It was a life-changing machine.

Ordered, I believe, from the depths of a Computer Shopper magazine.

It had to be long, in-depth, and include everything you mentioned.

I was incredibly surprised when I entered the tech and startup workforce that these were generally absent.

I had misunderstood the class and instructor and thought that you couldn't even start a business without one.

Then, when I started raising money for my own venture, I thought for sure a complete business plan was a prerequisite.

Nope. A few graphs, preferably hockey-shaped, and a good story were all that was necessary.

My venture failed, of course. But if I were to do it again, I would do myself the favor of having a complete plan. It would definitely save a lot of headaches and guessing in the moment.

There’s a companion website: https://iwillnotdrinkwithyoutoday.com

I wrote the book in markdown, stuck it in a SQLite DB and wrote a parser to put all the data in static JSON so it loads very fast.

I also created a new personal homepage to update my presence on the web as a published author and experienced leader and technologist: https://davidbyrondrake.com

Book was released less than a month ago—growing it organically like a startup has been fascinating in terms of marketing, sharing, building, and measuring success.

Have been utilizing my acting skills again with readings from the book on my Instagram and TikTok.

Having a really good time with it!

When you're building, adding yet another feature can sometimes shave off all the edges that made you successful in the first place.

Same with messaging. The more you try to sound universal, the less anyone hears you.

Strong opinions that are honestly held and communicated are such great signs of respect. It's refreshing to see: "This is who we are. If it's not for you, that's okay."

Good piece.

[0] - https://github.com/randomdrake/react-flow-org-chart

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It goes into more detail about how they established the genetic signatures and has a lot more images as well.

Epigenetic signatures of intergenerational exposure to violence in three generations of Syrian refugees

[0] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-89818-z

https://use.expensify.com/blog/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a...

15 years ago, most tech companies had a library of sorts because it was required. Sure, there were manuals online, but they didn't offer the depth available in books at the time.

Stack Overflow either didn't exist or was in its infancy, so your options were to either find an O'Reilly book on the subject[0], hop in a Freenode channel on IRC and talk to folks who were in the weeds (or even the maintainers themselves), or you had to use mailing lists.

[0] - okay, not all of the books were O'Reilly but a huge number of them around that time period were

Please be careful with things like this before someone gets hurt or worse.

I have friends in the medical profession who have tested GPT4 and it’s good, but not quite good enough for them.

I wouldn’t touch this with a 20 mile stick; something that claims actual medical advice like this.

I don't know of any place in the U.S. that doesn't have wanted signs in the windows for restaurant work. Between fast food, back of house, or front of house, there really are a ton of options both in downtown areas and suburbs from my experience.

Have you actually gone to one of these locations, physically, and applied? Did you follow up instead of just dropping an application by and hoping for the best?

https://github.com/chrieke/prettymapp/blob/main/prettymapp/g...

Had to go back to 2015 in the Internet Archive[0] to actually find a copy of the website mentioned.

The site is in Russian but Google Translate seems to do an okay job of bringing it into English[1].

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20150223174714/http://www.hydron...

[1] - https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20150223174714/ht...

I applaud this effort. I hate that we’re back to where this feels necessary. I’m not sure if there’s anything better.

JSON sure felt better than XML. But did we abstract too far, or did we just get so much better bandwidth and processors, that enriched data exploration is just insignificantly possible?

I read the use-cases for this, but I feel like: if you’ve gone so far to where this is helpful/useful, have you just gone too far?

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