Fiyin

Product Manager. Musician.

[teo @teodorio]

What I love about Americans is the fact that they never settle and always have hope for better. They are all either millionaires or temporarily embarrassed future millionaires.

In most of Europe, you will see people get a job at 25 and then settle into a cushy lifestyle expecting the company or the state to keep their standard of living as is. By 40 you're supposed to have a regular flat, a regular vacation spot (ideally where the rest of your coworkers go to), don't change much from what your parents did and ideally live in the same place. If you aim to do something different you will unironically be seen as a bit of a pariah, your family will struggle to explain what you're doing, you'll be accused of greed and "hating the lifestyle". If you're not settled into a legible path and predictable death by 40 you're a loser in the eyes of the typical European society. If you're more successful than your peers and social class, then you're usually seen as a traitor. What are you doing to be better? Surely it's cheating, not paying taxes, abusing someone or just luck. You're surely connected, corrupt, else you would stay in your lane and be at best a bit more successful. If you strive to break above the middle class both the people below and above you will do their best to put you back. Stay in your lane, keep your head down, don't ruffle the societal feathers too much.

I have met many Americans that at 40-50 are reinventing themselves, they're still younger at soul than 20 year olds in Europe. I am more spiritually akin to them than to any other nation on earth. They hope and never lose it. They envy and appreciate people doing better than them, and protect that path at all costs.

This is also why America has a lot of issues with inequality in society and a mass psychosis and a ton of crazy people from the constant pressure. It's a marathon where the ground falls into hell behind the strugglers, so you must always at least keep the pace of the main group.

America doesn't coddle anyone but it spoils the victors and the ones who risk.

[Fiyin @f_adeyera]

@mchlhess 😂

[Dimitri @thedimitri]

This is how you know it was an authentic Greek restaurant

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

me: how was school today

6yo niece: i already told everyone. i'm tired of these conversations. how was school how was school

[chaotic memes @memechaotic]

$7 bucks for a hot dog is wild.

[lexi @elextra__]

it’s really not until you visit another country that u realize ohhhh ok we are really fucking slumming it in america got it

[Fiyin @f_adeyera]

@kashvii The "builder" builds with tools made by the meta builders. That makes the builder a consumer

[Steph Smith @stephsmithio]

Everyone should go to Japan at least once (preferably early in life) just to understand what a highly functioning society can look like

[Fiyin @f_adeyera]

@shivamxjha 😂😂

[Fiyin @f_adeyera]

😂😂

[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Our COO sent me a Slack: “Laptop is dead, nothing works, fix ASAP.”

I checked the monitoring tool.

His battery was at 1% and the charger wasn’t plugged in.

I could’ve just messaged: “Plug it in.”

Instead I opened a ticket, categorized it as a Severity 2 Power Incident.

Asked him for screenshots of the problem.

He sent a photo of a black screen.

I scheduled a remote session for 30 minutes later “to run diagnostics.”

At minute 29 I told him to verify his power source as Step 1 of the troubleshooting script.

He plugged it in.

Laptop turned on.

I documented the resolution as “User Education: Introduced to Concept of Electricity.”

The ticket remains a permanent part of his audit trail.

For “trend analysis.”

[Fiyin @f_adeyera]

NYC has the highest concentration of “I know the owner” personalities I’ve ever encountered anywhere.

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

funny lesson from my time at Uber is that:

- Building a new project within your own team is easy
- Building it between two teams is possible but hard
- Building projects that require three or more teams is impossible

(Big company problems, I know…)

[Fiyin @f_adeyera]

Most exchanges are uneven at any moment, but over time, the best ones are those where value evens out or grows for both sides.

[Fiyin @f_adeyera]

A Screenless Future https://t.co/mZFLH3cQwH via @collabfund

[David Bui @ghosttyped]

Work like an Asian, leisure like an European, dream like an American

The Californian ideology

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

China's AI is getting crazier..

ByteDance’s new AI model, OmniHuman-1 can generate video with realistic lip sync even if its side view and...

it can control expression and gesture using audio and text..

10 examples:

[Fiyin @f_adeyera]

Oh well…

[Jason Leow @jasonleowsg]

Just paid for my senior intern's annual salary

[Deedy @deedydas]

PDF parsing is pretty much solved at scale now.

Gemini 2 Flash's $0.40/M tokens and 1M token context means you can now parse 6000 long PDFs at near perfect quality for $1