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Ben Allan-Rahill

@beeejar

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autodidactic explorer, easily distracted by bikes

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@beeejar
Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
every hour I’m not pushing code, I’m losing to a 16 y/o high school junior who learned svelte in their free time and does neuroscience research to relax.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 months
salads just simply aren’t this good
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
you could build a startup at age 13 or like actually be a kid and enjoy life
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
seeing 100 interns squished into a nyc pub shouting “so what are you doing this summer” over each other, I am finally sure that nyc is back
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
anyone want to start the most casual gc about how we want to work in startups and do impactful work? like no frills just cool people
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
yo! how the heck do y'all remember what you have/want to do? i've used notion, todoist, paper, google calendar, and I still can't find a good system where I feel productive.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
somehow all the PMs cleared their gCals today
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
groupchat for absolute NFT and crypto newbies interested in learning more?
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
I am please to announce that I have recently started a new position as a 21 y/o super excited for the next chapter. thankful for everyone who has been around the past year :) 🎉🥂
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
In an ideal world it would only take ONE click to leave a zoom call
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
you think nyc is big until you see tech twitter ppl in uniqlo
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
does gen z have parents or like what
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
after almost a year of self-taught dev & exploring PM and SWE 🥵 i am ecstatic to say I’m joining the @CardeaHQ engineering team for the rest of my gap year excited to help build 💛🔧
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
Just starting to figure this out but seems like y’all don’t work that much
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
a year ago I started posting on LinkedIn regularly. I made my own hashtag. I posted everyday. it's been a tough year of recovery, but I haven't posted in over 3 months.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
why does every software engineer look like this
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
nyc is just straight up more productive glad to be back hustling in this amazing place
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
if @Pallet_HQ gets to 2K today I will drop out of school you know what to do
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
berkley kids are just straight up too confident
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
Montana has no business making me look so good 🤠
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Ben Allan-Rahill
11 months
Excited to finally settle in sf 🌁
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
Today is my last day @Pallet_HQ . The past 6 months have been epic. I am lucky to have been a part of this team and I can't wait to cheer them on at school. I hate threads, but here are some of the cliche startup lessons I learned at Pallet
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
lol people follow me on Dispo but not on Twitter
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
no one: person on tech twitter: “um so I have this really generic problem… does anyone know a startup working on this??”
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
big interview today :) wish me luck
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Ben Allan-Rahill
10 months
since may: 1. graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury with honors thesis on vision transfomers in genomics 2. led peace-education program in India for 3 weeks with @cisv 3. moved to SF 4. started interning @metaphorsystems Applications open for friends who bike or build AI!
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
I honestly can’t believe it. Put my mind on it yesterday and just went out and did it. Incredible sights, great thinking time. It’s crazy what our bodies can do. “We can do hard things”
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
did it hurt?🥺 when you made crypto your entire identity?
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
come romanticize working late @Pallet_HQ with me 😴
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
Laurie Patton has confirmed that all Feb’s do get garunteed seating at womp
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Ben Allan-Rahill
9 months
nowhere else allows for this balance of career and health. I get to build all week and then bike 80 miles for amazing views on weekend. SF is incredible. who wants to join on weekend adventures?
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
someone convince me to go to NY this summer
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 months
@brettdash_ when you ask for “light” dressing
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
for the past year I have been questioning my decision to study at a small liberal arts school. take a break, read about how i've grappled with this and let me know your thoughts!
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
it’s kinda messed up that I have never gotten a job through a 100% formal application process This means 2 things: - I’ve received a lot of rejections - I’ve found opportunities through other means
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
New York is the greatest city I have ever lived it
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Ben Allan-Rahill
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@beeejar
Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
gonna go drive around northern Maine in my Prius
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
I’ve been teasing for a bit but it’s official! I’m living in nyc the next two months! DM and let’s hang!
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
I asked a founder how he takes his coffee. He told me "with cream and sugar." I knew I couldn't invest. If he has time to add to his coffee, he can't be working hard enough on the generating MRR. Unsurprisingly, his company went under the next day.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
I FINALLY DID IT 🤩😤 I took down our production app today 🥳 It only took me 2 months and 26 days🤗 Believe in yourself! You can do this!!!
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 months
coding is just internet carpentry
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rahul
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amjad is right. coding is not programming. in the future AIs will write all our code and we will still be programming. that future is going to be really exciting and i can’t wait for it
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
it's my first real day as a software engineer. eeek what's your advice?
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 months
it's actually a wild privilege that I get to throw on some music and ship code all day for a living
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
thinking about making an app where I can subscribe to my friends and it will automatically like all their posts.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
someone convince me that grades don't matter so I can focus on fun projects
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
excited to share a small but mighty feature I got to work on recently now in any @Pallet_HQ board you can easily tweet about a job. we even write the tweet for you! share why you're applying or help your network get hired! this is just a sneak-peek of cooler things to come 👀
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
People who hate college always have 4.0s
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
moving from vermont to nyc, i need to transition my style from crunch sandals man to hip 20yr old. can anyone help out? i only own one pair of jeans
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
omggggg soooo excited to finallyyy be going to, yup you guessed it NYC!!! I get to meet my team finally :) sf is dead :)
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
sometimes i forget that on event created the earth and that dinosaurs and giant 20ft sloths existed and that humans have only been on the earth for a fraction of the time it has been here and that it's pretty insignificant to worry about where i can get an internship next summer
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
seeing a new newsletter in my inbox
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
re: my latest fleet. I NEED HELP being @TurnerNovak ’s understudy.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
1 year
Most important 100sqft in the US
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
though I might not be the best dev, designer, or founder (yet!) I am committing to **learning in public** (steaming + documenting) plz 🥺 follow along below or share :0
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
Who wants to hangout in NYC the next few weeks? I bring good conversation and bad ideas about code, non-profits, and ballet.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
✨big news tomorrow ✨
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@beeejar
Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
build an app in 15s!!
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
though i have not gotten an internship, I am convinced (telling myself) that referrals are not worth the effort. but if you're offering, I am a great web engineer with lots of drive!
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
touch grass tech bro
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
Morning as a SWE: 1pm - Wake up to slack notifications that I need to revert my code 2pm - Revert changes from yesterday 9 pm - Grab soylent. start new changes. 2 am - Watch anime until bed.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
9 months
i would so much rather work at a startup where my weaknesses are obvious and my failures detrimental than work at a huge company where my performance is measured in brownie points
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
there should be twitter stories !⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
where do you learn stuff online?
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
men have commitment issues until it’s a pixelated jpeg and a discord full of “the most intelligent people” they’ve ever met
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
My story of how I landed a SWE internship at Google
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
when I finally automate a 5 min task after 8 hours of coding
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
New York is so beautiful
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
Haven’t opened my computer all day. Am I doing #NoCode right?
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
sf is dead. nyc is thriving. bro you're literally flying back to the Bay on Monday
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
You know the drill
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
@anushkmittal i never should have played sports
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
PMs slide into dms like: You wanna sync?
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
a app that texts a random person from your contacts every ten minutes you spend on tiktok
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@beeejar
Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
working...
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@beeejar
Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
pushing to production on first day call that working at a startup
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
i don't know what it is lately but I am have been feeling so bleh about my dev skills. everytime i have been working on a new project recently i keep getting stuck and it gets into my head. anyways it's all a mindset. grind don't stop.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
rate my @crossmint_io hackathon setup
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
my systems class projects are very cool. Assignment 1 was making ls and now we get to make malloc()
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
epic 19 miler today
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
*deleting all my feb jokes from drafts*
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
might mess around and get into crypto
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
the real answer is always pallet
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
watching people do stuff they actually want to do is freaking electric
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
Tried to type my dorm room code into my garage door key pad 😭
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@beeejar
Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
and so it begins
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Ben Allan-Rahill
10 months
check out my latest build: By using Metaphor's API, the Researcher is able to find relevant links and build a helpful summary. I'm just mesmerized by the streaming 👇 Try it out and let me know what you think!
@ExaAILabs
Exa
10 months
Is your LLM out of ideas? Stuck in 2021? Fear not - try the new Metaphor Researcher! Available in the API dashboard. Just tell it what you’re building - it’ll show you how to use Metaphor to find high quality content and create a summary. Beta here:
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
I code and lift to the same music. Coincidence? I think not.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
my friends don’t know what arbitrage is my parents don’t know what network effects are be true to yourself and only then can you get better stay hard
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
CDC says it’s safe to not make another group chat app
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@beeejar
Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
going to tell my kids this was Satoshi Nakamoto
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@beeejar
Ben Allan-Rahill
11 months
engineering at an early stage startup
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
I’ve eaten a KitKat for every vote nevada has released today
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Ben Allan-Rahill
2 years
On god the greatest photo of me
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
Just realized: how I do in an interview doesn’t change how hot I am
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
@itunpredictable There are no promotions at a startup.
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
hockey flow > Buzz cut
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Visakan Veerasamy
4 years
what are the two most different hairstyles you’ve ever had? reply or QT, I wanna see
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
power:
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Ben Allan-Rahill
9 months
every time that Michael Scott acted like an LLM:
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Ben Allan-Rahill
3 years
think your computer is fast??? huh? you do?? try screen sharing. try it. try screen sharing. how about now?
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Ben Allan-Rahill
4 years
Oops spelled my name wrong 🥴
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