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When To Quit Your Job 🤔
I have a rule. If I wake up 5 days in a row saying, "Ah, no." Then I'm done. And it never happened.You can have a day. Maybe you can have two. Like if you have them in a row, that's a bad. ...
“You Have To Upgrade Yourself”
Why do you think it's my responsibility to make you better as professionals. you. Seriously, if you're not going to take the time to make yourself valuable, to embrace reality, you're doomed. I'm not going to help you.If you don't want to do this, you're either going to be poor or a burden on society. And again, this is a part of this awakening. Wake the up. Grow up.There's not going to be demand for people that cannot upgrade themselves. people that are having a bad time coping with reality and understandi ...
“We All Work For AI”
Right now, what we're seeing is on steroids. You are working for AI and so do I because we're producing content and that content is going to be eaten by a machine and used to produce new stuff. You know that copyright is dead.It's a notion from 1710 and it's dead overnight. There is no copyright. It's done.My expectation of you is that each and every one of you and it doesn't matter what you do is going to replace 100% of what you do with automation. ...
“Startups Must Ship Fast”
If I'm inside a behemoth like I'm inside Amazon and Amazon has a product in our category, do you think the employees working on this are worried if they will have a job in six months if they don't ship a great product. If we had shipped the same quality product that some of these hyperscalers have shipped, we'd be out of the market a year ago. But they probably still have their jobs right now.A startup has existential dread on whether or not they can survive if they don't ship fast. ...
“AI Has Turned Cash-Cows Into Cash-Pits"
The hyperscalers have taken very good cashefficient businesses and they would break Mr.. Buffett's heart because they've turned them into capex hogs. Right? Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook all have had capex as a percentage of free cash flow go up significantly. Now, as she pointed out, the good news is in the last four or five years, free cash flow themselves have grown. So, your cash flow hit hasn't been enormous. It's only been about a 10% decline in free cash flow, right? It hasn't been horrific. In ...
What Has Windsurf Learned From Cursor?
If you look at cursor, what have they done well that you've learned from. I think they took a really good approach on building highquality UIUX and that actually proved to be what people really loved. And I think that's very impressive that they were able to do this right off the bat.That's not actually what our initial intuition was for us to go out and build Windsor. We actually felt that we needed a massive technical breakthrough of actually a new product experience. That was the only reason why we decid ...
“I Flatlined For Four Minutes”
I hear you were like almost dead for like 4 minutes. I did flatline for 4 and 1/2 minutes. You know, I had a whole experience of being on the other side.My blood pressure had plummeted and the machines had not alerted the nurse. My mom goes downstairs to get my dad and my brother and she's coming back up the elevator and she hears over the loudspeaker code blue in room 437. And my mom works in a hospital so she knows that means flatline and she knows that's my room.So, she gets out of the elevator. She runs ...