Multiple support pings back and forth required to even get the money to show up
When people think Coinbase is going to be killed by fee compression, I just shake my head because nobody else in crypto seems to be able to do their jobs right at all
Coinbase is far from perfect, but based on my experience with a variety of other fiat-to-crypto rails—BIG YIKES
Totally broken crypto onramps in 2021 except Coinbase
It's so early it's still mostly broken
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What happens when other people take credit for your work? I let it build up and build up and build up. It made me want to flip the tables, and I have to admit I might have given into that in the past.
Yeah I ragequit before and I'm not proud of it
How did I get here? I allowed my East Asian immigrant cultural upbringing to affect how I thought about self-advocacy.
It cost me 10 years of my career.
I let the bamboo ceiling smack me in the face
Did people take credit for my work? Yeah. What did I do? Nothing.
Big lesson: You've got to be aware of The Gervais Principle by @vgr
Sociopaths, losers, and clueless: there's a way where these groups in every org interact, and you can't ignore the dynamics between these groups within each organization
How do we keep American manufacturing onshore? Robotics. Meet @samanfarid founder of Formic.
He is providing financing and systems integration to turn robotics into robotics as a service, helping save $450B of manufacturing (labor shortfall) by 2028
Bob Albert owns Polar Hardware, a 105-year-old metal stamping factory in Chicago. Polar used @goformic to set up a robot arm that makes door handles.
“If the robot works really well, we’ll use it a lot. They have skin in the game.”
Kanye West— self taught, self made, and now thanks to Yeezy, a billionaire
"If I were to quit rapping and go to the NBA, I would be in the NBA. I think I can do anything. My talent is the ability to learn." @kanyewest in 2002 on Charlie Rose
His journey started with an Amiga computer, and an obsession with creating music. Constant learning & constant repetition, near-addiction
He couldn't get a pro sampler—"I had like $20 a week. How do I save up $2000?" Instead he used 8-bit sampler software that made a new sound.
Kanye was doing beats for $Free.99 - he did it for the love of the game, but he also did it to make something that other people loved
You must make quality that other people love— if you love what you do, that's just the first step to the magic that is making things for others
I use frame.io every day and marvel at the giant interaction bugs and poor threading
As a craftsperson (... er, or former?) I want to believe fit and finish matters, but clearly there are 1.275 billion reasons why it's not the craftsmanship, it's the market need
The surfer matters, their skill matters, their surfboard matters
But at the end of the day, it's catching the wave
(#1 thing I wish weren't totally true about startups)
The notifications go out and the videos are not even finished transcoding. The scrubbing tool in the video is horrible in anything but perfect connectivity situations. Feels like 10% of the time I start watching a video and then it restarts at the beginning and loses my place
Turns out I am friends of friends with the victim. Small world and doesn’t make me feel very good about the SF Bay Area which is my home and where I grew up.
I’m super mad about violent charges being dropped in @cyantist’s home invasion case
This DA violates victims rights and then spends massive government resources on misinformation campaigns and discrediting his political enemies instead of doing his job. It’s truly ridiculous.
How is it possible this can happen in San Francisco and the state willfully fails the victims of crimes? It’s like victims don’t matter. This is not right.