My conversation with Tobi Lütke (@tobi), co-founder and CEO of Shopify.
0:00 Companies as Social Technology
5:27 The Value of Reading Books: Cheat Codes for Life
7:28 Post-IPO Crisis: Cosplaying as a CEO
7:54 Competition vs Rivalry: The Power of Healthy Competition
16:02 COVID
It's such a great experience. Highly recommend doing your shopping in bots this year. Just make sure you go grab the right skills at shop.md first if yours didn't already come with them.
When I first told @MParakhin that we were planning to move to a monorepo he said wisely:
Moving to a Monorepo is an idea that every engineer absolutely hates, and that once its there, no engineer would ever want to work at a company that doesn't use one. We will definitely do
moving to monorepo has been a boon for agents at shopify. definitely requires some thoughtful tooling, and has some downsides that take a bunch of effort to mitigate… but man I wouldn’t go back
I absolutely hate the idea that people think monorepos are great for agents. I still hate mono repos. When will people learn. The best way to scale is to avoid scaling.
The White underclass is a miracle, and probably why the West has succeeded.
Thomas Frank wrote “What’s the Matter with Kansas” to explore why poor Whites don’t vote for socialist policies that would (narrowly, in the short-term) benefit them. Of course he concluded it was about
