Donty_Python

Sr Developer. Python🐍 was my first love. Pep8 bro. Donty greater than Monty.

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Listen up. The future is in your hands. Plan and execute!

[Vonn @itsthewealth4me]

Gentle reminder that you don’t have to be the smartest, the strongest, or the most attractive person to capture wealth the next 10+ years, you just have to understand the moment and execute on it

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@itsthewealth4me Yall earned it. Congrats!

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@itsthewealth4me Lol congrats. Long time coming!

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@EzeSecOps For real. 419 shenanigans...

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@brad_schutte @SaundersKa43241 @JasonBassler1 Sean Combs

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@Bound2Ry Don't listen to them. Probably bots

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@BlacTec_ Grind never $tops!

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@AlaysiaMichelle Congrats! Discipline over motivation.

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@sp4rtan300 Great job. Are you reading the Bible?

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Put the phone down.

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

Brandon Aiyuk has posted another video on Instagram:

“You wanna know why they really mad tho? They mad because they stupid. They mad because they paid me $50M in 8 months. And then voided my guarantees for 2027. And I’m about to be on a new team in 2026. They mad at themselves.”

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@KobraSportsMed Lmaoo

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@ClayTravis 🤡

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Interview of the Year. Instant classic.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Kelsey Hightower has one of the most inspiring stories in tech: he went from a technician installing DSL modems, through self-directed study and very hard work, to one of the very few Distinguished Engineer at Google whom Satya Nadella personally persuaded to join Microsoft.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
03:34 Kelsey’s first job at McDonald’s
05:04 His non-traditional path into tech
11:45 Landing his first tech job with an A+ certification
15:33 His entrepreneurial years
19:45 Joining Google as a data center technician
27:48 Learning automation at a Rackspace spinoff
33:26 Moving into financial services
50:00 Building a reputation through open source
53:55 From configuration management to containers
1:08:20 The rise of Kubernetes
1:25:05 Why he almost joined NASA instead of Google
1:29:20 Defining DevRel at Google
1:38:20 Demonstrating impact at Google
1:41:20 Microsoft's offer
1:55:20 Learning how to slow down
2:06:39 Advising and investing
2:15:03 A people-first view of GenAI
2:24:27 Using AI with guardrails
2:28:26 Matching AI to the task
2:36:06 Staying relevant in the AI era

Brought to you by outstanding teams building products I love:

• @AntithesisHQ: verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://t.co/AKYm4cctss

• @sentry: application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers https://t.co/uoolyqTR6M

• @buildkite: CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue. OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber and others are customers: https://t.co/C05Ze9zzin

Three interesting learnings from Kelsey:

1. Side hustles and doing your own thing teach you business like no IC job can.

Before becoming a software engineer at Google, Kelsey was a manager for his comedian friend, operated a computer store, and did IT contracting. These gigs taught him logistics, planning, and about money. All this helped him be far more effective at talking with executives and acting as an executive sponsor inside Google.

2. Can you explain what your startup does without mentioning AI?

When Kelsey researches startups seeking his advice, he challenges founders to not say “AI” once. This means that they must explain the actual value their company creates. One unexpected benefit of this is that it often reveals there are easier, cheaper ways to achieve a goal than with AI.

3. It’s very rare to get an extra zero put on your compensation figure – but it happened.

Kelsey was a successful, well-paid Google engineer when Microsoft made him an offer that 10x’d his salary (!!). When Kelsey told Google he was planning to take the offer, it matched the offer, proving that his market value had massively increased. It shows that being well paid doesn’t necessarily mean you’re being paid at the correct market rate.

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@Book_therapy223 @Thedrivenman Was it worth it in the end? Would you do it the same way again?

[27. @dimvji]

sometimes you gotta decide that it’s the last time the universe teaches you the same lesson

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@sadies_page Need to try this. Ive had turkey bacon before.

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@RDRembert Buy the dip?

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@Bound2Ry 🍎 👀

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@nnennahacks @richmondalake $MU 👀