Thanks for sharing — that sounds like an amazing experience.

It’s interesting how similar opportunities can happen in totally different places.

Glad it turned into something meaningful for you.

I’m glad the story itself was enjoyable regardless of political alignment.

Thank you.

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.

Thanks for reading! I wanted to tell the story as it happened, rather than turning it into a set of principles or advice.

Happy to hear you enjoyed the ride :)

Thank you! It was chaotic but fun to build something real under that time pressure.

Glad you enjoyed the read!

Thanks for the question!

I’d prefer not to dive into policy positions here — the main focus of my post was the product-building process and what it was like to work behind the scenes.

You write:

> I want to see what it would look like if someone like this had more power and responsibility.

You were attracted to his campaign because of his policy positions, which most people see as dangerous and offensive.

Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it :)

I’m not familiar with the situation you’re referring to, but my experience was different.

From my side, the collaboration was positive and genuinely respectful.

Just wanted to share another perspective.

That isn’t necessarily “different”. Someone with truly horrifying opinions can be genuinely respectful and pleasant to work with, unless you fall into the wrong social group. (I know nothing about this guy’s opinions and don’t have much reason to care, either, I just feel the need to point out how people tend to overestimate the alignment between “nice people” and “people I agree with”. Much as they do the one between “nice people” and “people it’s worthwhile to listen to”, but that’s a story for another day.)

@mananaysiempre I completely agree with your point.

> Someone with truly horrifying opinions can be genuinely respectful and pleasant to work with, unless you fall into the wrong social group.

This is how psychopathic tyranny and bullying works "I'm nice and friendly so long as I get my way." I worked with a manager just like this. Super friendly guy until something doesn't go his way and he'll rip you apart in front of everyone. Also the kind of person who manipulates everyone into doing all his work for him while he spent most of his time looking at sports cars and tattooed women on line. Being overly nice and friendly in a position of power is a HUGE red flag for me because it inevitably is a front for manipulation.

That’s a thing, but not the thing I was talking about.

I was talking about the existence of people who are just nice and pleasant in the normal healthy manner in their ordinary lives, except they hold some opinions that you (or I, and possibly even not both of us) would find horrifying.

(That description actually applies to most people who have ever lived, but that they exist among our contemporaries is both more stark and more important. It makes me much more averse to being $NOTNICE to people who are $WRONG, because I don’t think I would want to live when people habitually were, and perhaps even thought it was virtuous to be, not nice to those they know are in some way morally wrong.)

Thousands of serial rapists, murderers, and abusers also have the ability to be very positive, funny, and genuinely respectful to others when they choose to.

Would you like to share another perspective for them too?

Louis CK and Genghis Khan were both very effective in their respective lines of work and I'll die on that hill. And while I'm at it, Bill Clinton was an alright president (though the surrounding administration would likely be looked at as a bunch of snakes if not for the even worse Bush2 cabinet that followed).

Heck, Lincoln wanted to ship 'em back to Africa and Henry Ford was a moralizing anti-semite. Nobody is clean under a microscope.

Both Lincoln and Ford were right.

Thank you so much for reading it. I’m really glad you enjoyed it.