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+https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/08/30/argo-kubernetes-native-tools-with-alex-collins/
+
+- **Cleanup Time**: k8s tasks can be terminated at short notice, only have 30s cleanup time. Argo/Airflow run jobs to completion, take longer
+- **Data management**: batch processing job with large files, want to keep working on the file but the processing might be stopped at any time (can mitigate with retries, memoization, pod disruption budget)
+- **History** - Applatix 2016 acquired by Intuit. Workflow engine for K8S
+- **Why ArgoCD**: 3 things:
+	- Gitops - easy rollback, auditing
+	- Cloud/k8s native - store resources, build controllers, k8s rbac, scaling
+	- argocd adds multitenancy, multicloud capabilities
+- **Usecases for Argo Workflow**
+	- general wf execution platform from k8s
+	- scale - thousands, tens of thousands of tasks
+	- Kubeflow pipelines has argo wfs embedded in it
+	- large files (gb range) - good first class integration with buckets on Azure, GCP, AWS
+	- Infra automation - if ur already on k8s
+	- CI - move off jenkins (edge usecase)
+	- ETL, batch processing, general data handling
+	- ecosystem
+		- Argo Rollouts
+		- Argo CD
+		- Argo WFs
+		- Argo Events
+		- new product: Argo Dataflow - running forever - streaming/continuous workflow
+- **What qualities do people like**
+	- big fanout WFs, offload to cloud infrastructure that scales up 
+	- reliability - bcause k8s ephemeral
+	- easy to get started, dont need to learn a lot of new things beyond k8s, because know RBAC, deployment, pod, logs
+- How Intuit uses
+	- argo wf: just managed solution - just run the workflow
+	- argo cd: one click deploy
+- PreArgo vs Post Argo
+	- ArgoCD and Flux ushered in GitOps on K8s as a norm.
+	- Argo WFs - can check status of WFs via a K8S API, contrasted with k8s job (very simple, not massive fan out)
+- How Argo Works
+	- conroller backend - golang grpc
+	- frontend - react, scss
+	- on frontend - rendering library/suite of components in real time
+		- push based, animated fronted
+	- RESTish API first design, above gRPC
+	- lean heavily on K8s informers - in memory representation of a cluster
+	- k8s operators - listen to changes in cluster and react to them
+- How to define an Argo WF
+	- it is a k8s custom resource called a "workflow"
+		- metadata: namespace
+		- specification - some config for impl, garbage collection, what work it does and ordering
+		- each task has a template
+- Roadmap
+	- infinite workflows
+	- multicluster workflows
+- Comparison
+	- WFs: Temporal, Prefect, Luigi, Airflow
+	- CD: Flux

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+hasura + temporal livestream
+cool post from @Dom on how they are combining Hasura and Temporal for ecommerce! https://medium.com/stateset/pro-code-workflows-for-ecommerce-operations-430a0e492c6b
+
+we made the thoughtworks tech radar! [https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platforms](https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platforms)
+
+
+https://medium.com/stateset/pro-code-workflows-for-ecommerce-operations-430a0e492c6b
+
+temporal nx monorepo https://andreas-fyi.notion.site/Using-Temporal-io-inside-a-Nx-Monorepo-76a3c8f1087e4a4ca9d6ceed605d706e#6345607181ff43d4a102d81e9ac6d4e8
+
+salty
+- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vHf_A2k0GvV_91lK4EcRuF8TmXuBae0JBsil89-avUk/edit#
+- https://app.gong.io/call/pretty-transcript?call-id=3510706544667263213
+
+next newsletter
+- temporal.io/checkr
+- https://www.datastax.com/blog/easily-manage-workflows-at-scale-with-temporal-io-and-astra-db

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+https://twitter.com/aniket1by2/status/1502223747985846273?s=20&t=BNHe6uabCoY9vi5tmfP8Aw
+
+blob opera https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHWrq360NcGbw?cp=e30.
+
+bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwglOlD7e0M
+
+regex https://regexlearn.com/learn
+
+pick: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lostintangent.wikilens
+
+
+townscaper https://twitter.com/osksta/status/1466059785703460870?s=21
+
+discord https://blog.discord.com/meet-the-discord-users-who-imagined-a-place-657325b75fa6
+
+
+fun: https://pudding.cool/2021/03/love-and-ai/
+
+p.s. unclaimed.org tax refund
+
+
+https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/
+
+
+# FUN
+https://remoteteam.games/
+https://virtualmojito.com/Lifestyle-Social-24b3a512e41941519dd08f170ddd4f8c
+
+
+touching little short story relevant to self care http://www.robinhobb.com/blog/posts/38429
+
+disk inventory http://www.derlien.com/
+
+bees 
+https://twitter.com/TomLumPerson/status/1382162240850264065?s=20
+
+
+list of emerging technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
+
+origin of tech debt metaphor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE
+
+dominos https://twitter.com/Funny_Signs_/status/903903248435875841?s=20
+
+image generation https://github.com/lucidrains/deep-daze 

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+- hedonic treadmill - never be enough
+- principal agent problem
+- lampshading
+- fallacy of composition
+- Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
+- engineer manager pendulum
+- Greshams law https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1286624921532080129?s=20
+- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power 
+- switch push to pull
+
+
+
+https://untools.co/hard-choice-model
+
+
+## mental models
+https://www.google.com/url?q=https://medium.com/%40yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwigo6iXlvfpAhVZHc0KHUgYDc0QFjAAegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw044z4ms1AZb5Be37lBQWPw
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+https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Super-Thinking-Book-Mental-Models-ebook/dp/B07P8J83WR&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwigo6iXlvfpAhVZHc0KHUgYDc0QFjACegQIDBAB&usg=AOvVaw2VuwuClwWENeRom_tJTWiH
+
+
+https://twitter.com/g_s_bhogal/status/1492255231169679365?s=21
+
+https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1486563446099300359?s=20&t=kE8BLv6rnoeTIl3Pm41GVg

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+
+
+https://twitter.com/coreyhainesco/status/1470106194182213633?s=21
+
+good youtubes
+- ahrefs https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCWquNQV8Y0_defMKnGKrFOQ
+- tailwind https://www.youtube.com/c/TailwindLabs
+- tk kader https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUseoG3kofRLS6WoUaL_15w
+- mike slaats https://www.youtube.com/mikedotsaas
+- caya https://www.youtube.com/cayahere
+- twilio engage https://m.youtube.com/user/TeamTwilio
+- hubspot marketing https://m.youtube.com/user/HubSpot
+- altinity https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE3Y2lDKl_ZfjaCrh62onYA/featured
+- Clickhouse https://www.youtube.com/c/ClickHouseDB
+
+company youtube strategy
+- b2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIOpohrjuXk
+
+
+why did prismic not work? https://youtu.be/s-pCNqqUbfI

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+Naval Ravikant's most famous writing is [How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)](https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936?lang=en). He spends 12 out of 38 tweets discussing the importance of **leverage** in building wealth:
+
+> "Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products with no marginal cost of replication (code and media)... Code and media are permissionless leverage. They’re the leverage behind the newly rich. **You can create software and media that works for you while you sleep.**"
+
+Naval was writing for a general audience, but I think this point bears further elaboration for *the software engineers*. I've already written about the media side of this as [Friendcatchers](https://www.swyx.io/friendcatchers), but as far as I can tell nobody's taken a crack at extending the wealth leverage concept for software.
+
+The reason this matters is that all software is not created equal. Choosing to work very hard on the wrong thing caps your financial upside from the get-go. Therefore every ambitious software engineer needs a *Theory of Value of Software*, and to make learning, career, and investment choices accordingly.
+
+## The Mathematics of Leverage
+- Financial leverage
+- Operating leverage 
+
+- productizing leverage
+- economies of scale
+	- bargaining? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_(negotiation)
+	- network effects
+
+## Code-specific Leverage
+- automation - [systems leverage](https://rockstarfinance.com/six-types-of-leverage)
+	- cronjobs/job runners/workflows
+	- infra tool/internal platform
+	- human in the loop/shlep
+	- even calculations are automation
+	- user definable automation
+- **distribution -> compute on user machines?**
+- programmatic generation -> zapier seo story, gpt3
+- personalization/targeting j
+	- targeted PLG investment -> referral bonuses
+	- personalized recommendations
+- indirection -> clean abstraction
+
+
+
+I listened to [the audiobook version](https://www.navalmanack.com/audiobook) of the Alamanack of Naval Ravikant, just Part 1 on Wealth. It has two sections, Building Wealth and Building Judgment.

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+what i've learned so far about databases
+- https://medium.com/runacapital/open-source-analysis-and-os-databases-1eb1fe840719
+- seldo's presentation
+- OLAP/OLTP from sedaily
+- importance of "database api's" or serverless databases
+- percona pod
+- dedicated db's - elasticsearch, clickhouse, sentry/honeycomb/datadog
+	- uber logging with clickhouse - problems with ES https://eng.uber.com/logging/
+	- expensive 
+- rachelbythebay blog about the bad db that she wrote
+- aggregations are hard
+- mysql vs pg 
+	- https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/ and pg write replication
+	- from 2000 https://phpbuilder.com/mysql-and-postgresql-compared/ this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29455852
+- sam lambert on
+- https://dbdb.io/
+- sqlite is amazing https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite
+- https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1509701591946780678?s=21
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+> followups and extra resources on blogposts i have already published
+
+## Learn in Public List
+
+- Christina Gorton
+	- https://modernweb.podbean.com/e/s07e4-modern-web-podcast-learning-in-public-code-education-community-building-with-christina-gorton/
+- Monica Powell
+	- https://hanselminutes.com/753/leaning-into-learning-in-public-with-monica-powell 
+
+## spark joy
+
+https://youtu.be/o0NtjY17v5w
+animate in not out
+Sweat keyboard accessibility
+SVG hover menu clickability
+
+spark joy in slides -
+drawing
+themes (movie)
+jokes
+ gimmick 
+
+Ui design for devs https://designcode.io/ui-design-for-developers

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+https://youtu.be/1mOiDYLtZ0I
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+nas daily started with 1000 videos in 1000 days and now makes 1.3m/month featuring short personal stories

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+- highly recommended book https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119639689/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_A68Y5G1B918VPBP9519K https://twitter.com/terronk/status/1512529779500544005?s=21&t=_4jVlHObW0tnuuxCp6VviA
+- 
+- 
+- https://sacerdoti.medium.com/investing-in-public-non-obvious-lessons-from-100-angel-investments-a5951985593e
+	1. find the "one yard line" - good bull market
+	2. have very limited time, capital, high bar for participation
+	3. defer trust to others you believe in - no time for diligence
+	4. be a momentum investor - find companies that are doing so well they dont need you/diligence. take risk of fraud.
+	5. find companies tackling hated incumbents (whether bad product or pricing power) - tradfi, bad internal tools, paper process, legacy data platforms
+	6. be operatING investor, not "operator investor"
+	7. say thank you when exit, be polite/respectful.
+
+- https://twitter.com/lennysan/status/1486021231589482497?s=20
+	- Surprise #1: I’m usually wrong about which investments will do best
+	- Surprise #2: Most deal flow comes from other investors—not founders, friends, or colleagues
+	- Surprise #3: Great deals are currency among investors
+	- Surprise #4: Angel investing is more about access than picking
+	- Surprise #5: It’s mostly about becoming someone founders want on their cap table
+
+
+- https://www.seedrs.com/insights/blog/investing/what-i-learned-investing-in-138-startups#.WYDyiTHCL4E.twitter
+	- -   it’s not about the idea
+	-   it’s about the market
+	-   it’s about the teamit’s about momentum
+	-   don’t get bushwacked by flashy videos
+	-   revenue curves are king
+	-   there are always bulls
+	-   there are always hawks
+	-   make up your own mind
+	-   know and balance your bias
+	-   co-invest with institutions
+	-   follow-on and double down
+	-   don’t double down on your losers
+	-   early-stage valuations are what you can justify
+	-   funds are likely to invest in the really early-stage of the spectrum
+	-   do your own research, don’t follow the crowd
+	-   learn how early-stage startups work, what makes them succeed or fail
+	-   understand the type of shares you’re buying
+	-   focusing on unicorns is for VCs and the press
+	-   only invest what you’re happy to lose 100% of (take into account tax relief)
+	-   expect to get nothing back
+	-   talk to your investments, help them
+	-   forecasts are fairy dust, look at fundamentals
+	-   place bets, don’t try to pick winners
+	-   just because you don’t get it doesn’t mean it’s bad
+	-   EIS and SEIS are awesome
+	-   SEIS stage is a quantum higher risk than EIS
+	-   money is just numbers, don’t be emotional
+	-   miracles are for fairy tales
+	-   spray and pray can be an almost strategy
+	-   making decisions will contain conscious/unconscious bias (be aware)
+	-   investing in something that fails doesn’t make you the dumb money
+	-   being a founder is one of the hardest jobs there is, be nice but balanced
+
+
+
+dont worry about valuation so much as yes/no because https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492961322236928001?s=21

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+https://review.firstround.com/80-of-Your-Culture-is-Your-Founder
+
+https://blog.chander.app/2020/10/25/stripe.html
+
+https://slab.com/blog/stripe-writing-culture/
+
+https://a16z.com/2022/08/19/ben-horowitz-on-how-the-best-leaders-build-culture/
+
+
+## effective culture
+
+https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1493963774478348291?s=21
+
+http://rkg.blog/joy.php
+- Most startups have too many values. Your values don't need to appeal to everyone. Instead, they should serve as a bat signal to like-minded people
+
+## remote culture
+
+- async and onboarding - leesons from gitlab
+	- https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/levels-a-whole-new/57-building-scaling-remote-Pyh2eICHYTt/
+- https://conscious.org bolt handbook

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+
+1.  If you’re a founder, ask yourself - “If you had to pick a CEO to replace you, what is the one belief that they have to share with you?”
+    
+    Patrick Collison asked Dylan Field and Tony Xu this at Base Camp, our annual event where we go camping with our founders. What an incredible question.4 However you would answer it, I would bet that belief represents your culture pretty well.
+
+
+- https://charity.wtf/2022/01/29/how-can-you-tell-if-the-company-youre-interviewing-with-is-rotten-on-the-inside/
+-