Shawn Price
- Grew up in the Comox Valley, BC 🇨🇦
- Live in Vancouver with my wife and son
- Have built open source software and startups for nearly two decades
- Trained Co-Active coach
- Worked with a number of startups as a Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, and CTO
- Experimenting with fun things AI can do
- Periodically writing on this website
- Co-founded and building a technology startup to help teams experience better meetings
- Building Whisp to help people create, discover, test and share great LLM system prompts.
- Placed in the top 4% of the 8090 Top Coder Challenge
- Volunteer Product Builder with Build Canada
“Incentives matter”
— Tyler Cowen (and all other economists) “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
— Helen Keller “Most people overestimate risk and underestimate reward.”
— Sam Altman “Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.”
— Warren Buffett “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.”
— U.S. Navy SEALs “Anything not forbidden by the laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.”
— David Deutsch “The mimetic nature of desire accounts for the fragility of human relations.”
— René Girard “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
— Alan Kay “There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship-be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles-is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.”
— David Foster Wallace “You can go to shawarma plus by yourself and it can be so sad, but if you go with the right people, it can be life changing.”
— @internetvin “Hell is meeting the best version that you could have become of your life.”
— Tobi Lütke