Johnie

Kids summer camps in Silicon Valley is a totally different level.

The announcement about fed program cuts and subsequent backtracking reminds me a lot of things we do as a software engineer inheriting legacy systems.

You shut things off and wait till people complain to know if it’s important or not.

Ugh! What’s up with that.

Top News + Notification.

The world we live in.

So what am I supposed to do now for 3 hours before I go to bed!?!

They are regulated under their money transmitter license and money services business. This is CFPB asserting their authority on top of the other regulators to regulate Google Payment.

This is about capturing the consumer surplus from their single pricing. Many people get way more value out of ChatGPT than $20/mo. OpenAI is just trying to reclaim some of that value.

There will be a significant enough segment of the population that will pay.

Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Tough position for Apple

Oof! Robinhood, too soon!

Every 6 months, my Twitter notification blows up because someone finds my LG Washing machine post. Looks like it's trending again.

What's funny is my cousin found it not realizing it was me.

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> Launch wisdom is to avoid Monday, and the 2nd half of the week

In my recent role one of the things I killed was this mentality. It shows that the team have lack of confidence in their system and have developed complacency with status quo.

I focused on a culture of observability and testing.

Trump vows an additional 10% tariff on China, 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico President-elect Donald Trump plans to raise tariffs by an additional 10% on all Chinese goods coming into the U.S., according to a post Monday on his social media platform Truth Social.

Time to stock up on Tequila and Maple Syrup.

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The Fintech representation on BlueSky seems low. Where are the fintech peeps at?