Ben Dicken(@BenjDicken):Jeff is the reason for my first ever viral tweet. 2 years ago, with probably ~150 followers, I shared about my B-tree visualization tool (eventually turning into the PlanetScale blog). He saw it, liked it, and shared with his audience. Sounds silly, but a little thing like that can change your trajectory. How could one of the most intelligent people in the world think something I built was actually cool? At the time, sounded crazy. Build something useful. Share it. Who knows whose desk it will come across. Oh, and congrats on Discovery Loop!

2026.08.06 00:32

Jeff is the reason for my first ever viral tweet. 2 years ago, with probably ~150 followers, I shared about my B-tree visualization tool (eventually turning into the PlanetScale blog). He saw it, liked it, and shared with his audience. Sounds silly, but a little thing like that can change your trajectory. How could one of the most intelligent people in the world think something I built was actually cool? At the time, sounded crazy. Build something useful. Share it. Who knows whose desk it will come across. Oh, and congrats on Discovery Loop!