Things I Learned - 07 Apr 2024
This week, I learned: CSS nesting is now available in browsers Cold starts in AWS Lambda: serverless functions stay alive for 5-7 min. All languages are fast but Docker is slow. More npm packages slow start dramatically. WiFi only works when it’s raining because a tree was obstructing the signal but was weighed down when raining! Good reasons why finding a technical co-founder won’t work. You want a unicorn to passionately trust YOUR idea after 2 meetings. Why should THEY risk money for YOUR idea? You’re the money guy. RAISE the money for YOUR idea! How passionate are you about software? And you want to build one now? This is a subtle vulnerability. ChatGPT hallucinated pip install huggingface-cli. Sosomeone created the package and got 30,000 downloads! Video-Llava is a video LLM MusicCNN-embeddings provides embeddings for music genre classification How I write podcast. Paul Graham essays Write simply. It helps communicate. (Don’t concise if communication worsens.). It forces you to make the idea better Do lame stuff. Else you won’t start. Low standards drive creativity The more to delete, the better your writing. Read your piece. Highlight what feels poor. Fix it. Ask friends to highlight what’s BORING? UNCONVINCING? Delete the first, brainstorm the second. Or ask, what’s the 10% to cut and 10% to keep. Write about stuff you don’t know above the. Writing GENERATES ideas Write about what’s BUS. GENERAL and SURPRISING. (Laughter is a sign of comprehension.) Do HARD things to cultivate taste. Spend more time with people who generate ideas in you. Ravi chithappa. Ram. Ankor. Ganes. Books! Build taste. I have a taste for picking technologies. Data visualization. Retrospect. Write down what you like and dislike. Copy what you REALLY like. Guilty pleasures. A benefit of lower standards is that it let’s you pick the path less travelled. ITERATE. Discuss ideas. Iterate. Acknowledge. ITERATE.