Engineering, Running, and artisanal yak shaving. Views expressed here are someone else's.
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Howard Tyson retweeted
(1/8) Yesterday I said it was wild how many talented people struggle to sell themselves during interviews
Lots of people asked how to do it
I've interviewed 100's (if not 1,000's) of ppl, and done a bunch interviewing myself, so here are 5 simple elements of selling yourself
Howard Tyson retweeted
Hades: "Orpheus, you can escape the Underworld with Eurydice, but on one condition. You must never look back as you leave."
Orpheus, raising an eyebrow: "So... it's like a marshmallow test?"
Hades, rubbing his temple: "It's not a... *sigh*... Yes, fine. It's basically a marshmallow test."
Howard Tyson retweeted
We’re excited to announce the launch of our first fullstack credit product – Lithic’s Commercial Charge Card
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A flexible charge card that combines our best-in-breed Card, Accounts, and ACH platforms, while leaving space to mix-and-match.👇
lithic.com/blog/introducing-…
Howard Tyson retweeted
Today we announced that we’re moving beyond cards. With Accounts, ACH, and Cards, we’re making it radically easier to build and launch payments products–fast. Learn more: lithic.com/blog/introducing-…
Howard Tyson retweeted
tech be like:
hiring a staff engineer: one req, six hours of interviews
promoting to staff: a ten page promo doc requiring months of effort, feedback from dozens of colleagues, and approval by six layers of management
… and then we wonder why the average tenure is so short.
Howard Tyson retweeted
You ever dream about code and wake up and for a split second you remember all of it and realize whatever bullshit you were dealing with in the dream made no sense or there’s an obvious fix. And then you feel stupid and exhausted.
No? Just me? Cool.
Howard Tyson retweeted
doctor: i’m sorry your disease is terminal
you: oh no how long do i have
doctor: you absolute moron. how dare you. do you know how complex the human body is?
did you even consider the unknown unknowns???
the only reasonable answer is you have 5 story points to live
Howard Tyson retweeted
Big deal for Lithic and our customers. Really excited about the control we're giving customers on 3DS.
Howard Tyson retweeted
I described some of the most beautiful and famous mathematical theorems to Midjourney.
Here is how it imagined them:
1. "The set of real numbers is uncountably infinite."
Howard Tyson retweeted
PSA for axum users: If you run into Handler<_, _> is not implemented errors, add a dependency on axum-macros and annotate your handler with #[axum_macros::debug_handler]. You'll get really helpful tip on how to fix.
