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A video might be helpful - one video showing someone use it. The homepage was a bit overwhelming to me with all the gifs. I wasn't quite sure how to process it all. (I strongly agree with the HN commenter who suggested setting up a virtual co-working site for demo purposes - I think all virtual co-working tools should do that, and put some people from your team in those offices, would be a great way to learn from and interact with users, too.)

The wave felt a little 'Black Mirror' to me - like the way someone in a black mirror show would wave and exaggerate a gesture.

I saw the HN comment from someone saying it reminded them of Focusmate and that they thought it looked great, so I decided to check out the website again, and to write this comment, in the hopes that hearing what went through my mind when I saw the post / site might be helpful to you.

Best of luck with everything! The site does look very polished.

> So rather than spend time dodging Dark Triads, look for their opposite. Happily, Kaufman and a team of psychologists profiled this type for us as well, which they call the Light Triad.

> The characteristics of a Light Triad include faith in humanity (trusting in people’s fundamental goodness), humanism (believing in the dignity and worth of each person), and a Kantian adherence to the idea of universal moral law (in this context, refusing to objectify or instrumentalize others). Compared with the 7 percent that are dark, Kaufman finds that fully 50 percent of his international population sample qualify as Light Triads, and that the average person has more light than dark personality traits.

> Look for these three characteristics in people you might date, work with, or befriend. One way to test for this is simply to see how you feel around a particular person. Do they inspire you to be a better, more loving person?

2. Put it behind a login wall

[1]: https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/bot

As mentioned in the article this is a helpful command, I use it a couple times a week whenever iCloud syncing is stuck (sadly).

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok.

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

The solution that worked for my was basically “acceptance and commitment therapy” - I think I learned it from a book written by a Dr Russell or something like that.

Would recommend, am very glad I did it. It seems kind of kooky though, it’s almost like you pretend the tinnitus is a part of you and you have a conversation with it and welcome it and all that kinda stuff over time, and then eventually it just kinda stops being bothersome. Doesn’t really make sense, but worked well.

I participated in a few kickstarters back in perhaps 2013 or so. My overall association with doing that was pretty negative - mostly they failed, or if they had a product it didn't meet expectations or was aggressively delayed. I don't think I've done a new one since.

I think the challenge is that it felt like (at least at the time) like I was pre-ordering a product, rather than making an "angel donation" into something that may or may not produce a good product. If my expectations had been the latter, no disappointment. But my expectations were that I was pre-ordering a product that'd be good and delivered on time, which mostly didn't happen.

In short: My current stance is that I'd never pre-order a product via crowdfunding unless I was very comfortable with a) never receiving the product or b) receiving the product and it being bad.

* "Saying Goodbye: A Guide to Coping with a Loved One's Terminal Illness" by Okun & Nowinski

* the four things that matter most

* final journeys

* the grief recovery handbook by John James [I organized my family to go through the book+exercises together in pairs. I think if I was doing it again, I would've combined the 7 sessions into 2-3 sessions, everyone partnering with a different family member. We did it while my dad was still alive.]

There were others I read that weren't useful, but for each of those 4 above I'm glad I read them.

One book that I wish other people around my mom had read to support her, and that I was glad I read:

* Being there for someone in grief. I made a summary of this book and I think I gave copies of my summary to a few of my mom's friends so that they'd know to better support her.

One thing that I wish someone had told me:

* I didn't feel like I got a final goodbye. I did have moments like that, but I kind of wish I had one that was more of a final goodbye.

* When dad was in palliative care, there was a point where he could talk and communicate, and then over the period of a few days or maybe a week, then he wasn't really able to talk and communicate any more, and so by the time I realized that we'd had our last proper conversation it was too late to have a proper goodbye. I wish someone had told me that that would be a thing, that all of a sudden he wouldn't be able to properly communicate and so my last conversation with him will have been and gone even though he was still alive

A thing I'm glad I did:

* I read out to my dad 2 of the 3 sections from the "grief recovery handbook" "grief letter" of my relationship to my dad, to him out loud, while he was still able to communicate. i read out the "I apologize for" and the "i want you to know" sections and skipped the "i forgive you for" section. I'm glad I did it like that, and I'm glad I did it in general.

I hope this is helpful to some

There's also https://theresanaiforthat.com/ which is extremely comprehensive

I’d miss each of them if I couldn’t access them and had to switch to an alternative

E.g. ezra, prenuvo, q bio, Grail, Freenome, other regular blood testing, and then things like this.

Needed: Software engineers to research LLM topics.

I’d like to find a couple freelance engineers to help out with some LLM research questions. Mostly they're questions of personal curiosity. Things like approximating the historical inference speed for a fixed model size, historically, and identifying what model improvements would be needed for GPT to be a useful 'junior dev' agent, or a useful MacOS desktop copilot. Email is in profile.

Successes:

* Tesla

Non-successes:

* Magic Leap

* Juicero

* Nuro

* Segway

What else am I missing? I suspect there are other successes that raised >$100mm pre-launch that I'm not thinking of.

I wonder why they wouldn't start smaller. That said, I still expect they'll succeed, and I hope they succeed. I don't believe in any rules of thumb, great startups always defy the odds.

I once learned a lot about helping people with alcohol addition for a family friend. A few of the things I learned were: 1) labeling the person as an alcoholic will make them drink more 2) yelling at them and forcing them to defend themselves will make them drink more 3) any kind of aggressive intervention will make them drink more.

Unfortunately, attacking people generally serves to make them feel defensive and want to defend themselves. When we defend ourselves, that generally makes us dig in further.

I'll note that I hope that SF shifts in the direction of Garry's vision, and I'm in favor of the end outcome.

If Garry's goal is attention ("if you want to get an audience, start a fight") then attacks are a good method. If his goal is to change minds, I'd note that he may be more successful if he picks up a few books on helping people who have addictions, and borrows some of the methods from them (in short: make them first feel understood by you, and understand their hesitations and what makes them tick).

He could kind of treat it like he's doing customer development for a startup. Find people who've gone from one side to the other, talk to them about their journey, and so on.

The main point I'm hoping to emphasize is that attacking the other side like this to win may result in victory, but it won't result in peace.

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