They are going where the money is and getting the money and if they all realize that this bubble is a way to do what it is they want to do, they all have an incentive to work together, even though they have totally different interests." - Byrne Hobart 2/2

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Is this because publishing companies force this, libraries don't have the budget for more ebooks, or we can't imagine new ways to do an old thing like early cars looked like horse carriages. 2/2

They also got off the ground by knocking on apartment doors, taking pictures and posting listings themselves to get their first customers.

Luck is necessary but not sufficient for massive success. 2/2

In my case -

1. Orlando Magic are my local team. I have YouTube TV and NBA League Pass, can't watch any of their games unless they are on national tv which is never.

2. Currently: CLE, BOS, NYK, ORL, MIL / OKC, HOU, MEM, DAL, DEN

3. LAL, BOS, NYK, GSW - huge markets.

4. HOU and ORL this season

Even if you tried to only maximize shareholder value, you couldn’t. Maximizing now often minimizes later - see Intel, Boeing.

In the real world, companies have to balance all stakeholders - employees, customers, suppliers, partners, regulators, and yes shareholders too. 2/2

I hereby introduce Ray's Law. The price of LLMs (GPU, TPU, energy) will go down because humans really want it to and we are really innovative when determined. 2/2

Good thing is coding isn't cool anymore and it's harder to get in. Less of us.

Bad thing is, AI is going to mess up your codebase instead 😂

Good thing you know how to clean it up! 2/2

It took a long time for them to be proven right. And even then, the naysayers never admitted to being wrong, they just started using your technology.

Hang in there crypto nerds. Your tech is important. 2/2

What I do -

* Try to write readable code
* Comment and document anyway
* Happily explain it because English is a great way to communicate and I not only want my code to be easy to work with, I want to be easy to work with too.

Program long enough and you realize today's perfect code is tomorrow's "what the fuck was I thinking" code.

3. Code that every dev at every level understands is like a joke everyone understands: knock knock, who's there? Not very funny 2/2

Those were all small business owners.

Now they work in Amazon warehouses for $15/hr. 2/2

I had absolutely no passion for software development, still don’t. Best decision of my life to do it anyway.

https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/1455509124 2/2