responsibility on you for very little upside.

It's only going to get worse from here. Everything is trending towards zero for any kind of online service as it gets easier to make software with LLMs. There just simply won't any moat left.

It's not true that seed phrases have to be connected to the web browser though. Take a look at Trezor. There is a web plugin but the keys never leave the hardware wallet. The issue is users prefer the convenience of not needing to use a HW wallet for the transaction signing, which leads to a plce where keys are stored in digital space and can be stolen.

I'm not convinced. This strikes me as a work harder, not smarter. Good judgment is required here.

I've always disliked this advice because it's trite. It's often true at an individual level, yet in practice, I've never seen this work once more people are added to the equation.

Credit cards aren't a fixed cost. Spend less.