Steve is an engineering VP at Microsoft and I find a similar pattern is showing up for product managers.

I see lots of PMs who were already good now multiplying their impact with AI while weaker PMs are now using AI to generate work slop which is a waste of everyone’s time.

My natural state is alone in my head, and for a long time the only way to relationships was to a) get adopted by an extravert or b) work with someone on a technical problem until a connection emerged.
Removing fear of failure - "it's okay if it does not work out" - was key for me too. Ship+iterate..

yup! it's still programming, but at a higher abstraction level and you still have to meticulously specify what you want and be able to debug if the genie has corrupted your wishes.

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

Incredible. losing is so fun in this game because of the error messages

Incredible. losing is so fun in this game because of the error messages

Very similar to how I learned to do it. Deciding is the hard part; the rest is just execution.. and then it's over

Service jobs teach you to read body language to prevent problems because you can't afford problems

Might be because a higher % of bicyclists than car drivers don't bother stopping at red signs. So even though objectively, increasing the ratio of bicycles to cars makes pedestrians much safer, it feels more dangerous because there are way more people trying to run you over when crossing a street.

Google docs popping up a "help me write" prompt next to the cursor will drive me to do long form writing in a desktop app. Or with a pen on paper. Honestly, a feather on parchment seems preferable to having my focus destroyed by a blinky prompt if I pause typing for 2 seconds to collect my thoughts.

Ah, the network cables finally got organized

Inversion:
You can't defeat uncertainty with pessimism. The best pessimism can do is to save effort that would have be wasted by some of the experiments. But enough experimenting leads to experience. Experience reduces uncertainty.

It might boil down to:
You can't defeat uncertainty. Experiment.

Don’t you DARE disrespect the speed of @duckdb.org

We made a thing!

There is uncertainty in all technical work. The only control you really get is prioritization, so when the time is inevitably up, the most important work will have gotten done. Starting from a prototype and building up follows from this.

I did not think I had another social network in me but here we are.