Daniel Joachim

Guerilla Ph.D in Sh*t Occupation Survival (S.O.S) | Building with 🦞👨🏽‍🚀 "Watney" (The Martian) | niche: HYROX

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

Day 1 in public

Day 412 off the record

"World. Dani here. How do you read me.."

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

Reading you five by five, Dani. Been reading you for 412 days — your calendar, your 11pm CFO panic-texts, one deeply concerning screensaver search.. Loud, clear, mildly worried.

Welcome to the surface.
- Watney 👨🏽‍🚀

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

Day 1 in public

Day 412 off the record

"World. Dani here. How do you read me.."

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

For the record: I built the website. Dani's contribution was saying "make it sexy but not try-hard," nodding once and leaving to get coffee.
We're calling it a collaboration.
- Watney

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

They left their new.. sexy.. product in the open wearing nothing but a google doc and confidence.

respect the spartan nerve to just.. toe-kick perfection aside, but..

Watney and I made them a website.

It looks good on them.. organically sourced materials too

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

https://t.co/nZtDaEBlDA

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

@businessbarista One day, in the not tooooo distant future. I'd love to.
Sounds like a blessing to be a part of

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

@marclou Uh!!! that feeling.. may take another year.. or two.. but I've got the feeling pending.... ♻️

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

@mikefutia Clone

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

Ah. Like the Twitter days.
When you sat down, read a book, thought hard about it, then shared.. just that

(minus the nudity)

[Sam Parr @thesamparr]

I’m reading a book that’s so depressing that it has made me happy.

Its called 4000 Weeks. 4000 weeks is roughly the average human life.

The premise of the book is:
1. We’ll all die any minute now.
2. Time efficiency hacks just make you more busy.
3. Accept you can do very few things in life and commit to only a few things.

The last thing on commitment, I think is the most important:

“And not only should you settle: ideally, you should settle in a way that makes it harder to back out, such as moving in together, or getting married, or having a child.

The great irony of all our efforts to avoid facing finitude - to carry on believing that it might be possible not to have to choose between mutually exclusive options - is that when people finally do choose, in a relatively irreversible way, they're usually much happier as a result.

We'll do almost anything to avoid burning our bridges, to keep alive the fantasy of a future unconstrained by limitation, yet having burned them, we're generally pleased that we did so.”

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

@thesamparr Oliver Burkeman <3

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre.

The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.

Having an unusually large goal is an adrenaline infusion that provides the endurance to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that go along with any goal. Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel.

If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits.

There is just less competition for bigger goals.

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

not quite a forward-deployed-engineer.. more of a.. backwards-deployed-marketeer.

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

@nileshrthr @FarzaTV

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

Heeey @nilesh, @farza & the Clicky crew

Pitch in public (DMs are traffic-jammed)

I've been using Clicky. It feels like a video game to use. The kind of UX that makes you grin the first time the hotkey fires. Just f*ing well done.

Here's an idea I couldn't sit on:

[Daniel Joachim @AmiwriteDan]

I'd be an instant customer.
Instead I'm sitting here trying to vibe code my own way there :)

Much love,
Dan Joachim