Ethan's Wiki Update #13
Hi, few links on various tech and non-tech stuff.
What’s New
Career Seniority Page: Stuff I learned at Carta | Will Larson
2 years as CTO of Carta
On strategy, culture, LLMs, managing seniors, managing costs, explaining eng costs to execs, etc.
Many links to previous blogs
Postgres Database Page: OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level
How OpenAI uses a single primary Postgres DB
Favor read replicas, offload write if possible, lazy writes, query optimization, etc.
Some more discussion on feature requests to the developer community and potential solutions to the problems posted
Entrepreneurship Stories Page: $1M Revenue, $0 Profit: Our D2C Reality Check
Kodgem, a hardware device that help people maintain good posture
Painful lessons: poor inventory planning, no financial management, V1 UX was bad, bootstrap pride and not taking investments, failed marketplace partnership, and never paying founders causing burnout
Personal Growth Page: Reinvent the wheel
Reinvent the wheel to learn, teach, fix, gain insights and put knowledge to test
Don't reinvent the wheel just to disregard or ignore the work of others
Reinvent for insight. Reuse for impact.
Random
Last week, I published a blog I have been working on for 2 months, My $4/month self-hosted web server setup. If you are interested in self-hosting or web servers configurations, go check out the blog! Any comments welcome!