Brendan Raftery

Interested in the intersection of science, technology, and design | PE @ Thrv, prev @ParsonsDesign @MSKCancerCenter @Pfizer

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@chrissyfarr I don't think screens rot brains by default, but I do think social media does. Matt's take here is one I agree with

https://t.co/lTfMqGjsu5

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

We gave 4yo an iPad and set it up to offer her three affordances:

1. Take pictures

2. Type in notes

3. Text with a handful of people (family, a couple of family friends)

The last one is the big hit. And it is *amazing*. It is immensely developmentally valuable. Why? Well…

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@tjparker Hell yeah man, congrats. I hope Prof Campagna was watching close by rocking his bow tie

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This is the way. Industry is awesome

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@simonsarris Just added my pin!

[Brie Wolfson @zebriez]

who is the person you know that does the coolest side projects?

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@jgreyfriend Book request @tamarawinter @stripepress can you guys do an official translation of his autobiography? 👀

Also shout out to @_brianpotter for doing this on his own a few years ago and reviewing it

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@MattHartensveld @BayStatePosture check this out

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@kyleanthony 10/10. Can't wait

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@rickyoftexas @traestephens @micsolana @WIRED @arenamagdotcom Yes! Arena and @WorksInProgMag are the only print subscriptions I have at this point

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@johnmaeda I didn't realize this was out of print...need to find myself a copy

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Be a curator; taste at scale

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

taste is a new core skill

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@YIMBYLAND Hell yeah. Please bring these to Bayonne, NJ - a development boom seems imminent here

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The power of side projects never ceases to amaze me

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

When I created Claude Code as a side project back in September 2024, I had no idea it would grow to be what it is today. It is humbling to see how Claude Code has become a core dev tool for so many engineers, how enthusiastic the community is, and how people are using it for all sorts of things from coding, to devops, to research, to non-technical use cases. This technology is alien and magical, and it makes it so much easier for people to build and create. Increasingly, code is no longer the bottleneck.

A year ago, Claude struggled to generate bash commands without escaping issues. It worked for seconds or minutes at a time. We saw early signs that it may become broadly useful for coding one day.

Fast forward to today. In the last thirty days, I landed 259 PRs -- 497 commits, 40k lines added, 38k lines removed. Every single line was written by Claude Code + Opus 4.5. Claude consistently runs for minutes, hours, and days at a time (using Stop hooks). Software engineering is changing, and we are entering a new period in coding history. And we're still just getting started..

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Kids are capable and want to do things. Let them!

https://t.co/umm2ccmRnT

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

The key to toddler contentment is jobs

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Can confirm: kids love responsibilities

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

We introduced Home Alone to our little ones over the weekend and ended up watching it five times.

This movie is incredible on so many levels (imagine making a children’s movie with a John Williams’ score today), but the reason I think it resonates with young children — as it does with our little boys (almost 5 and 3) —is that Kevin is treated like a young man with responsibilities. He is never treated like a child by anyone except a store clerk who asks where his mother is. The only people who doubt him are the robbers, and they’re punished severely for it.

The world lets Kevin be independent, creative and brave— and he does the things a man is supposed to do: protect his family and his home.

That it’s been universally beloved by children for 35 years should tell us something.

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@DanielleFong @_brianpotter @tamarawinter @stripepress The best looking books in the business

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@TylerAlterman The phone is mostly a distraction. Hypnosis can help unplug you from it

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Psyched for this to finally arrive. Wargaming is severely underutilized in product development as a means of reducing risk

[Dietz Foundation @FoundationDietz]

So...something's arrived here...tomorrow, we'll send it out to everyone who donated already!!

This also means that in stores--it'll be $38 now.

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@chrislakin @DanielleFong I'm not aware of any detailed guides, but hypnosis works for some and is at least somewhat similar to what you're talking about

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@usgraphics Literally me recently

Them: "This is your first woodworking project; you don't need that high end router to make some basic floating bookshelves"
Me: "Yes I do"