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Venkatesh Rao
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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Apr 2019
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    Anti-resume-speak challenge: How would you candidly describe what you can actually reliably do that’s worth other people’s money? One tweet. No ornamentation, puffery, inflation, or resume stuffing. “What can YOU do, guaranteed?”https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk …

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 Apr 2019
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        I’ll respond to my own prompt. I’m useful to talk to when thinking through management problems, especially in engineering organizations. That’s basically it.

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      2. Justis Mills  🥩+ 🍬‏ @JustisDevan 4 Apr 2019
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        Get typos and inconsistencies out of copy, which is useful if you're pandering to an unusually sensitive or snobby audience. Turn moderately complicated business logic into simple, no frills code that someone else can make look pretty for end users.

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      3. Justis Mills  🥩+ 🍬‏ @JustisDevan 4 Apr 2019
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        And come to think of it, I *do* tend to describe my work this way to people I want to hire me. When the job market is actually good for the thing you're doing, it seems good to be direct and straightforward about it. Indirectness seems hacky.

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      2. *josh‏ @fctry2 5 Apr 2019
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        Make fast but mostly vaporware solutions to other peoples problems and get real users to evaluate the initial problem and the actual solution.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Apr 2019
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        So you build alpha prototypes for user testing

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      2. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd 4 Apr 2019
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        If you spend low eight figures on compute I can teach your people how to save high seven figures.

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      3. Mo‏ @MuhammadPuter12 5 Apr 2019
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        I'm very tempted to link to your optimization handbook, which is so rivetingly written that I read the whole thing despite not even being a software engineer.

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      1. Thomas De Moor‏ @ThDeM 4 Apr 2019
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        I dissect complex ideas and present them to the reader in clear and understandable writing. At least, that's what I try to do!

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      1. Britt Crawford‏ @britt 4 Apr 2019
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        Learn your business. Then use data analysis and software to build a positive feedback loop that makes you money.

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      1. Andrew Hoskins‏ @_ahoskins 4 Apr 2019
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        I edit text that glues together data until it does one specific thing

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