Researchers tested the effect of time on creativity. The results are interesting…

After coaching a lot of very successful people, here's an unsexy truth: A lot of success is learning to grind when it's boring. Staying engaged, working, and seeing it through when it's "boring" is a skill. If you expect all building to be exciting, you'll never make it.

Being a successful creator over a long period of time is inherently difficult bc the tides of success pull you away from what you were originally good at

"The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life." Naval

I interviewed over 50 back-end engineers in the last 2 years. I created a Notion based "Learn Backend Development Pack" that contains a learning path to become a backend dev based on free resources. Retweet and reply with "free" and I'll DM it to you. (need to follow)

Nobody talks about money who actually has money. But truthfully, it’s the way in which cars, clothes, and other depreciating assets are collected and valued that really expose the haves from the have-nots

My 3 daily non-negotiables: 1. Move my body 2. Work on something meaningful 3. Express gratitude If I do those 3 consistently, everything else magically falls into place.

What questions do you have about memory leaks on iOS? I’m preparing a talk for a meetup, so hit me with your best questions. 😁 #iOS

As a principal engineer, one issue that I face often is that people assume I know what I’m doing.

The hill I'll die on is that automated tests are not a replacement for actually testing your shit works

is this a thing or is my professor crazy? reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

People arguing over git merge vs. rebase need to touch grass. Please. I'm tired of these zero sum debates.

Be arrogant about your potential - And humble about your current understanding. There is benefits to be gained from both polarities.

The new rat race: - Self improvement - Feeling bad when not productive - Build your own business and work for yourself - Try to make six figures, millions, tens of millions It's roots are based in escaping the corporate rat race. Yet it has become a new rat race of it's own.

AI is going to change how software is created, but the world is still desperately going to need software engineers.

Agreed. My advice: ◆ Design from "first AI principles" ◆ Learn the new software stack ◆ Ship your own AI products ◆ Disrupt yourself, don't wait to be disrupted

Copilot and ChatGPT have been huge contributors to my productivity. They help me do more in less time. I don't want to go back. But today, I can't do anything I couldn't do before. These tools work for me because of what I know, not despite it. They augment my skill set. They

Is data the real bottleneck on model performance? 📊 “We need to have an abundance of frontier data. Frontier data is complex reasoning chains, complex discussion, agent chains of models... All of the key components that we would think of an agent being able to do needs to be