Amit Anand 🇺🇸

dad, husband, programmer, explorer

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Shining blue from 10-11PM tonight in honor of @ChelseaFC’s @FIFACWC Victory

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Happy July 4th 🇺🇸

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@wesbos This is amazing.

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@mitchellh Thank you for the update. Honestly I’m just rocking the defaults and it’s perfect for me.

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@OscarSykes7 @n___vc @jarredsumner Where can I see this pr or get some more documentation on this. I’d love to use bun in production for my nextjs app

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Happy Diwali to those who celebrate 🪔

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@adamwathan Eero has served me well for a few years now.

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@chamath 1. Tableau
2. SalesForce

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Merry Christmas world

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This fundamentally changes how humans work with computers

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@hrrsnbbnt I’d love to use it in one of my projects

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So true.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

You can make a pretty good prediction if a startup will be successful or not by the first person the founders hire after they raise money.

Software engineer: good sign
Product designer: neutral
Any operational role: bad sign
Chief of staff/executive assistant: uh oh

Startups are science experiments, conducted primarily by those with Computer Science degrees. In the tech industry, we refer to these people as software engineers.

The number of scientists remains the bottleneck to virtually every critical metric in any meaningful science experiment. They’re also the hardest to find and the most expensive once found, so founders tend to fill other roles quickly while struggling to find a single 10x software engineer–by far the most important role in a software startup.

This leads to burning more money while making no additional progress. Worse, it feels like progress. Even worse, it starts locking in the company culture.

The best founders focus exclusively on hiring computer scientists/software engineers, and the occasional product designer (though I’d recommend part-time as design is much more scalable than engineering) and absorb all the “non-technical” work themselves.

Only once the product is obviously successful does it make sense to hire for operational roles, which are vastly easier to fill when you need to. And when you do, you’ll realize the bar for “non-technical” people can actually be super high, even higher than technical roles, but only when you have true product-market fit.

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Indian whiskey, the 'Indri' is awarded as the best whisky in the world at the 2023 Whiskies of the World Awards.

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@igor_alexandrov Will do. Appreciate it.

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Happy Bruce Springsteen Day!

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Happy 32nd Birthday, Linux Kernel!

In 1991, 21-year-old Linus Torvalds announced he was developing a free OS.

Now, from nest devices to projects at @CERN, 96.3% of top servers to #android phones: #Linux makes innovation possible, all around the world.