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Can you name some people who are working there and who you look up to? I need some new idols after the old idols all went up in MAGA and Epstein files .
by bflesch 8mo ago
Can you name some people who are working there and who you look up to? I need some new idols after the old idols all went up in MAGA and Epstein files .
- Graziano_M 8mo agoIs Jessie Frazelle still there? She is very impressive.
- robszumski 8mo agono, but still being super impressive. CEO of a company rebuilding a CAD rendering engine because they put an LLM on top of it. So you describe the mechanical specs of the part you want and it models it. Takes all the tedium out of modeling stuff. Super cool and many applications.
- pcl 8mo agoOh cool! That looks like a super interesting product. https://zoo.dev https://zoo.dev
- panick21_ 8mo agoThey had to do CAD while working on Oxide and realized that it sucked. So she went off to solve that.
- AceJohnny2 8mo agothat's taking yak shaving to another level!
- throwaw12 8mo agoBryan Cantrill
- dylanowen 8mo agoI've seen Bryan Cantrill present at a few conferences and his talks are always the best.
- throw0101a 8mo agoA recent one (2025q4) he gave at Jane Street, "Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JjG0Qfwi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JjG0Qfwi8
- shimman 8mo agoWell one, don't look up to people you personally don't know. Parasocial relationships are not healthy. Look into your local community for people to be mentors or help you. That said I like Bryan Cantrill as an engineer and leader, but I would never put him on a pedestal.
- oconnor663 8mo agoOn the other hand, it's normal to have heroes, and to need to have them.
- Eldt 8mo agoHeroes like Spiderman and Batman? Or strangers that put on a mask, and whose public image is maintained by PR firms?
- kortilla 8mo agoNot really, that’s what leads to parasocial relationships. Nobody is flawless and part of becoming an adult is learning to admire specific qualities rather than obsess over individuals.
- shimman 8mo agoThis is a child mindset, people don't need heroes. They need leaders that care about them and want to better their communities; these leaders are found within your literal neighbors, friends, and family.
- AlexeyBelov 8mo ago> This is a child mindset, people don't need heroes Any evidence or proof? This can be said about anything, even about your comment.
- philipallstar 8mo agoYou could say the opposite, and I think with more effectiveness: people don't need leaders to care about them, as that's what children need. They need heroes to inspire them into leading and being good adults for themselves.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoTip that will work forever, even when the ones you replace your old idols with get replaced: Don't have any idols. Listen to the words, don't follow "personalities", don't listen to specific individuals just because of their status. Not a single time have I been disappointed by an idol, because I've made the conscious choice of not having following any. Bunch of smart people say smart stuff all the time, until they don't. I read everything as if I don't know the author, I think more people should do this and less celebrity worship would make the entire ecosystem better. We need less of it, not more.
- surajrmal 8mo agoIt's best to avoid idolizing folks. It can give you a skewed set of expectations and lead you to resent them when inevitably they cannot live up those those expectations (which is unfair to them), and possibly lower your own self esteem if you cannot meet those same standards yourself.