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This is so awesome! What a time to be alive that something like this is possible.

Claude and I had some adventures in areas nobody had yet explored

Honestly seems like a proxy for bad parents have sad kids. Makes logical sense to me.

I was 100% sure I was about to see a USB drive made out of a nut shell when I clicked on that link. Both disappointed and not :P

It’s funny, they way I describe the relationship I have with weight loss is exercise is that the exercise is giving you the reason to eat clean. You won’t want to make that effort worth nothing. It’s not the same for everyone but I certainly notice it

Honestly it's not technical things that are hard to hire for its finding engineers who show initiative and can communicate well with stakeholders. Its like finding gold especially now in remote working.

I would make that tradeoff in a second.

Personally, I have joined a company and scaled the team from 12-52 engineers over the pandemic. Our productivity is through the roof and everyone is getting really well and forming good connections.

Engineering Manager - Normally around 4-5hrs a day of meetings.

If you think that Slack requires constant monitoring then I think you are using it wrong. I believe there is zero difference in the reply expectations of Slack and email. As per my initial comment, you are someone who doesn't check email and that's ok, in my engineering manager role I receive over 200 emails a day. Most of these could be 3 - 10 word slack messages but they arrive in my inbox with the same urgency as every other message requiring the same level of triage as a very important contract.

I suspect much of the hate for slack is from two types of people. Those who are too young to know the tyranny of email and those who used to ignore their email. As to why it’s so popular, it was the first good business chat solution that went mainstream. And I still haven’t seen another that matches it’s quality

There is also the question of relative airspeed. Planes need to create enough lift to stay in the air. With a large tailwind they need to go faster to keep enough air flowing over the wings thus higher ground speed to keep the same relative air speed.