Andy Rapista
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chief of staff @sfcompute 👾 tech | politics | sharks 🦈 ex @mtclai , @notionhq , @emcollective
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Very excited to build the first trading platform for large scale GPU clusters w/
@evanjconrad
&
@apagajewski
!
Why I joined: access to compute is limited to big $ players and this severely limits innovation to a few companies who can afford compute. We want more folks to build
hey friends,
@sfcompute
has raised $12m to build a trading platform for large scale GPU clusters
it lets folks buy large reservations ($100m+) and then sell back what they don't use
the first order was made yesterday
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“You should rest your brain (from coding)”
“Want to do physics?”
@sfcompute
culture, in a nutshell
We’re hiring!
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No shoes on the tatami mats at
@sfcompute
!
We’re hiring:
1) Supercomputing Engineer
2) Customer Success Engineer
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It's been an honor to spend the past year and a half dedicated to social impact at Notion and help our nonprofit customers scale their impact.
I wrote a blog post on our Notion for Nonprofits program - 50% off Team Plans for 501(c)(3)s.
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You know it’s a good product when you go to an event and people exclaim “OMG I love
@NotionHQ
, I use it for everything!!”, organically recommend it to one another + talk about blocks!
@ivanhzhao
@smikatoots
@shriyanevatia
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Teary eyed watching
@Mtclai
vote last night.
For every immigrant kid out there who felt like they didn’t belong - your dreams are possible ✨
Just voted for myself and I feel a bit emotional. My voting booth # was special: 23.
When I walked into city hall, SF Dept of Elections asked me to go to an open booth, but I chose to wait for 23. Here’s why.
23 - At age five, when the kindergarten lady couldn’t pronounce my
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Thanks for the kind note 💕 Lots more incredible A's -
@alexhaobao
's wit keeps our social media on point,
@andrea_w_lim
writes our customer stories,
@aliciatweet
is building our API,
@davidcapple
takes care of Enterprise,
@ashbwu
handles the money,
@akothari
scales the business!
Day 1 of
#NotionTeamAtoZ
, first up is Notion For Good program manager Andy Rapista,
@andyrapista
.
She is helping non-profits and emergency efforts use better organise using
@NotionHQ
👏🏻.
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Exciting morning today at Noe Valley Farmers Market with
@Mtclai
@carriebarnes415
@SFDemsForChange
✨ Thanks for coming
@daytimeskye
, Stacey,
@phineasb
!
They’ve just been endorsed by
@TeamPelosi
!
We’ll be door knocking every weekend - join here:
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Black Lives Matter guide: A living resource supporting Black communities & allies in safely strategizing, organizing, and mobilizing across the US.
Covering important things to know like safety, anti-surveillance, your rights, and legal.
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Two kinds of Notinos: how many patterns and colors can I wear and black on black on black
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We're officially a verb! Notion it!
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I've learned so much more with 1.5 years at Notion than I did with 4 years of college. You'll probably have a similar experience. Come be a part of our growth team and help us scale!
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Companies and leaders who don't understand the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion will fail to survive in an increasingly globalized world.
Don't give these people your energy, it's not worth it 🧘♀️
We're hiring at
@NotionHQ
- where you can bring your full self with pride
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How do we teach Filipinos to become entrepreneurs?
@rapplerdotcom
#rappler
#socent
#SDGs
@watsoninstPH
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Investing in your professional development by getting a coach will compound your growth over time. As a first-gen & early employee at
@NotionHQ
there were so many obstacles I wasn’t sure how to tackle.
@TheGrandWorld
and the community lit up the path for me 🌱
"I think I would have made so many better decisions in my career for the first decade had I seen and worked with a coach, sooner." -
@alexisohanian
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If you want to help San Francisco, the easiest thing you can do is:
1) Register to vote - deadline tomorrow -
2) Vote for
@Mtclai
and the entire
@SFDemsForChange
slate -
@carriebarnes415
,
@NancyTungSF
,
@bilalmahmood
and many others for SF DCCC
phonebank
#10
in the books!
258 calls with 42 pledged votes tonight. my favorites:
"wait is this really Michael!? I thought it was a robocall!"
"my friend Ethel said you knocked on her door Sat and you made a really nice impression" 😂
shoutout to our volunteers who killed it:
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If every business & person can tailor software to their problems, the world will be better at solving its problems. Our mission is to make that a ubiquitous reality.
🚧 Notion's API is now in public beta 🚧
It's the first step towards a brand new set of building blocks, so that you can tailor software to your own workflows.
We can't wait to see what you build!
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Pandemic burnout recovery program: journal and watch sunsets by the beach everyday for a week
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For International Women’s Day, my girlfriends and I made a Notion doc of our life OKRs so we can support and keep each other accountable ❤️👯♀️
Also, here’s me PM-ing the shit out of our friendship 💁🏽♀️
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Does anyone actually enjoy small talk on zoom?
Can we all agree to stop this madness and save all introverts
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Communities are the bedrock of a flourishing society and
@TheGrandWorld
is the connective tissue that strengthens the relationships between people.
I'm so excited to see
@ahossain24
and
@heyreiwang
scale a place for people to "come home" to!
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Just landed in NYC and seriously missed the energy and diversity of this city 🌃
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Should I just go to Mission Cliffs with a sign that says “hiring supercomputing engineer”?
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Training for a half Ironman and these are the views from my run today @ Buena Vista Park. I love meditating under a canopy of trees.
San Francisco 😍
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Our team is devastated by the crisis in Ukraine, and we want to do our part to support those who’ve been affected.
@NotionHQ
workspaces working to help Ukrainian refugees:
from
@StartupWiseGuys
#ukraine
🇺🇦
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In my culture, kids usually give their first paycheck to their parents. This holiday season I’m insanely grateful to work at
@NotionHQ
and be able to give back to my parents for everything they’ve sacrificed for me to be able to go to college in the US and work in SF ❤️
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Throwing
@Mtclai
's phone banking launch party next Thursday, 6/27 from 6 - 8 PM!
Come call D11 voters with us! As first gen immigrant myself, I'm so grateful to San Francisco for giving me incredible opportunities to thrive. But I know I'm in the .001% of people who got lucky
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Design Twitter! Come join
@ryolu_
and
@coryetzkorn
on
@joinClubhouse
this Thursday at 4:30 PM PST - discussion on how they think about crafting Notion 🎨
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Dear managers, your Asian direct reports are scared and grieving. It goes a long way when you acknowledge that 💖
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Campaign update
Brb touching grass and staring at the ocean for a few hours
update: 51% of ballots left to be counted.
currently we have a 21-3 lead on dccc (!) amazing start, but let's not usain bolt celebrate too early:
next update 4 pm tmr. i'm going to go touch grass.
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I’ve been in SF for ~4 years now and have never felt more connected and *in love* with this city than now ❤️ Going door knocking is one of the best ways to get to know our neighbors and build community & proximity.
Join
@Mtclai
for the next 6 weeks:
Fri update from the campaign:
- Spoke to the Bernal Heights Dem Club with
@CeddieHussle
- Recorded a video for a YouTube ad
- Knocked on doors in the rain with
@andyrapista
Now off to a house party with 20 voters. 🚀
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Tonight at
@welcometomannys
- I'm hosting an event for
@Thenext50Us
with
@ZachWahls
and
@davidshor
- a leading political data scientist to discuss the 2024 elections and the future of democracy in the US
7:00 - 8:30 PM
@zakmalamed
@ghosono
@BenWessel
@LilyPatricof
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Floored everyday by the endless support of Notinos 😭♥️ If you want to scale a company, hire good, kind, loving people who cheerlead each other's projects. Startups are hard.
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.
@firstround
is hiring a Community Manager in SF and you'll get to work with the inimitable
@juliagovberg
!
I wouldn't have been able to navigate being a first-gen & early employee at
@NotionHQ
without the Fast Track Program and Julia orchestrating everything behind the scenes!
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As someone who is vehemently against by the ways in which higher education in the US creates unnecessary barriers for people from less privileged backgrounds - it's so refreshing & inspiring to see the new system of education that
@beondeck
has created!
#odps1
@RobbieCrab
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“Making sure that the product feedback loop is continually moving is one of the most valuable things that we've done since the early days.”
Best part of working in CX is talking to users everyday and getting to champion their needs back to product.
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I joke a lot that
@Mtclai
is The Avatar who brings everyone from all walks of life together - AAPI, education, tech, SMBs, and more ❤️ I’ve never seen this much activation before and it’s so exciting and inspiring to witness!
5 DAYS TO GO!!!! Join us this weekend at Duboce Park
Cold calling for
@mtclai
running for the SF DCCC 3/5 tonight was a really fun experience! I’ve never seen so many ppl care about SF politics and a lot it is bc of Michael 🙌 LFG 🔥
@willhoughteling
@andyrapista
@zmwang
@elegantunivers9
@nhoughte
@daytimeskye
@mtclai
Fong wa Dennis
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There is no higher or better use of your time on this planet than to be helpful to others.
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Finally sent a draft of an article and low-key wanted to say "Sorry it took a while to send this, I had to get over imposter-syndrome and anxiety, then wait for the panic to make me focus before finally hitting send" 😂
Writing is hard but oh so fulfilling when you're done
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Everyone at Notion has such ~ aesthetic ~ work desks and mine is literally covered in Hot Cheetos, tea, coffee, snacks 🤷♀️ hahaha oh well...
TIL it’s only “where’s waldo” in the US and everyone else calls him “wally”
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🤡🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙃
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Talking about startup experiences w friends - founders, please for the love of god go to therapy before you start a company & while you’re running it - your unresolved trauma trickles down to everyone 🙏🏼 everyone will be better for it
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Come join our hiring meetup at L’Osteria!
We’re here until 4:30 PM!
@sfcompute
@icmlconf
@apagajewski
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GOTV this morning at 7 AM with Mayor
@LondonBreed
@Mtclai
@JoeSangirardi
@carriebarnes415
@EmmaHeiken
!
Send in your ballots today and vote for
@SFDemsForChange
!
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Kate has completely changed the game in the Community team!
Notion’s Head of Customer Experience talks about how to empower team members at scale on this episode of
@twentyminutevc
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Mama said don’t chase men but she didn’t say nuthin bout sharks so here I am 🦈 🙋🏽♀️
#shark
#conservation
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The only way out is to vote & get everyone you know to vote.
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“I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.”
John Wooden
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Researching corporate philanthropy - charity is great. But charity also allows for social issues to continue because we're not solving root problems, we're just putting band-aids on broken bones.
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Ahhh I love my job!! ♥️
Thank you
@akothari
for letting me build Notion for Good + Nonprofits!
@NotionHQ
one of our volunteers tasked with getting us more organised has just showed me his draft Notion page for our non-profit and it looks good! Looking forward to having all the comms in one place and thank you for supporting non-profits!
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Going back to the office next week and I need a hat that says “I’m an introvert, please don’t talk to me or I will die”
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Friendly reminder that our
#TechforBlackFounders
program is still ongoing - we're giving $1,000 of
@NotionHQ
credit for US-based Black founded startups!
Second, we’ve signed onto
#TechForBlackFounders
to help advance equity in our industry:
To apply for the $1,000 credit toward Notion's Team or Enterprise Plan:
→ Go to
→ Apply for Credit
→ For question 4, choose “Tech for Black Founders"
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3/ I now co-chair Women
@Notion
to help bring intersectionality to the workplace and get women access to leadership development, knowledge, and the support they need to succeed.
Coaching has done wonders for my life - join
@TheGrandWorld
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Every tech ecosystem needs a community event as inclusive and diverse as
#FridayFounders
. Thank you
@oaklandstartup
@KaporCenter
!
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.
@jasoncbenn
helped us build the Treehouse, the first climate-focused community house in SF. I've been the happiest and most fulfilled in this home and I'm 100% sure whatever cohousing community Jason builds next will be amazing. Live with your friends!!
Yo! Do you want to build cohousing in the Bay Area, but don't know who exactly you'd do it with, or how to find real estate?
I think there are (probably) lots of us.
I'm hosting a meetup this Saturday 2/17 2-6pm at Noasis so we can meet each other:
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We're now FREE for personal use! Unlimited blocks = unlimited potential!
🤘 Starting today, Notion is free for personal use.
We used to have a storage limit on our free plan, but no more! Everyone should have access to our tools to create what they need.
Write, plan, and get organized at .
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@firstround
just opened their Fast Track Mentorship Program to Black and Latinx founders and employees outside of their portfolio!!! 🚀
I'm a first-generation college graduate and breaking into tech was incredibly difficult. (1)
Applications open for this incredible program. For the first time, we're opening up spots for Black and Latinx founders & employees outside of our portfolio.
Would LOVE help spreading the word—as we're still locked out of
@firstround
's Twitter account 😅
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one of my favorite parts of working from home is the freedom to burst into song without annoying coworkers
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an inspiring new era in SF politics ❤️
A new era where the party is focused on building things again, on lifting people up, on strengthening our city and welcoming new people to it, on rejecting the pervasive NIMBYism and rejecting political leaders more focused on dividing us than uniting us in common cause.
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Inspired by the work our community is producing in support of Black Lives Matter. Thank you
@floriidaaa
#blacklivesmatter
@NotionHQ
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We should be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable members of our community
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Prepare for trouble! Make it double! Come watch
@NotionHQ
's dynamic duo
@davidtibbies
@alexhaobao
at Block by Block tomorrow!
see you there:
Block by Block is tomorrow… and i’m MC-ing the event with
@davidtibbies
!!!
we’re excited to hear what’s next for
@NotionHQ
and hang out with Ira Glass AND MARTHA STEWART!
see you there:
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Omg I want this 😭😭😭 in awe of the creativity of the Notion community
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@kylejohnmorris
@NotionHQ
I work at Notion support
- Wake up
- Write gratitudes
- Do yoga
- Check Intercom
- 100 users ask, “when is the API coming out?”
- respond with variations of “we’re working on it”
Rinse and repeat.
No but seriously, we’re working on it 🙏🏼 😊
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Ahhhhh 😌 Cleaner lines on inline databases!
Fixing this bug was way trickier than we thought. But it was driving us 😤
Inline databases would become indented and misaligned in multi-column layouts, making for some... unsightly dashboards.
Not anymore! Here's how to put databases in columns 👇
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Operators in tech:
@molly_g
(Meta, Quip, CZI) and Lexi Reese (AmEx, Google, Gusto and now US Senate Candidate), will host a conversation on leaving a positive dent and bringing heart and brain power to some of the toughest challenges of our time.
RSVP:
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Coming from the social impact space & nonprofit world then transitioning into tech - 100% feel this way too. We can do more + better and use our privilege to help those around us.
@MandelaSH
thanks for being a light.
1/ I don't come from tech. But I am here now. And everyday as I open Twitter and your tweets fill up on my newsfeed, I feel increasingly like I don't belong here. What I am feeling right now and what I am concerned about seems to be so different from what others are focused on.
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Always in awe of the ways non-profits, first-responders, researchers, and grassroots organizers create COVID-19 solutions on
@NotionHQ
.
In this case, students from IIT Guwahati are distributing free intubation boxes for doctors in India.
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Going to miss this beauty. Going to work felt like coming home to a cozy, beautiful, welcoming space 😍
I got to spend two weeks in Notion's Mission office before Covid forced everyone into lockdown. At the time I managed just 10 engineers. On Monday, we're moving into a new office with an eng team just short of 50. Come join us as we enter this new phase!
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Politics was fun!
On to the next problem: I’m in Cabo/Socorro, Mexico for the month to produce and direct a documentary on oceans, coastal communities, wildlife conservation, and climate change.
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5 Takeaways on Cause Campaign: Know your issue, maintain a brand, reach out to others, create a team, be organized.
#DSBootCamp
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@naynerz
I interned at
@EmCollective
and came from a community college, but agree that I’m one of the outliers in VC. Got the job because I got a scholarship to
@Watson_Inst
then founded their first campus in the Philippines
@watsoninstPH
. Hiring in VC needs to change!
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I just maxed out my donation to
@Mtclai
in his run for D11 supervisor. I worked w Michael for his DCCC campaign.
If you also want a better, safer, more equitable San Francisco, especially for immigrants, women, & people of color, he’s the best.
Donate:
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I am once again asking for your financial support for
@Mtclai
! Deadline this Saturday!
Michael's D11 Supervisor race will be a tipping point for commonsense policies in SF politics. He'll also be the first Asian supervisor in the most Asian district in SF (56+% Asian).
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@NotionHQ
@TheGrandWorld
2/ I definitely struggled with impostor syndrome and anxiety throughout my first year and a half. My confidence grew over time because I had a wonderful community of peers and coaches I could turn to and be completely vulnerable with
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We're (
@sfcompute
) going to
@icmlconf
! Anyone else heading to Vienna? We're throwing a party 👀
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When is the API coming out?
Hello, Notinos. We're excited to share that a public beta of the API is launching early next year 🎊
You've been waiting a long time, so we wanna get this right, and nail the functionality you want most! Sign up below and follow
@NotionAPI
for updates.
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does anyone else write copy then get anxious about whether that copy is good? 😣
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I once told my dad I had a week off in December and he said, “Why would you take a break in December? That’s when all your competitors are resting so that’s when you should work the hardest. By the time they’re back in January, you’re already ahead of the game”
Tiger Asian dads
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Doing team interviews now - What are the best qualities of interviewers you’ve had?
e.g., I know interviews can be nerve-racking, what were some openers that helped you calm down and warm up to the interviewer? What helped you show up as your best self?
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My ADHD brain in a nutshell: Edtech VC to SaaS to Climate Documentary to Politics to now AI ✨
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Celebrate with us
@SFDemsForChange
tomorrow at ANINA’s!
@Mtclai
@carriebarnes415
@NancyTungSF
@bilalmahmood
Tuesday 3/5
‣ AI Papers & Wine
@yfilipch
‣ SF Democrats for Change Election Night Party
@GrowSF
@SFDemsForChange
‣ Saucing Up AI Testing
‣ AI for Developers
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