Omer

Built the GenAI platform at AWS.

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@willyhopps @A24 @osmo_studio This is so cool

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@starks_arq @tether Best ai film i've seen

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@lukepierceops INFRA

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@JoshRainerGold God tier meme

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@DrGrimmMD This is insane wtf

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What's a movie soundtrack that evokes a flood of emotion?

For me it's the Chinatown Love theme, breaks my heart every time

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Energy is abundant the more good vibes you share the more comes back your way

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Changed the settings on the pec deck machine for the past month and see visible chest gainz lets GO

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Here in NYC people skip the run and go to the bar after just to feel "part of the run club"

Community is missing from modern life

This generation's social anxiety has caused people to live their life under strict social contracts: Workout classes are for workouts only, no socializing. If you talk to someone you might make them uncomfortable - the greatest sin in the 2020's

So people gravitate towards spaces where talking to strangers is expected, like run clubs

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@SherryYanJiang This was my experience.

And it's why I now believe it's best to do a "founder trial run": be a founder on the side for at least your first year so you can learn the ropes, instead of quitting your day job to go all in (like I did)

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@Shpigford Movie soundtracks are underrated- Oppenheimer, Dune, Chinatown are my repeats

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This is a masterclass in creating viral twitter slop

Step 1
Take a simple idea such as this:
A $10B opportunity needs to be much better than the competition

Step 2
Assign it a mysterious name, Delta-4, to create intrigue

Step 3
Brief story to tie it together

And that's how you make a braindead idea go viral

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Every $10B opportunity can be explained by a simple heuristic:

Does it create a Delta-4 customer experience?

It explains why Uber crushed taxis, why iPhone killed Blackberry, why Google owns search, and why Netflix killed Blockbuster.

So what the hell is Delta-4?

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@levelsio This is good advice. Quit my job a year ago with a side biz that was making a bit but not even close to my income.

Thought I would be the exception to the rule. The guy who scales the biz 10x by going all out for one year.

Hard to admit, but I wasn't the exception to the rule

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Do not EVER do a work trial

I've done 3 at this point and here's why you should never do one as an engineer:

1/ You give up all your leverage

In the traditional interview process, you negotiate your pay upfront. To max out your pay, you get a competing offer to show your value on the market.

Your salary trades on the POTENTIAL value you bring which is easy to show.

In a work trial, you agree to negotiate your pay after the trial ends. To max out your pay, you must show your value on the job.

Here, your salary trades on the value you've already DELIVERED.
But most engineers take some time to fully grow into a role - especially if it's cross functional or there's onboarding friction.
So your work trial ends after 2 weeks. Now you have to negotiate your pay. But you haven't had a chance to fully display your value.

You are in a TERRIBLE position to negotiate.

2/ Things change fast at a startup

You sign up for the work trial. Three weeks later:
• Hiring needs have changed
• Budget has shrunk
• The firm loses a big client

After weeks of hard work, your work trial ends. But the manager rescinds your job offer.

Why the sudden change?
It's much easier for a startup to let go of a contractor than a full-time employee if their needs shift. And a startup's needs shift very quickly and very often.

To counter this, move fast and lock in the job upfront.

The bottom line: do a work trial and you end up with half the pay and lower odds of getting hired. As an employee, work trials makes little sense to pursue.

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@BowTiedBull Big toe = more grip, easier to explosively change directions. I've experienced this in muay thai / boxing, rely heavily on toe to go lateral and get out of range fast

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dudes in the gym breathing heavy in the steam room - are you really being defeated by moist air?

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@businessbarista Congrats Alex!

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@Suhail It's extremely customizable, typing is way faster than point and click so terminal experience is better, and it's coding workflows are simply better at intelligent planning and model selection

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@BowTiedFox Tech execs at mid level and large companies are *barely* technical

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@seejayhess Tenex engineering about to become Hundredex engineering