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of food, existential crises, and job quitting, by Sam Sleem sam-foodforthought.beehiiv.com/p/the-last-din…

Your 20s are for realizing that all your grandiose life plans pale in comparison to having people you really like being around

You’re not Alexander the Great. There is no empire. You have a hybrid car and Slack. Keep the girl. Get the extra croissant

Corporate is performance art. You push a document on time, flag risks in writing & in meetings. It gets ignored. 2 weeks later the exact risk materializes, everyone rushes to sign, then starts harassing you & it’s now your emergency. Somehow you should have warned louder.

It would be hilarious if we go through this whole AI thing just to find out that it’s ultimately cheaper to pay humans to do it

Currently 892 hours into automating a 30-second task I do 4 times a year It's gonna be so worth it once I get everything working

Imagine being 70 and realizing you missed days like this For a job that gave you 3% raise but took 90% of your life

God I hate this.

Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride. Anthony Bourdain

stakeholders when they don't use the dashboard they requested after you spent 3 weeks building it for them

Jensen Huang on the smartest person he's ever met;

Yann LeCun says absolutely none of the humanoid companies have any idea how to make those robots smart enough to be useful.

If you feel that you are in competition with anyone, for anything, you are a loser.

Definition of a troll: someone whose reply reveals much more information about himself or herself than about the topic of the post.

A lot of people love to pile on Bourdain, and I don't get it. He was a talented writer, a successful chef, and found himself with a series of incredible opportunities in the media industry (and he took them, as anyone else would). His wife treated him like a dog, cheated on him, and he went nuts and offed himself -- a story one can find in all strata of society. Rich and poor, liberal and conservative, working class and white collar, this is a thing that happens to all sorts of people and it's tragic in every case. I think Bourdain's haters want there to have been some kind of "catch" or "gotchya" to his lifestyle. The man lived an illustrious life in a manner that would've been readily legible to history's Great Men. He had the 'je na sais quois' of old-world explorers, he was a Manhattan guy, a dynamic man literally getting paid to travel the world. This is obviously jealousy-inducing, and the goblin-tier slouches of the world love to see an interesting man falter, suffer, and meet his demise -- as a kind of punishment for living well. They crave the punishment of the interesting man because it validates the mediocrity of their own lives. And so Bourdain's suicide was kind of a Colosseum event for a lot of the world's saddest, most pedestrian men. A lurid way to watch the guy they were jealous of get his 'comeuppance'. Very telling to see people pile on Bourdain IMO.

AI NATIVE SLACK IS JUST SLACK THE BLOAT IN SLACK IS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE, NOT PRODUCT MIDWIT HIRES LIKE TO CREATE PROJECTS AND BUSYWORK BC THEY LITERALLY CANNOT PRODUCE VALHE AI DOESNT SOLVE THIS

Anyone who refers to their ceo's work travel as "forward deployment" should be sent to a Siberian zinc mine

Practice any art. Not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming. To make your soul grow.