
Vic 🌮
@VicVijayakumar
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3x dad, 6.2x runner, 0.5x violinist, 1x principal engineer. my projects: https://t.co/GuNXSaKOaX https://t.co/sWt5LxcymV https://t.co/fsYQRhnIK8
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I can’t tell you how often I find myself staring at projects that are “it will take 2 devs 2 quarters”. I’m sure I’m annoying but idc. I like to ask what are you shipping toward this goal in week 1? What’s getting released week 2? etc. SHIP MORE OFTEN.
The ability to break large eng projects into *independently valuable* incremental steps is the most important skill for senior engineers to develop. Literally no one knows how to completely solve a large eng problem ahead of time. (shameless link to my own blog on this below).
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This reminds me of the time that a bizdev lead at a previous job presented a spreadsheet that said “even if our product captured only 1% of the TAM we’d make so much money” so building it was an obvious choice. Unfortunately we captured 0%.
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Jaguar replaced an outdated logo that exploited animals and replaced it with a clean and modern font with a sleek elegance that matches the brand’s luxury image.
One day I would like to see a logo redesign that made it look better instead of soulless and terrible. Can anyone give a counterexample?
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Spent some time reading the thread again. I think the thread format takes away from the point he's trying to make which isn't that Notion > Google Docs but that Notion's CRDTs are architected differently so their offline mode has to be built differently.
So for 5 years, “offline” has been the #1 request. Today, thanks to the perseverance of our engineering team, @NotionHQ finally works offline. Your ideas don’t need Wi‑Fi to exist!. For Notion community: thank you for your patience while we built this right. This is a journey,
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This feels like one of those things where you think your product is superior because it is more technically complex. Not a dunk. Do Google Docs users care that their documents are not graphs of interconnected blocks where tasks link to databases and knowledge bases?.
And unlike Google Docs, Notion isn’t just pages. It’s a graph of interconnected blocks where tasks link to databases and link to knowledge base. So we had to invent what didn’t exist, and migrate 100M+ users gracefully behind the scenes with zero downtime. 3/n
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