When I was a college freshmen a founder took a change on me and it's my turn to do the same - anyone know a super hungry college student who's looking to work on interesting tech infrastructure at intersection of search and AI?
Hiring someone for some short term work
@andrewztan
And the worst part is Facebook doesn't even have to be this bad. Even today, I still know some student organizations / college orgs that use Facebook, and of course there's still a large generation that uses it. Too bad there will never be a pivot back to what was actually usable
Finally happened to me - almost got kidnapped in da Uber from Oakland airport - car w diff plates and two dudes pulled up and didn’t leave for a bit trying to get us in the car until a cop rolled by
I wouldn’t be surprised if
- AI doesn’t go mainstream for another few years
- the hype we see in tech circles doesn’t translate to the rest of the population
Whenever I go back home I’m reminded the avg American has no idea what gpt is
I never understood people who don't respond to text messages semi-immediately - the mental debt of having a bunch of messages to process in the backlog is so much worse than just dealing with them as they come
fuck building in sf - sac has literally nothing else to do, $1.50 tacos, incredibly cheap groceries / rent, and insanely hot weather that make it impossible to do anything but stay inside and work for half the year and insanely cold weather the other half
Mfs meet three random dudes building ai startups that will pivot in 3 months at an awkward dinner / networking event and tweet “guys this is the best city to build in right now”
It’s kinda weird to be interviewing interns for our company. I’m out here, a 17 y/o, interviewing grad students and professionals to work at our company 😳
@designedbyshyne
It’s funny because everyone who thinks otherwise is still young and hasn’t had the oh shit moment when they realize they struggle to find purpose outside of work and missed a huge part of their social development
Can't wait for the infinite loop of AI email tools to be talking with each other. AI outbound will get responded too with an AI response bot, endlessly battling to decide whether an actual human should look at the conversation
Super pumped for Passage to be part of
@roughdraftvc
university accelerator! In other news, this means I’ll be in NYC until Aug 21! Would love to meet other cool founders and hackers out here
You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
That’s why every quarter, I evaluate myself and my friends on 3 criteria:
- money raised
- beers drunken
- git commits
Anyone who scores below me is cut off.
Complacency is the first step towards mediocrity.
As promised, my first blog post. I've been pondering the act of doing hard things and continually challenging oneself - would love to get a read + your thoughts :)
Looking for a talented designer to hop on my startups founding team. We’ve had over 30k in revenue and raising this month, lmk if you have any referrals
To be honest since moving to sf I’ve found the social scene way more vibrant, unique, and interesting than anywhere else I’ve lived (including nyc) - difference is most of the social scene isn’t easy to find - esp if your in tech
Eventually sales will degrade to just be outbound chat GPT algos battling with auto generated responses from founders in an endless war to book a meeting to sell random accounting software
It's crazy how most software really comes down to *ingest data in x format*, *convert to y format*, *send to z place* and finding faster / more stable ways to do so
@Shruti_Narwani
Don’t work too hard, booze, do drugs, hang w friends, I regret not having enough fun soon enough. Hours of 8PM onwards on weekends are never productive, take the break
Finally got a CO2 monitor and am now realizing why Im so tired when I wake up no matter how much I sleep (CO2 levels in my room in the morning are around 1500 if I don't open a window) 😭
This distinction is so marked in tech, and especially startups.
It’s always a mindfuck when I meet folks whose parents were founders / VCs / tech execs - insane advantage that I’m excited to give my kids.
Nobody tells poor kids how to deal with rich kids in college. It’s just mindfuck culture shock for four years while the millions of dollars that separate them never goes addressed.
the longer i'm in startups, the more i believe that almost all "founding stories" online are at best cherrypicked stories woven together after success and at worst partial lies designed for pr
It's pretty funny how I posted a tweet promising a list of events in SF that got over 500+ likes and 600+ comments, then I post the actual link and it gets 0 interaction lmao
Sacramento had a massive mass-shooting downtown early Sunday morning. My sister was actually at the location but left an hourish before it started, nuts how close to home this newest episode of gun violence is
Working on a crazy good customer support bot w some friends on the side.
In 20 seconds, it takes in a link to your documentation and will create an accurate bit that can respond w English, doc links, and even take actions for a user.
Anyone wanna try it?
The most important skills I've learned to succeed in
#softwaredevelopment
aren't actually technical skills, it's the ability to work well with others and remain consistently focused on the end goal.
What's the most important thing you've learned?
Went back home in central valley and learned that my Dad (a special ed teacher) and my sister (a highschool senior) have never actually used LLMs for anything.
Just another reminder that the tech community is such an insulated bubble.