Joe Talafous

Tech, Ecommerce, 🏂, & 🎾 | Founder of & Head of Digital @ | Paying attention to life’s nuance.

[Joe Talafous @joe_t]

Being a good translator doesn’t make you a poet. Now everyone’s a translator and the poets are coming out.

[Joe Talafous @joe_t]

@karri_tweets We all just want to open the dashboard and get the dopamine hit of new orders coming in 😂

[Joe Talafous @joe_t]

@cflekken70 @Zwxsh Being number 1 is nothing compared to winning Rolland Garros more years than most top players can stay in in the top 100

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

Flavio Cobolli cleaning up the Rafa Nadal plaque before his Roland-Garros first round this year 👀

Just leaving this out there...

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

The productivity of working 1 minute every 30 minutes for 16 hours (i.e. 32 minutes) steering agents is much greater than working 8 hours a day (i.e. 480 minutes)

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

ADHD is not being able to do your own laundry for 2 weeks but helping a friend move an entire apartment in one day because external accountability activates your brain in ways personal responsibility does not.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

@sweatystartup I generally don’t leap on technicalities but I’m wondering what that quote repost incentive here is given that deadlifts don’t place any bar on the back. And I disagree. I’m 50 and deadlifts done right are great. & 80+ yo Twyla Tharp deadlifts 200+ at less than 140lbs.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California just voted to pass AB 2624 aka “The Stop Nick Shirley Act”:
This bill puts journalists at civil risk for investigating fraud and makes it harder to expose fraud in “immigration support services,” including NGOs, nonprofits and health care facilities that receive hundreds of millions from the state of California each year.

This bill would have made it criminal to expose fake hospices in LA or the Somali “learing center” in Minnesota if they then claim “reasonable fear” and the business owner gives a written demand not to post the video.

Plain and simple, California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating fraud in their communities, as they could be sued for an injunction to remove the video + forced to pay their attorney fees + minimum $4,000 in damages.

The Attorney General's wife, Mia Bonta, created this bill and is now trying to make it law. How is this not a conflict of interest?

California is full of FRAUDSTERS!

[dharmesh @dharmesh]

If you work in the software industry and have time to read only one long-form post today, read this one.

If you have time to read two, read this one twice.

Highly #recommend

tl;dr: Stay off the yellow brick road that the frontier model companies are racing down. There is plenty of opportunity to solve hard problems elsewhere. Focus on areas where you can build the system of work (workflows), capture compounding, non-public data and deliver deterministic outcomes that customers need.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Dans le manifeste "techno-optimiste" de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqué :

"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."

Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont des mauvaises idées.

Prenons Jancovici. L'homme est brillant, sincère, travailleur. Il ne se lève pas le matin en se disant qu'il va nuire à l'humanité. Mais l'idée qu'il porte la décroissance, le rationnement, la frugalité érigée en horizon civilisationnel est une idée profondément destructrice. Elle prend des esprits brillants et les transforme en commissaires politiques d'un futur appauvri.

Et le plus fascinant, c'est ce que cette idée fait aux gens qui l'adoptent.

Dans mon entourage, une grosse partie de mes amis est sur cette ligne décroissantiste, avec tout le package qui va avec. L'argent c'est mal mais ils en veulent. Il faut moins prendre l'avion mais ils rêvent de voyager partout. Il faut consommer moins mais ils ne renoncent à rien de ce qu'ils aiment vraiment.

Et tous ont un point commun : ils sont déprimés. L'un d'eux m'a même confié qu'il était sous antidépresseurs.

Ce n'est pas un hasard. C'est mécanique.

Quand tu crois que ton désir de vivre, de créer, de t'élever est moralement suspect tu te détruis de l'intérieur. Tu passes ta vie à t'excuser d'exister. Tu vis dans la dissonance permanente entre ce que ton corps veut (plus, mieux, plus loin) et ce que ton idéologie t'ordonne (moins, sobre, immobile).

D'où ma théorie :

Quand on pense quelque chose de fondamentalement faux décroissance, communisme, extrémisme religieux (de tout ordre) ce n'est qu'une question de temps avant que ça devienne vraiment destructeur.

D'abord pour soi. Puis pour les autres.

Les mauvaises idées tuent. Lentement chez ceux qui y croient, brutalement chez ceux qui les subissent.

C'est pour ça que la bataille des idées n'est pas un luxe d'intellectuel. C'est la bataille la plus importante de notre époque.

[Lukas Not Podolski @OtitoNosike]

The world does not reward potential. It rewards proof. Nobody cares how intelligent, talented, or visionary you believe yourself to be if your life produces no visible evidence of it.

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

Never in my life have I seen the "homeless" problem diagnosed so clearly, with a clear solution for solving it.

[Joe Talafous @joe_t]

@forgebitz At least the good hackers still believe stealing your codebase is more effective than agentically copying it!

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[Joe Talafous @joe_t]

@SlackHQ can we get more layers to the folder structure? Sub folders would make the file storage in slack so much more useful

[signüll @signulll]

someone yesterday asked me what i thought high agency meant. i think it’s usually some unholy combination of:

- resourcefulness
- relentlessness
- resilience

this has always been rare, but rn it feels borderline unfair. the world has never had more leverage just sitting around waiting for one person stubborn enough to use it.

[Joe Talafous @joe_t]

Realizing this is our “walked 10 miles up hill to school everyday” isn’t satisfying enough

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

buddy, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Tobi puts this better than I’ve ever been able to.

[Joe Talafous @joe_t]

@karri_tweets Seeing incumbent MCP implementations across SaaS gives me so much hope. So many simple details missed

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

California doesn’t even plan to give every parent 400 free diapers and they are a year behind schedule.