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Engineer 🏗️ Leader🧘Founder 🧗 Trying to find a balance ⚖️ My words will always be my own. Likes = bookmarks. H/h
New York, NYJoined February 2008

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👂Listen to your body 🏋️, get your sleep 😴 , and avoid a ☣️ culture that defines 👨‍💻👩‍💻 self worth on the team solely from productivity 💔 Startups are 🏃 a marathon and 🏃‍♂️ a sprint, but most of all they are 🏃‍♂️🏃🏃‍♀️ a team relay race: you only win if everyone finishes 🏁🖖
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Heavy crypto regulations will be FTX's legacy 👇 1️⃣ FTX is the Enron of crypto 2️⃣ Enron was the catalyst for 409a regulations on option valuation 3️⃣ 409a compliance is a burden for all startups 4️⃣ 🤔 But what regulations will FTX be the catalyst for?
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Fundamentally, has made my experience writing quantitative analysis as joyful as writing my first README.md 🧮🚀 #lfg #proudinvestor
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🚀 We're live on @ProductHunt! We believe numbers should be first-class citizens in every digital document. Allowing live data, calculations and numbers to always be integrated with the narrative. We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback! producthunt.com/posts/decipad-
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Socialist aid to Florida? I'm shocked they can't pull themselves up by their own bootstraps 🥸
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Hurricane Ian is wreaking havoc along the Gulf Coast. Long-term federal relief funds may be needed to rebuild. But as @ProPublica & @NOLAnews recently showed, Congress can take anywhere from a few weeks to more than year to appropriate long-term aid: propublica.org/article/lake-c
How Long They Waited

The amount of time between a disaster declaration and the appropriation of long-term relief dollars varies wildly. Here is a sampling of those time frames:

•Hurricane Harvey (2017): 15 days
•Hurricane Ida (2021): 32 days
•Hurricane Sandy (2012): 93 days
•Houston ice storm (2021): 223 days
•Hurricane Sally (2020): 375 days
•Hurricane Laura (2020): 398 days
•California wildfires (2020): 404 days
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Couldn't be a bigger #proudpartner today. It's been so fascinating and rewarding to be there as walked the path that led to . And it's just getting started 👑🙏
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So stoked to share the release of Emerge Recovery, your substance misuse activity tracker—for anyone from the sober-curious to folks transitioning out of an in-person recovery program. Now on iOS + Android 🙌🏻 bit.ly/emergerecovery → DMs are open for questions and help!
Text: “No abstinence required. Leave the judgement at the (app) door.” Image of smartphone with Emerge Recovery app screen, to track substances, support contact, sleep, exercise, mood, or triggers.
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Me🧑‍💻at 17: "Making an adventure game for a terminal sounds fun" Me🧑‍💻at 37: "Making an adventure game for an IDE's type definition tooltips in TypeScript files sounds ... ... (looks again 👀) ... wait ... what just happened?" 🤯
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👇 is defining the foundation of what it means to have a true "Platform", piece by masterfully crafted piece
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I'm proud to announce that @platformatic first tool is now Open Source: Platformatic DB! It creates REST and GraphQL APIs from your database schemas, keeping it customizable via @fastifyjs plugins.
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“I called him ‘Pooh-Bah. He had seven or eight portfolios that dominated every aspect of the production of The Times, (...) the business side as to how much space we got, and how we filled it, and where the ads went. The whole design and structure of the paper was in his hands.”
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I'll echo this - the work by client teams to orchestrate this entire transition to happen _between two blocks in the background_ is insanely impressive. It's been a privilege to watch it all get developed from so close 😄🦄
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Replying to @TimBeiko
Legendary, the ability of the team to get that to work between two blocks is unbelievable, congratulations
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The EU should fine 💸 Apple for forcing all apps onto Safari WebViews To iOS users 🙎🙎‍♀️🙎‍♂️ it is even worse 🤬 than forcing the installation of Safari as a browser because 👉 they cannot opt-out 👈
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Google must pay a record €4.125bn fine for forcing Android phone makers to pre-install its search engine and browser on devices, the EU’s General Court ruled today. bbc.com/news/technolog
Be transparent about expectations. Acknowledge you’ve received it and is in your queue but you won’t get to it until [day]/[time]. Is that ok? So much of what we perceive as slow/fast is based on preconceived notions. Lack of communication defaults to those assumptions.
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Senior engineers/lead developers: How the hell do you context switch between reviewing multiple PRs, everything else that comes with your job and then also working on complex projects yourself?
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Netflix show has people "at work"... signing lots of documents.... in person @ an office. TV reflects our "shared reality delusion"- in actuality, this business would be conducted over DocuSign & Zoom. Watching this "memetic echo" is oddly eye opening to the rest of our media
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Donald Trump is America's Benito Mussolini and I have no doubt he's privately proud of that comparison History teaches us the next decade will be an inflection point for democracy: I'm just not sure in which direction yet 🤞
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Biden says Trump and MAGA-ism is “semi-fascism” “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the - I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.” Via pooler @AndrewRestuccia
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TIL my tax dollars go to subsidize journal paywalls 🤦‍♂️
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BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
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