HeyJaredBefore You Build
When anyone can build anything, the question isn't can we build it, it's are we building the right thing?
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This now saves 30 minutes per customer and costs me nothing to run. (opens the original)
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Welcome to the twenty of you who joined us last week! This is a different post than my regular essays. If you like step by step breakdowns of how I built something to use as inspiration — this is for you. If not — give it a try anyways change is good for you.“I’m a cofounder bootstrapping a drone-service business with my friend Dario who’s spent more than a decade as a Drone service provider. Which yes, honestly sounds like three random words stuck together. So a better way to think of this is w
This now saves 30 minutes per customer and costs me nothing to run. (opens the original)
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Welcome to the twenty of you who joined us last week! This is a different post than my regular essays. If you like step by step breakdowns of how I built something to use as inspiration — this is for you. If not — give it a try anyways change is good for you.“I’m a cofounder bootstrapping a drone-service business with my friend Dario who’s spent more than a decade as a Drone service provider. Which yes, honestly sounds like three random words stuck together. So a better way to think of this is w
The Greatest Piece of System Design You’ll Ever Throw Away (opens the original)
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“AI can probably do your job now, right?”An executive asked me that two years ago, leaning against the white stone countertop in his kitchen — but kindly, the way you’d tell someone they’ve got something in their teeth. And regarding the part of my job he could see—the screens, the flows, the copy—he was right.Now I will not claim the moral high ground here, arguing “human taste and judgment” because that can’t be measured. Nor will I bury you in arguments about how a human brain can run all day
The Greatest Piece of System Design You’ll Ever Throw Away (opens the original)
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“AI can probably do your job now, right?”An executive asked me that two years ago, leaning against the white stone countertop in his kitchen — but kindly, the way you’d tell someone they’ve got something in their teeth. And regarding the part of my job he could see—the screens, the flows, the copy—he was right.Now I will not claim the moral high ground here, arguing “human taste and judgment” because that can’t be measured. Nor will I bury you in arguments about how a human brain can run all day
How to run twice the distance (opens the original)
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