Surya

Researcher @chainalysis

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I think is five archetypes:

1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship
2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra
3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance
4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit
5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales

Many people span across 2 roles, and sometimes 3 roles. I also notice that these roles are not really tied to job function -- eg. across Anthropic, some designers match category 1, some 2, some 3; same for engineers, PM, DS.

A healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product:

- A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3
- A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5
- A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2

Maybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?

[Naval @naval]

“Die empty.”

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

complexity has a habit of only increasing over time, and thus must be fought each step of the way with occasional hard resets

[depths of wikipedia! @depthsofwiki]

The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.

[MIT Mathematics @MITMath]

Prof. Gil Strang's last lecture is ... Monday! Watch it via live stream: https://t.co/crToqS9gKq

[Jake @JustJake]

Technical founders watching teammates ship PRs while their calendar starts to look like this

[Daniel Faggella @danfaggella]

"Dude, OpenAI is the first company to get, like, 100MM users in 2 months!"

Brother OpenAI is the first company to permanently end the anthropocene lol

[DHH @dhh]

Five values guiding our cloud exit:

1. We value independence above all else
2. We serve the internet
3. We spend our money wisely
4. We lead the way
5. We seek adventure
https://t.co/5KJGuQ3lkY

[ian // @ianDAOs]

If web3 has only 2.5M active wallets, there are only 3 ways for a web3 project to be highly valued:

1/ onboards millions of new users

2/ used by a majority of the 2.5M wallets

3/ used by the most valuable segment of the 2.5M wallets

Many don't realize which bucket they're in.

[martin_casado @martin_casado]

Ran into another startup using their own kit to cut down on cloud costs. Their savings are ~40x (!!)

[MIT Bitcoin Club @MITBitcoinClub]

our Data & Analytics expert @afletsas moderating a FIRE panel with @TheImperialDuke, MIT alum @andriko, @calabreum, @ErikSaberski, and @DaveBalter!

[MIT Bitcoin Club @MITBitcoinClub]

We are very excited to share that @TheImperialDuke, Senior Staff Data Scientist at @chainalysis, will join us at the #MITBitcoinExpo 2022: #BreakingThrough on May 7-8 as a speaker in our Data & Analytics panel.

https://t.co/PwyjkUh040

[Fred Ehrsam @FEhrsam]

In 30 years, we’ll thank Bitcoin as the driving force behind novel forms of energy production

[Dan Held @danheld]

Bitcoin isn't Myspace.

[Yisong Yue @yisongyue]

When I was a PhD student, a professor told me:

"There are only three papers worth writing on a given topic: the first paper, the best paper, and the last paper."

It's obv a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I've often used the underlying heuristic to aid in choosing research directions.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚝 𝚊 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎

[taimur @taimurabdaal]

every weekend

[Robert Webb @arobertwebb]

Peep Show series 1 fans will be pleased to hear God is currently on BBC4 and it’s absurdly restful.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

“All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.” E Rutherford