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The expansions are great, but I don't find base limiting at all!

I don't know any game that simple as versatile as Carcassone: you can play friendly or cutthroat, tactical or strategic, conservative or risky, focus on or ignore farmers...

+ Almost no setup, fast turns, equally good at any player count, you end up with a good looking map... this game is a jewel

wow, that's saying something :)

All copyrighted material, I don't have links to the actual works, but some books that come to mind that I would have enjoyed much more if their were 20% of pages:

- The courage to be disliked (Ichiro Kishimi)

- The simple path to wealth (J.L. Collins)

- Peak (K Anders Ericsson)

- Happiness (Matthieu Ricard)

- Clean Code (Robert C Martin)

Yes there are a number of services, and I would happily pay for them. But either they have a very small catalog, or their summaries are too short, or both.

If it works well, it could be actually very useful for longer pieces.

I have read so many books with some actually good ideas hammered for +200 pages, (just to justify the cost of printing, satisfy the industry standards, or whatever)

A half decent summary of all those would be of actual value. Get 80% of the value in 20% (or less) of the time.

The "long periods of time" part got my attention...

Usually the most difficult part is to get started, but just questions seems to suggest that is not hard for you to get started, rather than keep going.

Do you like the thing you are supposed to focus on? Because IMO, there is no substitute for sustainable focus if you don't like something (or you aren't forced).

It is impressive what it can do, yes. I couldn't tell that output from an average human work. But the copy is poor - much in line with a typical by-the-numbers release note. It is a verbose enumeration of capabilities with the cheap adjectives that you see elsewhere. It has no pace, no story, no punch. No personality. People doesn't read these things and come out all convinced.

A copy is 2 paragraphs. It is your one chance to distill thousands of hours of work on you product down to a 5 seconds pitch: all the time that the visitors will concede you to decide yay/nay.

I wouldn't want to outsource that to a machine. It is too important.

Codenames: https://codenames.game/

Interesting! I am not an Apple fan boy, but I switched from Android a few years ago precisely because Apple products tend to last longer, and they release software updates for +7 years. My last non Apple phone was a Fairphone 2, and as much as I wanted to like it, it was barely usable after 1 year.

My goal is to renew phone every 4 years, and hope to use my current iPhone longer than that

Peak: Secrets from New Science of Expertise

The book is not actually about problem solving, but about deliberate practice. It is a bit tangential, but in seen problem solving as a skill, you can see how the principles in that book apply. A good book - however, like many books of this style, I find it somewhat repetitive too.

Listen and honestly care about others. Show them that there is no other place or people you'd rather be with in that moment. Acknowledge that you can learn something from literally everyone.

I'm trying to improve on this as well.

(And you don't need to be funny in order to be likable)

As someone who struggled with this in the past, my recommendation is to have less meetings, and communicate more with text (chat / documents).

Meetings in a foreign language drain your energy very quickly, writing gives you the room to think.

Mundane writing jobs might be automated soon, perhaps. But truly creative jobs?

Do you honestly, really would want to read a 1000 novel written by an AI even if I assure you that is as good as what an average human could do?

Now we are all wowed with Stable Diffusion and what not, ok. But give me a library stand with 999 decent AI books and 1 human book, I pick the human.

I want to talk to the human behind the pages, feel the human behind the pages. I don't want a random number very efficiently generated by a machine. Who cares!

Exactly, farming is a good example. It was the dominant economy sector 100 years ago, and still is in many countries. Right now less than 2% of world population works on farming, if I am not mistaken. But all the massive improvements, all the low hanging fruit it's gone - at least when you look at the next 50 years. The more something is optimized, the harder is to optimize it harder.

I disagree. By definition, AI can generate average-ish work, but not new, disrupting, expressive work. It would have never come up with cubism, magic realism, or any innovation that makes art, art. They will improve at requiring less training data, less energy, come up with more likely possible works, polish out edges, sure. AI can imitate, period. It is not small feat. It is a fantastic achievement that can be used for good.

Right? I don't think, however, that any competent writer or artist feel threatened by AI outputs at all. The threat comes for others abusing AI to misuse their name and steal their work. That is a legitimate concern.

Perhaps contrary to popular believe, I think the jobs that have survived thousands of years will likely survive another 50, even when all automatization included:

- teachers

- writers & artists

- doctors

- farmers

- builders

- scientists

- what people say is the oldest profession in the world

It is the relatively new jobs (< 100 yrs old) that face more uncertainty: they perhaps have proven themselves worthy in the last decades (and they are booming right now), but might not be resilient enough for world that is coming. It is not only about automation, but adaptability to quick / disruptive changes.

- programmers

- traders

- journalists

- marketers

However, I wouldn't call this a "prediction". I think very few jobs will actually disappear completely.

A visitor came to Richard Feynman's office. When he saw Fenyman's notebooks, he was excited to see records of Feynman's thinking. Feynman replied: They aren't a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process.