Rippling AI was the most successful launch we've ever done. On the heels of this launch, Rippling's revenue is now growing 78% YoY (at ARR over $1 Billion). And this growth rate has now increased, every quarter, for three straight quarters.
thoughts after week 2 of working at a decacorn:
- incentive structure is much different from big tech; delivering code >> everything else
- all my coworkers are way smarter than me
- ai cannot replace the work that I'm doing (for now)
definitely missed working at a startup!
Launched https://t.co/8lfRyP532A
Built in 20 hours w/ Cline
Plan (80%): Gemini 2.5 Pro via OpenRouter
Act (20%): Sonnet 3.7
React/Next.js/TS/Tailwind
Unified Substack/Medium blog feed via RSS
AWS Amplify for hosting
Insanely effortless, would have taken 100 hours in 2024
Feb 2025:
- Reduced phone screen time by 50% by using app limits
- 28 days of daily journaling (10K words)
- 7-8 hrs of sleep every day; in bed by 11PM and awake by 730AM at the latest
- 10-12 hrs of work per day, w/ at least half being deep work
- 2-3 HIIT sessions per wk
WAGMI
Tonight I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n
@AravSrinivas is my favorite person in AI right now with what he’s doing with @perplexity_ai
I use it on a daily basis to learn across all sorts of topics and it just *works*
R1 has been amazing, impressed with how quickly they were able to support it.
https://t.co/vrPQUSAj0k
Learnings / reminders:
Do first then think second. Never spend too much time thinking.
Importance of spaced repetition
Deliberately find weaknesses and focus on them even if it’s uncomfortable
Reading > writing (though it’s important to write)
Sleep 8 hours a day
Turned 28 a few days ago. Every year I manage to surprise myself looking back at what I’ve been able to accomplish through hard work and importantly, the support of my friends and family. It’s incredible how much progress one can make with small, but deliberate efforts everyday
Meet our AI-powered robot that’s ready to play table tennis. 🤖🏓
It’s the first agent to achieve amateur human level performance in this sport. Here’s how it works. 🧵
Less than 24 hours ago, Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
And people are coming up with wild use cases that is taking over GPT-4o with the new Artifacts feature.
10 examples: