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Some context from the #Founder perspective. As liberal as Seattle is as a city with policy and politics, it's incredibly conservative from an investment standpoint. One of the reasons you may not hear big "home-run" type pitches or pitches with sizzle, is simply because investors in Seattle don't like those types of pitches and Founders have been ingrained to not present in that manner. They may say they do, but ask any Founder and they'll tell you how they have been told to size down their pitch or talk about MVPs, first customer, first revenue, etc. or how what matters more is what you can do first couple years rather than the home run. Those early metrics are important by the way, but different from the big home run. Do you know who is receptive to homerun pitches? Investors in the Bay, NYC, Miami, Hong Kong. Seattle is not great for early-stage Founders with many prioritizing raising outside the city. We will be raising capital in the fall and as of now, have no plans of reaching out to Seattle-based VCs. I should also add that our company has a blockchain component and sadly Seattle VCs have not embraced crypto or blockchain. Welcome to #Seattle, Kyle Lui! Hopefully, you can help change the narrative! GeekWire

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📚 Exciting news for all the Flow Engineering fans out there! Back in May, Steve's new book, "Flow Engineering," co-authored with his friend Andrew Davis, was released. 🎉 In June, Steve chatted with us about the inspiration behind the book. And now, by popular demand, we're bringing you a follow-up session where you can ask Steve anything about Flow Engineering! 💬 Don't miss this opportunity to dive deeper into the world of flow engineering with the experts themselves. Mark your calendars and get your questions ready! #FlowEngineering #FlowSession 🚀: Sign up: https://hubs.li/Q02JFL4s0

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Interested in how to kickstart and scale design engineering in your organization? Check out the latest episode with Steve Saul!

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Here are some excellent ideas on how to reduce burnout in the tech sector (in my opinion, all sectors should consider 😀 ) Luan Lam is right - burnout is a cost not worth paying for. We are proud to be collaborating with a company that puts people first. #leaders #bewell #knowledgeispower

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When I shared that CDNs don't "really" work, because the web is becoming so dynamic, personalized and AI-native, I never expected such a widespread response. I've been hearing this sentiment from CTOs and CDOs that tell me they spend way too much on a technology stack that's letting them down, but it turns out it impacts everyone. Not to mention developers hate the duct-taped caching solutions around their applications. No local developer experience, no way to roll back application and CDN atomically, lots of fear, lots of slow client side JS, lots of spinners, lots of hacks. Here's how we can move past CDNs and IaC into a world that's more automated, more efficient, and astronomically better for customers: https://lnkd.in/gv7S7cge

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Models (mental or digital) without drawings are like movies without sound, silent film. Not really something aspirational, nor inspiring. Regressive, actually. But what are drawings? They’re expressions of visual close study (VCS) or to put it another way, they’re an articulation of attentive focus. Sure, they’re “views” -- of models mental and digital. But the meaning of view decayed, weakened under force of 20 years of corporate software marketing rhetoric — in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry — that mystified digital modeling. “View” is degraded to the passive sense only. The verb, by now, is forgotten while the lonely noun suffers increasingly as if from dementia: the sense of the active engagement of the one viewing, was at first obfuscated and then progressively lost. There’s hardly any trace of it left today. The active meaning needs rehabilitation. That is, we need it rehabilitated. Drawing, after all, is about drawing one’s attention. What’s drawn, by any drawing? Your attention! Your attention is drawn. Every time. Every drawing. It has to do with narrowing focus, choosing what should and should not be seen, making clear essential clarifications, supplying required affirmation, and generally running the engine of thought itself.

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Closet Vikings and (decidedly not) Closet JavaScripters => Runic Code is in public preview! Check it out at: https://lnkd.in/ge6GN7qa What is Runic Code? It's the most awesome and, probably only(?), Viking-infused JavaScript code quiz app. What can you expect? Strengthen for all those JS battles where being able to divine the purpose of code could mean life or death! Err... maybe not death per se, but you'll still be able to amaze interviewers, colleagues, and the non-Viking-JavaScripting public with your legendary code reading skills. More updates are to come, but criticism both positive and negative will be considered in the Viking thing (parliament-ish gathering). My battles to come will include tackling: - each bit of feedback, - separation of concerns (I currently have my fetch inside App.jsx), - seeing if the bug where correct answers do indeed show up as wrong, as seen in the video, are happening, - adding a license and contributions.md to add more solved Codewars katas, - shuffling the multiple choice choices (hehe, had to double that word for clarity), - adding local storage to keep track of past scores, - and anything else that comes to mind! A thousand thank you's to anyone whose read so far and followed all my nonsense! Please do check out the repo at: https://lnkd.in/ghtg9MP5

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Is this ARR madness? Logitec proposes mouse as a service. As one Reddit user joked - if you exceed the mouse clicks, you go to premium plan. Yes we know from Economics 101 that rent is the most profitable concept. But a society of renters (and here we try to build one when everything is rented) is a society of poor people. Soon your electric toothbrush will stop working when you forget to pay the monthly fee. May be your fridge too. And you many not be able to go into your house if you haven't updated or paid the monthly fee for your smart lock. I am going back to metal keys. https://lnkd.in/e5zay5J2

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This is a very exciting effort and I think it has the potential to be a real "game changer" #foundationalmodels #AI #ML #pioneeringtechnology #metaverse

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Totally agree with Dan DiGangi here. If you don't understand the overall strategy of a business, it's hard for you to align and be fully effective. This goes from leadership down to engineering. What are you doing to try and understand that vision? Link in comments to the full interview with Dan!

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Cockroach Labs walks away from open source completely: https://lnkd.in/gk5VXCsd Yes, they are our competitor, but I truly am perplexed by this change. The "this is how Mongo did it" argument does not really hold water - Mongo was a new data model (document) which is what they used to grow, while CockroachDB is a relational database which looks like Postgres. So evangelizing against Postgres can only go so far - Postgres is fully open source and a far bigger community / user base. So that leaves short term revenue as the main focus - but sacrificing long term growth? Always prioritize long term greed, not short term greed. Oh well... we have seen incredible growth of YugabyteDB thanks being fully Postgres-compatibile and fully open source (Apache 2.0). And in the meanwhile, if any of you folks out there need an alternative, just try YugabyteDB 😀

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Perplexity I'm a fan - why? They 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 about tracing the output back to a source. Example - RAW compilation process: 𝗠𝗘: "Please give me a high-level definition of ETL. Explain it like I am 12." 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆: "𝗘𝗧𝗟 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 "𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁, 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺, 𝗟𝗼𝗮𝗱." It's a way to move data from one place to another, like from a bunch of different spreadsheets to a big database where you can easily look at all the data together. Imagine you have a bunch of boxes full of different things like toys, books, and clothes. Each box has its own special things inside, and they're all mixed up. You want to put all the toys together, all the books together, and all the clothes together so you can see what you have and use them easily. 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 is like taking everything out of the boxes. You get all the toys, books, and clothes out and put them in a big pile. 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 is like cleaning up the pile and organizing it. You sort the toys into different types, like cars and dolls. You put the books in order by title, and you fold the clothes so they're neat and tidy. 𝗟𝗼𝗮𝗱 is like putting everything into new boxes, but this time, each box has only one type of thing in it. You have a box for toys, a box for books, and a box for clothes. Now you can easily find what you need and use it. That's ETL in a nutshell It helps you move data from different places, clean it up, and put it into a new place where you can use it easily." 𝗠𝗘: "What did you use as a source for this definition?" 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆: 'I used the following sources to provide the definition of ETL: Dremio: This source provides a detailed explanation of ETL, including the three steps involved: extract, transform, and load[1]. Snowflake: This source explains ETL as a data integration process that moves data from various sources to a unified repository, typically a data warehouse[2]. IBM: This source defines ETL as a data integration process that extracts, transforms, and loads data from multiple sources into a data warehouse or other unified data repository[3]. Qlik: This source provides a comprehensive guide to ETL, highlighting its key benefits, such as faster data analysis and easier compliance with data standards[4]. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: This source offers a detailed explanation of ETL, including its three phases and the various data formats involved[5]. These sources provide a comprehensive understanding of ETL and its applications in data integration and analysis." --------------------------------------------------------------------- I can iterate on this to make it fit my audience. The tools don't necessarily give you post-ready copy, but they take some leg work out of gathering the info you want to write about. My favorite tool is BoodleBox. Give it a try: https://lnkd.in/eckVf59Q #RowellAI 🦉

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Absolutely fantastic advice. Learn from the best. One key learning for me: Trust people you work with 100 % right from the beginning. My experience is: If you do that, you rarely get disappointed when setting the right expectations.

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Come check out this talk if you want to learn how we built distributed queries for Iceberg + Python!

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As a long-time Line 6 Helix user, I found this interview with its architect Eric Klein really interesting. Much good talk about user experience and usability. "If somebody tells you there's a problem with what you're offering them, they're almost always right. But if someone tries to give you a solution to that problem, they're almost always wrong." Chimes strongly with my experiences over the years. Address needs. Solve problems. Taking feature requests from users is how products can die.

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Interesting article about AGI on TechCrunch : ”Li says human language, which today’s large language models are based on, probably took a million years to develop, whereas vision and perception likely took 540 million years. … It’s not only making computers see, but really making computers understand the whole 3D world, which I call spatial intelligence, said Li. We’re not just seeing to name things… We’re really seeing to do things, to navigate the world, to interact with each other, and closing that gap between seeing and doing requires spatial knowledge. As a technologist, I’m very excited about that.” I must say I’m also excited 🤩, but is there nonetheless a bit too much hype around AGI? Let me know what You think 🤔 in the comments. #ai #artificialintelligence #largeworldmodels #spatialintelligence #artfificialgeneralintelligence #agi #computervision #techcrunch

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