Lex Fridman

The very framework, the very programming language that's not supposed to scale, and it did, and it did so incredibly well, seamlessly, and still maintained the beauty underlying that implementation.

There's this write-up I recently read about how they were actually able to make that happen.

There's so many interesting details, including the fact that, as DHH talked about, that it was a modular monolith, and it was scaled horizontally in these very interesting modular ways.

Again, that's probably outside of the scope of what I'm supposed to be doing here.

Just another chance to celebrate the incredible engineering behind Shopify.

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And boy, in this episode, do we delve into the dark aspects of human nature and the human mind.

It is so fascinating.

And what's also, I think, inspiring to me about Julia's work is that she approaches every situation, every human being with a deep empathy, realizing that each of us have the capacity for good and evil, and so much of who we are is shaped by our environment.

That's a real honest way to deal with cases where humans do horrible stuff to each other, realizing that they're not somehow different than us, that we too, all of us, are capable of doing these kinds of things.

And when you think of it that way, you can more honestly and rigorously analyze why people do what they do.

And yes, it is a reminder how complicated the human mind is.

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