Arzumy MD

Chief Tech at Fave. Founding team at Billplz. I tweet about my experience in grooming People and Leaderships in Tech + random observations.

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@tevanraj @odin88 @erhanazrai @KotakSakti_ @tymbaeducation @_aazraai K. Kalau takde aral melintang.

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@thecongjen More than I care to read

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Annual reminder to archive your inbox.

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Starting the year by archiving everything in my inbox. Not a fan of Inbox Zero, but it is refreshing to see nothing in the inbox. I highly recommend you do the same. Let's let go of the baggage.

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@rezarazali Kasi can la kami golongan 40an join sekali bang.

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Intern working on Sunday

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Congrats on shipping 1.0! @kamal

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The chat mode on @bing gave the right answer, as expected.

https://t.co/s0OpLrRAFG

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Who is the current Prime Minister of Malaysia?

The "AI-powered" @bing can't get it right. On the first try, it said @MuhyiddinYassin even when the quoted source contains the latest data.

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@sirennextdoor Yeah, true for ChatGPT, but Bing is not ChatGPT. This example is on the normal search, not chat mode.

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@hidup_sihat @bing @MuhyiddinYassin That looks like ChatGPT's disclaimer, not Bing.

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Who is the current Prime Minister of Malaysia?

The "AI-powered" @bing can't get it right. On the first try, it said @MuhyiddinYassin even when the quoted source contains the latest data.

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Meanwhile, @Google just can't wait to give me the right answer, it didn't even bother with the result page or fancy AI chat.

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I guess the data is outdated. We got the right answer if we go back another year.

Who is the Prime Minister of Malaysia in 2022

You are on to something @bing, @anwaribrahim is the partially correct answer. Can't wait to see how your chat mode would behave.

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Whatever success I achieved, I knew I couldn't do it alone. Not without all these amazing people around me. So don't build a network; make friends instead. When they want to build something great, you will be the right person at the right time.

https://t.co/fAtnY5GiFQ

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To build the first team, I would hire the first two people that come to my mind. If I don't have anyone, I ask for recommendations from the smart people around me.

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Growing up, I kept hearing, "To do business, you need to network". I loathed it because my default state is introverted. I would go to networking events and be a wallflower. I now realise that I misread the advice:

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When I talked to 50 people in 2 hours, no one remembered me after that. They probably kept my card and never looked at it again. When I built a strong connection with 1 person, they would remember me and talk about me to their friends. It scales better.

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When I want to scale up the team to 3, 5, or 10 engineers, then only having a defined process makes sense. I wrote a simple guide to build your interview process in this thread: https://t.co/FeCqsp9NGL

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How to create your interview process? Please don't do what I did. I looked up how other tech companies were doing it and copied them. What worked for them may not work for us. Context matters.

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It may sound great to have a well-defined interview process. But if I'm hiring my first two engineers in the startup, it is much more straightforward and more intuitive:

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The first year in a startup will be hard, painful, and challenging. The uncertainty will test our relationships. It is much easier to power through it with friends than with strangers.