awestrom
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Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I like keybr! The only thing that bothers me about it is that many of the words are made up, which means I have to think more about individual letters than I usually would. On the flip side, it does help you directly address your weak spots.
Another tool I like is https://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english. It's simple and enables you to practice for 1 minute at a time. Sometimes I'll do it while I'm waiting for people to show up to a meeting
Comment · 4 years ago
It's not about whether others care how fast you can type. It's about how quickly you can get your ideas into the computer. Between coding, writing documents, emails, and Slack, a lot of your day is spent typing. If you can improve your typing speed by 20%, you may have just reduced the time it takes to do your job by like 5%, which is meaningful!
Dan Luu has a really good post that outlines why working on things like typing speed can be extremely valuable and basically a force multiplier on everything else you do as an engineer.
Comment · 4 years ago
Has anyone tried to use these kinds of forecasting skills to improve software delivery estimates?
Software developers are notoriously terrible at estimation and lately I've been thinking that we should look to Superforecasters[1] for inspiration about how to improve.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, one major difference between DAOs and LLCs is that DAOs exist in a nebulous legal space and might technically be general partnerships. Members of a DAO have potentially unlimited liability if it gets sued.
She told me to email Tim Cook directly (his email is entirely guessable).
I did this and within a day or two my access was restored.