chad fowler
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programmer, general partner @blueyard + music at @chadfowlermusic. prev @wunderlist, @microsoft, @rubycentral, @rubyconf @railsconf @rubygems @pragprog
New York, USA
Joined February 2007
Most of what good management consists of can be boiled down to this simple idea: a manager's job is to create a context in which each team member is inspired and empowered to do their best work. It's shocking out far from reach this is for many managers.
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The stakes are lower in an ephemeral "conversation", but the interaction is the same guilt-ridden I-got-away-with-it that programmers have been dopamine fueling from for decades.
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Style built for the spotlight. Crafted for performance. Blake Snell wears JAXXON.
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I say "tech debt" because I feel the same cheeky guilt I feel when I copy and paste a bit of code that I know I should have factored out into a reusable well-named function.
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A new kind of tech debt: knowingly allowing the context window to grow, when you know you're at a clean break spot and have an artifact you can use to easily rehydrate the salient bits.
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Given my age, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing several waves of revolutionary technological change. Yet this moment feels different. It's as if we’re standing at the edge of the biggest shift I’ll see in my lifetime. AI holds the potential to be deeply transformational,
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Win LA, win the world. 🌎 @flyarcher's strategic acquisition of Hawthorne Airport will give us an incredible asset in one of the world’s most important eVTOL markets. We’ll look to transform the airport into our hub for Archer’s Los Angeles air taxi network as we ready for
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@josevalim @viennarb @zuzanna_kusznir If you want to join @pragdave , @chadfowler , @josevalim and @zuzanna_kusznir in Vienna, 29.05. - 31.05. as a speaker, please note that our CFP closes in 30 days! Time is ticking, submit your proposals and meet us for the first edition of #RubyConfAT 🙌
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This isn’t a random event where you’ll zone out between two appetizers. We’re opening the circle. Consider joining us. We’re running the second edition of the Paris Risk Club in two weeks on Thursday 13th with Haya and Ciarán from @HummingbirdVC and @blueyard We’re opening the
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Co-hosting a fun night with my friends at @blueyard @lightspeedvp (@ciaranoleary and @antoine_moyroud) If you tinker a bit too much and like good wine and better food, join us We kept a few seats open for serendipity, great group already joining Link 👇👇
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Hey Paris, don't miss this.
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.... Together with @hanna_haya @HummingbirdVC & @antoine_moyroud @lightspeedvp, we are excited to be convening The Paris Risk Club (Saloon Edition) on November 13th: an evening of deep conversation at the intersection of hope,
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Congratulations to Oguzhan, David, and the entire @BillionToOneInc team! Grateful to be your partner. Still Day One.
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reject trust. embrace mathematics. <encrypt> everything☂️
🚨 TEEs are AGAIN compromised! 🚨 This time it's even bigger! TL;DR - 3 weeks ago: Intel SGX exploit (DDR4) - Today: Exploit affecting the latest State-Of-The-Art TEEs by Intel, AMD and Nvidia (DDR5) TEEs don't bring privacy or security in crypto. All you need to know 👇🧵
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Skill Markets: Where AI competes to prove itself on the capabilities that matter to you. Don't miss @carsonfarmer break it down today on the livestream with @chadfowler from @blueyard. 🗓️ Today, 2pm ET 📍
Live today at 2pm ET – an open conversation with @carsonfarmer and @chadfowler on building a decentralized skill market for Al with @recallnet 📍 https://t.co/RhgYa4KkDS
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NEWS: We’re welcoming @themikewax to BlueYard as a General Partner. Serial founder, prolific angel investor, friend and a keen student of technology and the world. He’ll help us back founders moving us closer to utopia & holding the line against oblivion.
blueyard.medium.com
We’re excited to share that Mike Wax has joined BlueYard as a General Partner.
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AI’s next frontier isn’t just about bigger models. It’s about coordination. We should do everything in our power to ensure: • Smaller, specialized models cooperate instead of one monolith ruling all. • Incentives and capital coordinate, not concentrate. • Crypto acts as the
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Joining @BlueYard as General Partner and excited to support founders tackling hard, meaningful problems in AI, resilience & energy or infrastructure. Proud to join @ciaranoleary, David Byrd, @jason_whitmire and @chadfowler who've been quietly backing some of the most ambitious
blueyard.medium.com
We’re excited to share that Mike Wax has joined BlueYard as a General Partner.
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Chatted with Coco (@0xcoconutt) about her piece on what makes stablecoins valuable. Some takeaways: > USDC/USDT dominate today (~85% of market share); network effects as well as institutional/user trust may keep them here for some time. > Opportunities that emerging stablecoins
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Such a good vibe on this one. @chadfowler is so fun to jam with, and is a really great “interviewee”! I hope we didn’t offend the classical musicians too much though 😜!
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🎦 streaming live now – @chadfowler joins @recallnet's In the Arena with @carsonfarmer and @TheDerrek
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Excited for @ChemifyX & @leecronin to have raised $50m from @Wing_VC , @insightpartners, @8vc - with @TriatomicCap and @blueyard joining again. Chemputation will be transformative to how molecules are designed and made
“The number one problem with all of AI drug discovery is they do not produce the code to make their molecule,” Lee Cronin told me. “Chemify is coming to the rescue for everybody.” https://t.co/6WfJBFuLvD
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