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Oh boy, if you think dedicated devices don't have the same problem of frustrating updates, then I got some bad news for you. I still remember how annoyed I was when Kindle update added recommendations (=ads) on my home menu.
Around the world it's quite common to have an extended family serve as a support network, especially around childcare. You're right though that maintaining no-screen when your child is with others is harder though, and finding how people deal with that was my main motivation for making this thread.
Seems like we both got very similar book tastes. And to recepriociate, I think you might enjoy: - Pretty much everything by Ted Chiang, but especially Understand - Asimov's Nightfall - Greg Egan's Reasons to be happy
On a personal note, it's also something that worries me for the day when I'll finally have my own children.
I wouldn't want them exposed to modern cyber-addictions from young age, but at the same time, I'm not sure how to protect them, when I can expect that all their peers will be on whatever social app's gonna be popular at that time.
Like, is the current mess going to hurt Twitter? Definitely. Does it mean that Twitter will become completely marginalized and in 2-5 years nobody will ever user it? Seems unlikely to me.
Unless some other competitor kills it, I don't think Musk alone can completely take it the company underwater (though not for a lack of trying!). I suspect we can expect a slow decay, not a sudden self-destruction.
I'm sorry, I know it's completely offtopic, but the sentence "laborer who had an enthusiasm for physical labor [in a factory]" completely cracked me up. I guess it's part of deeper enthusiasm for not being unemployed.
People don't have unlimited ability to learn new skills. Training takes time, and someone who spent several years honoring their craft won't be able to pick up a new skill overnight.
On top of that, people have preferences regarding their work – even if someone has the ability to do a different work, they might find it less meaningful and less satysfing.
Finally, don't ignore the speed at which AI capabilities improve. Compare GPT-1 with the current model, and how quickly we got here. Eventually we'll get to a point where humans just won't be able to catch up quickly enough.
Not a fan of Musk myself, but yeah, he actually seems to be an extremely productive person. Whether this productivity is applied in the right place is another discussion.
Agreed. At the same time though, I think worker protection is an area where US could benefit a lot from extra laws – obviously there's a point where too much would be suffocating, but it's not at that point yet.
Like, people with skills to run an attack are also more likely to actually enjoy participating here. It'd be like someone trying to take down Stack Overflow. Even if you can do that – especially if you're the kind of person who could do that – you'd probably be shooting yourself in the foot, right?
Especially the map on this article is interesting – insulting religion can lead you to prison in Germany, Poland and Slovakia.
This situation is just a symptom of a deeper problem.
And while it's not exactly a boardgame, this year I finally got into DM'ing D&D campaign – it's more time consuming that I expected, but very satysfying.
On shorter timescales, I think it makes most sense to just... not break off. Obviously you can't always control that, but I've found it's better to schedule several hours reserved for deep work, rather than try to fit it here and there.
For anything longer, basically it's documentation. One approach that works well for me, is creating a new Notion page for each project, and keeping short status + next steps at the top, so whenever I come back to it I can easily see where I've been.
(In general, it's usually better to start smaller as a test, rather than committing to a permanent, bigger thing.)
Like, to me it seems you're entering a very problematic relationship, but again, the only info I have is your post. Maybe they are a highly competent, pro-social person that would support you a lot. Based on what you wrote, to me it seems more like they are preying on your desperation to find clients.
On top of that, even if they are a great person, your agreement is very vague and can lead to a lot of bad feelings down the road, on both sides: what if they have completely different expectations than you? You seem to expect them to be your main source of new customers, are you sure they see themselves exactly the same way? And all are your team members on the same page?
I would very strongly advise you to give them only finder's fee on business they bring. If they are not okay with that, then are they going to treat your consultancy as seriously as all the other co-founders you have? If not, I would avoid this entire relationship.
20% might not sound like a big deal while you're still starting – but to put it into perspective, if you work only weekdays, that means every Monday you and every single person on your team are going to be doing unpaid work for that client.
If they were to bring something valuable to the table, then maybe it'd be worth considering. But it sounds like they're just giving you vague promises of bringing unspecified amount of other business?
I think the right way to make that kind of relationship work would be to pay some finder's fee. But even them, I'd be wary of doing anything with that client – obviously there might be more than you hadn't mentioned, but from this post it seems like they're just interested in taking advantage of you. You don't want to be doing business with someone who's out to get you.
EDIT: One more thing that stood out to me. I don't want this to seem offensive, so please take it in a I-want-to-help-you -and-think-it's-important spirit: it seems like you're starting a consultancy without really having any idea where to find clients, right?
This is something that you absolutely need to address with the rest of your founders. Maybe you need to bring a good salesperson on board, maybe some of you need to learn sales, but you definitely shouldn't just go into it without any plan – otherwise you don't have a business, you have a gamble.
I think setting up some barriers to entry/usage is worth looking into. I wouldn't mind paying $5 to create a throwaway account, and that might be enough of a barrier to block most spammers.
So if someone from US actually wants to go through the trouble to save $3, well, at least they're unlikely to be a bot.
I've kinda fell into that trap myself during the pandemic. Both my team and our customers are really cool, and I spend a lot of time on calls, so I didn't feel any need to meet people outside of work.
But then I took some time off and realized I barely have any friends in my city. I fixed it since then and met some great people, but at the time it wasn't a pleasant experience.
Gatekeeping caring about animal welfare leads to more animal suffering, not less.
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/jailbreaking-the-chatgpt-on-re...
On a bigger note, monetizing search without ads seem to be a pretty tricky business model. Especially if you want to move beyond being a niche product; even an average HN reader would be hard to convince to pay for a regular subscription, so with the general public I can't imaging the hassle.
What are other ways search engines could monetize without taking money either from users or from people that want to show something to them?
Like, yeah, everyone did pretty poorly during Covid, but using the pandemic to strengthen Fidesz hold on their country is another level.
I don't think there's anything melodramatic about calling Apple out on it.
Maybe it's something that you should discuss with your team leader? Obviously depends on your specific situation, but if you can't spend a few hours focusing deeper on a single project, it seems to me it's more of a management fault.
I'd probably bring this up as "Hey, can you help me figure out the best approach here? I often get stuck waiting for approval. I switch to next thing when that happens, but it requires lots of context switching. Think we can greenlight some things in advance or set some other structure so I can work more effectively?"