- christoff12Maybe, but also maybe politics can be a reflection of a person’s actions in a broader sense, for which it is perfectly reasonable to disengage from them when those actions have a negative impact.
- Good point
- Are they Better Made?
(this is joke[1])
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- Would be much easier to try. I was expecting a chrome extension.
- Easy enough to cast from my phone when I'm not in front of my own TV; e.g. at an airbnb.
- For any given good solution, there will be a core 20% of prospects with more money than patience and/or capacity who would rather you just do it for them. Their propensity to trust you to do so goes up if they understand how you're going about it.
- not really in this case
- > However, no matter how much context we provided, the AI would still mess things up because it didn’t ask us for feedback.
The proceeding without clarifying or asking questions thing really grinds my gears.
- I didn't know WeWeb had a full on AI rebrand. Will give it a shot -- thanks.
- Yes, more or less. I've been tinkering with what this might look like this summer, but haven't found a good solution. Seeing your "exploded view" of the backend resonated on that front.
But instead of the nodes representing steps in a workflow, you'd have screens/views as nodes. Now, how the user would handle layout and components at that level, I'm not sure, but that's directionally what I'm asking about.
I hope that makes (a little bit of) sense.
- I like this. Any chance you'll be bringing similar tactility (is that a word) to the frontend? Granular changes to components via prompts leaves a lot to be desired.
- crayons vs colored pencils
- This is oddly relevant to me as someone who has HN bookmarked and is also pursuing a Master of Accounting so that I can sit for the CPA exam this year.
I'm mildly annoyed that I'm met with a "Book a Call" CTA when I click the Accountants tab, but I get it.
I think the feedback re: Excel preeminence/stickiness and outsourced workflows is pretty indicative. Similarly, I, too, am curious about the long-term commitment you're willing to make, considering the prior pivots.
That said, this looks clean, and I plan to check it out. I'm doing some work with a fractional CFO firm and I'll recommend they explore as well. Working within a built-in spreadsheet could very well provide the right level of flexibility -- especially if I can access them via the API for downstream manipulation (I haven't looked at the docs yet).
- Love the PMF journey -- good luck!
- You'd be surprised at how useful Stack Overflow and ChatGPT can be at helping to illuminate knowledge gaps.
I've found that one of the harder aspects of being unguided is figuring out the unknown unknowns.
You might stumble into a solution of sorts that mirrors a best practice but not know there's a "name" for that solution -- until you see it spelled out after googling around. That discovery can lead you down a rabbit hole where you gain fuller context.
Sure, having more experienced people around can help expedite that process in some cases, but then again you're limited by what that person has experienced. There's always some level you reach where you need to be curious enough in your explorations to seek out the next layer of knowledge in a self-directed manner, and the tools today are immensely better at supporting that process than 10-15 years ago.
- The key is to figure out what your learning process looks like.
For example, I discovered early on that I learn in three phases: 1. I get exposed to something (a concept, a process, etc); basically discover that something exists. 2. I then see how that thing is used whether through mentorship or tutorials or, increasingly, through trial and error. 3. I apply that thing to some novel problem.
Through this cycle of Discovery-Tutelage-Application, I can assess my level of comfort with new material and understand when my struggles are due to trying to short circuit the process.
It's likely that you have some form of learning process that is equally cyclical, yet undefined -- once you identify and codify those steps, you can evaluate your progress when it comes to acquiring new skills.
- dbt isn't going anywhere. It's the standard.
That said, SQLMesh and other tools are pretty interesting and I look forward to new growth in the space.
- I built the first half of my career as "a guy who knows SQL" (and Excel macros but I digress). I then rode the early wave of Analytics Engineering.
dbt is kinda like Vite (dbt = data build tool) for folks working with data warehouses. Their biggest contribution was a mindset shift that applied principles of the SDLC to the traditional BI/Analytics space.
Almost overnight, analysts went from building business logic in GUIs like Talend or Tableau to code-based models (SQL) checked into git repos instead. It took what Looker was doing with LookML and generalized it across the BI stack.
This shift (+ associated tooling) resulted in less brittle data pipelines, increased uptime for dashboards/reporting, and more sanity when working with more than 2-3 people in a data environment.
Imagine a situation where you're at an e-commerce company and need to reconcile orders from Woocommerce with shipments in ShipStation, returns from tickets in HubSpot, and refunds issued in Stripe. dbt simplifies the management of the relationships between these various systems.
Based on this, you can build data models that allow you and, increasingly, your business stakeholders to answer questions like "Which SKUs have seen an uptick in refunds due to reason X this quarter?" and "Where were they shipped?"
The benefit of having standard abstractions means you can build metrics on top of the models as [gkapur](https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=41853925) mentions such that "revenue" is the same when marketing pulls it for calculating CAC as when finance pulls it their monthly reports, etc.
- I didn't see it mentioned so wanted to add that it's possible that ADHD's impact on working memory[1] leads to issues with long term memory[2].
Basically, we struggle with holding stuff in RAM which corrupts writes to disk.
The effect is more prevalent with auditory inputs vs visual ones[3]; learning this helped explain why I find myself more likely to engage with a lecture or meeting while simultaneously doodling[4].
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[1] https://laconciergepsychologist.com/blog/what-is-working-mem...
[2] https://www.verywellhealth.com/can-adhd-cause-memory-issues-...
- nice!