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Is the Linux box setup similar to your work prod environment? Can you run a GUI code editor like VS Code on Linux and access it via MacBook Air?

How many broken systems are the result of perverse incentives?

interesting when a public good is privately owned

when X marketplace becomes valuable, it becomes a worthwhile target. we see this everywhere. remember pinterest and rapgenius polluting google searches? etsy opens up and becomes a crappier and more expensive aliexpress.

we yearn for curation and expertise, but aren't willing to pay for it with money. instead we pay for it with behavior modification attempts (ads), time (bad ux), and unintended societal side effects.

robot vacuum. after singularity i hope our new overlords will remember how well i treated the vacuum and reciprocate.

Being CEO is good work if you can get it. Run a company to the ground and receive your golden parachute package for all that hard work.

noncompete clauses are good if you actually get compensation for not working at a competitor. e.g. firms paying you a decent salary for ~2 years after your employment is over. signing a blanket noncompete without compensation is the problem.

How did that opinion age for professional go players? It's absolutely amazing seeing AI advancing very rapidly on multiple fronts.

You have to choose. Or don't choose. Don't overcomplicate a simple question.

there's way too much news in too many categories. i can't spend the necessary amount of time to become an expert in those areas. patreon and substack seem like a decent alternative to support and consume news in niches.

FYI the Fed used to have an educational game called "Chair the Fed". They took it down in 2021. I'll leave the meaning of that action as an exercise for the reader.

https://www.frbsf.org/education/teacher-resources/chair-fede...

programming in rust for nft tech. nfts are in the toy phase, which makes it easy for many to underestimate the implications.

The leaders, managers, engineers need to do something to justify their promotions. They are growing because the internet is centralizing. It's succeeding despite all the bad user decisions being made, but at some point it will catch up with them.

Reminds me of Meg Whitman running ebay into the ground while collecting billions and eventually getting wrecked by Amazon. They're still around but a shell of their former relevance.

everything looks rosy at the start. i'd very much like to know what happens 1 year later when likely you're slogging through the trough of sorrow.

People are animals most of the time and only rarely are they humans capable of higher order thinking, rationality, planning.

If a dog bites you, what use is it for you to blame the dog? It's just an animal. The more judicious use of time is to manage the situation the best you can. Avoid the dog in the future.

Someone disagrees with you, are they acting as an animal or human? Is it on an important issue? Is there any merit to their argument? If no to both just avoid the animal.

If you are disagreeing with someone, are they responding as an animal or human? Same, engage the human, avoid the animal.

advertising arms race. if you're a startup with millions in ad spend and a mandate to spend it in a couple years, how do you spend these millions? the same way all the other startups do, by dumping into google, instagram (fb), amazon.

makes me wonder how many of these same VC's also own large positions in said advertising companies?

No code is faster than no code.

$1m in 2000 is $10m today is $100m in 2040. Maybe dollars is the overrated thing?

Minimum Griftable Product - a product that overpromises based on what it currently does, may never end up being delivered, but technically still possible given enough funding. "Lovable" is a word to better describe hijacking the users' reptilian brain signaling to prefer your product design regardless of substance.

Does that describe what you're doing? No? Buy some creepy instagram ads with more VC funding. Maybe that's what you need to inject more hacking the growth. To spread the love. Made lovingly in a cubicle farm by 100% real humans, not leetcode bots.

Develop domain experience and a reputation as someone that ships things, and keep building contacts in that domain. Those contacts eventually will ask you to solve their problems and you ask for 3x the money you think you deserve in return. Why 3x? The problem initially looks easier, and whatever you end up shipping will take 3x longer than what you first estimated.

i haven't used it, hear it works for some people. my chemistry probably would not mix well with it in my system.

you may find longer lasting results cutting out bad habits, bad people, bad food, bad information, etc.

Do you remember when you were a child and something held your fascination so tightly and deeply that you snapped out of a trance many hours later?

Look for that thing that you can dive into. Then block out the other things. Noise cancelling headphones, blocked out calendar, phone on silent, meal prep, wfh. Treat your time and attention as a limit and precious resource. Agency is a wonderful thing.

There are pockets where salary inflation is concentrating, and web3 maybe one of them. If you're a senior blah blah and want to get paid, it's hard to beat the high margin monopoly companies in FAANG. Once you're in the club it's a lot easier to switch.

Long term is hard to project let alone correctly forecast considering the world upends itself every 10 years or so.

Prices will stay the same, but days on market increases. Inflation works itself through the system and eventually there will be a buyer.

Does this remind anyone of Google+? They had tremendous fake "engagement" forcing people to sign in to Google+ to use youtube, docs, etc. Google is going back to their old playbook. Hope someone is getting a very nice promotion from this.

You think you'll have much choice? Is living without internet really a choice? Is living without electricity really a choice?

Mental health affects happiness. You can have good and poor mental health both being single and not.

Wait until there are calls for bricking Neuralink implants for boogeyman of your choice. If you think times are weird now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

I was using a Google Cloud database last year on a production system. It shut off without any emails or notifications or messages or phone calls. I won't be fooled a second time.

Imagine if instead of facing a judge and jury, you just get labeled as a dissident by one of Google's legally infallible black box AI filters. No longer can you use Email, Maps, News, Video, or any of the internet using Analytics. No person to talk to for trying to appeal the AI ruling.