How should Selbi do continuous delivery for our React Native app? Background Jordan and I have been working on Selbi for a couple months and just pushed a beta release (🎉🎉…🔥😮…🎉). Prior to Selbi I was at Palantir and one of the things I miss most is the large number of…

I applied late to the YCombinator S16 batch and was invited to a 10 minute chat by Dalton Caldwell. It is broken into 3 parts written at different times: a few minutes before, a few minutes after the conversation and a few hours later, after digesting the results. Here are…

Below are the more interesting parts of my late application to YC16 directly copy-pasted (and slightly reformatted) below. The idea has evolved since this original submission but please feel free to comment. Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing the founders. (Follow the Video Guidelines.) Please tell us about an interesting project, preferably outside of class or work, that two or more of you created together. Include urls if possible.

I highly recommend this book for any engineer but particularly for a software engineer transitioning to a management role. I heard about it from a coworker when he organized a reading group. Unfortunately, I my calendar conflicted with the reading group but I’m very glad I read the book anyways. …

If you are a millennial it’s likely that this story is familiar: you are in at least one group chat (maybe several depending on how cool you are). The group chat represents a social clique you belong to and you identify with deeply. This is how you organize but also…