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🌊💌 letters from the soul

My engineers are always surprised that what I want is much simpler than what they thought I want. (I think this applies to every area of my life actually.)

it feels weird to be approached by matchmakers I am not interested in being part of someone else’s product suite. it assumes I am interested in prestige metric checkboxes… less conveniently, just like god and satan, I am interested in souls and if I am to be the product, I can run my own distribution process (eg fundraising) !

what they are building is cool, and I really hope they pull it off! but... the fundamental issue is at the API layer; at worst, you end up with a file system API of unpredictable performance and terrible tail latency, and at best, you end up with a storage API with different guarantees from the object storage API - that would be a huge success, esp. if you can pull off maintaining different guarantees at scale calling it a file system will always be wrong, at least until the network can provide the same guarantees as disk