Four years ago, I was bored and talking to a friend of mine, joking about starting a scientific equipment business in a small niche (geophysics) where there was effectively only one competitor in our national market. Easy to disrupt. To my surprise, he said yes and we went all in. Still just the two of us, but I guess I didn't have to apply for that job, just have a fortuitous connection. Now I do the science parts and he does the business parts and it works great! Probably we will hire this year though, and it's very likely that LinkedIn will be the place we advertise.

The last tool I used? Does email count? ;) Ground Penetrating Radar.

Uhhh, I mean the only tool I’ve used have been indeed and LinkedIn. I have a baller resume though- not in the sense that it has lotsa good qualifications and work history on it, it does have some, but the automated filters and shit love it

I was extremely overqualified and had automated my work as a contractor and when that was discovered instead of getting fired I got hired upwards to be a support agent for the app for the entire company running them.

I dunno. Jobs and applications are weird. I think it's mostly on knowing people.

Simple text editor. To create failing test by hand, closing in on a bug in the code.

Successful use: DeepLabCut.

Unsuccessful use: Keypoint-MoSeq

What if I'm a tool?

Hydraulic machinist, inside micrometer