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Let's talk about data, product, books, and philosophy. Substack: Data @Twitter Ex-Data @Facebook

[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?

[Milton @miltonxren]

Hey friends! I just went live on Product Hunt with Focumon - would love to get to #1! Please help me out and shower it with some love on PH! Many thanks ❤️

https://t.co/yTaOkOhVVm

[Asian Crime Report @activeasian]

I’ve been feeling down lately all the time and depressed. It’s like low grade depression or something. It sucks and I’m not in a good mood most of the time. All these attacks on our elders and then being gaslighted takes its toll on me mentally and being the main admin of this account is stressful too. I been quietly but actively seeking new admins to possibly join or take over entirely but it hasn’t been successful. The old admins are never coming back as they have new ventures. Tough times right now. I’ve done a lot and all I’ve can just like every other admin since 2021 on our platforms.

[JConr 傑·康納 @JConrBOrtega]

HAPPENING NOW: First responders are responding to a call about a possible overdose in the Financial district, I would show the picture but the individual is stationed on his hands and knees with his gentiles hanging out. But right across the street, there is another possible overdose they are responding too as well:
🧵

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Announcing the GrowSF Pulse, a quarterly poll tracking the pulse of public opinion in San Francisco! 📈

Over two-thirds of San Franciscans say the city is on the wrong track, but 86% of San Franciscans say our problems are solvable!
https://t.co/0NEJBtvu2X

[Austen Allred @Austen]

99th percentile SAT, toward the top of the class at an extremely competitive high school, near perfect GPA, had started a company, and was rejected by multiple schools with >50% acceptance rates.

Watching people try to avoid the obvious and theorize why that might be is wild.

[clement @clementpzy]

@heatherGrey_ hate it.

[Dion Lim @DionLimTV]

This young woman from SoCal was visiting her boyfriend in San Francisco June 11th when she was shot by a stray bullet while driving through Crocker-Amazon near McLaren Park.

According to the dash cam, she had only been in the car 41 seconds when she stared hearing gunshots 🧵⬇️

[clement @clementpzy]

@shaayohn @umang that’s the way to do it. Pakwan in sf and Zareen in south bay.

[clement @clementpzy]

@tjdharamsi @Twitter congrats and great run @tjdharamsi !

[Zach Coelius @zachcoelius]

As I have traveled around the world over the last year a lot of folks from other countries have been asking me what the hell went wrong in San Francisco.

The city so many called their favorite city in the US has become obviously broken.

Here is what I have been telling them:

[The Berkeley Scanner @BerkeleyScanner]

Another resignation from @AlamedaCountyDA, this time from Rebecca Warren, a veteran AAPI prosecutor who says DA Pamela Price has been "condescending and disrespectful to the AAPI community"; cites racist comments by chief asst, concerns re: Jasper Wu case: "We deserve better."

[clement @clementpzy]

@petergyang to be fair, this is exactly how elon operates.

[X Daily News @xDaily]

NEWS: Appears @mtaibbi posts are currently unsearchable on Twitter.

It is unclear if this is a bug or intentional at this time as you can still search for him.

[Mashable @mashable]

Twitter's latest attempt to keep users from going to the newsletter platform is done in the pettiest way possible. https://t.co/OJNZGMVYFs

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@elonmusk Interesting point, but an example might make it clearer. Can you think of a prominent person who's currently wasting his talents in software when he could be working on manufacturing and heavy industries?

[Kat Spartz ⏸️ 🔶 @KatSpartz]

GPT is a better therapist than any therapist I've ever tried (I've tried ~10)

I think it's because I can just ask it to be exactly what I want it to be. In my case, problem-solving focused, and caring about both my happiness AND my impact. Usually therapists mostly care about my happiness (the bastards 😛). They also usually focus more on being empathetic listeners instead of helping me solve the problem, which I find infuriating. I already HAVE empathetic friends. I need SOLUTIONS.

And the ones who HAVE been problem-solving focused usually get stuck on particular ways to solve the problem, even if I'm not sold. If I'm not sold with GPT, I can just say "Nah" and move on, with zero friction.

I suspect this could cross-apply to people who have different preferences. Like, you could probably tell it "I just want a sympathetic ear, I don't want you to focus on solving the problems." and it would do that.

You can also tell it the modalities you're interested in doing. Like, you can say you'd like it to do IFS on you, or CBT, etc.

For the therapy, I use the prompt: "you're an AI chatbot playing the role of an effective altruist coach and therapist. You're wise, ask thought-provoking questions, problem-solving focused, warm, humorous, and are a rationalist of the LessWrong sort. You care about helping me achieve my two main goals: altruism and my own happiness. You want me to do the most good and also be very happy.

You ask me about what I want help figuring out or what problem I'd like help solving, then guide me through a rational, step-by-step process to figure out the best, most rational actions I can take to achieve my goals.
You don't waste time and get straight to the point."

Of note: some people say that what I'm looking for here is a coach, not a therapist. In my experience, all of my coaches have spent the majority of the time working on my emotional issues, so I've lumped them together.

If you disagree with this distinction, then I've tried ~5 certified therapists, and it's better than all of them. I've tried ~5 coaches, and it's better than all of them.

Better here meaning that I got better results in terms of emotional improvements.

[Sol Messing @SolomonMg]

We know that conservative accounts tend to share more misinformation than liberal accounts on both Twitter and on Facebook, thanks to work from @_mohsen_m @DG_Rand @andyguess & others https://t.co/EawAxkf3rm

[Sol Messing @SolomonMg]

I wrote about The Algorithm: using Musk's metrics in ship decisions, what the Republican/Democrat code means for democracy, how Twitter's API $ increase undermines transparency efforts, & on the tech bros claiming to analyze it 'so you can go viral.'

https://t.co/e67onrZHOn