I was reading your comments as a classic overly negative hn comment but then went straight to that website and wow, yep that's bad.
I can't tell if they're trying to sell me groundbreaking new brain scan technology or very dodgy supplements. Possibly one of the most vague product sites I've seen and there are a lot that come up on here.
I'm surprised this happens in tech so much. I feel I'm always very aware of people in the real world having no idea what I work on, so I always need to give background and context. I have noticed people in other industries haven't experienced that their whole life so often rattle off jargon that means nothing to me.
Looks like all the founders are US based, maybe it's a cultural thing.
Few years ago I was at a cloud conference and met who worked for a failure large and known security company in a tech position. They have all kinds of offerings. While he was talking to someone, I decided to speak to one of their sales guys. I shared a bit about what my company did and what kind of infra we were using and then asked him what they offered and specifically what they could offer to us. This was one of dumbest conversation I had ever had. The guys had no f*cking clue what his company was selling beyond "we sell turn key enterprise security solution", it was so painful. I even tried to steer him into trying to sell us some vulnerability scans or traffic analysis for threat detection.
Yeah, I get it, it maybe niche, he is in a non technical, they have many offerings, he hadn't been there too long (iirc about a year, which is long enough for sales), but it was still unacceptable. To me it's the same phenomenon – lack of clarity in communication – not exactly sure what the root cause.
What made the process work so well? What about the culture made it so there was that back and forth? I'm wanting to build this into my teams and keen to hear what's worked for others
Empathy. Our team already had a great culture of empathy and mutual respect. People just tried to see things from other's POV, or if they couldn't, they'd at least be respectful. To behave differently would have just seemed weird. I think that our manager and the founding members of the team set the tone early, and as the team grew, it just became the norm. When we lost that manager, things declined. The worst part is that when I look back at my own behavior, I lost my empathy. I felt like a rat in a cage and I behaved accordingly.
If you already have that kind of empathic culture, then I think it's just about starting a "good enough" process and refining it as you go. If you don't, then you have to build empathy into the team. I found the book Practical Empathy to be helpful. But basically, if you treat someone with empathy, they can't help but start to feel empathy for you. I think we're wired that way. If your team doesn't have a high level of empathy, be the first.
I'm a long-ish time fan of Dave's. I've been following his work on and off for the past ~decade or so. I've bought a number of his prints and have visited his shop in Asakusa.
I've been thinking about this for some time now, but I think the key to a number of artists successes has been the ability to combine what you've laid out here. Long term dedication to the work & with expressing the passion for that work — through a popular medium.
Having watched Dave's streams on Twitch, it seems to me that he has been able to adapt to the medium as they've come along through his career. Originally he appeared on broadcasts on Canadian television, moving on to YouTube in more recent times, and now has been consistently streaming on Twitch for a couple of years.
In all his output, you can see so clearly how passionate he is about Japanese printmaking. It's incredibly infectious. Commenters on his stream take on and share that passion, especially in his show-and-tell sections where you wait to see him reveal, discuss, and get very excited about new prints he has purchased (usually off of Yahoo).
Having recently read Van Gogh's letters, I saw a similar thing. His popularity really stems from his sister in law, Johanna, making them available after his death. He exuded passion (to the extreme!) about art and was tenacious in expressing that to his Brother in letters. However, he also made a clear decision point in his life (At ~27/28 years old) that art was going to be his primary focus.
I think that dedication combined with sharing that passion with others is what really makes some artists stand out. Ideally, doing both while still alive so you don't have to depend on your brother the whole time!
I think that's what make's Dave special. He has certainly mastered this.
(I'm sure he would hate being compared to Van Gogh though, so I apologise to him for that)
In the exact same boat. Love retool and using it a lot for interfaces we want to whip up quickly, but the performance is terrible. We're just copping it at the moment since we don't have the time to invest in any other options!
Performance is our #2 priority for our engineering team this quarter. We have made some notable gains, but there is much more work to do. Thank you for the feedback and for sticking with us; we are hard at work on it, and expect to deliver more performance wins over the next few months. (If there are tips you want on improving app performance, feel free to reach out to me; we are happy to get an engineer from our side to help debug why things are slow.)
Thanks for the reply! Sounds like your response to the parent — database connectors in other regions — will help resolve this. So we're happy to stick it out for now
I agree with the sentiment you're getting at about nostalgia for the past sometimes ignores the homogeneity of the people using those systems and how that reduced complexity. I do think there's an argument there that needs to be explored further to identify what is actually simple and hard/complex in computing.
However, I think this point about how JB specifically would make one with any type of character is not the best direction for exploring that. He's made games and his own presentation software (Used in the presentation linked above) which is able to do that. I doubt he would classify that as one of the actually hard aspects of computing.
Yeah I agree making an editor that supports any type of character is not the best way to explore this subject, but I doubt the result of this exploration can solve that editor problem.
I follow a similar mindset of JB and have being making / using my own tools, even my personal character encoding (I have Chinese as my first language and want to use Chinese in my works but Unicode is too messy and it's impossible to make a font that supports thousands of characters so been developing my subset of Chinese that fits in a byte), also my own game engine / renderers / programming language (similar to JB's stack) My experience is these softwares are too personal and not applicable the the real general public. JB also makes personal softwares and won't consider about generality. Personal softwares are inherently better, because the bloat and bad about current state almost all comes from derailed generalization effort. If we take the beautiful DOOM editor and make it general, it'll be real hard to not make it another Unity, and that's the real under-explored problem.
Agreed. I finished watching them at the start of this year and it's significantly helped me in using and making choices about databases. I've also since started implementing my own database for learning off the back of them. Couldn't be more grateful for those courses being public.
It's a bit of a weird comment but I've had similar thoughts about what the Oxide Computer Company is doing could be a good use-case for Parler.
They're doing some awesome stuff around providing software to help manage on-prem infrastructure. They also have a fantastic podcast [0].
I don't claim to know what Brain Cantrill (one of the founders of Oxide) thinks about Parler's situation or their content but from some of his talks you can tell he's an incredibly ethically conscious person, so the commenter above is likely assuming he's not a fan of Parler.
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