Susie Conley

• Status quo should not be underestimated, nor always messed with.

10:25 - 13:49 - About company he works for, Temporal. Shawn sees workflow engines as an under-explored area of custom database. Descript is a customer of Temporal. They found him via his blog. He came in as employee #17. And was the kind of job that doesn’t exist until you are talking together and you create the role yourself. Shawn believes 20% of... See more

55:00 - It’s pretty common to have these two-sided integrations. For example, building on Slack, and also on Google Calendar. You are 2x-ing your risk. Because you have to keep up with changes happening on both platforms. And either platform may steal the idea as well. But those 2-sided integrations can also be a goldmine niche.

Shawn's tip for when to Specialize vs Generalize: Specialize in peace time and generalize in war time. Having a mastery of a domain is highest reward. Yet when you are on a small team, that's usually when you generalize, because no one else is there to do things.

Ramses Career origins to becoming community manager for Logseq, a notetaking software as "open-source knowledge base." In learning many languages, Ramses has built skills in community building and in notetaking. Language learning hugely benefits from community support. Now there are new tools in flashcards & notetaking as well. These factors al... See more

• Independent research lab, such as Inc & Switch, where they try to research for commercialization on a longer timeline by cutting off the corporation part of the equation

• 31:00 The aim is to bring the best parts across such as zero latency for your digital pen to respond, but then expanding the potential of what you can do now that you’re in a computing / virtual space.