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Airtable:

# {var:title}
---
uid: [[{var:ymd}]]
tags: #airtable #journal

## Startup routine: 
- [x] Ran `morning`
- [ ] Cleared Things 3 inbox: things:///show?id=inbox
- [ ] Went through existing tasks and reclassified them
- [ ] Merged `main` / ran `bin/transpile.js`
- [ ] Checked calendar
- [ ] Scheduled Focusmates
- [ ] Reviewed PRs: https://github.com/Hyperbase/hyperbase/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+involves%3A%40me
- [ ] Check Slack -- if nothing urgent to respond to then skip
- [ ] Pick tasks to complete today and break them down things:///show?id=SzFQ9fSGeSFAsHnnanzSnQ

## Things I did:
things:///show?id=logbook&filter=Work

Personal

# {date:MM-dd-YYYY}
---
uid: [[{var:ymd}]]
tags: #journal

## Thoughts about the day?

## Startup routine: 
- [ ] Cleared Things 3 inbox: things:///show?id=inbox
- [ ] Went through existing tasks and reclassified them

## Wind-down routine:
- [ ] Read at least 15 minutes
- Physical health questions:
    - [ ] Rate your sleep today from 1-5.
    - [ ] Rate your exercise today from 1-5.
    - [ ] Rate your nutrition today from 1-5.
    - [ ] Rate your mental wellness level today from 1-5.
- What was one cool takeaway from today? [[202205102213]]
    - 

## Things I did
things:///show?id=logbook&filter=Personal

uid: 202209112316 tags:

February 22, 2023

Thoughts About The Future Of Applied Intuition

Sent to boren:

heyo, something that’s been on my mind after a convo with my uncle. his primary concern was centered the fact that no one knows how many players will be the winners in the AV space. And if it’s only 1 company (like Waymo) who already has their own engineering tools to develop, test, and deploy then a company like applied doesn’t have much long term potential

1. I think that no one knows how many players will be the winners in the AV space is an advantage for Applied since they’re working on building a platform that presumably most companies involved can use. No matter who wins, Applied is reasonably likely to play a role (at least, I think that’s the long-term goal)
2. Even if companies like Waymo use their stack of engineering tools right now, it doesn’t shut the door for them to start using Applied at some point in the future if the product is that much better than internal tools. Since Waymo and Applied have very different differentiators as products, I think it would be possible for them to coexist (this is related to the next point)
3. Applied’s space isn’t AV itself, so they don’t need to be a huge giant in the space and have tons and tons of training data (like Waymo/Cruise) to be successful. They’re riding the coattails of these more prominent companies driving the long-term future of AV while also creating a valuable niche for themselves that will only grow in scope as the industry develops. I feel like it’s a very promising data model.
4. Even if Applied doesn’t become a titan in the industry long-term, as long as you’re 1) growing a lot as an engineer, 2) compensated well financially, 3) enjoying your work and your teammates, why does it matter? You’re not committing to Applied as your only job for the next ten years, and it’s just the start of your career. I don’t think you need to join the next Google to succeed.

uid: 202204291342 tags: #tech #insights #thoughts

February 22, 2023

Shard Assignments Rollout Strategy

shard_assignments_rollout_strategy.tsx

Things to do:

• Make a way for all shard assignment accessor callsites to use the MySQL op accessor (by default). For specific callsites, we’ll swap out the underlying op being used to a different op. Test this out with a different op.
• Write a schema for the rollout. Probably looks something like this: { "defaultStrategy": … (as above) "overrides": [ {"callSites": [...], "strategy": … (as above)} ] }
• And the strategy looks something like this
  • We probably start out with LEGACY: 1 and everything else 0. In a follow-up PR, we make the default to PRIMARY: 1 and LEGACY: 0. After that, we introduce the replica fallback options.

        {
            PRIMARY: 95,
            QUERY_BOTH_AND_COMPARE: 4,
            READ_REPLICA_FALLBACK: 1,
            LEGACY: 1
        }

• Also need to make an admin flag for the rollout.
• Need the new shard assignments accessor to be able to access both the async op accessor and the basic shard assignments accessor.
• Get feedback from Keunwoo once I’ve made the first version of this change.
• Add tests that check whether the strategy is correctly detected and implemented on by the accessor.

Created from: Airtable diary: 04-13-22 202204131151

uid: 202204131351] tags: #airtable

February 22, 2023

Note-Taking Software I’m Currently Using

• The Archive (macOS) • Zettelkasten Method
• Gingko App
• Drafts (to take quick notes)
• Workflowy (for interviews and other miscellaneous notes)

#update 07-05-22: I’ve been using Thunk | July 5, 2022 quite a lot for writing. Here is a list of other apps that I’ve enjoyed trying out.

1. Thunk 202207051659 (as mentioned above). I really liked using the app — the interface was extremely intuitive, and it had most of the features that I would want from my note-taking app. 202207051347. However, the expensiveness of it combined with the fact that it was completely closed 202207051341 (there doesn’t seem like there’s any way to import notes, and you can only export notes as a JSON instead of actually usable Markdown files) really turned me off.
2. Capacities — I stopped using this because it was glitchy and hard to use, although the core idea (specific, templated notes for different concepts 202207051412 that I could organize in a Notion/Airtable format) was really appealing to me.
3. I experimented with Dendron at some point. I didn’t like how centered it was around previews — it just felt a little unnecessary. At the same time, there were many parts of it that I really liked. Specifically, it also has the notion of having schemas for different notes and note types 202207051412, that feels so much more categorical and organized than having ad-hoc notes.
4. I’ve also been using Nota 202207051532, which has a lot of awesome things going for it. In fact, I think I’m much more inclined to use it than Obsidian, because of amazing the keyboard shortcuts are.

Created from: Note-Taking (index) 202204102124

uid: 202204102217 tags: #notetaking #writing #update

February 22, 2023

Talk With Mulan

Really cool talk with Mulan!

A couple of things we talked about:

1. Gender gap in interviews - it’s generally accepted for guys to be funny and bro-ey, but if girls do that, it is easily construed as unprofessional
2. Generally, how many factors go into interviewing - so many people get rejected for stuff that’s just not under their control, or if everyone else was just better than them, or if they were placed into a group where either other people were better than them or they got overshadowed by other people for some reason, etc. There could be so many reasons, it’s insane.
3. It’s also really annoying how there is usually no indication of how close you were to actually make the cut for something based on recruiting. It’s really frustrating.
4. For me personally, Mulan mentioned that I should try to take more risks when it comes to being pretty personal about stuff, because that comes off as really genuine and people appreciate that. Most canned answers, people don’t remember for shit. Just be real.
5. We talked about how Mulan managed to make it through so many interviews successfully - she has a confident vibe, like she knows what she’s doing, but she has absolutely no air of cockiness and overconfidence. It’s very difficult to point out something negative with her interviews, and that’s not always enough for someone to make it through (see the luck that I mentioned before), but more often than not, it’s enough for her to sneak through. She’s usually not going to be the most gregarious and well-liked people, at least not right away, but she’s in no way shape or form disagreeable, which is important.
6. Also talked about the fires at the end, and I messaged her with this link that lets you donate some money to the fires on Oregon (https://donate.google.com/u/2/checkout?campaignid=6506175487082496&tab=1&hl=en-US&authUser=0)
7. Also talked about what makes it so that we find each other quite funny, but it’s difficult for us to be funny like that with other people. Something I realized is that a big part of you finding people close to you funny is nothing more than them doing something that’s pretty cute or endearing, and you just think it’s entertaining. It might not be a joke per se.

The conversation was just flowing so effortlessly! Definitely one of the best talks we’ve had in a long time.

uid: 202009130312 tags: #relationships #insights

February 22, 2023

Guns, Germs And Steel

Evolutionarily, the most important thing about microbes is spreading from person to person, not necessarily killing the person.

Traits of epidemics - spread quickly and efficiently from person to person, in a short time you either die or recover completely, get antibodies that you from the rest of your life, and the diseases tend to be restriction to humans.

Rise of agriculture -> increased population density -> more chance of getting disease. There’s also the increased risk that comes with living in your own sewage.

Many diseases (measles, tb, etc) evolved from similar diseases present in animals like cattle, pigs, dogs, ducks

Diseases are constantly in evolution, and microbes adapt (through natural selection) to new hosts and vectors.

Main reason that explains who no diseases from the Old World became epidemics - there were not many domesticated animals in the Americas (there were only 5) from which these epidemics could have been evolved

uid: 202008260926 tags: #literature #mcb55

February 22, 2023