Brandon Brooks

My buddy Oreo

I laughed out loud

Also, hiring someone with specific skills to lead any team is something that takes a bit of time: determine hiring criteria, write a job req, solicit apps, screen & interview some, extend offer, negotiate or extend add'l offers, wait out notice period at their current job (often 8+ weeks end-to-end)

Sites back up. No updates missed. Sanity saved, for now …

Back to work.

Sending investor updates & potential investor outreach, completely crash the app with a database migration …

Rookie mistake, happy Tuesday.

So I decided to google furby cakes tonight & now I don't know if I will ever sleep again

Did two podcast episodes this week, continue building out the backend (finally got the registration process done) and in full blown fundraising mode.

Love the journey.

Someone tried charging a friend $2k for an invite to Blue Sky. That’s ridiculous, I remember the same thing happening in early Club House days.

It’s asinine to charge for a free platform. Do better.

I hope all of you mothers had a fantastic Mother’s Day 🙏🏽

I STAND WITH THE WGA. Below, a raised fist holds a pen.

Writers! I have a small number of bluesky invites I'd like to give to WGA strike captains and WGA members on strike. If you know WGA folks who would like to join, DM me at @ichthyos on Twitter!

#WGAStrike

So grateful to have @crowdersoup.com on the team.

Me earlier: “Can you do this thing my brain needs”
Him: “Bet”

And then he goes and does literal magic.

Seeing as there’s little interaction for my posts on here, I am going to use it as a place to clap for myself. 👏🏽

Today I somehow fixed an issue with our site mishandling redirects. While simultaneously breaking a database in Flask with SQLite , fixed that & am getting another redirect error. And I did a podcast interview.

Not sure if this is a win or…

Building while simultaneously fundraising is something.

It’s been crazy coding with ChatGPT4 it’s extremely helpful with building and troubleshooting.

If you get a chance & haven’t yet, give it a shot. Been very helpful for me.

Ditto

Happy Monday! Hope everyone has a happy & healthy week 🙏🏽

Did you watch his All In Pod interview? Seemed fairly genuine.

The posts I see during the week are very different than the skeets I see on the weekend 😂

😂😂😂

Hello!

We’re showing pets?

Here’s baby kitty.

😭😭😭In celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, "Halmeoni" is a 2-minute film where we explore the unnecessary guilt and shame many early immigrants experience after forgetting their mother tongues https://vimeo.com/819942580

(h/t @jaehakim.com)

That’s a beautiful thing & we should work towards giving more people that opportunity.

I love hearing stories like this.

Yep! Unfortunately see this & have experienced it, way too often! Smh

I have a Hong Kong based wealth management firm reach out about potential investment in our startup, does anyone have experience navigating this?

Would love to chat if so.

It’s so much funnier & wholesome here, I love it.

No fear of posting. No fear or nasty DMs like this…

It’s nice here.

The Jordan Neely situation is deeply upsetting to my soul.

As a Black man from a very underserved community, I grew up with people just like Jordan. Unfortunately, for many reasons people like him are underserved & overlooked.

This shit is rough. It’s hard to watch, the discourse is inhumane.

We officially got our OpenAI API access this morning to build out our app!

Let’s go!!

I know this do this in part to force a recession, cause the “hurt”… but what happens if a recession doesn’t come? This economy is different than any other before for several reasons, can’t go off of what has historically worked.

Me when I have to get fancy & me when I get to enjoy the beautiful Blue Sky!