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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 1d

Blargh

R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 1d

No, I'm just embarrassed to admit that I would use it and I'm convinced everyone else must be using something else for their personal projects and life

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 1d

Ok, I miss linear. I miss it. I haven't found anything as good for tracking projects, even personal projects, and I've set up entire custom rigs in Notion trying to solve it.

What are you using?

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

STEAKS and Dev Mar smack in London with the indomitable @emilyfreeman.bsky.social ! Don't do influencer campaigns alone—work with Freeman and Forrest!

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

Being mid is a solid life choice

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

We will see! I calculated my alpha the other day and now I don't trust me!

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

Yeah, anyway, I'm no fun at your VC/founder/analyst dinner.

But I'm always happy to get a coffee :)

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

There's this circle of folks passing money around and thinking they're onto something/going to be the next Google. They're ambitious and assured they are on the right path to something big.

But I'm watching over here waiting to see what happens when the music stops

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

It's also a little frustrating to me when I talk with founders and VC who are super excited when something takes off on X. X they often attribute this as a signal that they are on the right track. But if you check other networks or outside experts, they paint a different picture

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

And I mean X has become a Palantir from LotR, not the company. X shows you things, but only the things that will get you to do what its owner wants.

So I caution heavily against making business decisions based on X these days. You could be playing into the next transfer of wealth

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

X is owned by a person whose net worth depends on the success of many investments in this space. It's quite possible for that person to manipulate their own algorithms to encourage continued investment in the space. Like owning your own PR firm and newspaper. I consider X more a Palantir these days

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

The other day, an engineer I admire and I were talking about where the nexus of AI conversation is happening, and we both agreed SF and X. He revealed he heavily considers what X is showing him when forming his internal model of the industry. I cautioned him, because... (Cntd)

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

I stopped reading at "the Internet built by our fathers."

The fuck have I been doing with my career then?

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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 3d

Ching-Ching-ching motherfuckers! The official link for checking how much Anthropic owes you for stealing your books.

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 3d

I got the witch items and such

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 3d

You looking in the right email? 🤔

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 3d

WHAT?? Amazing! Mine was locked, but I don't think that was why. Did you have the little wings?

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 3d

Do you have yours somewhere?

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 3d

You ever wonder how Slack became Slack and yet Gaia remains Gaia?

R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 3d

I am still this avatar, deep inside

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 3d

I haven't seen this avatar since 2007!

Before Tumblr, before Twitter, before Facebook, before Insta, we had...

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 3d

Spoopy season is arrived muahahahaha

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Jess Butler @jessbutler.bsky.social · 3d

“Despite women making up 51% of the global population, only about 19% of biographies on English language Wikipedia are about women. And that’s not just women scientists. That’s women in all professional areas. That’s anyone that the Internet has deemed notable.”

Wade getting shit done 💪

Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 3d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 4d

@lawyerfox.bsky.social

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 4d

For any who need to hear this:

Most people, throughout history, have not had to cook every day. It's not weird to not always have the energy to do that. And when you have some but not tons of energy, a lot of packaged or frozen foods have gotten good in the past 20 years.

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 4d

I'd quote other songs, but they more explicitly spell out parental relationships. Heatwaves is the only one I know that can pass as a romantic song. But I'd argue that is also projection