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We really don’t need to contract out at all. I’m sorry my Indian friends, but Jonathan at the local community college has been learning AWS too. But don’t fret, you guys have a billion people in your country and they need tech too - stay there, and improve it.

I was at a large company in Silicon Valley where over 50% of employees were Indian. A large, white American, company.

I’ve seen this shit with my own eyes. I don’t know man, is SQL Migrations and web development so hard to find in fucking Silicon Valley? Lol.

This stuffs a scam.

All successful people continuously repeat what worked for them in the past.

They should sell to him because all he is doing is either buying Twitter at fair value or doing pre-launch hype for a competitor which will include the accumulation of other platforms including Trump’s Truth social, shit like substack, which he can easily get for less than 10 billion, Mastadon, etc.

Drunk tweeting is a thing.

Channeling my inner Cicero, Fuck Rust.

We have yet to see outsized results from the leetcode group, but we have seen outsized results from the pre-non-leetcode group.

Results matter, as the leetcode dipshits would say.

Saturation is the mother of all mediocrity.

On the other hand, systems, which inevitably become entrenched, are built on saturation. It becomes a mediocre way of life.

Once you cross into fame and multi million or multi billion (Kanye, Elon), that sweet spot is nothing to them. Their sweet spot is influence, impact, and the like. In their bracket I think few reached a sweet spot without tarnishing their desired presentation. Someone like Bezos is looked at as a villain, so he didn’t get it. Bill Gates is one or two allegations away from affairs and Epstein stuff being leaked. Warren Buffet is somewhat at the sweet spot but he is a much older man who doesn’t need the validation that Elon needs. In other words, their sweet spots are about as hard to hit as our sweet spots (financial well being).

“Money isn’t everything but not having it is” - Kanye

I can’t hear ‘you didn’t come to the bank for X years, so it’s gone’.

It’s because you are artificially lending yourself to problem spaces that you have no intuition or interest in. For example, you’d had to have be in X problem space and an actual consumer/user in that space to even know what the pain points are. If you do that your ideas and solutions are going to sound dumb to people in those spaces.

However, if you pick something you yourself deal with regularly, no matter how stupid, your solutions will be intuitive.

Developers struggle with this constantly because we think ‘this is probably what SaaS consumers need’. How fuck do you know? You just don’t, unless you’ve been in it.

You can’t fake this one believe it or not. Great writers always give the advice that you shouldn’t just become an author, first live a little, so when you write you have something to write about. The same goes for devs.

That’s why 90% of us look at stuff like TikTok and Snapchat and are baffled at their success. Many of us shun social media or how different age groups value it, we fail to understand what makes these things compelling. We simply don’t know because we don’t tweet, we don’t dance in videos, we don’t post stories, so the whole thing seems stupid to us. If we showed up to that space and tried to make something, we’d fundamentally get Google+.

Can’t fake it bro.

How about an Amazon warehouse?

But yeah, to your point, building more housing in a supply constricted market requires like way more proof.