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[Sid @secondindianguy]

Got some amazing pics at a gig, so obviously i need to share them everywhere.

[NIK @ns123abc]

BREAKING: OpenAI engineering lead arrested by the FBI after hiding a covert audio recorder inside an executive conference room at OpenAI HQ

Abdulrahman Alfozan is 35, MIT-educated, ex-Meta, ex-Nash and reportedly their only Saudi employee, has been terminated, first federal court appearance today.

[Jake Mor @jakemor]

introducing FindMyWifePhone™️ my latest shortcut squarely placed on the pareto frontier. there is no easier & cheaper way to find your wife's phone.

"honey, do you know where my phone is?"

the fuck I dont!

"can you call me?!"

she keeps her phone on silent.

so i made this shortcut to help.

trigger = i send her a text with !ping in it
action = hey phone sets a timer for 1s

timer always works, we like to keep our phones on silent + dnd and we dont use apple watches. so finding each other's phones used to be a challenge. we both have this set up in reverse, and its worked well.

bonus shortcut = button in home screen widget to send !ping to my wife

(we also have one called !awaken which disables silent, sets volume to max & disables do not disturb in case of emergency)

[🪴 @taytawa]

“mere jaise twink ko marne ke liye power rangers banke aaye hai yeh”

THIS IS FRYING ME

[Sumitra Badrinathan @kharibiskut]

and we have a paper telling you why

[sunil pai @threepointone]

new post: collecting favours

https://t.co/9OwqBVE1xm

a post on the idea of "reputation". tried writing it a few times as an abstract thing and I hated it, so instead I just wrote about my dad.

[Sid @secondindianguy]

@threepointone i loved reading this! fwiw, i started following you here after the twt debacle. reading how other people talked about you told met that's the kind of guy i want to be like!

[Joe @electionsjoe]

what

[Sid @secondindianguy]

I soooo wanna do this lol

[autumnkyoko @akcushman]

Made a hinge at age 30 and let my parents pick potential suitors

AMA

[pragun @pragdua]

how did the guava get so far as a fruit. barely any flavour. hard to finish. neither the intensity of a kiwi nor the grace of an apple

[Yawar Amin @yawaramin]

The creator of Ruby on Rails, board member of Shopify, and co-founder of 37Signals having a normal one and encouraging Europeans to ‘exact tremendous violence’ against the browns

[g @34rths]

I look at my friends and think oh wow you're so easy to love

[Spectre @spectre0799]

Nobody Wanna Dance Anymore but the beat is Closer

[Sid @secondindianguy]

@the1024th "Bro" used as a skill 😭

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

You could simply never get this content on Instagram

[bingle @binkymode]

if email was invented today it would be called something like Zoola or Claire

[Tevin @YourBudTevin]

“Fucking the text man for texts”, “Young hoes cook everything on high”, “Omg you people can’t do anything” and “We’ve extensively talked about this, you’re just 21” are the four greatest tweets ever made.

The philosophical impact cannot be understated. Socratic level thinking

[gabe @allgarbled]

The birth of AGI has allowed us solve problems which were previously impossible by human effort alone, like the Navier-Stokes equations, and how to add spending limits to AWS accounts.

[Sid @secondindianguy]

It's like a surgeon. They have specialised knowledge thru their years in med school. They've got an innate sense of what's the right next move.

That's the "taste around judgment" that he's talking about!

[Sid @secondindianguy]

Sorta agree, sorta don't.

If it was all about decision making, then it should be mandatory that every PM read decision making books/papers etc. There's a linear path to getting better. Don't think that's the case.

But what's actually important is specialised decision making.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

One of my favorite lessons from @rmstein's talk:

"People say the PM's main craft is that you do lots of things pretty well. That is somewhat true. But above all else, the craft of PM is one simple thing: decision-making. You should be students of what it takes to make great decisions."