the only thing worse than wasting a couple of hundred of hours having fun in your 20s not working is wasting several tens of years because you burned out too early trying to overwork yourself in your 20s and regretting not having enough fun to keep you playing the long game
contrary to popular belief, hard things take time and patience, forcing yourself to work more than you should when there is not a natural pull to do so will probably cause a lot more harm averaged over time than good compared to working hard within reason
convinced that physical proximity to the people you really care about actually deeply matters.
the foundation of friendship is shared experiences, traditions, and context. these aren’t created just through phone/video calls.
where you live matters so much more than you think
the lesson every young person in the valley needs to internalize is nothing is as sexy as it seems and everything is hard, so you might as well do what you like doing
oh ai is cool? have u seen how much grunt work scraping, cleaning data, running experiments, training and
Idea was shamelessly stolen from some MIT kids that did this in their confessions Facebook page, but I thought there should be a general purpose tool for it so I built it!
facebook.com/beaverconfessi…
Friends, we’re organizing an IRL rabbit-hole-athon! 🐇
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reflecting recently on what actually makes good engineers:
good engineers have 2,
cracked engineers have 3 (top 0.1%)
i've met <5 people personally that have all 4
average engs index on speed and product/design sense
great engs index on speed and bug-free code
SNEAK PEEK ✨
We're building an AI app generator at @glideapps!
Come with a plain-english description of an idea, leave with an app.
Dropping soon, stay tuned :)
I think a lot of the low hanging fruit has already been swiped and what’s been left are a set of actually difficult problems that require patience, honesty, and experience and all these things can’t be rushed and often take decades to acquire
Been getting obsessed with networks and social graphs recently.
So I built a thing that scrapes and visualizes my entire Twitter social graph.
🐦 twitter.amirbolous.com
Some fascinating insights/learnings about networks, virality, connectivity, and the Twitter-sphere: 1/n