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Building ref.tools, previously @figma & @PalantirTech
San Francisco, CA ref.tools Joined June 2015
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Today, we're announcing @ref_tools open beta. Ref is your team’s shared space to decide what agents build before any code gets written.

We’ve raised $4M from @villageglobal, @Daybreak_Fund, @tmrohan, @RitualVC, @tonigemayel @barrald @wesmckinn and @bentossell.

Every engineering team is battling the same problem. I call it Velocity Sickness. It's the disconcerting feeling that you're moving fast but not having the impact you expect. It's affecting individuals, teams and especially leaders.

It looks like:
- Too many PRs to merge.
- Brainfry and burnout.
- Engineers running in different directions.
- Critical decisions being made by agents.

The last one is the most dangerous.

At its core, software engineering is about two things: (1) what decisions matter for my system? and (2) making those decisions. When you let agents make critical decisions, you lose ownership of your system and product.

You solve these problems with Ref.

Learn more: ref.tools/blog/ai-broke-…
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Matt Dailey Verified account @reactiverobot
i have a very Berkeley, techno-waldorf view on balancing family life and founder grindset. i'm not great at it (ask my wife lol) but i'm trying

I want to raise helpful kids that turn into humans that want to help others. To do that, I need to actually let them help me with the things I care about

the mental game is accepting that some of the things that could be really fast are going ot take way longer because I'm going to ask for help from my kids

for example, my 4yo is learning letters and i work from home so my last few prompts of the day are often typed by her
Alex Lieberman Verified account @businessbarista 1d
Hill I'll die on: it is entirely possible to be a great entrepreneur & even greater parent/partner.

When I built my first company, I had a Mount Rushmore of entrepreneurs that I looked up to. It included the usual suspects.

I was in awe of what they achieved professionally. The hopeless entrepreneurial romantic in me aspired to be have the garage insight to IPO story that united most of them.

But then I looked at their personal life, and it was largely...concerning.

Divorce. Infidelity. Absent parenting.

I wasn't willing to make the good founder-bad familyman tradeoff, but I didn't see any examples of founders that had shown you can have your cake & eat it too.

This became my new north star as a 2nd time entrepreneur.

Prove to myself (and others) that it's possible to be an A+ familyman & businessman. And in doing so, achieve two things:

1) As @JoshuaKushner says "[...] be excited to go to work and excited to go home."
2) Provide a roadmap for younger founders to "have it all."

While the journey isn't over, I have several insights in my pursuit of filling all cups:

1) It entirely possible to be great at both. 10% of the time things feel like feng shui. 90% of the time you feel an imbalance and are trying to make adjustments to get back to equilibrium.

2) It is absolutely easier for me as a second-time founder to construct myself in a way that I can have the best of both worlds than it was as a first-time founder. Recognizing that privilege is important.

3) If I ever feel like I am being a shitty partner/parent and there's no solution/end in sight, I will drop literally every professional endeavor & get my #1 priority (family) in order.

4) Strong communication with your life & business partner are the foundation for this entire thing to work.

5) I make sure that I get to do wake-up, morning walk, and bedtime with my wife, daughter, and dog unless there are extenuating circumstances.

6) The opportunity cost of my time has never been higher. Not because of my business success. But because every minute i'm spending at work is a minute i'm not spending with my family.

I'll continue to share how I'm approaching my new career mission, but I'm also so encouraged that folks like @mttgrmm, @marcrandolph, and others are painting a picture for crushing work & life.
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