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Moritz Wallawitsch

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  • There is always a scarce resource somewhere. So whether it was all of us deciding to organize around safety, inventing language, creating money, building a machine, creating a smartphone, somewhere along the way, someone was asking the question, what is the next great problem that needs to be solved? Where I stand today, what is the scarce resource that exists? What limits progress?
    Identify Scarcity | Chamath Archive
  • An intelligent mind is an evolutionary system that attempts to climb this partial ordering.
    Conjecture, Criticism, and the Structure of a Mind
  • Let a worldview be a set of ideas that represents a complete, independent attempt to explain reality
    Conjecture, Criticism, and the Structure of a Mind
  • Net Returns by Year of The Medallion Fund 1988-2022
    Renaissance Technologies and The Medallion Fund
  • I’ve found it is far more useful to think of markets instead like a river with a current. As a founder (the ship’s captain), your job is to find the current, and then build the best ship (product) and team to ride it.
    Find a fast current, not a large body of water | by Sarah Tavel | Medium
  • Seven Sages of Greece, semi-legendary wise statesmen and founding figures of Ancient Greece
    Thales of Miletus - Wikipedia
  • Thales has arguably the most famous of all, gnothi seauton or know thyself. According to the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia the Suda, the proverb is both "applied to those whose boasts exceed what they are" and "a warning to pay no attention to the opinion of the multitude."
    Thales of Miletus - Wikipedia
  • You go from store everything and let god figure it out to needing to understand both what metrics matter and which ones matter less, how to do aggregations inside of Prometheus and you need to add out-of-band monitoring for all these new services
    Monitoring is a Pain
  • This only really got fixed when we had to eat a 6 figure overage charge, though in that case a lot of teams just gutted there logs/metrics as they would rather fly blind than actually manage their integrations
    Datadog costs that high? : r/kubernetes
  • because it provides a single pane of glass for all kinds of engineers across all parts of the BU (network folks, security folks, kubernetes folks, vcenter folks, DBAs, data analysts)
    Datadog costs that high? : r/kubernetes
  • A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?
    Politics and the English Language | The Orwell Foundation