Be curious, not judgemental
summary
Wins a Bolt hackathon and won $100,000 which pays off a parents’ mortgage, out of 128,000 participants and 9,575 projects; builds a meal-planning app called Weight Coach using web‑container tooling from StackBlitz, Bolt’s platform, and voice agents from 11 Labs; chronicles 12 videos of the build, documents failures (broken env vars, migrations, flaky buttons) and lessons about AI-assisted workflows; traces how curiosity steers moves between Shopify, Coinbase and Sentry and why experimenting beats dismissing new tools.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:30Career reflections
- 8:44Judgment in hiring
- 13:19Curiosity in leadership
- 17:15Crypto experiences
- 23:23Judgment on tools
- 27:18AI hackathon
- 35:49Standing out in tech
- 43:02Overcoming self-judgment
- 48:24Q&A
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