zblobz @zblobz

Control systems engineer Joined April 2013

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zblobz @zblobz

4 months ago

The inherent conflict of mass market product design: The product designers care a lot about every detail and feature, while a defining characteristic of mass market users is they just don't care as much or think as deeply about the product.

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zblobz @zblobz

10 months ago

Thinking about supply chain leadtimes in a hardware startup. Often the value of making a change or even asking a question is lower than the leadtime cost you just burned. It took me a lot of hard lessons to learn this.

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Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo

a year ago

“Any system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly.” My essay on why those looking to create/improve intellectual institutions need to take Rux's rule into account -- with loads of references to Katalin Kariko. writingruxandrabio.com/p/the-weird-ne……

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Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

2 years ago

A curious thing I noticed: it's so rare for an engineering manager or Staff+ engineer to have a *direct* chat with a business stakeholder. Most rely on PMs to do this, and do the "translation." And yet, talking with the business directly is such a high-leverage activity for eng.

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zblobz @zblobz

3 years ago

Embrace the surreal AI. This is its nature and its genius. The textual analogy of all the surreal AI images we've been seeing for the past few months. So much fun.

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zblobz @zblobz

3 years ago

AI prompt engineering. It has trouble keeping track of long term state, like winning a text adventure game? Debug with hints:

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George Mack @george__mack

4 years ago

Elon Time. A mental model from when @lexfridman interviewed Elon Musk.

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zblobz @zblobz

4 years ago

To grow as an engineer: Don't hide behind uncertain or unknown requirements. Any company moving fast does not know all the requirements yet. Propose solutions, get buy-in, iterate later if you need to. Learn to welcome ambiguity.

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zblobz @zblobz

4 years ago

As an engineer, my greatest success is to develop something that lives beyond my own involvement.

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Michael Saylor @saylor

4 years ago

Yesterday I was pleased to host a meeting between @elonmusk & the leading Bitcoin miners in North America. The miners have agreed to form the Bitcoin Mining Council to promote energy usage transparency & accelerate sustainability initiatives worldwide.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

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nic carter @nic__carter

4 years ago

New for me, with great regret: My rebuttal to the meritless NYT piece on Bitcoin's energy consumption medium.com/@nic__carter/o…

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Anita ⚡🏳️‍🌈 @AnitaPosch

5 years ago

1/ Interested in the #energy debate around #Bitcoin #Mining? Go to the source and listen to the experts like @SebGouspillou. He is running mining operations in #Africa, #Asia and #Russia. 🎧 bitcoinundco.com/en/sebastien-g…