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@thejustinwelsh I realised recently I have more in common with unemployed people than my friends in corporate jobs

Owning 100% of your time is so rare that when people see it, they assume you're either unemployed, broke, or lying.

reading hit pieces is just entertainment now like watching a sitcom everyone knows it's scripted they didn't go in with an open mind, the outcome was decided from the start I'll read it, but doesn't make me think any less of the target

@chamath @karpathy I made something similar openkaiser.com Goes through the most controversial headlines 4 LLMs give their verdicts, then 1 decides a final ruling

Product idea: An app that takes today’s top headlines, run @karpathy’s iterative argument/counter argument loop, summarize both sides and send it to me so I can read both sides and come to my ow conclusion.

@medcat33 Not having anyone pester you

Is there a male equivalent to taking your bra off after a long day

@petecodes I tried it with a test project, don't see what the hype is. builds a site, does "market research" and sends emails

Got my first Polsia cold email It's awful Clearly just grabs text from my website and uses very unnatural language You'd be better of writing the email yourself.

Anthropic wants Micheál to stay openkaiser.com

crypto psychosis was way worse than AI psychosis

@petecodes @TheRundownAI holy guinn nice project

@TheRundownAI @_ronanmc

AGI has been achieved in Ireland. Artificial Guinness Intelligence. Engineer Matt Cortland built an AI voice agent named Rachel, gave her a Northern Irish accent, and pointed her at every pub in the country. Over St. Paddy's weekend, she rang 3,000+ of them to ask one question: how much for a pint of Guinness? How he built it: ElevenLabs for the voice, Twilio and an old Irish SIM to place the calls, Google Places API to map 5,200+ pubs across all 32 counties, and Claude to parse the transcripts for prices. 2,052 picked up. Barely any even realized she was AI. The whole operation ran him about €200. The result is a live price index he's calling the Guinndex. Ireland's statistics office used to track pint prices, but stopped in 2011. An engineer with a weekend and a voice agent just picked up where they left off.

So much american business advice is only relevant to that bubble. I watched 2 videos on the gaming industry: #1 head of blizzard - played with the founder of WoW in his guild, met his guild for lunch, turns out on of the guys is the founder. “be nice, you never know what happens etc” #2 head of bethesda - went to college around the corner form bethesda, ended up getting a job with them. “just hustle” etc you hear lots of other stories “I was a caddy for a guy, turns out he was worth $100m and offered me a job cause I stood up for myself” or something this is not helpful to anyone outside the US. it’s probably barely relevant there. you can ignore all of it, and throw any lessons they tell you away. I’ve spoken to ppl who want to work for themselves and they have gorged on this advice. they seem to be waiting for something. waiting for someone to save them. to come down from the heavens and hand them some opportunity. this won’t happen. you will have to carve a different path for yourself.

@Molson_Hart Product decisions haven’t really affected me I think it’s gotten worse due to the sheer number of people that have left and don’t seem likely to return

This app is getting worse and worse Way more bugs, worse algorithm, and unconscionable actions that cannot be spoken of And now changing the message icon from ✉️ to the same icon for reply? It was better under previous management

was michael moore right about anything or we were all thick

the online sauna shop wanting a tip is insane

I fear that indiehackers are the degrowthers of the business world

looks great

love coming across sites like these started in 2000 looks like they haven't changed the design since 30 playlists - all hand picked songs by their team I wonder if niche sites like these can make a comeback

where architects live vs what they design = what priests preach vs mistresses they keep

TIL sony spent 5 years and $400m on a game and it was so bad they shut it down after 12 days

Free speech was always a left wing cause A perfect time capsule to show this: In About a Boy (2002), the hippy volunteer at Amnesty International talks about the plight of a comedian in Burma getting arrested for telling a joke Imagine anyone left-wing defending a comedian for speech now? Sometime in the 2010s it flipped. Free speech became right wing, with the left becoming the censors

Celtic Art Deco is a thing, I kinda like it

it's interesting seeing where the AIs' biases come in #1 grok want separation between personal and political, expected #2 gemini is the most pro-business, rest are cautious about environment