Hi! 👋
My name is Lev. I live in San Francisco and work in the tech industry. I am passionate about building teams and helping people solve complex business problems. I'm currently working at Dagger where I get to work with an amazing team and spend my time helping developers remove toil from CI/CD.
Outside of work I enjoy cooking, eating, chess, reading, writing, music, peloton, traveling, and public transit. I spend a little bit of time every day studying Chinese. I am surrounded by great friends and a wonderful family. I am traveling on a journey through space and time with Aosheng, who is a brilliant designer and my favorite person in the world.
Recent Posts
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Money Can't Buy Me Intro
We know that money cant buy you love, but could it buy you a warm intro for sales? I saw PartnerHQ launch on YC today. The idea makes sense, but feels like its doomed from the start because it relies on people being willing to burn their network for a quick buck. I’ve seen a few versions of this type of marketplace in the past but have not seen any success.
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Truly Artificial
I’ve always been a bit turned off by the required thumbnail image that you normally see attached to a blog post. This is common in most blog themes, and is especially common in corporate blogs. My objection at the time was that the image was usually some generic nonsense that had nothing to do with the content of the post. I feel that we may have over-corrected with the magic of AI.
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Joining the POSSE club
I’ve heard about the term POSSE but I’ve recently been inspired by a Tom’s new project that led me down a bit of a rabbit hole to this wonderful guide on how to leave social media. That site is full of so many amazing things that I had never hard of including a full classic myspace clone that threw me into a nostalgia hole for a few hours. The last stop on my most recent trip down the rabbit hole was this concept of POSSE.
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北京
这是我的第一汉语【blog post】。 我会一点点汉语,所以我会写【for practice】。 今天我们在北京。我在酒店吃了早饭,然后我喝了冰咖啡和玩了电脑游戏。然后我们去了天安门【square】, 买了几个东西,吃了好好吃北京菜。北京很漂亮。 明天我们去【parks】, 吃【peking duck】。我喜欢北京。 – all the english words I don’t actually know yet, i’ll fill these back in and correct once I learn them. feedback from 丈夫: 第一 → 第一个 喝了冰咖啡和玩了电脑游戏 → 喝了冰咖啡,玩了电脑游戏。its more natural to use a comma to separate these two ideas, same with the next sentence basically dont use 和 to connect ideas in the same way that you do in 英语。 好好吃 → 好好吃的 要去 when describing the future
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Catastrophic Nextcloud Upgrade
I neglected by Nextcloud installation so much that I found myself in 2024 running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, PHP 7.2, and Nextcloud 20. All the upgrade windows came and went and I blissfully continued running an incredibly insecure installation. Last night I came to my senses and ran the do-release-upgrade command twice, from 18.04 to 20.04 and then to 22.04 LTS. Everything mostly worked like a charm and the server came back online.