Todd Charron
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Todd Charron
@toddcharron
Coaching leaders to improve their business | Writing about Leadership, Agile, Influencing Change | The Pursuit of Truth
Leadership Lessons Learned 👉 Katılım Kasım 2008
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I've started writing about my Improv journey recently, check out the link below
I'm also teaching a longform Improv course in Windsor starting in March. If you're around, I'd love to see you there
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Watching Superbowl commercials and realizing that AI isn't starting to look like commercials, commercials already look like AI
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I was at a showing the night it came out
Sold out, people in costumes
Cheers when the title crawl hit
But when the final credits rolled you could hear a pin drop
Everyone trying to figure out what we just saw, but the reaction wasn't good
The true believers coped hard in the weeks after, "just wait for the next one"
But the shine was off star wars after that movie
To this day I haven't seen the next 2
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The revisionism is that the Phantom Menace was hated when it came out.
It wasn't. The hype was real. I was there.
The Duel of the Fates, the Podrace sequence and on and on.
It was AFTER—around the time of Attack of the Clones—when the internet rewrote history to dump on it.
Kyle Mann@The_Kyle_Mann
I will not accept this newfangled historical revisionism claiming the prequels are good. They are not good. We knew they weren't good when we saw them opening night in the theaters. I was 12 years old when TPM came out and I was the biggest Star Wars nerd on the planet. Had all the EU books, toys, video games, you name it. I got Star Wars "banned" from my elementary school because we started two opposing Star Wars clubs and one kid ended up getting so mad arguing about Star Wars he punched another kid. Lol. The principal called us into the office and said "Today, you're joining Star Wars clubs. Tomorrow, you're joining gangs." I had to duct-tape over my Darth Vader backpack to take it to school. All of that, and when we went to see Phantom Menace, we were bored out of our skulls. There's this narrative that hating the prequels is "reddit-coded" or just cynical people who saw some YouTube video about them and decided they're bad. Nope. We knew they were bad at the time. We kind of ironically enjoyed the second 2 films, going in knowing they would be bad and everything, in the same way prequel memes ironically revere the film. The prequels have good elements - the technology was super-impressive for the time. Duel of the Fates. Maul/Qui-Gon/Obi duel. Interesting ideas and some interesting new worlds. There is maybe the bones of a good story buried somewhere in there. But they are painful to watch. Dialog, acting, plot, characters - none of them work. We should care that this teenager is turning into Darth Vader. But we do not care. That's failure on an epic scale. Yes, Disney Star Wars sucked. Yes, Disney Star Wars failed to clear the very low bar of "do not make a Star Wars movie that clearly hates Star Wars." That does not magically make the prequels good. I've heard it said that the prequels are good ideas, poorly done, while the Disney films are bad ideas, well done. I'm not sure if that's quite right, but what I think it means is if George had handed writing, maybe some directing, casting, editing, etc. off to experts, they could have been great. By way of contrast, most individual scenes of the Disney films are well-shot and acted and competently done. There's just no saving the story they tried to tell.
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How you think about AI changes when you stop comparing it to film and instead look at it as a new advanced form of animation
Christopher Fryant@cfryant
Massive news: I was commissioned by @xai to create a short film in 2 days using only Grok Imagine 1.0 (stills and video). So in honor of Groundhog Day, here it is: "Routine" a film about a man in a time loop in suburbia. Thank you so much to the xAI team and @elonmusk for this opportunity! If you're an AI video creator, you may notice that I've cracked character consistency in Grok Imagine with this project (check out the kitchen scene). I will do a follow up post explaining exactly how I did that (it was not just prompting).
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Anti-ICE protesters carry a Constitution through the streets of Minneapolis.
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While that is the modern narrative, it feels like a trap
Sure, trades are needed and hot now, but what happens in a few years?
An oversupply of new entrants willing to work for less to gain experience
If you can do it now, you're probably fine, but it feels like the start of a short lived bubble that's going to burst
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RE: Financial Security
When I was coming up long, long ago, the path to lifetime financial security as a middle class taxpayer was to go to college.
And if you wanted REAL wealth you then went on to become a lawyer, a physician or a dentist.
Our economy has flipped and these rules no longer apply. Thanks to idiotic university majors, college becoming high school but at $100k a year, a ridiculous excess of lawyers, and government control of health care clamping down on physicians and dentists, the new rules are as follows:
Today, the path to lifetime financial security as a middle class taxpayer is to go to college and then get a job as a federal government employee.
And if you want REAL wealth you instead need to avoid college and become a plumber, an electrician, a carpenter, an auto mechanic or another skilled trade.
In twenty years, our princes will be plumbers.
It's all about supply and demand.
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Sad to lose such a great mind and person
Scott Adams@ScottAdamsSays
A Final Message From Scott Adams
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Unfortunately, the "net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" is no longer true
The Internet has become increasingly centralized, as we've seen with social media
X is a centralized platform that can be easily banned, and if Elon hadn't purchased it it would be extremely locked down today
We still need an open uncensored network that is easily accessible and that network has to have a large enough user base to be relevant
Otherwise, if Elon has a changed of heart or if he gives up on X, we could be in big trouble
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They weren't blameless at Kent State, either. They were a violent mob throwing rocks and bottles and howling for blood.
What the left is missing isn't a martyr. It's the hegemonic control of the narrative that allowed them to rewrite villains as heroes.
Television is a one-to-many medium, and can be controlled. The internet is many-to-many, and cannot. The internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it. And so the truth always escapes confinement.
The hippies were never the heroes. They were always the villains. They were the villains when they were young, and they are the villains now that they are old.
The only difference is that we no longer believe their lies.
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius
The Left is eagerly seeking a mass casualty event where federal law enforcement oversteps and kills a bunch of "protestors." They WANT another Kent State. They NEED another Kent State. At this point it is their raison d'etre. Their usual tactics are failing. Renee Good was a nice effort in their eyes, but not good enough because we all saw the video. They need SOMETHING where the dead protestors are blameless. They are DESPERATELY seeking an image like the one below. Keep this in mind in the days and weeks ahead.
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People are starting to realize that the entire economy has been Minnesota day care scams since we adopted fiat currency
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Both examples you gave are outliers
While it's rare that your rejection will be recorded and posted, even the most successful men will get rejected more than they will get the date
So the man has to weigh:
Catastrophically bad outcome (unlikely) vs
Positive outcome (unlikely) vs
Negative outcome (likely)
In the the end the man asks, "is the juice worth the squeeze?"
And it seems many have decided the answer is no
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You see a viral video of a woman working out at the gym, filming herself. A guy approaches her, and she says, “Oh God, another creep hit on me.” The clip goes viral, and the comments fill with men saying, “See, this is why we don’t approach women anymore. We’ll just get humiliated. What’s the point?”
But this is a huge overinterpretation. For every viral clip like that, there are countless ordinary interactions where a guy shoots his shot, she gives him her number or Instagram, and they go on a date. None of that goes viral. No one uploads it. Mundane success doesn’t travel online.
What you’re seeing instead is rage bait: rare, provocative cases selected precisely because they generate engagement. This reflects a classic finding from Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues: people draw sweeping conclusions from very limited information. What you see is not all there is.
By definition, viral content is unusual. Ordinary behavior attracts little attention; incendiary content attracts a lot. The mistake is treating the viral clip as representative rather than anomalous.
What’s really happening is that many men are anxious about approaching women and are relieved to find a socially acceptable justification for that anxiety. It’s not that I’m afraid, they tell themselves; it’s that I might get humiliated or posted online. But in most cases, the fear comes first and the excuse comes second.
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This is the most unintentionally terrifying AI video ever made
m.youtube.com/shorts/h63Z6Z3…
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@ZubyMusic You know you've messed up when even Zuby's lost his patience for you
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No, you can't vibe code Salesforce, but you also can't sit down and build Salesforce traditionally either
Products like Salesforce have decades of iteration and incremental improvements that bring you to the current version of the product
The more interesting question is:
1. Can you vibe code the initial small scale version that Salesforce produced at the beginning
2. Can you then successfully iterate on it to expand it's capabilities like Salesforce did
I suspect the answer is No to both right now, but reaching that point would be a meaningful benchmark
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I’ve been building software for 31 years, more than 20 professionally.
I understand “architecture principles and best practices”.
No, you can’t vibe-code Salesforce, SAP, or any other complex enterprise app.
F@tech_health_fin
@svpino @Rifadm816 If you understand architecture principles and best practices then yes absolutely.
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@signulll When people say "ai will take jobs" they mean they will not be able to earn a living and will fall into poverty and homelessness
We don't know what the path forward would be if AI does eliminate large chunks of jobs without generating new ones and this has people concerned
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when ppl say “ai will take jobs,” how do you not read that as a gigantic W? like i desperately want ai to take my job.
the whole arc of tech & civilization in general gas been to delete labor so you only work when you want to, not because you need to grind for survival.
eliminating labor is *good*. clinging to jobs for the sake is jobs is just holding back the future. we just need to manage interim well enough.
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@EzProgramming @tottinge I hear this one a lot, but rarely hear how people would work instead
What would you suggest?
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Quick! (and I won't critique your answers): What is some tool, process, or other element of your work in software that you feel you could drop entirely and count it a net positive?
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@thekitze Same
I ended up coding because I had problems to solve and code was the means to solve those problems
Then I found bigger problems in teams and organizations and evolved to solve those problems
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amazes me how many ppl actually loved coding… llms made me realize i didn’t really care for coding, i liked inventing solutions to my problems and code was just means to an end
trash@trashh_dev
me watching the llm do the job i used to love
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Some take the approach cited above
"I don't believe you"
Which makes no claim
Others make a definitive claim
"There is no God"
There is a subtle difference between the two and it often manifests in their behavior
Since atheists aren't organized like a religion, each uses their own interpretation when it suits them
It can also be a form of Mott and Bailey
Let's illustrate the difference
You tell me, "I believe there are aliens in our universe"
I might respond, "I don't believe you"
But that response is different from
"There are no aliens in our universe"
In the first, I'm not convinced, in the latter I am certain of the opposite
So when someone claims to be an atheist, you have to understand which claim are they making
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Most people seeing this video focusing on the second part, not the first, which is the important part.
The first part is why pretty much every single Christian argument about atheism is off the mark and falls flat... because they don't know where the target is.
Atheism is not materialism. Atheism is not "science-ism" or science worship. Atheism is not a full, complete overarching philosophy that explains anything... or is required to.
Atheism is simply "I don't think that is correct".
That's all it is.
So, if you have, for example, @ChristianHeiens saying things like "You can't solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness!", then that is utterly missing the point.
Even if there were a Hard Problem of Consciousness, which there isn't, and even if Christianity solved it, which it doesn't, the One Claim of Atheism — "I don't think that is correct" — does not depend on any one particular solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness, if it existed, which it doesn't.
In fact, it doesn't depend on any solution, on having a solution, or on there being a solution at all.
This is the mistake Christians often make because they imagine atheism to be another religion, or another philosophy, a sort of anti-religion with a full, coherent belief system which they can challenge.
You cannot "debunk" atheism because atheism makes no claims. It is simply a name given, not to a thing, but to the absence of a thing.
We give names to absence of things all the time, for the sake of convenience. A shadow is the absence of light. Vacuum is the absence of air. Safety is the absence of danger.
You can name a negative space if it's convenient, but you risk making all sorts of embarrassing cognitive errors if you treat it as if it were an entity in and of itself.
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Ricky Gervais will be disappointed to learn that there are Christian autists out there who have most or all of the Bible memorized. Christianity isn't going anywhere, books or no books. And we're finding over and over again that "settled science" isn't all that settled after all.
The Ricky Gervais Clips@gervaisclips
This is atheism in a nutshell.
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Remember when we were told if we didn't off shore everything and import cheap labor our prices would skyrocket?
How are those prices going?
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We all love a little bit of drama, but something else is happening here
People want to talk ABOUT a certain person because they don't want to talk TO him or discuss his thoughts and ideas
Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong, but we'll never know because it's all gossip and name calling to keep us distracted from dealing with the ideas and how we got to this place
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Why is the discourse now dominated by personalities talking about other personalities? It’s become very tabloidy - gossip about who said what, and who said what about whom.
It’s dumb. I miss debating issues. I miss the actual news.
This app has become the Kardashians for people who think they're above watching the Kardashians. In reality, we are all just as superficial and enjoy character assassinations, drama and unhinged meltdowns.
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