Kaiyu

operator @sequoia • prev @vercel, @google, @amazon, and various startups

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

spreadsheet + data enrichment

built with @shadcn, @tan_stack table, @aisdk. thinking about publishing it as a custom artifact. anyone interested?

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

hear me out: rap your effort

[filipe @filicroval]

guys hear me out: new pachinko reasoning picker for Codex 💸

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

@ctatedev thank you! and thank fable..

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

npx kyh

[Chris Tate @ctatedev]

npx ctate

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

@_chenglou i feel seen

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@andrewqu 👀

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

https://t.co/cRwIIexCa9

[a9lim @_a9lim]

vibe coding is really just applying modern monetary theory to technical debt

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

maybe, the alternative explanation is:

• you only get offered liquidity once in a blue moon at a private company

• 600 people represented maybe around 15% of openai's workforce at the time

• not unreasonable to think that many people wanted life-changing cash, irregardless of if they believed it would go up more

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

@devlikesbizness @KobeissiLetter it sometimes just means i want to buy a house

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

@andyrewlee even if add mcps to claude code and just check /context, it doesnt actually increase the usage all that much

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

@RhysSullivan exciting! ping me when/if you decide to raise

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/ze3x7bgsL4

[Neal Agarwal @nealagarwal]

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors.

Out now, enjoy :)

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

@thenanyu @staysaasy this, and also that seniority in many organizations is still measuered by time in the role as opposed to quality hours spent doing the work

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

minute trading

made with @benjitaylor's liveline + @motiondotdev

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OS¹, coming soon

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

more three.js orbs

[Kaiyu @kaiyuhsu]

three.js sphere