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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 02/06/2026

Yesterday I woke up in the middle of the night, sweating, heart racing. I grabbed my phone and immediately bought anthropig.com. Now I have two questions: - What should I build with it? - And will I go to jail if I do?

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 25/05/2026

I wrote a new article, exploring the consequences of pain and pleasure on LLMs. I had a lot of fun writing it, so don't take it too seriously. paoramen.fika.bar/agentic-plea...

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 24/05/2026

Why is everyone talking about 100 eggs developer

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 21/05/2026

I can't believe it... Handinger can play wordle? yeah, and is pretty good at it!

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 17/03/2026

Can’t believe the whole economy depends on these hands

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 27/01/2026

Writing tip #18 Opening with a pronoun delays meaning and creates tension. That move is called prolepsis. It’s everywhere in speech, and striking in writing. Use it to land strong first sentences.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 08/01/2026

Writing tip #17 Act don't tell. Don't describe a feeling, use an action instead.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 07/01/2026

Writing tip #16 Juxtapose contrasting ideas in a parallel structure. This is often used to presenting an "obvious" truth in an impactful way.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 31/12/2025

Writing tip #15 Slice sentences sharply across expectation and payoff. It creates momentum.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 26/12/2025

Writing tip #14 Dialogue is action disguised as talk. Don't describe the scene, let the characters verbalize it.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 22/12/2025

Writing tip #13 Polyptotons are a neat trick used by Jesus, Shakespeare, and John Lennon, in that order. Repeat a root word in different grammatical forms to make sentences more memorable. PS: The polyptoton chapter in Elements of Eloquence is one of the most hilarious texts I have ever read.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 19/12/2025

Writing tip #12 Verbs trapped as nouns suck life out of sentences.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 18/12/2025

Writing tip #11 Even small paragraphs can be stories.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 17/12/2025

Unique opportunity to win the prestigious “I was once right on the Internet” prize. We just launched an A/B test. Which variant wins? Why?

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 16/12/2025

Writing tip #9 Stop hedging your words. If you want to say something, say it without “sort of”, “kind of”, “maybe”. Hard one for me. I usually write to explore, so I’m never fully sure of my own words.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 16/12/2025

“Talk to users,” they say. Sure. Nothing can hurt me. Six weeks later, I’m still emotionally recovering.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 15/12/2025

Writing tip #8 Specific nouns are easier to visualize than abstract ones.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 12/12/2025

Writing tip #7 Surprise the reader to keep them engaged. Never let them know what you will say next.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 11/12/2025

Writing tip #6 ~Today I would like to talk about~ the warm up cough. Just say what you want to say. Don't foreplay with your readers.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 10/12/2025

Writing tip #5 Endings are memory points. Weight goes last.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 08/12/2025

Writing tip #4 Using similar grammatical patterns for similar ideas, creates flow and cohesion.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 05/12/2025

Writing tip #3 Sharp moments deserve short sentences. Slow moments deserve longer ones. Rhythm reveals meaning.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 04/12/2025

Writing tip #2 “To be” sentences are boring. Swap them for actions that move.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 03/12/2025

Writing is a skill you can brute force. While building Fika, I’m teaching myself to write by obsessively reading, listening, and dissecting everything I can. For the next 30 days, I’ll share what I'm learning, one writing tip per day. Writing tip #1 Prefer concrete verbs over abstract summaries.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 01/12/2025

I've noticed people use AI in two completely different ways: 1. Draw the two circles 2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl I'm fully convinced the first one wins every time. When you draw the circles yourself, you’re forced to think. Otherwise, you just keep pulling the lever hoping for a jackpot.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 26/11/2025

I've just finished my third and final article about hiring. This one is about scaling recruiting, operationally. Most teams struggle because their process can’t handle volume. So I break down: • interview bandwidth • conversion rates • how to model org charts paoramen.fika.bar/how-to-scale...

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 12/11/2025

I just wrote my most detailed article ever. It breaks down the entire recruiting pipeline I used to hire 150+ engineers with a single recruiter. From lead generation to closing: every step, tricks, questions, templates... If you think hiring engineers is hard, read this!

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 12/11/2025

"Generative AI is so good, you can't tell anymore what images are real or not" I present you, the 4x3 rubik cube.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 10/11/2025

I want more human-written content on the Internet. So bad that I hand-drew this entire animation, frame by frame, just to make you click on the damn button.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 28/10/2025

I can vividly hear the conversation between the growth PM and the product designer: "I don't care about your stupid padding. It's bigger, it converts more."

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 23/09/2025

Earlier this year I dipped my toes into game design. It taught me a brutal truth: Tutorials are the hardest design problem. The best ones don’t explain: they let you play. I’ve rebuilt Fika’s onboarding with the same principle: No walkthroughs. No walls of text. You learn by doing.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 16/09/2025

The tech industry once revengefully belonged to nerds: kids bullied for being bad at sports but good at math. That’s changed. Now broccoli-haired weight lifters flood YC with AI startups. What’s left for the next generation of nerds?

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 15/09/2025

Fika doesn’t even have a logo. I went digging for inspiration in old zines, risograph prints, tolkien's watercolors, pryca and the moomins. No relation among those items other than vibes. Here are some of the ideas that came out. Anything worth exploring further?

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 12/09/2025

Interactive articles are awesome. They turn abstract concepts into something you can see and play with. That’s now possible on fika. Authors can drop in interactive Snippets directly in their posts. I used it to run a double pendulum… and Doom. fika.bar/paoramen/can...

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 10/09/2025

The new iPhone lineup feels like Pro = masculine, Air = feminine. Are we quietly sliding back into gendered marketing?

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 09/09/2025

I'm sorry Apple but no, you are not Teenage Engineering.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 09/09/2025

The next version of Fika will have interactive snippets! This means that you will be able to create interactive articles with some dynamic blocks. Why am I building this? Honestly, for myself. I'm writing an article about hiring, and I want to show how an org-chart simulator.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 07/09/2025

Atlassian acquiring The browser company.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 31/07/2025

AIconomics in a nutshell: The last hour I sold $120 (I really did!) A day has 24 h. A year has 365 days. $120 * 24h/d * 365d/year = $1.051.200/year That's 1M ARR in one hour!!!

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 16/07/2025

Distribution is king. No, most engineers don't use Cursor, but Copilot. The same as most companies run on Teams, not Slack. Never bet against MSFT.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 15/07/2025

Today I've implemented import/export for bookmarks and feeds at Fika. I was positively impressed that exporting all my ~6k bookmarks worked instantly, when most cloud-based applications take forever (if they implement export at all). Another win for local-first!

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 15/07/2025

Javascript tip: When a `map` returns null values, we often want to filter these values out. Most people use `map` + `filter`, but it's good to remember that you can also use `flatMap` and return `[]` instead of null.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 12/07/2025

One thing I always miss from Rails is the nice SQL logging. I've just built a similar logger for @drizzleORM I've got quite close, except the duration which can't be done since drizzle logs the query before it executes it. gist.github.com/masylum/d081...

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 09/07/2025

Looking for a job? Or maybe you’ve been inspired by Soham Parekh? Automate job search using n8n and Handinger. The workflow pulls listings from multiple job portals, evaluates how well each offer matches your profile and expectations, and sends a curated daily email. handinger.com/blog/soham-b...

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 26/06/2025

I wrote a blog post about how to use Handinger to extract information from websites using Google Sheets. Probably the easiest way to do web scraping I've ever seen. From a list of emails, get a screenshot and also a summary from their company website. handinger.com/blog/web-scr...

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 11/06/2025

I'm introducing more options to Handinger, and I can't offer a flat price anymore. This is going to be the new pricing. What do you think?

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 28/05/2025

Little known secret: Half of the S&P 500’s total value depends on just these two pages.

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 27/05/2025

New interview question for backend developers: Implement a service that opens a transaction, does a bunch of heavy updates on parallel, and commits the transaction once they are all done. Language: Whatever you want. Database: PostgreSQL Can you solve it without asking an AI?

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Pao Ramen @paoramen.com · 22/05/2025

Today I realized that fika.bar already has 1000 users!

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