If you're thinking about getting into running, I'd say the first piece of gear to buy is a good pair of shoes from your local running store. Don't worry about fancy watches or gels or arm sleeves or whatever.

I did finally buy a smartwatch (coros) last year, after training my whole life with just a casio. It's made me a lot more adventurous as having the GPS tracking means I can run offroad and even off-trail without worrying about keeping accurate track of my distances and paces. This is probably the second piece of gear I'd recommend buying and I wish I had done it sooner. The numbers are useful, it makes it easier to do the hobby, and it means I can use Strava which is a fun way to stay in touch with my fitness friends.

Third piece of unsolicited advice is that you absolutely don't have to run marathons.

> t. slow, but ran the fastest mile of my life last year, good friends with many semi pros.

I mean COME ON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xphLY5ucIpQ

It's a gnarly infra problem with huge scale, combined with an interesting product space that we think legitimately benefits from tasteful AI automation. We're doing cool things with Nitro Enclaves to prove that our auctions are fair. And our founding team have done this before with great success, first at MoPub (sold to Twitter) and MAX (sold to AppLovin).

We're hiring (all remote) for:

- Senior Fullstack Engineer https://jobs.gem.com/cloudx/am9icG9zdDogum5THF3fORqb1eEupFQx

- Senior Infrastructure Engineer https://jobs.gem.com/cloudx/am9icG9zdDo4vl4A1sEcc7sDQf8ZYiqR

- Senior Android SDK Engineer https://jobs.gem.com/cloudx/am9icG9zdDqPAWu1cxr3PmEuuTIdliI6

- Senior iOS SDK Engineer https://jobs.gem.com/cloudx/am9icG9zdDpOy3Qmt1fLsOu4gKwtwWTz

Our philosophy is to keep the team small, well-paid, and productive. We deploy every day and our monorepo CI suite takes about a minute to pass.

The best way to apply is directly through those jobs pages. I got so much direct email spam the last time I posted here, I'm afraid I have to ask you not to contact me directly about this role. If you're a real HN reader you're always welcome to contact me with any questions or concerns, but please do not just apply by sending me an email.

Any other hiring managers seeing an incredible amount of fake applicants?

Yes, we are — please believe me that a LOT of people go out into the world and interact with each other. Doing so is extremely heavily incentivized by all of the wonderful and beautiful things that happen in the world all the time, both quotidian and sublime.

There is critical mass!

Is immediately and completely solving the problem not a good enough incentive? If you go outside and interact, you will be much less lonely.

There is no barrier! You don't need to overthink this. Walkable cities third spaces etc., all great — but literally just go out and interact with people you can do it today many people do it to great success!