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Naval and others on Product Design, Smart Glasses, the AI Industry, 10x Designers, and more [Airchat Part 1]

Scaling Knowledge

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The Importance of Intuition in Software Engineering

I've always believed that I think micro optimizations are kind of useless. Satoshi Nakamoto was a particularly good coder or did a lot more work than anybody else, but he just did the right things which probably came from a lifetime of building intuition and obsessing over a problem. Good people can just do anything. And 10x is of course just a random moniker might be 2x 3x 5x 10x 20x 100x 1000x The point is coding is in the intellectual domain. What you choose to code how you code it how you implement it how quickly you do it. These things are all idea based for the most part. If you check in the engineering how good is the

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