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Totally agree, I tried to prototype this but the datasets to train ML summarizations from are pretty much all from news articles. Trying to take that model and summaries chats resulted in gibberish for me. The salient take-aways from Chats and other non-factual / loosely structured text seems so dependent on what you care about, summarisation is difficult.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I've been reluctant to do a friends/family round since reading some advice about conflating friends with investors. I would prefer investors who would use their experience/contacts/etc to help encourage a return on their investment, and also to keep friends and family impartial from the success/failure of the company.

A bank loan may be an option.

> It's like knowing you have these traps to avoid, but if you just keep one very close, that's the only one you need to consider

Love that roundup of this technique. Coincidentally enough my dad also used this same aid to quit smoking. I saw some slight sense but never enough to unpack it myself.

It sounds like you're determined and self motivated, you're off to a great start! Nice work on getting downloads with your Android apps!

Since you seem to have a lot of front end and app knowledge, personally I might suggest getting more familiar with back-end as a service technologies like Firebase, etc. You could then create apps/web-apps that scale without knowing loads of back-end architecture practices.

To get a good spot in a next company, practice explaining your accomplishments to date succinctly, meet people, apply to multiple companies and get multiple offers lined up.

I liked the advice by Garros Li – Edusight (IK12)

> 1. If you plan on having cofounders, you need to determine how decisions will be made before starting a company together. Titles and vague “roles/responsibilities” won’t be enough. Play out scenarios to hash out decisions and set the right expectations, ask tough questions, and don’t let ego get in the way.

It got me thinking of something like the 'Co-founder compatibility test'

I wonder if anyone already has a good set of example scenarios and questions to reveal this compatibility/incompatibility between people in decision making / expectations / virtues. Many questions could come from challenging moments with co-founders and teammates in one's own experience. I can think of a few already.

If we compiled a list of these types of questions and scenarios, could they be used as a good test of compatibility, useful to at least some initial degree to assess potential partnerships in real life and over the internet.

really appreciate this rough guide thanks!

Hi Peter, thanks for sharing info on what I feel is quite an unknown subject to an outsider. I have a general question for you:

As a skilled software developer with a relevant UK university degree (3 years BSC) and work place experience, interested in working in the US - What is the ballpark range of costs and wait time involved in getting a visa to allow me to work for a US company.

What's the general procedure, - get offer from job, then -talk to immigration lawyer, or the other way around?

Thanks!

I do really like a lot of things about the styled-components approach and general CSS in JS approach.

I do though have a few concerns that stem from loosing the abstraction of ascetics vs function of a component, mainly though - ease of designer collaboration;

It seems harder to have a designer collaborate on your styles. (Maybe they are more used to CSS more than JS, or an external contractor, or just more specialised etc). You can't have somebody change your design without them having full access and knowledge of your entire component source and architecture.

I notice that styled-components can automatically generate a style sheet with nice names, it would be good if this could be a step at build time. And maybe a step that can also reverse the process? adding any changed styles back into your JS files? (syncing it with an externally edited stylesheet) Does anyone else see value to this?

Had back pain (lower back and neck) for years, mostly I think due to being tall and poor desk posture.

I used to spend a lot of money at the chiropractor/osteopath, and while they do give relief I don't see them as a long term solution. That said, I think they can be valuable for acute episodes.

What cured my back pain is Yoga. Not overnight, not over a week, but months of adding strength and flexibility to body as a whole. I'm now pain free.

This may not work for all symptoms, but I think it's important to realise (in most cases it seems) you cannot expect the medical professional to heal you, only to help you temporarily. You must heal you.

I dream of cities without cars!

longer distance travel via electric cars is fine, just give me a city without the cacophony, polution and general obnoxiousness of traffic.

My thinkpad running Linux is a bit temperamental when changing displays, often enumerating an existing display port as a new one.

I use the following script to switch to dual external monitors at a standard resolution, and a counterpart script to switch back to the internal hidef monitor.

If only I could reliably fix xfce4's panel placement all of the time...and not have to restart chrome and pycharm/intelliJ on each display change!

  #!/bin/bash
  
  EXT1=`xrandr --current | sed 's/^\(.*\) connected.*$/\1/p;d' | grep -v ^eDP | head -n 1`
  EXT2=`xrandr --current | sed 's/^\(.*\) connected.*$/\1/p;d' | grep HDMI | head -n 1`
  INT=`xrandr --current | sed 's/^\(.*\) connected.*$/\1/p;d' | grep -v ^DP | head -n 1`
  
  
  xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/DPI -s 96
  xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /panels/panel-1/size -s 28
  
  xrandr \
  --output VIRTUAL1 --off \
  --output ${INT} --off \
  --output ${EXT2} --mode 1680x1050 --pos 0x150 --rotate normal \
  --output ${EXT1} --mode 1920x1200 --pos 1680x0 --rotate normal --primary

More and more I've come the opinion that there is no skill someone is just 'born with' that cannot be learnt. It may be the case though that some people are exposed to events and circumstances that help them practice from such an early age as to have a huge headstart above others.

Anecdotally, I never thought I'd be able to draw, I used to think drawing (and art in painting, etc) was just something I wouldn't be able to do, though it's surprising and encouraging what you can do after dedicating some consistent time to practicing.

Also something I've started learning about recently is the art that goes into public speaking (from the Washington Uni Coursera course).

With knowledge broken down and explained by professionals, the mysterious becomes reachable through reasonable amounts of practice.

Thanks for posting your personal framework! I like it, quite elaborate for a single day's entry. Something I took away from your comment was the meta reflection on how you journal and what is most effective/how you could change it to be so.

Something that's really been helping me score high each day lately ( I only do a qualitative scoring entry each day and a quantitative score each week of the accumulated 'feeling' ) is writing down my 'most important tasks' but phrasing it to appeal to my reflective self, along the lines of 'What, if done, would make today a good day? / I'll be pleased with the day if...?' Writing those down first thing gives a great reference point to measure back against.

> I've learned that most days are around a 3/5 _no matter how much I accomplish...

Definitely agree that general mood and fulfillment is more than just productive accomplishment and I try and factor that in, that said, a day without learning something new / practicing something / achieving something and I'll start to feel anxious that I'm not doing enough. Though with a good enough perspective and will and mental tools you could retrospectively mold the outcome of most days to fit those points.

I keep a written personal journal where I write whatever I'm concerned with, mostly along the same areas as you mentioned too. And I preform a weekly review and rating every Sunday. Have been doing so for about 3 years.

I started to aid my sleep, putting all the racing thoughts in my head down on paper and closing the book on them was very calming, I can then forget them for a while.

I also love the act of translating your nebulous thoughts into (semi) clear language of written words, to me it's a focusing lens on your life, and allows associations, perspective and ideas that may not come about otherwise. Even if just because it forces you to reflect for more than some fleeting seconds.

I never see myself changing the primary method of writing these down freeform. But every time I finish a journal I do read back through and write up in google docs some bullet point style wisdoms and take-aways to remember for the future .

Glad to know there's others that get benefit from journaling too.

I'm sure running would work but it's fairly high impact and if you're skinny already then perhaps the high intensity cardio is not what would benifit you the most? Although anything to get your heart working and blood pumping will work!

I'd strongly reccomend regular yoga as an antidote to the compressing forces of sitting at a chair all day. It's amazing how good I feel after just 20mins of stretches and body weight balances post chair sitting.

There's loads of great instructors on codyapp.com, I reccomend checking out 'office therapy' and building up to some more intense ones

I really enjoyed reading this journey! inspiring and motivating to hear people centered around a common goal with a unique and forward thinking team structure.

It made me reflect on my best moments in software development and how they have been similar short bouts of intensity.. weekend long to 2 week long periods of intense and undivided focus at progressing a task through to completion, time where every other concern fades away, a flow state where I will wake up immediately with new ideas or problem solve in the shower.

Sure, that level of concentration is unsustainable for the long run, but this article has made me consider that I may have to structure my life around being able to repeat these kinds of stints more often, 'embrace your funk' as some would say!

I'm grateful that I have running clean water on tap that I can drink from or wash from, that goes hot or cold on command and doesn't run out.

I would agree for the most part, as meditation (from my experience) can provide a consistent, harmonising and content feeling that would persist for longer than the joy that comes from pure escapism or novelty of experience of a vacation.

I've been doing Transcendental Meditation I learnt through ZivaMIND for over a year now and I couldn't imagine being as on the ball emotionally/with reference to myself without it. I've found it so brilliant.

IMO, Meditation, and more broadly speaking, the uninterrupted time we allow for ourselves, should be taught in schools and by parents ubiquitously, as its an obvious antidote to our constant connectedness eating away at our wellbeing and creativity and compassion/gratitude.