flâneur

Laurence Liang

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  • Would you believe me if I said you wouldn’t reach Principal by the time you’re 37? If four out of five of you would, then this article is useless. But just as 73% of Americans think they’re better than average drivers, I bet far more than 20% of engineers think they’ll reach Principal by 37.
    Career Asymptotes - by Philip Su - Molochinations
  • Everything you see in Notion is a block. Text, images, lists, a row in a database, even pages themselves — these are all blocks, dynamic units of information that can be transformed into other block types or moved freely within Notion. They’re the LEGOs we use to build and model information. And when put together, blocks are like LEGO sets, creating something much greater than the sum of their parts.
    The data model behind Notion's flexibility
  • When you design code, organize it so future developers will be able to plug new functions into the architecture without having to scrap and rebuild the architecture.
    Basics of the Unix Philosophy
  • Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
    Basics of the Unix Philosophy
  • To develop new algorithms and insights in machine learning, you need to concentrate your efforts on a problem for a long period of time.
    An Opinionated Guide to ML Research
  • Working with great people is one of the best parts of life.
    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Sam Altman
  • Get back up and keep going.
    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Sam Altman
  • It is easier for a team to do a hard thing that really matters than to do an easy thing that doesn’t really matter; audacious ideas motivate people.
    What I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Sam Altman