"So you can think really big thoughts and the leverage of having those big thoughts is just suddenly expanded enormously. I had this tweet, whatever, two years ago where I said 90% of my skills just went to zero dollars and 10% of my skills just went up a thousand X.
And this is exactly what I'm talking about. So Having a vision, being able to set milestones towards that vision, keeping track of a design to maintain the levels or control the levels of complexity as you go forward. Those are hugely leveraged skills now.
compared to I know where to put the ampersands and the stars and the brackets in Rust. You know, I'm programming in every language under the sun. And I just kind of don't care. I'm learning by osmosis. I'm learning about the languages. But, you know, and I was a language guy. I loved languages and the details of languages."
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