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Justin Downing

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Engineering @ Heroku Data

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Kids at Chuck E. Cheese ๐Ÿค Software Developers

Hungry for more tokens

02.03.2026 17:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A Google Docs screen where one must request access to a document to collaborate

A Google Docs screen where one must request access to a document to collaborate

Them: howโ€™s it going at work?
Me:

13.01.2026 23:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Me, every take on unplanned work: Well Iโ€™m not gonna let THAT happen again!

19.11.2025 05:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿšฎ use1-az3

05.11.2025 22:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am โ€œstand at the back of the crowd at concerts โ€œ years old today

28.09.2025 02:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good luck, Florida ๐Ÿ’‰

03.09.2025 18:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Commitment > Confidence

Your level of confidence tells me how you feel about YOU. Your level of commitment tells me how you feel about US.

30.07.2025 02:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are no fast follows. What you are describing is empty promises.

21.07.2025 18:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This slack message could have been an email

19.06.2025 19:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Them: what makes you think this project is likely going to fail?

Me: the PRD is 15 pages long.

18.06.2025 17:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I like hackernewsletter.com for this

07.06.2025 07:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

18.02.2025 18:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 34532 ๐Ÿ” 6045 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 585 ๐Ÿ“Œ 198

I dare any business to try and increase their 50 percent retention month (longest month after sign up in which more than 50% of your users are still active), without making more money. LTV just goes up.๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟ

Because L gets bigger.

So stop squeezing customers! Everyone is broke.

Start keeping them.๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟ

22.11.2024 04:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 66 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0