Felix Lamouroux

Engineer at heart and avid photographer. Working on global banking at @SumUp. Creator of @OffMaps & @Trailsio. Former debater.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Illusion of knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance:

It's Okay to say "I don't know" and admit that you don't know it.

It's shameful to pretend that you know everything.

[David Ulevitch 🇺🇸 @davidu]

This remains one of my favorite investor notes of all time. Thanks @LeadEdgeCapital.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A simple strategy that will save you so many headaches: don't care about winning trivial arguments.

Someone says something you don't agree with? Smile, nod, and move on to more important things.

Life is short. Not caring about having the last word will save you so much time.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

I’m actually starting to think Brexit was actually the greatest examples of colonial reparations in history. A generous plan by the Conservatives to transfer wealth from the U.K. to Ireland.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

A common source of disappointment is recency bias: weighing the last week more heavily than the last year.

Zooming in on the immediate past magnifies slumps. Zooming out farther reveals upward slopes.

Progress is rarely visible at a snapshot in time. It unfolds over a lifetime.

[Cain Maddox @ctrlshifti]

idea: a gameshow called Imposter Syndrome where you take 10 senior developers and tell them that one of them is actually just a sales guy who's been taught to say DevOps buzzwords. to win, they have to figure out who the fake dev is. the trick: there is no sales guy

[Gogo | Dota for Toxicity @lwastuargo]

My skip (currently VP of Eng at Meta) once said:

People optimize for small money by jumping between companies, especially on E5 level below. Big money starts at E6+. To get there you need to gather knowledge - usually by staying for a prolonged amount of time in a domain/team.

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

If you spent enough years using A/B tests to chase every little bump in engagement without any basis or logic behind what you’re changing or why, eventually people will find something else they like better for reasons you can’t understand.

That’s the lesson of Instagram.

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

If you never go outside your comfort zone, it won’t stay the same size. It will shrink.

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

My reasoning mostly comes down to this: simple, fun, toylike tech nobody quite knows what to do with has a far better track record than abstruse, complex, byzantine tech nobody quite knows what to do with.

The AI stuff is incredibly fun too. Boundless potential.

[The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe ⚛️ @SkepticsGuide]

The sad thing is that this isn’t the worst sampling bias we’ve seen in a marketing survey…

[Stephen Diehl @smdiehl]

It's very easy to understand why every crypto investment is a scam. An investment can't generate a yield out of doing nothing and with no income. Even small children intuit this fact, and yet somehow adults get blinded by the techno-obscurantist language the scam wraps itself in.

[VV @visualizevalue]

"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." – Blaise Pascal

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

The best way to get good ideas is to generate a lot of ideas.

[Craig Hockenberry @chockenberry]

I'm growing wary of map/reduce/filter in Swift.

It's tempting to use new syntax that's easier to type. Problem is that it usually results in code that's harder to read.

I just replaced .reduce() code with a for loop because something written a week ago was hard to understand.

[Stephen Diehl @smdiehl]

There are zero use cases for blockchain. If you think you have a use case, you don't. Trusted third parties are inevitable and no technology offers solutions to that. A real database like Postgres is always a better solution.
https://t.co/dOEMIV0iKi

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

Choosing worthy goals is laudable, but it’s essential to pick a suitable means to achieve them. The existential question for projects: Will executing on plan deliver the desired things?

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

New ideas are fragile—it's true—but everyone needs trusted colleagues who can tell you when your new idea is dumb.

[Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza]

Bill Gates cuts through all the layers of technobabble and PR: