Swizec Teller

third spaces third spaces

A nice thing I didn’t appreciate about my home city is how often you just randomly run into people you’ve known for years and there’s a bunch of shared context about everything so you can just chat (or not)

I should offer these as a launch bundle with my new book 🤔

it’s always better to just send the prompt
the prompt contains all the information you meant to share

bwahahaha you can just get things made

Quick update on Scaling Fast, my next book | Swizec Teller Your goal is not to write a book, it's to change how your reader thinks

Your goal is not to write a book, it's to change how readers think.

A few quick notes on the process of writing a book 👇
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how LLMs help me write

TIL Chrome can do ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES instead of crashing your page. Fun

It’s a new legal requirement in the UK and soon Australia.
Literally the tech companies don’t want this because it hurts conversions and lobbied it against the law hard because it’s dumb

the book is done done 🥳
here’s a fun stat: it cites about 147 references

Many devs, many people actually, suck at clear communication because they aren’t great at clear thinking in the first place

POV you finish the book and “just do a quick read-through to make the words sing”

probably the biggest lesson of my career

Fantastic run today. Decent pace overall, long sections in tempo mode 🤘

Still testing negative but I've had a light headache all week. It's quite annoying

Or do I need new glasses 🤔

this is the way
/cc @veni.dev because we talked about these concerns

Can’t go gym or office so I guess extra rest is happening by default

So my partner has covid and I don't but I've had a low-grade headache for 2 days ...

... I have covid don't I?

“AI summaries are killing our traffic”

Slovenia born and raised🫡
Moved to SF 10 years ago

I remember trying to follow this book’s explanation of Turing Machines made with toilet paper.

Made no sense and mom got mad that I unspooled all the toiler paper in our house 🤣

I owe my career to this book

Get a professional to redraw all graphics in my book before publication or keep the mad-hair professor with a whiteboard vibes of my own?

Champagne, it turns out, is not a good way to carb load

dont build your own …

I’m doing an out-loud readthrough of my book to catch any weird phrasings and I may be biased but damn this is good stuff.

My hot take is that humans have always been the same but if you put AI in the title it gets clicks and sounds novel.

Eventually stakeholders say "it hurts here" and your job is to make it not hurt

senior+ software engineering is so much more than writing the code someone asks you to write

- push back on requirements,
- make sure you're building the right thing,
- uncover hidden unknowns,
- partner with product

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Never understood people who go out of their way to harass pigeons.

Or worse, people whose kids harass pigeons and the parents say nothing

editing is harder than writing