I Don’t Understand How Eric Zhang Is So Productive
https://www.ekzhang.com/resume https://www.ekzhang.com/projects https://www.ekzhang.com/writing https://twitter.com/ekzhang1
Seriously, like wtf… This guy is like Linus Lee (https://thesephist.com/posts), but even more ridiculously intimidating. How does he have the time to
- write out insane latex notes for all of his classes
- make like 20 ridiculously good open-source tools
- be a founding engineer at an extremely technically sound company
- be a senior in college??
- post on twitter
- write great blog posts
- have a beautiful personal website
- have friends?
WTF… where is the time? I’d guess that the answer is he’s so genuinely efficient that he barely spends any time on setting up his side projects because he has an entire infrastructure stack already set up, and he’s very fast at programming and practiced at bringing ideas from 0-1, so he can get things set up ridiculously fast. I’ve seen an example of this with Keyhan. Some people are just incomprehensible.
Is it worth it thinking about joining Modal just for this guy? It sounds like the kind of high-risk, high-reward thing that Ben Kuhn would recommend me to do. Don’t be scared of overconfidence 202212101111. The quality of one of the founding engineers is a high quality heuristic for the quality of the founding team and the technical strength of the product in general, IMO. Also, search for outliers (https://www.benkuhn.net/outliers/), and this guy is one, huge, outlier
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