Simin Chai

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

.md is the death of Adobe…

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Love letter to @obsdmd to which I very happily switched to for my personal notes. My primary interest in Obsidian is not even for note taking specifically, it is that Obsidian is around the state of the art of a philosophy of software and what it could be.

- Your notes are simple plain-text markdown files stored locally on your computer. Obsidian is just UI/UX sugar of pretty rendering and editing files.
- Extensive plugins ecosystem and very high composability with any other tools you wish to use because again it's all just plain-text files on your disk.
- For a fee to cover server costs, you can also Sync (with end-to-end encryption) and/or Publish your files. Or you can use anything else e.g. GitHub, it's just files go nuts.
- There are no attempts to "lock you in", actually as far as I can tell Obsidian is completely free of any user-hostile dark patterns.

For some more depth, I recommend the following writing from CEO @kepano:
- "File over app" https://t.co/SigWj8uCrf . If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.
- "100% user-supported" https://t.co/2qDJXub7cs . On incentives alignment.
- "Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash" https://t.co/qfNjSEwbLf

TLDR: This is what software could be: private, secure, delightful, free of dark patterns, fully aligned with the user, where you retain full control and ownership of your data in simple, universal formats, and where tools can be extended and composed.

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

@NickADobos what would be the recommended workflow to understand an existing codebase? Specifically new coders want to understand what has been done, and what we can build upon.

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

@NickADobos Congrats!

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

@NickADobos Thanks!

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

@Jason expensify $EXFY. unique database architecture with the highest sales efficiency and revenue per employee close to $1M that no other SaaS companies and products can match.

[Raoul Pal @RaoulGMI]

Take your politics out of COVID 19 and instead think of cases>hospitalizations>beds>ICU>Deaths.

It's essentially the exact same metrics as a sales or marketing funnel.

Total traffic is the largest driver and after that it's the conversion rates of the other parts of the funnel

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

@SethCL Congrats! Very inspirational story.

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

MAPS: Every Country's Highest Valued Export http://t.co/ddaEPPno0C

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

Drive through Watertown. Peaceful!

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

President Obama Remarks on Advanced Manufacturing Partnership | C-SPAN http://t.co/TSdwDI2

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

Get busy living or dying

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

U.S. Races Up to Clean Energy Innovation, who are the strategic partners & competitors?http://lnkd.in/xWD3my

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

State of the Union Speech: http://lnkd.in/xWD3my - U.S. Race up to the Clean Energy Innovation, who are the strategic partners & competitor…

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

Obama says:"80% of the energy will be produced by cleantech in a few decades"

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

U.S. Manufacturing Picks Up - WSJ.com http://lnkd.in/C_qUkp

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

http://lnkd.in/r2bW7B answers RPI's "Why not change the world".

[Simin Chai @siminchai]

Plan to move to a vacation apt at the end of Jan. Ski in the winter, hiking in the summer and there is a bookstore in the big outlet there!