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@Mach2x
principal creative director || transpacific (LA/SF, Singapore, Hong Kong)
Katılım Ağustos 2023
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Singapore being hit by layoffs from companies moving to Malaysia to lower costs and layoffs because of AI...
No job is secure.
I remember people saying it will take 5 more years before it impacts.
Nah. It's already here and the acceleration is quicker than we imagined.
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Living in nyc and
Working from home
Not exploring the city
Drinking starbucks
Is embarrassing behavior.
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I wonder what happens if you walk into the Jardine House in Hong Kong and ask to see the Tai Pan. I imagine they politely ask you to leave.
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@SawyerMerritt he just said neuralink will produce Jesus level miracles in front of an Israeli audience
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Here is Elon Musk's full interview tonight from the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit in Israel.
Elon talks about Tesla's Unsupervised robotaxi rollout, Starship V3, Neuralink, and more.
He works nonstop. Elon started this live interview at 2 AM in Texas lol.
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on a 4 hour flight to China 🇨🇳 , the middle aged lady beside me spent the entire flight building a PowerPoint slide line by line, image by image
all I could think was: I could’ve done this in 10 minutes with Claude Design and saved her 4 hours
honestly, it was painful to watch
the worst part is that after all that effort, it still looked worse than what Claude design could generate in minutes
witnessing the K-shaped economy in real time
the gap between those who adapt to AI and those who don’t is only going to get wider
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@usr_bin_roygbiv high concentration of masterpieces that distill western culture
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extremely overused words in the sf lexicon right now
legible
load bearing
agency
taste
permanent underclass
generational wealth
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"My taste in anything? Depends on whats popular"
awesome sauce@omyhangu
find it disappointing that the main personality trait of my countrypeople is usually being that of a tourist
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@staysaasy Extremely accurate description of SF.
My only issue with the phrase "first-time cool" is that upon first hearing it gives the false impression that they're actually cool when it's the complete opposite.
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When my wife was in business school, people would occasionally refer to someone else as "first-time cool" – meaning that they had been marginalized socially before (at prior jobs, college, HS, wherever), and were reinventing themselves in a new social arena. Often by trying a little too hard and aggressively leaning into prevailing social indicators in an off-putting way. For example – talking too much about extravagant trips, how drunk you got last night, or whatever bschool networking thing was most in vogue.
The result was that you had some people who were a little bit cringey and were also subtly trying to send various kinds of social status signaling into overdrive. It basically created an overclocked version of high school preening. It was viewed as pretty weak, especially for people in their late-20s / early 30s who were generally real adults.
(Also to be fair, calling someone first-time cool was obviously not very kind)
I think that SF tech has 2 things that create the dynamic in @deedydas's (very good, true, and sad) post:
* Status in the AI boom is essentially 100% indexed to $$$$
* There's a ton of people in SF tech who are first-time cool, and they're taking this extremely reductionist view of status and turning the intensity up to 11
For a super crude comparison – in NYC (the #2 tech hub), you don't get nearly as much of this feeling because there are other industries in town and other ways to have status than your tech compensation. Like making $5M/year at a frontier lab is certainly cool, but so is making $3M/year in finance. And it's also cool to be great at playing the piano or to have a great butt or to be athletic and 6'4".
I see this lightly breaking my friends' brains. We used to talk a lot about going back to the bay but at least as of right now I wouldn't be comfortable raising my kids in that environment.
Deedy@deedydas
The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.
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@buccocapital SF has a strong cultural gravity well that warps and distorts human perspective
even on their deathbed they may not realize
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I can’t stop thinking about this post. If you do one thing today, I encourage you to give it a thoughtful, thorough read…
And then commit to never living your life this way. Life has wasted success on the people described in this post.
It really is completely pathetic. They say that comparison is the thief of joy - look no further than this post for validation it is indeed true.
On their deathbed they will realize they have lived their life completely wrong. Don’t let it be you.
Deedy@deedydas
The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation). Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there. Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI. As a result, 1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb. Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more. 2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future). Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire" 3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed. Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies. 4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either. No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money." I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here. Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success". Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.
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@DonGriego17 @Rainmaker1973 yes eggs are a superfood
the original post’s mention of a clean diet is too vague to be helpful
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@Mach2x @Rainmaker1973 What are you talking about? How are eggs not clean?
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Singaporean photographer and former model Chuando Tan continues to baffle the internet with his incredibly youthful appearance.
Born in 1966, Tan is nearly 60 years old, yet he looks decades younger — often appearing as though he’s still in his 20s or early 30s. His striking, age-defying photos have gone massively viral, leaving people worldwide in awe.
Tan first gained fame in the 1980s as a successful model and pop singer before transitioning into fashion photography. Today, his Instagram showcases both his professional work and personal life, highlighting his impressive physique and timeless style.
According to interviews, his youthful look is the result of disciplined lifestyle habits: he avoids staying up late, maintains a clean diet, and follows a consistent fitness routine.
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I can't help answering my own rhetorical question. I think the reason politicians think you can't get rich without doing bad things is that they treat it as an axiom that economic inequality is bad. And if it's bad to be rich, how could you get there by doing good things?
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At one point my son and his friend kept looking for shortcuts to getting rich. Over and over I told them the way to do it is just to make something people want. If this is what I tell my own kids about getting rich, why won't politicians believe this is how a lot of people do it?
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What’s your favourite freebie(s) that you get from your favourite airline?
I’ll go first:
- Singapore Airlines Collector Bear
- Le Lavo self care pouch
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People hate on Singapore's maids
But a lot of people would not be married if not for the maid doing the chores because of how much less conflict there is in a marriage when that stressor is taken out of the equation.
It's a great concept but executed sub optimally by the state.
Katrina (大王）🇺🇸🇨🇳🇲🇽@zapatas_mom
Every single woman I know in a 50/50 relationship (imagine dating a brokie 😂🤣) still does the majority of the house work and complains about it.
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@teo_kai_xiang high earning foreigners are not hungry, but they are trusted to lead and sell more than locals
low wage foreigners tend to be much hungrier
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Of course they are "hungrier", their right to stay here is often linked to their employment...
And using this threat of the menacing and faceless foreigner to make local workers more desperate and "hungry" is the kind of stuff that CEOs must drool over.
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@handsome_river @intjgamergirl love reading the singaporean cope in the comments
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@intjgamergirl For every one American who wants Singapore Citizenship, there's ten thousand Singaporeans who want US citizenship.
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Not sure what is the point of this article lol
Mothership@MothershipSG
'I don't want to go back': US man, 35, moves to S'pore in 2020, cites safety & lower cost of living bit.ly/49gnmuD
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