Paul Butler
@paulgb
Building http://forevervm.com and http://jamsocket.com at @JamsocketHQ
Unpopular opinion, but private equity is not a particularly problematic capital structure and the vilification of it is bizarre. I’d bet that most failures blamed on PE are root caused by mismanagement prior to PE involvement, and would have failed either way.
This is a really cool role. Lots of impactful optimization work to be done!
This role is still open! Looking for a “GPU trader” who can work with me and optimize our resource management. Someone who loves statistics and algos and probably has a background in trading or data science.
you know which other astronomer got publicly dragged for focusing on the wrong body
Me responding 0 on every NPS poll because I don’t randomly shill b2b saas products to my friends.
Something that took me a while to grasp about NYC politics is that candidates can get away with being extremely progressive and nobody bats an eyelash as long as they aren’t also cool.
I’ve long been a fan of what Erik, @akshat_b, and the team at Modal have been building. Beyond excited to be joining them!
Super excited that @JamsocketHQ joining @modal_labs with founders @paulgb and @taylorbaldwin. We've had many talks about virtualization and infrastructure with the Jamsocket team over the years. Looking forward to building some crazy stuff together.
We’re thrilled to share that @JamsocketHQ is joining @modal_labs! We’ve known @paulgb and @taylorbaldwin for years now, and deeply admire their technical vision and execution in everything they’ve built. They’re cooking up exciting things at Modal already, more on this soon :)
Some personal news!
Big news today: Jamsocket is joining @modal_labs!
Oh you live in New York? Wow, I could never live there. Do you avoid the subway after dark? I saw the ball drop on TV and couldn’t believe how crowded it was! Not my cup of tea.
Now that Soham is blacklisted whoever hires him will get him exclusively. Be greedy when others are fearful etc
Don’t forget to occasionally Google your enemies and click all of the links that aren’t theirs to make their SEO worse.
If you’re thinking about leaving NYC over Mamdani’s election, I want to help! DM me pics of your apartment and what you pay in rent and what’s the earliest date I can move in.
Really seems like if Garcia had run again she would be the obvious frontrunner for NYC mayor right now. Am I crazy?
Say what you will about Twitter under Elon’s reign, but community notes are so much more fun these days.
Watch @paulgb talk about CRDTs as a temporal data structure. youtu.be/b4fDzmNE50U?si…
Wake up babe a new @jlazaroff just dropped jakelazaroff.com/words/homomorp…
A funny thing about the NYC mayoral race is that there are two candidates named Adams and nobody ever specifies which they are talking about because it’s almost always clear from the context.
If you're nervous about public speaking, I highly recommend getting an emotional support kangaroo.
"CRDTs as a temporal data structure" @paulgb gave a brilliant talk, explaining how to use the Yjs CRDT toolkit to store temporal data.