Jeff Farris

Director of Engineering for Special Projects at Epic Games. Developer, dad, runner, Buckeye, mammal, sports fan, cook. Can do anything but float.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

I think about this at least 1x a week.

[Joshua Burgin @joshuaseattle]

The leaders and companies who succeed are the ones who do exactly that. The ones that stall are the ones trying to do everything at once. Time is finite. Opportunity cost is an iron law. Every “yes” to something small is a “no” to something that could actually move the needle.

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

This quote has been stuck in my head for hours

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

The greatest subordinate clause ever written

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

The simple genius of David Ogilvy:

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Asked a few companies how they hire FDEs (forward deployed engineers). Head this article from @alexandr_wang referenced a few times as what worked well:

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

A. R. Ammons:

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Leo Rosten, what a line

[Jeff Farris @Byooler]

this is a key point

[Richard Hoeg @HoegLaw]

But what's lost is that [bad thing] not happening (because it's outlawed) doesn't necessitate the existence of [good thing].

[RobertAllenPoet @RobertAllenPoet]

One of Stephen Crane’s weird little poems

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

Yes. As I put it earlier:

It’s remarkable how, in field after field, driven by petty grievance and the illusion of victimhood. the United States seems intent on undermining its own greatest strengths.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Show up every single day:

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Nietzsche, what a line

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—Matthew Olzmann

[Ben Lang @benln]

What Sam Altman wishes someone had told him:

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Clarity comes from action.