Welcome to my online paper trail. I am Stedman Blake Hood. I am also:
- Eminently nerd snipe-able
- Hopeless extrovert
- Bootstrapped & sold Retriever.co
- Alum of @YCombinator
- Former statistics researcher at @FederalReserve
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- Check out my A/B Test tool for growth hackers
Recent Posts
Thank you, Retriever
I just e-signed a special document. There was nothing special looking about it – no confetti or streamers to indicate that this document was any different from the hundreds of others that I’ve e-signed over the years. I paused before submitting my signature, realizing that this was the last moment of a three-and-a-half-year chapter in … Continue reading Thank you, Retriever
Reprogramming your brain (the easy way)
TLDR Self-limiting narratives are controlling you. You can break free of them by reprogramming your brain to stop believing them by reciting positive affirmations that contradict those stories. I do this by posting these affirmations on my phone’s lock screen. Now, every time I pick up my phone, I see an affirmation that counters a … Continue reading Reprogramming your brain (the easy way)
Horticulture Capitalism
I recently finished reading “How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century” by the late Olin Wright. His premise is that capitalism is an inherently “rapacious system”, which must be dismantled, smashed, or otherwise eroded. Afterwards, I thought of Churchill’s old quote about democracy. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed … Continue reading Horticulture Capitalism
Introducing GPT Explorer
Today Cathy, Zain, and I open sourced GPT Explorer. Explorer is a power tool for GPT-3 experimentation with full history, sharing, and the community’s best-practices built-in. If you’re just getting started with GPT-3 or don’t want to build out your own boilerplate codebase, try the hosted version: Explorer. The source is available here. A UI for experimentation To get good results … Continue reading Introducing GPT Explorer
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On Twitter
"Startups sometimes talk about a technology looking for a problem. This is worse. It is an ideology desperately looking for a problem."
– @plibin re: Web3
https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/metaverse-web3-propaganda-phil-libin
In 2019, @wonjunnn and @mark_miyashita realized that the entire moving industry was still running on pen and paper. So they started @Supermoveco to digitize it.
Today, they announced their series A!
And they're hiring - https://jobs.lever.co/supermove
We’re excited to announce our $18M Series A funding led by @a16z! Read our announcement written by our founders, Wonjun Jeong and Mark Miyashita. https://supermove.co/blog/seriesa-a16z
This essay I found posits that the Bay Area has actually been so productive in this regard because of the storied tension between two opposing and prominent cultures: the hippies and the techies https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2012/10/sixlines-essay3/
Reality is a hallucination I'm having, but I'm a hallucination you're having.
These are the good old days.
can I surrender my HIPAA rights so I can just text my doctor please
8/ The only sense I can make of it, is that there is a huge mismatch between peoples stated and revealed preferences right now, and we're operating in an environment of virtue signaling and fear of speaking up.
In England “booster shot” is spelled “borchestershire shot”
too busy at work to use PTO to take a vacation
BUT
today i realized I can use PTO to say "hey sorry im on PTO" and not go to meetings or talk to people and catch up on work