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About the lawsuits that he bankrolled that shut down a press outlet, he himself said: "I strongly believe in the First Amendment" [...] "I believe journalists are a privileged group in our society. They play an important role in getting us information and in the system of checks and balances. But these were not journalists." https://www.engadget.com/2016-10-31-peter-thiel-silicon-vall...

It is my honest opinion that Thiel is a hypocrite and is a libertarian only if and when it's convenient to him.

In this quote, he's letting himself off the hook for undermining the First Amendment protection of the press, which he also did covertly, btw, by claiming that his targets were not journalists when they were.

I'm not saying they weren't scumbags for publishing what they did, but he doesn't get to have it both ways. That's the point.

> claims to be libertarian

> ruins press outlet that used too much free speech by burning them with lawsuits

This such a great, generous and humble take on producing a huge, nationally beneficial product.

I was just reading about Andreesen's bizarro screed. I wish more people were reading this than that. This gives me hope for the future.

Surely proof is in the pudding is PUD and not FUD. (British joke)

There is a broad confusion between being provocative and being intelligent. (This, I recognize, is a strong opinion.)

I think an ATS will miss more good candidates.

For example, I was messing around with one today with my own resumé. It couldn't tell from responsibilities and results that I had done a job much more senior to the job title (long and probably common story). It wanted exact matching in job title to the job description, so "department lead" and "head of department" or neither, with the same responsibilities, were not interchangeable.

A human could pick that out from the context. So I think an ATS is going to be using the filters humans used to, plus failing to gather relevant info from context.

How could you shaman shame?

YES! This was one of the things I came across. Thank you!

Aren't there places away from the conventional protocols where people still blog and the world is innocent?

I'm serious. I came across some of these communities nearly a year ago while reading about solar powered servers. And after I forgot how I found them, I've thought of them about once a month and wondered what the hell is wrong with me for forgetting.

They were incredibly neat and niche spaces, full of very idiosyncratic websites and things that had no commercial point. It was fantastic.

How we interpret the past says more about us than anyone is willing to admit.

But poverty is who people are, not what happens to them. /s

I'd focus on looking at things that are blocking flow states. If you can enter a flow state, you may find you're working faster on average.

- Consider starting your day by hand-writing a bullet pointed lists of tasks or things that are stressing you, including life stuff. Writing them out helps you feel that you have control over them, and you no longer have them rattling around in the back of your head. Leave the list alone, it's not a to-do list. You'll focus more easily.

- Related: if that kind of works for you. Consider starting your day by writing a page or two in a journal, just about whatever's in your head. Once you empty that out and all the feelings around that stuff, it will be easier to get down to business and enter a flow state.

- Taking breaks is really important and taking frequent breaks when it feels natural works well, at least for me. Take vacation regularly.

- Get plenty of high-quality sleep. This is a big one. Once you start paying attention to it, you notice really quickly what a big impact sleep has on your mood, happiness, and output the following day.

- Use noise-cancelling headphones and playlists made for focus.

And remember to be kind to yourself.

In general, we focus on the things that bother us about ourselves when we compare ourselves to others. We don't pay attention to the positives. So you probably aren't seeing the sides of your work that make you excellent or how you contribute in ways other people can't.

"I really don't know clouds at all."

GMV = Gray Matter Volume.

"This study investigated fronto-cingulate gray matter abnormalities in problematic smartphone users, particularly those who spend time on social networking platforms. [...]

Problematic smartphone users had significantly smaller GMV in the right lateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) than healthy controls, and there were significant negative correlations between GMV in the right lateral OFC and the Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale (SAPS) score, including the SAPS tolerance subscale. [...]

These results suggest that lateral orbitofrontal gray matter abnormalities are implicated in problematic smartphone use, especially in social networking platform overuse."

Totally fair question. This is the first thing I could chase down. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7044619/

My guess would be that the sample size here is small and therefore it's not a completely iron clad study. Maybe there are bigger studies out there, I don't know. This one would be easy to gainsay and/or maybe the publication doesn't think its readers respond to scientific research.

I guess this is like the early days of research showing smoking was bad. Long way to go until everyone is convinced.

Here it means "edited to add". It's a way to signal it wasn't part of my first post, and I think it's polite because if someone replies and then the OP edits but doesn't mark what they've added, it can make the reply look weird and out of joint. Which sometimes people do on purpose.

To clarify: my point is, social media is way more prevalent than football head injuries. And yet there isn't really the same public health scandal around social media.

From a relevant study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7044619/). GMV = Gray Matter Volume. Your brain, basically.

"This study investigated fronto-cingulate gray matter abnormalities in problematic smartphone users, particularly those who spend time on social networking platforms. [...]

Problematic smartphone users had significantly smaller GMV in the right lateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) than healthy controls, and there were significant negative correlations between GMV in the right lateral OFC and the Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale (SAPS) score, including the SAPS tolerance subscale. [...]

These results suggest that lateral orbitofrontal gray matter abnormalities are implicated in problematic smartphone use, especially in social networking platform overuse."

This will limit the success of the product. That shouldn't matter if you're looking at this as a lifestyle business, rather than a giant SaaS company.

Another thing is: does your ideal customer for this exist and who are they? People who want analytics and ownership via on-prem, right? Go find those people and ask them, without describing your product to avoid biasing them, how they currently solve the problems your product solves.

If they don't actually care about analytics or on-prem, then you'll know if there's a mismatch in the definition of the product as you see it, and need to change to match those customers or another segment. Also are those customers even big enough operations to have someone who can set up on-prem, like you allude to. If not, time to switch it up.

NickC25's advice is good.

No, children should not have access to "all information". The world is full of information and media that would traumatize them. For example, murder videos from a brand new war. Radicalization content would also go on my "not for children" list.

There is plenty of material that children lack the tools to understand and digest without trauma or ideological absorption. Most adults lack those skills too, to be fair.

There should actually be ways to choose for your children what kinds of content you would like them to have access to until they're mature enough to decide for themselves. If you want to limit it to educational content, that's up to you as a parent.

The Chinese gov't has limited their equivalent of TikTok—which is purely educational content—to 40 min a day and zero access for kids between 10pm and 6am.

That's not a bad start. Overexposure is literally giving users dementia, aka brain atrophy.

eta: if anyone was spending 4.8 hours a day playing the slots, we'd call that a serious addiction, let alone kids whose brains are still forming.

Social media addiction causes brain atrophy. And we thought football was hurting their brains.

Slow news day at DW.com.

The copyright violation is coming from inside the house.

Even undigitized materials aren't safe any more.

He grew up during the Depression. Maybe that's part of the answer. He knew the value of a penny.

I think there are new solutions—and associated challenges—coming in this space as well. For example, there's a rise now in AI assistance for writing documentation. I think a large percentage of the documentation that produces is likely to be horrible to read and unusable.

There's also things that work the other way. Rather than bloated AI docs you end up with frequently curated docs. For example, Runme is an OSS tool to make documentation interactive and runnable. In that scenario, your docs writer probably becomes an editor and UX eye on the documentation; the teams using the docs become the writers and updaters because they're executing out of them.

Totally agree. Value is the most important thing if you are going to talk about yourself. It's not even like it's that hard to just try to be excellent to people and to users and share something worthwhile. But time and again, this is where people fall down.

Weirdly, google ads and GA4 are great examples of not providing value and not treating people or users well. And yet they cling on.