A friend shared this pretty cringe auto-email. Bless modern recruitment
"Picking a single candidate felt a bit like choosing between pizza and tacos - both incredibly delicious, but we could only go with one at a time"
Planning to travel next week. Subletting my apartment in Berlin.
Crypto accepted for payment.
If you or anyone you know is looking, feel free to reach out
Today I rediscovered the feeling of when you get some tech to work, and it blows your mind with all the possibilities.
Days like this are why I became a builder.
Just discovered a mega productivity hack on Linear
Log life initiatives and businesses to Projects there.
Dump tasks from mind into a backlog for each project
Each day, display single table only with issues from projects you mark as "in progress" for that day
Boom, eliminates all the extra unneeded context and you can focus on trimming your backlog for the day
Sometimes when I have a difficult day I point Stellarium app up to the sky and appreciate I’m seeing a star that is 25 to 100 light years away
Helps with taking literally a broader view on things
PSA: Dont fall for address poisoning. Never ever use wallet addresses from “recent” transactions tab in your favourite wallet.
People are actively scamming by sending you dust with similar wallets (start and end) to your own and then you check start and end but not middle of address and lose your cash.
Noticed some inbound dust from lookalike wallets which triggered this post
I've discovered that the amount of mental effort and growth I achieve in the day has a pretty close correlation with the depth of my multi-turn conversations with ChatGPT that day.
If I'm actively learning and pushing limits, conversations are long and debating.
If it's barely chatting or just short chats, it's a business as usual day
You may agree or not with the current administration, but they are putting back the Executive in the Executive branch.
This is how a country should be run. Strong leadership, clear mandates, and communicating to voters on promises held.
Mistakes will happen along the way, but the two way / one way door principle still applies at the highest levels.
Way better to roll out a policy, and change it a year later than sped 3 years on a law that ultimately goes nowhere.
Europe needs more of this, and less debating about futile anti liberty measures or marginal legislation that has minimal impact but takes up time.
If as a society we can stop obsessing over processes, committees, and checks and balances, and just put the right people in power in the right places, magic will happen.
God bless America
It’s happening. I finally live in a part of civilisation where there is a price sheet for getting Cargo to Mars.
2030s will be such a based civilisational era to live through
One of my biggest cultural learnings about operating an effective distributed team was biasing towards team channels (with proper threads for communication)
You create transparency, and force people to think before communicating. You also get unexpected contributions to your ideas. It’s a great vector for truth oriented solution finding
Browsing Netflix for my next movie is overrated.
Instead, I’ve adopted the « YouTube algorithm knows me, surfaces 3 to 4 shorts from a movie over time until I’m convinced to watch the whole thing » method
Fun gaming fact in Legion TD on Warcraft 3. If you don’t build up lumber production early on, people will either call you an idiot or vote to kick you for toxic behaviour at a 90% certainty
ChatGPT discovery of the weekend: After discussing a deeply personal topic, having the AI write out a chapter of a relevant book with you as the protagonist
I’ve become extremely enamoured with the idea of precision this last year.
Not the shadow kind where you nitpick over barely relevant details, but the form of opiniated precision where you establish a clear scope of what is and what is not in the playing field and draw on very specific knowledge and terminology without hand wavy approximations, unless these are explicitly acknowledged.
In the process, I’ve realised you can genuinely outperform most of the competition just by getting better at your craft, and learning to communicate very well, at the right level of resolution required by the situation.
In the age of probabilistic discourse and reversion to the mean that AI engenders, there is something incredibly beautiful about very precise conversations between 2 or more competent humans that leads to complex compounding, refined context which in turn can transform into materially observable changes in reality, in a way that’s just not immediately accessible with a ChatGPT subscription.
Planned strikes so far in France for September. Gotta respect the French for not letting striking interfere with their summer holidays
Here is the factual list of planned strikes and mobilisations translated into English:
• Taxis: From 5 September, taxis plan to mobilize mainly against the reform of the reimbursement rules for patient transport costs. A new convention taking effect in October will reduce coverage for these transports.
• Paris Public Hospitals (AP-HP) & unions (CGT, FO, UNSA, CFTC, CFDT): Preparing for a strike starting 5 September, with general assemblies in hospitals deciding on work stoppages.
• Pharmacies (USPO, FSPF, UNPF, Federgy, UDGP): Planned closure of pharmacies on 18 September, then every Saturday from 27 September onwards, to protest reduced discounts on generics (from 40% to 30%).
• High School Union (Union syndicale lycéenne): Calls for school blockades on 10 September, to build long-term mobilisation. The student union UNEF also calls for mobilisation that day.
• Force Ouvrière (FO): Has filed a strike notice from 1 September to 30 November against budget measures, but explicitly says it will not join the 10 September “block everything” call.
• SUD-Rail (third largest railway union): Calls for a strike on 10 September against the suppression of two public holidays and to demand €1.5 billion in additional funding for the rail network. CGT-Cheminots and UNSA-Ferroviaire have not yet made a final decision.
• SUD-Aérien (air transport union): Calls for a strike and airport blockades on 10 September, denouncing austerity, suppression of public holidays, pension reforms, and worsening working conditions in aviation.
