Barry Welch

Engineer, entrepreneur, husband, and father.

Building new businesses and improving my community.

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@BrianRoemmele I mean, it probably changed permanently two years ago, but you didn't have access to good-natured, optimistic teens to be able to measure it.

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@drjoshcsimmons Maybe solve the last one by attending several annual small tech-biz conferences and joining/building a mastermind group.

Otherwise, remote or not, I'd live in driving distance of a mid-size tech hub.

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@Jason Uber-physics-nerd love triangle. Suuuure sure. Happens all the time.

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Welp, we're going to have a lot of interesting things to talk about at Thanksgiving, aren't we?

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@mattwensing You forgot to add the exciting conclusion of the matter: https://t.co/CLmUXpcnnv

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And then one day, all of those necessary but insufficient changes ... became enough.

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@jessethanley @TropicalMBA Yeah 2019, that's about the time that @patio11 was called up to the high mountain to dwell among the immortals and speak the language of the gods. :)

This generation of bootstrappers needs him to come back and be our spirit guide.

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@patio11 An unusual case of the revolving door of government to be sure.

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@destraynor @darraghcurran What are your benchmarks here?

How do you know when you've reached 2x?

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@andrewculver I should say: I always felt that first seeing someone else's approach informed my path forward in a very useful way. But, the explicitly-stated freedom to diverge unlocks the creative powers.

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@andrewculver The worst handoffs were where I just ran with what they gave me without challenging their assumptions. The best ones were where the other person said: "You can use what I started, or you can start over", which allowed me to build my own mental-model around the problem.

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@harisenbon79 Step 1: Commit, Step 2: Own it!

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@intern We got our problem-resolution ideas from the back pages of Archie Comics, and our basic theology from Chick tracts.

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The whole "AI is coming, nothing we can do, and it won't be stopped." is going to look pretty silly soon. Key capitalists will probably realize that, at the current pace, they can't participate and its just going to deleverage them and usher in Socialism. Then, as if by magic ...

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@nivi Hmm, but why wouldn't the proper criticism of law be the measure of it's justice?

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The Shopify CEO's leaked memo is another data-point that indicates hesitancy in the broad adoption of AI, and that its not happening organically... thats the story.

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@eglyman @arakharazian @tryramp The simple reason that marketing is said to drink more than sales.... is that sales are a bunch of lying alchies. :)

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@cgenco Doop is a rizzler's paradise, no cap.

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The ideas we were taught during the "AI Winter of Fear" are now being put to trial in the courtroom of small-but-mighty tech conferences around the country.