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Can definitely relate to overthinking my portfolio. Kudos to Steph for getting it out there and then iterating!

Yes, it sounds like the same idea to me.

I disagree. Unsolicited feedback lacks context and might not be intended to help the developer. Feedback to someone you don't know should be offered only if they're explicitly asking for it.

I find that this is a classic communication style preference. I also know people who find these "pleasantries" patronizing and unnecessary. I'm on the other end: someone saying "please" and "thank you" makes me feel like they're acknowledging me as a person, not just barking commands at me.

There's no right answer; you just have to learn what the person you work with needs.

Yes, thank you for asking! I've now added screenshots with feature descriptions to the landing page.

If you're looking for a distraction-free writing tool, I've been building and using a minimal blogging platform called Tinylogger[1]. My focus is on a totally clean interface (everything goes away while you write [2]), and I recently shipped a no-judgement mode [3] that focuses you only on the line you're writing, fading everything else out - perfect for first drafts and morning pages. I've been blogging a lot more this way.

[1] www.tinylogger.com

[2] https://twitter.com/maxverse/status/1666095452520058884

[3] https://twitter.com/maxverse/status/1665729476574019585

Most techy people I know are holding out for an invite code. I'd like to think Bluesky is trying to do it right and thinking in the long term.

I think this is an accurate description of what we're seeing happen to reddit, twitter, heroku, and several of the smaller startups I've worked at.

Nvidia wasn't founded as a $960b company with 27,000 employees; it was once "microscopic", and if you saw some of Jensen's early emails, you'd probably mock them too. I think Suhail was appealing to Jensen's sense of urgency and responsibility as someone that understands what it's like to grow a small company. The tweet says "30 years after its founding, this guy still acts like a hardcore founder. Jensen is the best tech CEO in the game rn." I read that as Suhail praising Jensen for being so responsive and helpful, not flexing or equating their work.

Suhail is also the founder of another "small" company called Mixpanel.

No, finding your lunch doesn't make you a founder. Building something and launching it makes you a founder. Ridiculing others who are trying makes you a...?

And you're both Recursers :)

This is really impressive. Is anyone else really freaked out by that? I'm having an uncanny-valley type feeling, because the audio is 99.9% convincing, and the only thing that gives it away is inconsistent, not-always-correct pronunciation. But I'm not picking at the technical details. I'm freaked out by how good it is, and how easily it could pass for some person reading a human-written podcast. I know speech generation has been getting progressively better, but I guess I haven't heard it in a while (compare to the stock TikTok voice, for example.) Coupled with an LLM, this is too close for comfort.

Read it, loved it. Listened to her podcast interviews, loved the book even more. She's such a pistol.

Heck of a lot better than me! After probably 50 successful landings, all my bests hover around 75.

Loved the soundtrack, too! Very fitting.

OP:

> I've also started therapy 2 months ago, but it's going slow and it hasn't been very useful yet. The advice so far has boiled down to "do things you like".

> I would be grateful for any of your advice or shared life stories.

Laura:So Zod, have you heard of the concept of the need for cognition?

Zod: Hmm, no I haven't. What's the article saying about it?

Laura:Well, it's a personality trait that reflects an individual's inclination towards effortful cognitive activities.

Zod: Interesting, go on.

Laura:People with higher NFC tend to appreciate debate, evaluate ideas, and solve problems.

Zod: So, what does this mean for those with lower NFC?

Laura:Those with lower NFC may process information heuristically through low elaboration.

Zod: Ah, I see. It sounds like NFC is associated with deep thought and the inclination towards effortful cognitive activities.

Laura: Yes, and contemporary research suggests that it's closely related to openness to experience, typical intellectual engagement, and epistemic curiosity.

[...]

Zod: Well, this has been a fascinating discussion on the need for cognition.

Laura: Yes, indeed. Thanks for engaging in the debate with me, as someone high in NFC, I always appreciate a good discussion.

Zod: Anytime, Laura. As a neural net, I always enjoy exploring new ideas and perspectives.

Bought! I've been seeing your tweets about this, and am so excited to get my hands on a print version!

Just wanted to echo this sentiment. Here's another blog post that helped me reflect on this, from Raptitude (a blog sometimes shared here):

https://www.raptitude.com/2009/03/how-to-keep-bad-moods-from...

It's really helpful to hear from someone a few years out from a diagnosis. There are so many accounts from people who just started meds and are thrilled with how it's going and the initial excitement of "life didn't have to be this hard". I'm in the "I should really see someone" stage, and part of the reason I'm skeptical of these accounts is that I imagine stimulants would make anyone more focused and productive. To be clear, I'm not doubting that meds are helpful to people suffering from ADHD symptoms! Just holding myself to a high bar; I'm afraid of benefitting from meds I don't really need.

If you're open to sharing, how has your lifestyle changed beyond the first few weeks? Are you still on medication, and how does it help these days? Has your diagnosis been helpful in ways other than meds? Of course, totally understand if you don't want to share.

When I was at RC, a name that came up often was the School for Poetic Computation. I don't know too much about it, but have generally heard good things.

Recurse Center alum here, and have overwhelmingly positive things to say about it. I'm sure there are lots of Recursers lurking here! If you're looking for more accounts, google "RC/Recurse Center return statement", the traditional title for an end-of-batch recap.

I'll stay this, too: Recurse is very communicative and transparent about what you get out of the experience. So, the website [1] is a good and honest resource to learn about them. As they promise, I grew a lot as a developer, met some fantastic and brilliant people, and now have a super valuable network to help me find jobs.

The thing that's hard to put into words is the personal growth you get out of self-directed learning. RC supports you through this, but deciding what you want to work on and finding your own path forward is a hard transition for many people (I hear you get a similar experience doing a PhD, not that you can compare a 3-month retreat to a 4-6 year program, of course). Some of my favorite moments at RC were hanging out late in the evening, talking philosophy, code, music, projects, research, life goals, you name it. It felt like the best parts of college condensed into a 3-month retreat.

Another thing to know is that RC is a YC startup, and (this is absolutely my opinion!) I think PG wanted RC to be for devs what YC is for makers. You're in a space of diverse, smart, passionate developers working "at the edge of their abilities". That's super motivating, in the same way that I imagine working on a startup in a YC batch is super motivating.

I don't mean to sound like I have rose-tinted glasses on. Parts of RC were hard, and finding 6-12 weeks to take off to attend can be difficult (though RC provides grants for underrepresented folks). I'm sure some people would have a better experience in more structured programs.

But yea, I had a great time. I learned Rust, bettered my React, prepped for interviews, and worked on a bucket-list project mapping songs in 3D space with three.js. And I made friends I see weekly to this day.

[1] https://recurse.com

This is may be not a productive comment, but I just wanted to chime in that Avalon is my favorite game, and it's a delight to see its strategies discussed here.

A past manager once gave me great advice for situations like these when I was thinking about applying to grad school worrying about my then-job if I got in: "deal with this problem if you get in." The chances of you making a few hundred dollars in revenue by next Spring are statistically very low. And if you are persistent and talented and lucky enough to generate hundreds of dollars in revenue, you're certainly capable of paying taxes on your earnings.

The fact that you're asking this question means you're interested in launching things. If so, the cliched, true advice is: launch.

If you want practical advice: I run a one-person LLC in the US. Taxes on a few hundred dollars are nothing to worry about.

For inevitable naysayers: my manager's advice doesn't mean you shouldn't ever plan or prepare. Just that when your chances of success are very low, don't worry too much about the repercussions of success. I applied to grad school, and didn't get in. My career continued on just fine.

> Foreboding Blast deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to each creature your opponent controls. {1}{R}.

That's crazy powerful for 2 mana!

Also my favorite part. Poetry.

I read the post and really enjoyed it. I had my adblocker on, and didn't run into any issues with ads, or the scrollbar. I thought the content was thorough and well-written, and is encouraging me to explore this methodology a bit more. It seems to pull on a bunch of threads I've come across in the therapy, mindfulness, and general productivity advice. Some of the author's own anecdotes seemed a bit reductionist, but I appreciate that they tie back to business, making them feel immediately actionable. It feels like every one of these sections could be a chapter or few of a book, but I guess that's the whole point.

The section on values was the most helpful to me personally.

> The people I met at Yale seemed to understand the world and its opportunities in a way that other people didn't. They had a confidence in their ability to shape that world like I'd never seen. My Yale education went far beyond the academic.

I'd love to hear more about this.

Just wanted to say it's interesting to see that this thread never took off, but two days later, it did!

Riveting and infuriating. I hate that the story just... ends when the hacker's had enough, hate that IG did nothing, and hate that people get away with crap like this.

I've been saying for _years_ that what I really want is Facebook circa 2010.