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It's certainly a spectrum. 1<>1s and vision alignment meetings are super important. Standups too, if that's your thing (I like them, but they must be run well). A lot of other stuff can start to get noisy in my opinion.

As usual: it depends.

I don't think you have to drink the hustle koolaid to succeed. I think individual output/hr. follows a power law distribution like most everything else. A lot of younger founders work crazy hours to overcome their lack of experience.

What's more important is your fitness to address the particular problem you choose to work on, the folks you team up with to do so, the timing relative to market needs, and the amount of time you can operate with little/no revenue. Having more work hours to dedicate can certainly help, but I've seen both people that overwork and people with ~normal schedules succeed.

I think about this a lot. "Managers" are under pressure to make sure their teams are meeting goals/deadlines/whatever, so they are anxious, so they make efforts to observe and oversee "performance". Seeing people in meetings and diligently "working" makes them feel better about their teams' performance. But what really matters is outcome...which is very difficult to measure for a lot of software teams, and even harder for individuals. The irony is that the efforts to measure/ensure performance, in many cases, actually impede material progress towards the desired outcomes.

I cofounded a startup (bractlet.com) that uses IoT data, thermodynamic simulations, and other technologies to optimize building energy consumption. We've prevented around 10,000 tons of CO₂ emissions, which equates to many millions of dollars in energy savings.

Shameless plug: we're hiring :)

I wouldn't say the lower the better. A lot of bass music is written in keys around E/F since that places the root note just within the lower end of audible range. Most sound systems don't respond much below around 20 Hertz, anyway.

We've just started using Atlassian Compass (https://www.atlassian.com/software/compass) for our software catalog, but it appears to be much less featured than Backstage. We're taking a look at replacing it with Backstage, and curious if anyone else has notes on the comparison.

if you're not playing the meta-game, you're losing.

i use GTD and this may be just the tool i was looking for. hats off!

Bractlet | Remote/Austin, TX | Full-time | Multiple Roles

I am Cofounder & CTO at Bractlet, and we are trying to tackle climate change through energy efficiency. The built world (residential and commercial buildings) accounts for about 40% of carbon emissions. We aim to do something about that.

In a nutshell, we turn the budget and energy consumption of a building into an engineering optimization problem using data (collected from the building with a proprietary IoT platform) and software. Our stack is primarily React, Rust, and Postgres on GCP.

We are looking for intelligent people who care about climate change. We are well-funded and have the backing of important minds in our space. We are looking for:

  - Senior Frontend Engineer
  - Lead Backend Engineer
  - Lead QA Engineer

You can email me at brian [at] bractlet [dot] com or use the submission form on our website: https://bractlet.com/careers (just email me if the job you want isn't showing up there).

The hug of disconnectivity.

Came here to make the same joke. So fitting!

virtually nobody understands NFTs that doesn't actively participate in the space. do with that information what you will.

I use Strap (https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap) to manage everything and it works pretty dang well for me on macOS. Homebrew brewfiles were a game-changer.

My understanding is it's generally un-curable since it's such a deeply rooted and ingrained coping mechanism for the ego. Like an addiction. But if I had to guess, someone would probably have to deeply work on true self-compassion (a lot of narcissists are, internally, extremely self-critical, if I understand the condition correctly) and build back from near zero. Sounds really difficult.

Maybe consider a Staff Engineer type role at an established and well-respected firm? Still mostly IC if you can land the right role, I think, but more focused on the meta stuff that enabled the whole team like tools and automation. Would love input from others as I've not actually worked in such a role before.

https://bractlet.com/careers | Full time | Austin, TX or REMOTE | Multiple Roles

I'm cofounder and CTO of Bractlet; we’re on a mission to solve climate change by using technology to enable energy efficiency.

In a nutshell, we turn the budget and energy consumption of buildings (usually office-centric skyscrapers) into an engineering optimization problem using data (collected from the building with a proprietary IoT platform) and software (including calibrated thermodynamic simulations). We've helped some buildings save 30% or more on annual energy spend. Our stack is primarily React, Rust, Ruby, and Postgres.

If that sounds interesting to you, we have the coffers to grow fast and we're hiring for:

  - Lead DevOps Engineer
  - Lead Frontend Engineer
  - Lead Backend Engineer
  - Fullstack Engineer

You can read more about what we do at https://bractlet.com, and email me at brian [at] bractlet [dot] com if you're interested in applying or learning more.

I think this is very sound advice. But it can be equally effective (and maybe even more fun) to careen a prototype through the problem space as quickly as possible to see what comes to light. Even if I can't solve a problem this way, I usually have a leg up on the next attempt from what I learned. Or maybe it even works, and then gets refactored or redesigned to improve in the necessary dimensions.

Yes; poor comments tend to get downvoted.

https://bractlet.com/careers | Full time | Austin, TX or REMOTE | Multiple Roles

I'm cofounder and CTO of Bractlet; we’re on a mission to solve climate change by using technology to enable energy efficiency.

In a nutshell, we turn the budget and energy consumption of a building (usually office-centric skyscrapers) into an engineering optimization problem using data (collected from the building with a proprietary IoT platform) and software (including calibrated thermodynamic simulations). Our stack is primarily React, Rust, and Postgres.

If that sounds interesting to you, we have the coffers to grow fast and we're hiring for:

  - Director of Software Engineering
  - Engineering Manager
  - Senior Frontend Engineer
  - Senior Backend Engineer

You can email me at brian [at] bractlet [dot] com or use the submission form on our website: https://bractlet.com/careers (email me if the job you want isn't showing up there)

Yes, and then the internet took another 20+ years.

Please point me to a musician who has created a private company and sold shares in order to compensate investors for royalties from their work.

Where else can you go purchase the rights to the work of an artist you like as a consumer?

Perhaps an even more germane example for the crowd would be the use of blockchain to manage cap tables: https://balajis.com/mirrortable/

The transistor is 13 years old. The transistor is not a new technology...

My favorite example of late is http://royal.io. You can purchase a token (NFT) that represents fractional ownership in the licensing rights of a musician's song or album, and also comes along with other perks (such as free or discounted merch and concert tickets). The proceeds from the NFT sales help fund the artist's project, and then you participate in the upside by receiving a share of royalties for holding the token.

Your assessment of affairs is drenched in obvious bias. The downsides of these new technologies get plenty of airtime (your post included), but completely fail to acknowledge the genuine and useful innovations that are now possible (yes, there are many). Why was there no similar outcry from the technology community over the invention and proliferation of machine learning? It can be used for good or evil (there are plenty of cases of the latter that I'm sure the crowd can think of). It's extremely early days for groundbreaking technologies that have a lot of potential beyond the obvious scams we can all point to. We shouldn't banish a technology merely because it has the potential to harm (almost all technology does). What we should do is educate folks so they can decide whether they want to participate for themselves, rather than telling them how to think.

https://bractlet.com/careers | Full time | Austin, TX or REMOTE | Multiple Roles

I'm cofounder and CTO of Bractlet; we’re on a mission to solve climate change by using technology to enable energy efficiency.

In a nutshell, we turn the budget and energy consumption of a building (usually office-centric skyscrapers) into an engineering optimization problem using data (collected from the building with a proprietary IoT platform) and software (including calibrated thermodynamic simulations). Our stack is primarily React, Rust, and Postgres.

If that sounds interesting to you, we have the coffers to grow fast and we're hiring for:

  - Director of Software Engineering
  - Engineering Manager
  - Fullstack, Frontend, and Backend Engineer (anything above entry level, senior welcome)

You can email me at brian [at] bractlet [dot] com or use the submission form on our website: https://bractlet.com/careers (email me if the job you want isn't showing up there)

Good on you for continuing to try! I am just now seeing ~very meaningful success for my startup I founded about 10 years ago. An important component of my endurance was that I truly care about the mission of the business beyond financial gain...I think this has to be true for runaway success.

Shameless plug: we are using software to combat climate change (https://bractlet.com) and we're hiring (just like everyone else)! Feel free to email me directly (brian at bractlet dot com) if you are interested.

it was basically free to set up.

It looked fake to me immediately. Maybe just uncanny valley since the movements are not very human-like — I'm not sure. But the lighting on the machines looks all wrong to me (although the shadows do look accurate, and the audio also seems convincing).

I thought the video was fake. It doesn't look right to me, but maybe that's just uncanny valley?