oh as reticulates says this may be incredibly potent revisionism. fair warning. like those california labels you get cancer by walking into this parking garage.
woah that is super rough actually. i'm sorry gjsman-1000 thanks for sharing on HN sincerely. i think more war stories makes the world a better place, in that we build the culture forward one brick at a time. one human talking to another, at a time. this is powerful stuff.
"he is absolutely insane" so reticulates i'm going to flag this comment and request moderator review on who this acct belongs do it seems pretty hostile.
thanks but why would you start defending me now? lol
great context to add. that i was in a psych ward. do you have the paperwork. i will post the paperwork. in fact i think i already have. let me dig it up from my blog. or just use google
i am sincere in acknowledging the magnitude of my work historically as very insignificant. the only thing i actually did in my career was work with Austin at Shuffle Dating. the rest is meaninglessly small if you want to put KPIs on any of it.
but most people suck at applying John Doerrs OKRs i promise i asked him.
direct contribution to topline growth is how i'd look at it, or bottom line efficiency. the rest is noise.
actually i think Ruben Mayer taught me that one at Scale. do you know him too? great guy. very sharp.
he was cofounders with Botez, we played chess in high school. did you know that too? but i didn't talk to her much, Andrea just crushed me when she was 12 at the portland chess club i doubt she remembers either and all of this is water under the bridge. just funny stories
Dave Morse and Varun (later Toan, great FDE i learnt a lot from him about many things at both Scale AI and Anduril)
they hired me and kept me on the team and tried to get me not to leave ever by being kind managers
because i did support in slack and was a human Pylon and it was nothing. they were small tickets and API integrations. trivial for claude today.
as i said i did nothing. truly very little. my contributions to training openai or chatGPT or whatever roomers you here or hear or whatever are dump dumb hallucinations. sam altman can confirm rofl