okay, supergenius. Here's where we're at

We're not a normal business. We pay unreasonably well, what we ask of you is unreasonable, therefor we're looking for unreasnoable people. I (founder, CTO) don't care about your resume. I mostly care that you've built something that I think is impressive. You'd have unusual ownership, unusual accountability, unusual 'be a person' time. I'm going to give you a lot of rope, make sure you have every possible resource, then ask you to take full responsibility to what happens to that rope. That is not for everyone, and frankly, it is a likely departure from most of life so far. Okay, I'm going to split the sections below into odd categories. Read them and see if anything stands out.

Interest map 00110101 01001001

Listings

This list changes. This is what we are currently interested in

Listing slot 01

the toolsmith

You notice problems and build durable solutions for them, constantly. You're a proper geek, like, read 2600/phrack/hacker news in your spare time. Know what a byte is, but actually. You think most software engineers don't actually know how a computer works, cause they don't. You naturally think in invariants, and can exlain why they are there. You can parse value from hype in a second, are comfortable thinking through complex systems, know that you can get a lot done with AI, and you're not above that, but you also know when it might be time to write something by hand.

Listing slot 02

the data-ist

You built an S3 pipeline when you were 13. Trino, MinIO, S3, clusters. You can manage it all, and ALSO design queries for it all. All those words paint vivid pictures. Comfortable working with petabytes and building analysis systems on top of those bytes?

Listing slot 03

the operator

The only reason you use a calandar is so that other people can also see your schedule. Insane organisational skills. You like people, people like you, in an intuitive / genuine way. Immense capacity to remember your friends birthdays (come on?). Venue coms, operational management, almost a COO kind of role.

Context

Task based hiring

If I'm interested, you'll receive a task. You'll have 2 weeks to complete the task. You'll receive $10K for doing it, regardless of whether you get the job. This keeps my bar high for who I actually want to do the task, and also makes it not feel like wasted time for you, should you not get the job. It'll be the core of the interview. More on that if we actually speak.