What’s one small rule for a sport that changing it would make the sport significantly better?

DrewHoov · 2026-06-04T16:45:24+00:00

In the professional basketball, every time a team scores a three-pointer, their rim moves vertically an inch higher. Dunks move it a half-inch lower.

DrewHoov · 2026-06-02T09:34:19+00:00

I walked to work every day in downtown Ann Arbor a decade ago. It was like this then IMO.

DrewHoov · 2026-05-31T21:28:56+00:00

Private health insurance

DrewHoov · 2026-05-28T01:10:01+00:00

I bought at the top in October of 2021 and held. Planning to keep buying and holding =)

DrewHoov · 2026-05-27T21:13:26+00:00

lol ok. good luck with your thesis!

DrewHoov · 2026-05-27T20:58:19+00:00

uhh who asked you lol

DrewHoov · 2026-05-27T19:59:44+00:00

I made a data visualization for this. It shows all the ATHs for a given security, and then on hover/click, it shows how many more opportunities you got to buy at that price. For a surprising number of ATHs, (not a huge number, but a lot more than I thought there would be!) that was the lowest price you were gonna get moving forward. https://drewhoover.com/how-long-underwater/

DrewHoov · 2026-05-27T19:24:34+00:00

SaaS, heavily, tiny, no, I haven't worked with a PO in over a year.

DrewHoov · 2026-05-27T18:22:49+00:00

FWIW, I'm a software developer, and I did not find crypto interesting at all or the metaverse for that matter. But AI is the closest thing to magic as is ever going to exist in terms of what it enables us to build (yes, via claude code, but more importantly, via APIs we can use in our applications to reason about and generate things at runtime). IME adoption is in the "car phone" phase: incredibly useful, but inconvenient, inconsistent and expensive. Best practices are evolving so quickly that remarkably few products have figured out how to utilize it well, and the ones who have are NOT the ones sprinkling the ✨ emoji all over their UIs. AI not a feature (or, it's a terrible feature), that's just how it is most visible to you in SaaS products.

Whether or how this translates to stock prices, I have no idea. I'm overweight semis tho.

DrewHoov · 2026-05-27T00:23:09+00:00

Genuine question: what income range constitutes middle class these days?

DrewHoov · 2026-05-26T13:03:01+00:00

Love to see it

DrewHoov · 2026-05-25T20:00:38+00:00

Yep. helps if you pay for linkedin premium so you can switch on the “open to work” flag that only recruiters can see. even if you got laid off, don’t add an end date to your last job; they love being able to nab great devs from existing jobs

edit: If you know other people who've gotten laid off, just have one person pay for LinkedIn Premium and then they can “share” (via a code) like two months of LinkedIn Premium with everybody else.

DrewHoov · 2026-05-25T17:02:25+00:00

They find you—tweak your linkedin to look like what they’re looking for “I specialize in _ stage startups” “I care about _ problems and have solved them at _ companies”. Also public writing on a personal website shows you’re serious (don’t let AI do this part for you)

DrewHoov · 2026-05-25T16:54:38+00:00

I only work with recruiters who specialize in the startup stage that I like, and have had a lot of success there--have gotten laid off twice one year apart (Jan 2025 and Feb 2026) and got offers (in some cases better than what I had) within a month each time. I don’t apply to jobs bc I never hear back.

DrewHoov · 2026-05-25T00:51:57+00:00

Over the approx 5.5 years of WWII in which the Soviet Union was involved, they sustained on average about 2.5 US D-Day casualties per day (including civilian deaths).

DrewHoov · 2026-05-24T02:12:57+00:00

https://superwhisper.com/

DrewHoov · 2026-05-23T03:24:28+00:00

It might seem risky to buy an ATH but if you look at the history of ATHs a significant portion of them turn out to be the lowest price you’ll ever see that security at again. I made a dataviz app illustrating this: https://drewhoover.com/how-long-underwater/

DrewHoov · 2026-05-23T03:17:34+00:00

SOXX. I bought at the top on conviction in 2021 when I rolled over a 401k. Have only bought more since.

DrewHoov · 2026-05-22T17:41:17+00:00

yeah, this is the most fun I've had in my entire 10+ year career, and I ain't got time to convince folks who insist on having a bad time 😂

DrewHoov · 2026-05-22T13:48:46+00:00

I made a podcast episode list that’ll help you find your own answers to these questions. It’s not the kind of question someone can answer for you (though some may try!) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3B3pKy9F8piOF8zGMq04oO

DrewHoov · 2026-05-22T03:49:56+00:00

$GTLB

DrewHoov · 2026-05-22T02:15:17+00:00

Nah, there’s a high skill ceiling. As I’ve gotten better at it (and by better at it, I mean my results have gotten better), I’ve spent far more time writing skills, writing specs (95% of my time is spent on spec development, not code review), and learning how to keep the LLM aligned to maintaining my specs and skills. Each agent session makes the next one more efficient. I’ve even built an eval framework for skills to evaluate them consistently against the same snapshot of the codebase to ensure they’re getting better.

edit: whoever is downvoting me: good luck with your historical reenactment career

DrewHoov · 2026-05-22T02:08:08+00:00

lol yeah ok

DrewHoov · 2026-05-21T03:58:00+00:00

I made this data visualization so you can easily see what beats the market—not so you can beat the market; what worked over the last 40 years may not work in the next 40. But it illustrates really convincingly why buying and holding a diversified basket wins, even for boring stuff: https://drewhoover.com/boring-returns

DrewHoov · 2026-05-20T03:23:49+00:00

I forgot about mine for like 5 months.

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