21 August 2024

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What I Learned Working For Mark Zuckerberg - Noah Kagan

Listen to this email instead 🙂 – Spotify – iTunes When I walked into the first floor of the Facebook building on University Avenue, in Palo Alto, I wasn’t sure if I was in a frat house or a startup. There were cables falling from the ceilings, people running …

Sustained Inaction

I woke up from a dream this morning where someone from my past was being incredibly unfair to me. At some point, I exploded in rage and started to yell about said injustice, and referenced being autistic. This being a dream, the person felt really bad about ho…

Building a modular softsynth from scratch (Week 1)

To kick off my time at the Recurse Center I decided to build a modular softsynth in Rust to expand my knowledge of Rust and DSP, as well as build something I and others could use to make music. I’m inspired by an old modular softsynth I used to use called Spir…

Startup CTO - Premature Scaling

So, you are a first time CTO in a start-up. You’ve just landed your seed investment, and you and your team are feeling pretty good about yourselves. At last, you have enough money to be able to start the real work of building out your product or service. Your …

Finding a ‘harmless’ Pi-hole vulnerability

In my journey as a bug bounty hunter, one of the things that I do all the time is pentesting web applications without access to the source code. This is known as black-box testing. So when I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi and installed Pi-hole for use in my…

LLM Demand Is Currently Inelastic

Yesterday (Aug 19 2024) Google drastically increased their free tier API limits for Gemini Flash, per this : In comparison, their limits on Gemini 1.5...

Competing in search — Benedict Evans

A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it mat…

What P vs NP is actually about

We recently made a Polylog video about the P vs NP problem. As usual, our goal was to present an underrated topic in a broadly understandable way, while being slightly imprecise and leaving out the…

That Blue Text – a Link Is Not Authenticity

As digital denizens, we read more than ever before. From news and forums to comments and blog posts, what we read online informs our decisions and actions. But as we read much-needed information, we must decide what is trustworthy – and what is not.

Some thoughts about tech debt...

When I see people complaining about tech debt, I'm always curious to understand if they are actually talking about "tech debt" as described by Ward Cunningham or just normal corporate disfunction.

Reimagining architecture principles

To me, it always seems strange that in a world that thrives on innovation and constant change, every architectural department tries to implement a rigid set of principles that stay in place for years.

Primer - Shane Carruth

A time travel thriller

Personal Identity

You are the only person who should have control over your identity. Period. No exceptions. No other person, company, or government should be able to constrain or dictate who you are, are allowed to be, how you’re classified or categorized, or what your name is…