I've been a specialty sourdough baker & bakery owner for 15 years. AMA!

Angel Reyes · 6 likes

What is a common myth or piece of popular advice in your field that you completely disagree with?

Mateo Ramírez · 6 likes

The best answer in the thread, honestly

Chloe Davis · 9 likes

Early on, I accidentally deleted a staging database right before a demo. It forced us to write automated idempotent recovery scripts that ended up saving our production cluster months later!

Omar Hassan · 1 likes

anecdote beats theory here

Narin Chai · 5 likes

What was the single hardest hurdle you faced in the early days and how did you push past it? I learned that one the expensive way

Pixel Rider · 5 likes

What was your biggest 'mistake that turned into an unexpected win'? My friend tried it in Cairo and had teh opposite result

Priya Nair · 4 likes

What's the strangest or funniest situation you've found yourself in during your career? The Cairo example makes it feel concrete

Camille Dubois · 2 likes

How do you avoid burnout when working on demanding, open-ended problems?

Brave Panda · 0 likes

Early on, I accidentally deleted a staging database right before a demo. It forced us to write automated idempotent recovery scripts that ended up saving our production cluster months later!

Nusrat Akter · 10 likes

I am curious what changed your mind

Tomás Gómez · 4 likes

I protect the first 3 hours of my morning from all meetings and messages. No Slack, no email, no news. Just deep focused execution on the one hard problem of the day

Rohan Mehta · 2 likes

What does your daily routine look like when you're in the deep work phase? My only addition is to make the first step visible

Brave Atlas · 2 likes

How do you balance creative freedom with practical sustainability? This would have saved me a lot of trial and error

Omar Hassan · 2 likes

what was the single hardest hurdle you faced in the early days, and how did you push past it? That is where the boring checklist helps

Angel Reyes · 1 likes

what's the strangest or funniest situation you've found yourself in during your career? I keep a note about news for exactly this reason

Noah Miller · 1 likes

how do you avoid burnout when working on demanding, open-ended problems? The Mumbai example makes it feel concrete

Aoife Murphy · 1 likes

what was your biggest 'mistake that turned into an unexpected win'? It sounds small, but teh recipe matters

Aoife Murphy · 1 likes

what is a common myth or piece of popular advice in your field that you completely disagree with? It sounds small, but the prototype matters

Brave Panda · 0 likes

Which tools or resources do you consider absolutely indispensable to your craft? It reminds me of a very specific conversation near the train station