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First job: Marketing Associate
Current job: Prodm turned L&D Specialist, Cafe startup part-owner
Worst job: Lawyer Assistant (I wasn’t required to do much), Internet Cafe Admin
Dream job: Landlady 🏢
Developers from Anza, Firedancer, Jito, and other core contributors are working diligently (and not sleeping much) to shore up Solana's networking stack to meet the unprecedented demand the network is seeing today.
There's been a lot of threads on what exactly is causing the extreme congestion – and many of those threads disagree with one another – but at a high level the issue is conceptually simple: the implementation of a software system is today not robust enough to handle the amount of traffic being thrown at it. That's now being fixed – but an obvious question is "How did we get here?"
This was, to some extent, a known bottleneck in the implementation of QUIC used on the Agave validator client, and was on the roadmap to be addressed. What was not expected was the rate at which demand for Solana would increase, flipping the implantation from 'adequate but needing improvement' to 'inadequate' in a matter of days. A charitable reading is a 'failure of success' which is otherwise known a 'failure of planing'
This is, put simply, tech debt. The tradeoff between new and important new work (like readying Solana to support its first independent validator client implementation, Firedancer, which includes near total rewrite of the networking stack, later this year) and important maintenance/improvement work. Every decision is a series of tradeoffs, sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get it wrong. This is not dissimilar from what the Solana network went through in early 2022 – when demand outstripped the capacity of several systems.
Core protocol developers from across the ecosystem are working as swiftly as they can to implement and test improvements in the networking stack to address the current network congestion. It will take some time, but we'll get there. This open source software project is nothing without the thousands of developers and millions of users who believe in the vision of Solana. We'll get there, together 🤝
One the greatest entrepreneurs of our time once told me this story. They were facing a massive macro recession. All the numbers were down across the board and team morale was low. But every day he just told his team to focus on the customers they still had and make them as happy as possible. So week over week customer satisfaction kept going up. Once the macro environment improved just a little bit, everything took off.
Figure out who are your actual customers that use the product every day, and make them happy.
BOOGLE#020 - "Catacombs"
It's amazing to see how @LXXRART transformed BOOGLE#020 into a masterpiece, adding layers of mystery and turning it into a new work of art.
In the future where knowledge in general is equivalent to mere information (as it should technically), understanding or critical-thinking will become overrated, and any information can serve as plug-ins.
I think being ‘smart’ is simply being a ‘clear thinker.’ Anyone can be smart if one’s thoughts are clear. But not every one who’s smart will have the grit, and grit is what forces out your creativity.
It's here. OpenAI just launched GPT-4.
And it's incredible:
-It can accept image and text inputs, and emit text outputs.
-It also has higher capabilities, as well as better translation.
Be ready for a wave of new incredible AI products in the coming weeks.