Claude is helping me learn French right now. I am using it as a supplementary tutor for a class I am taking. I have caught it in a couple of mistakes, but generally it seems to be working pretty well.
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Yes, he was telling me this tongue in cheek, but in my actual experience this has been eerily accurate.
I want a pairing partner where I can write a little, they write a little, I write a little, they write a little. You know, an actual collaboration.
That's a low blow.
My mother, for example, is a serious extrovert. When I explained to her that socializing seriously drains me and I need to, for example, spend time alone after attending a party, her response was to ask if I'd seen a therapist about it.
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When asked when we were supposed to work on this innovation, he told us it was important to still work on our current projects, but do it more innovatively. When pressed about what this actually meant, he just showed us the graph again.
I resigned shortly after.
Some do, but most don't. Too many companies seem to think becoming remote means just installing Zoom on everybody's computers and sending them home. In reality, there is a lot more to it than that.
No remote technology comes close to having collaborators together in a room with a whiteboard, with a well-defined agenda. But while remote collaboration is less efficient, it doesn't mean it can't work. You just have to recognize that things are going to move slower and consensus of opinion will take more time.
Actually, I think that is the one of the biggest challenges. No atmosphere to slow you down means you have to rely entirely on rockets to slow down from orbital speeds to zero.
Still today, 30 years later, I get these dreams. Usually when I have a big work or life challenge coming up. And the nightmares still boost my confidence (though the nightmares themselves suck).
Isn't that where Salesforce came from? At least in the CRM space. It is not as horrid, though that is not saying much :P
How do you choose the books to added to your library?
I have no idea if they successfully scammed anybody.
One thing I did that is not mentioned in this article is that I contacted the police. The police took a statement and collected all the relevant files (e.g., the PDF job offers I had been sent).
There was, unfortunately, not much the police could actually do. But having an official police report helped in my next step, which was to start an internet-wide game of whack-a-mole with the scammer's website. I'd identify the hosting company, send them an abuse report, citing the police report, and request the website be taken down. The hosting company would usually comply within 24 hours, then a week or so later the website would reappear using a different host. Lather, rinse, and repeat several times until the scammer gave up (or moved to a different domain that I have not discovered yet).
Compare it to the PDAs (e.g., Palm Pilot) of the late 90s early 2000s. They were cool, but hard to use. Though they were popular, they were far from mainstream. Then the iPhone came out, and a few years later everybody had a computer in their pocket. VR sorely needs a similar disruption.
They conveniently do not mention the Macon's sister ship, the Akron, which crashed in 1933 killing 73 people.
I got tired needing bookshelves everywhere, and liquidated most of my collection in a big garage sale. That was a really fun, like a day-long bookclub meeting. All I have left are my favorites and, ironically, the ones nobody wanted to buy. Maybe a few shelves worth.
Somebody in the group gestured to one of the pieces and asked “does the transition of the floor from green to grey signify the subject’s disillusionment with current environmental policies and the increasing hopelessness of contemporary civilization?”
The artist’s reply was “I ran out of green.”
This is the key right here. If what you used to do is no longer exciting you, it is time to try something else. This often means getting out of your comfort zone, and there is no guarantee that the new thing you try will excite you. But if that happens, at least you tried. Every discovery of something that doesn't interest you is a step closer to something that does.