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whoisnnamdi

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Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

DevOps, app infra, and ML nerd. Soft spot for devs

Former: Product @ Confluent MBA @ Stanford VC @ ICONIQ Growth Econ @ Yale https://whoisnnamdi.com

  1. Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
    4 points 0
  2. We Don't Have Nearly Enough Startups (whoisnnamdi.substack.com)
    3 points 2
  3. Stripe Apps (stripe.com)
    1 points 0
  4. Companies Rarely Grow into Their Valuations (whoisnnamdi.com)
    2 points 0
  5. Writing is networking for introverts (byrnehobart.medium.com)
    335 points 90
  6. Always Do Extra (bennorthrop.com)
    258 points 128
  7. WebAssembly-Ing the Pieces: Vectorized’s Data Policy Engine (medium.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Allbirds S-1 (sec.gov)
    3 points 0
  9. If You Want to Make It as a Writer, for God's Sakes, Be Weird (freddiedeboer.substack.com)
    24 points 8
  10. More (Developers) Isn’t Always More (medium.com)
    1 points 0
  11. The Developer Productivity Manifesto (medium.com)
    3 points 0
  12. Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups (whoisnnamdi.com)
    2 points 0
  13. Robinhood Traders Are Last to the Party (whoisnnamdi.com)
    1 points 0
  14. Random effects and penalized splines are the same thing (tjmahr.com)
    10 points 0
  15. Why Developers Love Redpanda (medium.com)
    2 points 0
  16. Inductive Biases for Deep Learning of Higher-Level Cognition (arxiv.org)
    3 points 0
  17. Why Don't VCs Index Invest? (whoisnnamdi.com)
    3 points 0
  18. Why Zoom doesn’t have product/market fit (usefyi.com)
    3 points 2
  19. A non-linearity that works much better than ReLUs [video] (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  20. Remote Software Developers Earn 22% More Than Non-Remote Developers (whoisnnamdi.com)
    3 points 0
  21. Margin considered harmful (mxstbr.com)
    124 points 125
  22. I think waitlists are a vanity metric (whoisnnamdi.com)
    1 points 0
  23. Building a Developer Tools Business (manifold.co)
    293 points 72
  24. In Defense of Screen Time (bjornjeffery.com)
    2 points 0
  25. Death of Star Researchers Increases Citations of Other Scientists (insidehighered.com)
    2 points 0