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This seems to be great advice. Is this your own principal or is there any source/further reading on this approach?

Isn't what the author describes simply a mental model to amplify an egocentric worldview?

Most people are about average and those 'alright, not weird' decisions are on average the best decision not just for the individual but also for society. That's why they're not weird.

Mike Perham is an inspiration to me both in terms of Ruby/tech as well as business.

I've been using sidekiq now for almost a decade and had the pleasure to meet Mike at a Ruby conf many years ago.

Totally agree on your point.

What's more, the article talks about patterns in plural, yet I can see only a single one being pointed out?

I first checked in the app and didn't see any change but checking the website https://twitter.com/ it's definitely on production for me as well.

Is this somehow a badly timed April fools joke?

Isn't this very similar to the plotline of Inception? Looks like the CPC has mastered multi-layered inception.

/s

"You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it."[0]

What were seeing is that some cloud native companies have reached a size and maturity where the on-premises move makes sense. That's all, no fundamental shift.

[0]: https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...

The only subscriptions I have is my rent and a very specific podcast I chose wisely. Everything else was avoidable until now.

While it's true that one is forced more and more into subscriptions, there is still choice involved. I recently looked for a coin tracking tool, trialing about 5 different solutions and in the end went for the one that offered a lifetime deal.

Some businesses are waking up to this fact and potential competitive advantage, as are some indiehackers already.

* Crossing the Chasm

* The Mom Test

* The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

* The Cold Start Problem

I think the non-scientific explanation is that with conditions such as anxiety and chronic stress it's consistently engaged, but only slightly (like background noise).

You need to fully stimulate it for it to relax afterwards. That can also be accomplished with breathing exercises, ice baths, etc.

Helgoland by Rovelli is probably my all-time favourite book. I have recently finished 'The beginning of infinity' by David Deutsch (another bestseller), another quantum physicist and was deeply disappointed.

While Rovelli seems curious to me Deutsch seems certain about his conclusions. Did anyone have the same experience with those two authors that are seemingly talking about the same topics and are to some degree saying the same thing?

Just want to point out what a constructive and respectful way this is to reply to criticism and collect product feedback at the same time.

Well done!

Changing your mind is okay. When I as a parent do, I give them an explanation why I did. Often children's requests aren't all that unreasonable. It also teaches them that people can be reasonable and are not just NPCs.

Not tech related although often touching on AI:

- Making sense with Sam Harris: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts

If you're interested in bootstrapping and indie hacking I can also recommend:

- The bootstrapped founder: https://bootstrapped-founder.transistor.fm/episodes

I love postgres, keen to recommend it and did use a couple of the suggested tips in my last startup. However:

- After just the first couple of months we had to replace full text search with Elastic because it just wasn't up to the task fully. - We did introduce redis for cashing which was maybe 2 hours of setup overhead (using Rails, deploying on Render for $5/month).

YMMV.

I believe the PM is a direct result born out of the inefficient org chart of most organisations. So in the status quo it's a necessary evil.

I wrote about that here[1] but I also think there are ways how you can reinvent structures to cut out the PM[2]

1: https://andreschweighofer.com/agile/whats-wrong-with-traditi...

2: https://andreschweighofer.com/agile/collaborative-product-ow...

I would not encourage you to simply quit and try your luck at finding PMF until you run out of money.

Saying that I believe there are options:

1. Work out a concrete problem you're passionate about, then try to attract early capital (business angels) that allow you to draw a livable salary. 2. Join an early stage startup. There are still companies who raised seed in need of strong CTOs.The best founding teams are reluctant to give away equity and are happy to pay more instead. 3. Find structures like startup studios. Especially in the US there are a lot of studios that give you a viable idea and/or capital really early.

If you're in Europe feel free to reach out.

The agile manifesto does not dictate any team or organisational structure.

SAFe prescribes a bunch of structures, councils and processes. It is by design anti agile.

Edit: this image highlights the paradox: https://www.agilest.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/scaled-ag...

Just try to count all the roles and processes prescribed.

Since you don't own the business but are an employee yourself you don't have to shoulder all responsibility for the business' bad decision.

If you can't fix things on your own, escalate the problem. Document and share with the team and upwards the consequences of your vacation:

1. You are not reachable during vacation 2. If they choose to deploy and break production, they need to firefight themselves 3. The team is not resilient since you're obviously the single point of failure.

Starting off as the author:

- Finding a niche that is 'me' enough to invest a lot of time into - Generating initial traction without any s existing audience - Taking the courage to take off the golden handcuffs

While the Stripe/Render integration looks interesting for our latest startup, more than anything I just wanted to take a moment and say 'Thank you' for building such a decent product.

No border radius is the recommendation for 'serious' in the article.

The author chose 'fun' where that was allowed according to their own principles.

Some of the strongest tech companies were built during a downturn (PayPal if I remember correctly).

It's a great time to build, but probably not the best time for fundraising.

Give render.com a try. I used it for our latest startup and it was overall a pleasant experience.

For me it's the sweet spot between Heroku and AWS.

Since The DAO incident 'the code is the law' ceased to exist on Ethereum. It became 'the majority interpretation of the code is the law'.

But there is insurance for smart contract integrity already deployed and in use for a multitude of projects (see unslashed finance for example).

I don't need to sue as long as I get my money back.

As someone who myself relies on Google's SEO traffic I'm a bit hesitant to say this (but luckily I'm small enough that Google doesn't care about me at all): AMP is terrible for everyone except Google themselves. It's a plain abuse of their quasi monopoly and I support everything that fights AMP.

Another reason why I'm happy to use Brave both on desktop and especially on mobile.

Don't look outside for purpose, try finding it within.

Which things do have intrinsic value to you? Think of things you do that give your joy which can not be replaced with money. Those things don't have to be static until eternity. The hardest is probably to not 'do' anything and just feel joy and gratefulness for the present moment, whatever it is.

Congrats on escaping the hamster wheel, good luck in facing the bigger challenges of being human!

I'd like to compile a list of all the remote companies that pass the joel-remote test.

Has anyone got any examples?