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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
This blog post is a bit of an apology note. When I first graduated from college, I thought of marketing as a tool for people whose work wasn’t good enough to stand on its own. Years down the road, I realize that many of the engineers at Goo
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
Sorry to hear - this must be immensely stressful for you, but I definitely appreciate reading about the failure. This quote really spoke to me: > I also learned the level of commitment it takes to bring something from 0 to 1. It's r
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
Thanks - I'm glad you enjoyed them! Toddlers are cruel teachers.
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
Totally makes sense! Plus, you can look pretty cool when you're actually decent right away at something. Pickleball is a blast.
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
Welp, I now consider this required reading alongside the post. Thanks for sharing!
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
My jealousy is tangible. I always want to be great at just a few things... but those few things happen to change too often for that to ever happen. (Software engineering and running are probably the ones I've sustained for the longes
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
Basically, I mistakenly thought "I'm working at Google, not a startup: this advice isn't relevant to me". What I didn't realize was that the startup world has lots and lots of info for figuring out how to build new
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
Ah - if you feel this way, then I probably wasn't on the nose enough with this specific point. I was trying to balance a few points (i.e. IMO most people focus too much on marginal improvements in skills that got them to where they are
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
This post comes from the experience of several brutal multi-year engineering projects at Google that, in retrospect, I wonder "why didn't anyone criticize the idiotic decisions that I was making?!". Along the way, I was makin
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How to find your blind spots(zeptonaut.com)
119 points by zeptonaut22 4y ago|24 comments
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
Love the cleverness here. I was literally wondering this exact thing as I read through the documentation. I'm hoping to use his WiFi debugging guidance from the readme at my in-laws: I was just experiencing remote desktop problems des
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
I was a big user of Detroit's docked bike sharing system, MoGo, and felt like it was a technology that stood a lot better chance to really change how people got around than Bird scooters, for example. Cutting the cost dramatically I th
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
As someone that regularly writes long-form content on a blog, I have to say: this post completely misses the point. People write Twitter threads because Twitter gives them distribution for what they want to say. Sure, it may not be the perf
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
For context, I'm a pre-seed startup CTO and ex Googler who's probably conducted 50-100 interviews. In short, "it gives some signal, it's easy, it requires less infra, and it's common so people won't criticize y
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
I'm not affiliated with this company at all, but I'm curious what others think. My understanding is that Chainguard offers Docker base images (Chainguard Images) that contain just what's necessary to run the binary (commonly
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Wolfi – Linux (Un)distro a secure software supply chain(chainguard.dev)
2 points by zeptonaut22 4y ago|1 comments
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
This post is the result of some hard-won lessons about where to focus efforts in an early-stage startups or projects. I’ll leave it up to others to decide whether the content is original, but hopefully it’s written in a way that can prevent
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Customers Extrapolate from Quality(zeptonaut.com)
3 points by zeptonaut22 4y ago|1 comments
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How to Get Meetings with Investors and Raise Money (2018)(youtube.com)
2 points by zeptonaut22 4y ago|1 comments
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
I really enjoyed this overview by YC's Aaron Harris and felt like it was one of the most pragmatic approaches to fundraising that I'd come across. A few additional comments: - If you're not trying to build the next billion do
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Stop solving problems you don't have(zeptonaut.com)
1 points by zeptonaut22 4y ago|0 comments
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by zeptonaut22 4y ago
Particularly proud of the giraffe picture in this one.
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Where are good startup ideas born?(zeptonaut.com)
4 points by zeptonaut22 4y ago|1 comments
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
FWIW, I definitely don't deny that my privilege is showing. I no longer work at Google, but whether I want to go into the office is probably heavily influenced by the fact that I have a ~15 minute door to door bike commute through a ni
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
I'm the author of the post and just want to say: I think it's awesome that you work at a remote company and am glad that you found a role that fits your personality. It sounds like you're happier there and I'm glad that
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
Hover is a great experience on desktop, but it annoyingly requires having a separate solution for mobile. Right now 60+% of the traffic on the site is from mobile devices, so figuring out something (hopefully simple and very lightweight) th
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
Definitely! That's what my goal implementation will be compiled to, anyway. I use Hugo, a Go static site generator, to build the markdown posts into the site. Adding footnotes is just a matter of figuring out how to use the right synta
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
Thanks for the suggested reading! I'll definitely check these out.
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
Our lenses are probably influenced heavily by what kind of software we work on (which I admittedly didn't dive into at all on the article). I work primarily on B2C software, whereas it sounds like you probably work on the B2B software.
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by zeptonaut22 5y ago
The best footnotes I've found provide nice bidirectional linking for easily jumping to / back from the footnote so that it disrupts the reading as little as possible. The beautiful / fun part about having a blog is that it&#x

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