Nick Baum
@nickbaum
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Optimist, work life ambitious, founder @Storyworth 🇸🇪🇺🇸
Kailua, HI 🌴
Joined February 2007
I've started calling it Work Life Ambition. The idea that you can be ambitious in both your work and your personal life. They can support and augment each other, rather than one coming at the expense of the other.
@0interestrates We want to build quality. I don’t believe it comes from endless death march. So people should have some time off as well. I don’t think it has slowed us down, probably the opposite (you can look at the changelog the past 5years). Good tech, hiring well, small teams and not.
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Any job working with Amit and James is a dream job.
I’m hiring a product designer for Sudowrite. This is a dream job for a designer who loves to write. The beginning of the listing is… a mini therapy sesh for me. You’d think it’d be chill after that. But no, it goes on to talk about our company cult….
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As usual, I'm taking the summer off from Twitter. Have a great summer, I'll see you all again in August. 👋🏻. (Please hold all major AI announcements until I'm back 😅).
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We are unleashing American whale oil production! Here’s how: . ✅Modernizing whaling technologies.✅Expanding domestic critical whale breeding.✅Accelerating commercialization of blubber extraction technology. (Sent from Rhode Island).
We are unleashing American coal production! Here’s how: . ✅Modernizing coal technologies.✅Expanding domestic critical mineral production.✅Accelerating commercialization of mineral extraction technology.
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Of course the reason they shouldn't invest in this is that their goal is to have no user interventions. And in the meantime, autopilot disengagement is probably a sufficient feedback loop.
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RT @zachklein: This is Joan Didion’s resignation letter from Vogue magazine in 1964, and I find it thrilling. It can be scary when a door….
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I'm only jealous of my friends who have more kids than I do. Our kids are the best, I wish I had more of them!.
Jealousy is a signal of an unowned desire. Every time I have followed my jealousy to its root and owned the desire underneath it, it has brought me closer to myself.
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They really do feel like magic to me.
Completely agree. LLMs being possible should feel like insane magic.
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RT @chrisfralic: I had the pleasure of working for @joshu 20 years ago at delicious (del . icio . us) - he was slightly less annoying back….
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Has anyone had success getting ChatGPT or Gemini to generate images that match a specific illustration style? . I'm aware of the Ghibli fad, but I haven't had any luck with lesser known styles. (I'm experimenting, I would only use commercially with a license from the artist.).
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RT @nickbaum: @zachklein Thanks for sharing, Zach. I can hardly imagine what that must have been like for you ❤️. My wife is religious, I'm….
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Work Life Ambition is when you stop thinking about it as a trade off, and start thinking about how you can improve both.
the whole work life balance as a founder is a complicated thing. the root thing here is not to even think in these terms - starting a company is fundamentally about looking at "this or that" scenarios and figuring out how to get both. so yes it's a lot of "work" - but in some.
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RT @jasonfried: I don’t think much about legacy. Yours, mine, anyone’s really. Do the best you can right now. For now. Not for later. If i….
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