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James

@mulholo

9 months

POV: you’re on a first date with me

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James

@mulholo

9 months

You are utilising a well-funded and functional health system. I am circumnavigating NHS wait times and OpenAI content policies by analysing my blood work in an unreleased episode of House. We are not the same.

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James

@mulholo

6 months

If she doesn’t like your macros she’s not the one

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James

@mulholo

11 months

How did someone who didn’t even finish their undergrad land their role as CEO at the most important company in America?

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11 months

How did this 2021 "Masters Degree in Deep State Studies" get on the board of the most important company in America?

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James

@mulholo

11 months

✨ My favourite UI details from Attio Automations ✨ Up first, this beautiful handmade SVG animation on our new landing page

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@mulholo

10 months

@ipsumkyle 1. You will not apply to Oxbridge unless you have a very good chance of getting in 2. This might included postgrad 3. You are only allowed to apply to either Oxford or Cambridge

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@mulholo

6 months

@thechosenberg I think it’s true unless the company you join puts in extreme effort to counteract it This is also coupled with an effect where people perceive hiring remote juniors as being too hard so they just don’t bother to hire someone junior in the first place

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@mulholo

10 months

@demiurgently Clean Code by Bob Martin is the standard (but probably overhyped) Main thing is probably just reading lots of good code and working with people. If you can find someone good to review code then that could be helpful

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@mulholo

2 years

My favourite detail from the new homepage ✨

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@mulholo

10 months

@thechosenberg Just one more degree bro Just one more degree bro Just one more degree bro, I swear

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@mulholo

1 year

@NathanpmYoung 1. Demographics (your friends are less likely) 2. Repeat divorce offenders 3. There's still time to divorce

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James

@mulholo

5 years

The Finnish drying rack which doubles up as a rack *and* a cupboard so you don't get stockpiles of drying up is easily my favourite design.

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@mulholo

6 months

@thechosenberg Working remote discourages asking questions, you get to overhear conversations that help build context, you get to build rapport with your colleagues, you generally see how stuff is done better

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@mulholo

9 months

Shout out to @PatrickJBlum for the inspo

Patrick Blumenthal

@PatrickJBlum

9 months

A year ago, my body was at war with itself, and my condition was deteriorating faster than my specialists could understand it. And then GPT became my co-pilot. Here’s my guide on how I used it to uncover connections my doctors missed and navigate my rare diseases. If you’re

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James

@mulholo

1 year

@alexschristian Same energy

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@mulholo

2 years

Me, trying to build high-quality B2B SaaS amongst all the AI announcements

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James

@mulholo

11 months

@joodalooped When you see a shit take, you gotta fight back

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@mulholo

1 year

2 years. 911 PRs. 250,000 lines of code. Happy @attio versary to me 🎈

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@mulholo

10 months

@PatrickJBlum Roots of progress has a pretty good breakdown on this

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Here are some theories about why

blog.rootsofprogress.org

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@mulholo

11 months

@MikePFrank Bill Gates knew how to code

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@mulholo

1 year

@cafreiman I appreciate your point I’m general, but my immediate thought on seeing that graph Is ‘we’re producing far too many calories per person’

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@mulholo

9 months

@__morse @soychotic Surest way to someone's heart

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@mulholo

8 months

Drafting future home-schooling curriculum. Anything I’m missing?

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@mulholo

5 years

What if all your relaxation techniques are actually disguised methods of continuing with the same optimisation mindset you have in your work life?

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@mulholo

8 months

@visakanv Saw the Philip Guston exhibition in London at the weekend and I was blown away by how the guy pulled this move again and again over 50 years Paintings in chronological order

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James

@mulholo

9 months

@VividVoid_ Is this where you dox yourself as Jordan Peterson?

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@mulholo

2 years

All this productivity/note-taking stuff misses the point by focusing on knowledge The point is to DO, not to know

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James

@mulholo

5 years

@addyosmani @hankchizljaw Or use a lint rule to catch this automatically

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James

@mulholo

7 months

TIL that if you cat a file back into itself (e.g. cat file.txt >> file.txt) then you get an infinite loop that continuously adds lines to the file Anyway, that's how I ended up with 0.5TB of the Bee Movie script on my computer today

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@mulholo

9 months

@LewisMenelaws @NotionHQ Auto-generating my VSCode settings.json from LiNking_PaRk_NuMb.exe really did wonders for my workflow. Glad to see there are others out there with similar strategies

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James

@mulholo

1 year

Average evening on phone: scroll feeds for an hour Average evening on computer: fix bug on my website, pickup a new skill through YouTube, write a blog post, discover a new music genre

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@mulholo

7 years

@ThreeUK When big companies try to use memes for advertising.

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James

@mulholo

3 years

@visakanv Reminds me of this Olympic athlete photoshoot

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James

@mulholo

2 years

@peachblvd Surely the solution is to raise men up, not bring technology down to their level

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@mulholo

3 years

In the spirit of @visakanv ’s “do 💯 things”, I’m going to be doing 100 intro coffees with people in 2022 1/4

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@visakanv

4 years

1. Do it 100 times. Write 100 songs, cook 100 omelettes, talk to 100 people. It never seems like a huge deal until you try it yourself. It’s manageable, and yet it stretches you, and you’ll be observably different at the end of it. Effective way to get a foothold on a new thing

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James

@mulholo

4 years

🟦New essay: The Small Group🟦 - How Benjamin Franklin, Virginia Woolf, Steve Jobs, J.R.R. Tolkien and more all used Small Groups to be successful - How to go about making a new Small Group in 2020 ↓

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@mulholo

7 months

Can someone please explain to me the seeming contradiction in shortening attention spans and the current trend for 3 hr movies?

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James

@mulholo

2 years

@paularambles Absolute nightmare when they have to decide where they actually want to live

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James

@mulholo

1 year

Me, upon receiving a job offer: I could go on about my failings in the linked list question but I really shouldn’t have to: the Bayesian priors are pretty damning. The probability that I, out of billions on the planet, should be the best person for this job is vanishingly low

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@mulholo

2 years

working from a pool is amateur remote work lifestyle. u need to be coding Rust in berghain on amphetamines, taking calls from sex booths + power napping in ambient room. if there is not 140bpm+ techno at all times you are an underperforming modern knowledge worker

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@mulholo

8 months

@__justplaying I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight

James

@mulholo

8 months

Absolutely screaming that "Debian" is a portmanteau of "Debra" and "Ian" (now divorced)

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@mulholo

2 years

@inesferhumi I met someone once who was trying to do this with a caffeine aerosol alarm clock

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James

@mulholo

9 months

@sanjazakovska Doesn't hurt to be sure

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James

@mulholo

3 years

Everyone is uncomfortable talking about it but negotiating your salary is probably the highest paid hour of work you will ever do.

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James

@mulholo

1 year

We're so back 🇬🇧

Introducing OpenAI London

We are excited to announce OpenAI’s first international expansion with a new office in London, United Kingdom.

openai.com

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James

@mulholo

9 months

@schmdii @realGeorgeHotz ’s recent work

George Hotz | Just Chatting | techno optimism | Winning over nature |...

Date of the stream 31 Dec 2023.from $1250 buy https://comma.ai/shop/comma-3x & best ADAS system in the world https://openpilot.comma.aiLive-stream chat added...

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James

@mulholo

4 years

#roamcult , how do you manage PDFs? I need: - Ability to add highlights and annotations for a progressive workflow - Tagging and linking within my database I'd love: - @readwiseio integration - As little manual work as possible - OCR/search

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James

@mulholo

2 years

From now on, I shall no longer be referring to ‘The Ship of Theseus’ but, instead, ‘The Sugababes’

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@mulholo

3 years

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James

@mulholo

2 years

@hyperdiscogirl But…how do people do serious relationships? Like how does it happen at a basic mechanist level? You’re normal and then you can just…be in a relationship?? How?? It’s like, to do that you’d have to be half in a relationship, but then first you also have to get halfway to th

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James

@mulholo

2 years

🚀Attio launches on Product Hunt today! Super proud of the team for putting such an incredible product together

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James

@mulholo

3 years

Took me a while to learn this: autodidactic learning is essentially cowardice

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James

@mulholo

4 years

How many things can you see wrong with this screenshot

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James

@mulholo

4 years

Confirmed a new flat this week and had the terrifying and exciting realisation that it will probably be the first place I'll ever truly call home. Looking forward to being able to live somewhere for longer than 6 months and start to invest in a place and a community.

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James

@mulholo

1 year

If you're not absolutely sickened by your work from 3 months ago, you're not growing fast enough

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James

@mulholo

3 years

@iamwillcannon Question for you: have you or anyone you know actually achieved this?

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James

@mulholo

11 months

Our goal is to ensure you don't get any real work done and instead spend your whole day fiddling with the tiny details on the Attio site

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The first prototype of the Help Center's side navigation.

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James

@mulholo

3 years

I have decided I shall no longer be doing things I don’t like

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@mulholo

8 months

@inerati @big_gelatin The worse your website is, the better you are at machine learning

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@mulholo

2 years

Did my first alexander technique session this weekend and wow this is so unlike any other form of learning I've encountered

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@mulholo

11 months

Like everything in Attio, everything in Automations is realtime and multiplayer Photoshop → Figma Zapier → Attio Workflows

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@mulholo

6 months

@sophiemhols 1hr 45 of sobbing

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@mulholo

1 year

@djmicrobeads @robertwiblin said it best

‘Ugh Fields’, or why you can’t even bear to think about that task

Have you ever had a long-overdue task — a task which isn’t so bad in itself — but which you can’t even bring yourself to think about?

medium.com

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James

@mulholo

4 years

I like my cathedrals looking like they're ready to blow up the nearest planet.

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James

@mulholo

1 year

You know design, isn't even my job And it is not engineer, which is a common misconception My job...is just "product"

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James

@mulholo

6 years

It's on! Starting my 24hr, non-stop stream now. Join me on Twitch or to watch me build some art 🎨👨🏻‍🎨🚀 #24hrstartup

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@mulholo

2 years

I believe this is what you’re all calling a “stack”

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James

@mulholo

7 years

Starting @wesbos 's #Javascript30 today if anyone fancies joining in.

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@mulholo

11 months

@NathanpmYoung 🫡🙏

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@mulholo

8 years

The fact that UKIP have to include 'non-racist' in their website's description is clearly saying something.

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@mulholo

11 months

I also love these little illustrations from @lisamcosme !

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James

@mulholo

8 months

Imagine being in the club, someone asks for you a light and you pull out the calcu-lighter

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@mulholo

1 year

@paularambles

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@mulholo

8 months

@visakanv Brian Eno is one I haven’t found in the replies Roxy Music → solo ambient work → producing so much incredible stuff later

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@mulholo

6 months

Extremely embarrassing if you *don’t* get ripped as a billionaire When you have unlimited money for personal trainers, dieticians, chefs etc 90% of the pain goes away

Travis | Tech Bro

@the_travisday

6 months

The era of the weak nerd is dead The time of jacked nerd is here. Welcome to the techno renaissance

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James

@mulholo

7 months

Happy to announce I have completed the deadlift

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@mulholo

8 months

Absolutely screaming that "Debian" is a portmanteau of "Debra" and "Ian" (now divorced)

alice is in berlin

@__justplaying

8 months

oh my god

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@mulholo

2 years

What’s wrong, babe? You’ve hardly touched your beef bouillon on ice

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@mulholo

11 months

If you want to have a play with the product yourself, we're live on Product Hunt today 🚀

Attio - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Attio gives you all the tools you need to build the perfect CRM for your team. 🔗 Sync your email & calendar and build a CRM in minutes ⚒️ Build unique workflows exactly to your business needs ⚖️...

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@mulholo

2 years

Came across the distinction of Things vs Devices Thing → Something you practice to use (e.g. Guitar) Device → Something you merely consume (e.g. Stereo) Feels like the ratio of Things:Devices is becoming increasingly out of whack

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@mulholo

6 years

"Okay, team, think of the worst slack logos you possibly can so no one notices our new one is...urm...naff"

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@mulholo

5 years

As someone who has tried to make their style trademark ‘interesting trousers’, I’m really suffering during this period of video call as only form of social contact

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James

@mulholo

11 months

This little "Organize blocks" snap 🫰

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@mulholo

10 months

@roboticparts Just wait until you have to start dealing with distributed systems

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@mulholo

1 year

Fellas, don’t fall for the trap. This is the only correct answer

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@mulholo

4 years

I've been solidly doing ~2hrs of pomodoros every weekday for three weeks now and my focus has noticeably improved 4 x 25m used to feel like a heavy lift. Now, I'm able to work for 2.5hrs without flinching and the blocker's shifted to finding uninterrupted time periods that long

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@mulholo

4 years

I've found it surprisingly hard to find a good typing practice app so I'm going to have a bit of a bank holiday weekend project to build a better one. Documenting my progress here 🧵

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@mulholo

3 years

@rachdele When I worked at an Apple Store, this is what they told me to say to a customer when I didn’t know something

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@mulholo

4 years

Something I'm struggling with at the moment: how much of your life should be a todo? Making everything a todo means your system is efficient and nothing slips through. However, everything then has the weight of 'ought' and you loose flexibility. How do you draw the line?

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@mulholo

10 months

Seeing lots of startups whose primary innovation is the data model @CycleProduct → Product feedback @filloutcom → Forms @SequenceHQ_ → Payments @attio → CRM Big moat for these companies as a good data model is hard work and not something you can tack on at a later stage

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@mulholo

5 years

One of my favourite journalling questions: If I were the character in a novel, what would the reader be thinking, “Why doesn’t he just do X already?”?

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@mulholo

10 months

@enlightenedcoop Sounds like he has a great skincare routine tbh

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@mulholo

2 years

Realised I’ve not got enough competition in my life so am looking for a new nemesis Candidates should be cunning, ambitious, and ideally exhibit some kind of aesthetic symmetry with me Please apply below 👇

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@mulholo

3 years

~50% of all relationships start online Match Group owns every major dating app except for Bumble A single corporation controls the future of human relationships

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@mulholo

2 years

The world if JSON trailing commas weren't syntax errors

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@mulholo

10 months

You guys are not prepared for the output this setup is going to produce

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@mulholo

2 years

I’m personally on team super-intelligent octopus, but you do you

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New hobby just dropped.

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@mulholo

9 months

You can still differentiate by the artefacts, but looks like Midjourney has cracked the low-quality (and thus believable) aesthetic

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@mulholo

2 years

When I say “a friend told me the other day” I actually mean “I read a tweet from a stranger in 2019”

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@mulholo

11 months

Fitter happier More productive Not drinking Morning cold plunge protocol Meditating Blueprint diet A safer car (Waymo) Polite to one's GPTs Perfect Whoop sleep score Enjoys a psychedelic every now and then Good Hinge ELO but not in love Fitter, healthier and more productive

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