🏗 Building products & sharing showerthoughts 💼 Co-founder Aced (Exponent), @aced_io ⏳ Before: @Dropbox, @Princeton

San Francisco, CA
If at first you don't succeed, back off and try again in 2⁽ⁿ⁻¹⁾ sec.
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Claude code really changed my life - Before: 12-hour day building full-stack distributed systems After: 12-hour day trying to fix little CSS animations
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Jacob retweeted
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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We will have AGI before we solve Python package management
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“Two-Buck Chuck is now $4.30 Chuck” – Trader Joe’s employee
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Not bullish on crypto in the short term, but crazy that the *bottom* of the bitcoin crash this time around was the *top* of the bitcoin bubble last time 📉📈
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Finally caved and set up an email signature after 10 years of typing “- Jacob” at the end of every email
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You either die at inbox zero or you live long enough to have 41k unread emails
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Wow. After two years as a pandemic SF introvert, New York seems so vast and frantic and untamed.
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How would you describe your Twitter brand? Me: ᴅᴇsᴘᴇʀᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴛʀʏɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ 500 ꜰᴏʟʟᴏᴡᴇʀs
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This is why I never write unit tests
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it's not bc I'm lazy
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Best compliment I’ve received? “You don’t seem like you majored in computer science” 🥲
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Horses are forever
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You don't have to be a celebrity to make it big!
Which software engineers make more money than NBA players? 🤔 In the hopes of inspiring more folks to pursue tech, I sat down with @MylestheMonster (UCLA basketball player) to compare NBA Draft salaries to big tech salaries 💰 Check it out! 👇 youtu.be/Dyy8jb7cHYk
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🌶 Hot take: If you’re bootstrapped/indiehacking and your product costs less than $30/mo, you should raise your price or build something more valuable.
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One day a tweet will go viral and I’ll get to post the obligatory “Wow this really blew up, while you’re here check out my mom's candle shop on Etsy”
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I’m even less funny in real life
💁🏻‍♂️ I grew up playing 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘴 - was one of my favorite games. Made my sim look *just* like me—and then ignored him so I could spend hours building cool stuff instead. So, not much has changed...
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⏰ nothin' beats the adrenaline rush of a bug in production
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