sam!

Hello,
I'm Samuel!

SWE at Traveloka & building something stealth 🤫

I write code, break things, fix them, and occasionally remember to commit my changes. Currently obsessed with making the LLM think better, one thinking node at a time.

Currently listening to:
(for the 847th time today)

Today I Learned

Conviction is Contagious

Conviction is contagious. When you believe in something, you can make others believe in it too.

Human is built for Failure.

Taking this from Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, the human brain is designed to always be comfortable towards the system 1. This is why we are biased towards the quick wins and the easy way out.

Good Reads

The Art of Showing Up

by A Life Engineered

"Showing up MATTERS."

Substack

You and Your Research

by Sam Altman

"Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration"

Blog

Optimism Shape Reality

by Alenxadr Wang

"The scope influences how long things takes. When we say things will take a long time, they will take a long time. When we say things will take a short amount of time, they will take less time. "

Substack