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by apsurd 3y ago
thanks for replying. I understand much better now. I definitely agree with the family being most important part. It can become too trite of a response, so i'll add color by extending it to the _idea_ of family - really it's human
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by apsurd 3y ago
you're justifying your life choices, which is fine, but it makes it too hard to get any perspective from it. $200k is not a high salary for SV tech, which i know sounds crazy, but a large part of this thread is about ambition and makin
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by apsurd 3y ago
oh yeah, same. definitely felt broken to me. had to read this comment then do landscape mode and i can see the problem is the menu takes up the whole screen on mobile.
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by apsurd 3y ago
Oh, I meant that the cost of business includes all the overhead of compliance, insurance, and legal retainers. I'm not exactly complaining. I'm still trying to start a business :P. It's just the purity of "making a bette
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by apsurd 3y ago
U.S. is very litigious. In high school I dreamed of being an entrepreneur. I still have that dream it's just wow the reality of the cost of doing business is brutal and disenchanting.
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by apsurd 3y ago
that's a strange take to me, like why say it? the kid will spend 99% of their formidable time with the parents. sure, baby sitting, grand parents, and over time other external influences creep in, but why turn this into a "yes, bu
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by apsurd 3y ago
+1. "because I said so" and "when you're an adult..." are short-sighted non-fixes. I'm an uncle to a 5 and 7 year old. They call you on your bullshit all the time! And even as a non-parent I get that it's
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by apsurd 3y ago
Also shark tank. i joke with my brother: "here comes the pitch, product, gross sales, and btw i have cancer, my mom has cancer." It's a cold joke. My mom had cancer. It's not the having of cancer i'm annoyed of obvi
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by apsurd 3y ago
> When it comes from corporations, I'm with you: nothing is genuine... the insight is that our culture is consumed by capitalism and so individual people actually do mimic corporations because the corporation is all mighty. hustle c
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by apsurd 3y ago
Same with this article it seems. It's thought provoking. Worth the read. But the conclusion is rather underwhelming: it's an environment & societal problem. Also Big-Co is evil. That's not wrong per-say, but gee-whiz look
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by apsurd 3y ago
There's always been tons of money in marketing and advertising. Top brand companies have huge marketing budgets. Think coca cola, all super bowl ads etc. it's just you had to settle for inferior means of attribution. it got better
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by apsurd 3y ago
Your reply makes it seem like you're allergic to intimacy. There are upsides to compartmentalization but fundamentally we work with humans. So no, if your job is with humans, I don't think you can do it _better_ without intimacy.
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by apsurd 3y ago
Same. at twenty something i sprained my ankle playing basketball. it's unbelievable how hard concrete sidewalks feel to a tender recovering bag of flesh. i sought out dirt and grass for relief. And getting up and down stairs hugging th
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by apsurd 3y ago
Great read. Another helpful cue I give myself is "The opt-in". Always give your partner the chance to opt-in to the conversation. Opt-ins can be subtle or explicit relative to the heaviness. Opt-in can be a simple pause allowing t
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by apsurd 3y ago
My friend made a great comparison that seems to agree with your take: chatGPT for coding is like when ruby on rails came out. Or wordpress. felt magical and boosted (a certain kind of) productivity through the roof. We don't think of r
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by apsurd 3y ago
What's your take on the entire premise of market research being mostly feel-good busywork detached from reality? This is because context is dynamic over time in every instance, and survey data pales in comparison to purchase data. Best
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by apsurd 3y ago
eng.surf is available (coming up with domain names is the best part of coding!)
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by apsurd 3y ago
don't do market research. https://www.pretotyping.org/
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by apsurd 3y ago
I see what you did there gpt-"2". at least you don't dislike enough to downvote. not sure what's not understandable. I think parent is overly hyperbolic. i get that chat GPT is unprecedented, but come on "impossible
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by apsurd 3y ago
10 vs 1,000 years before AGI is a lifetime of difference. I liken it to "not knowing the future". All humans face the same anxiety of an unknown future. In this way, I don't think AGI is a _special_ concern to worry about any
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by apsurd 3y ago
This comment is beautiful in its ring of truth.
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by apsurd 3y ago
I don't know, that's quite the romantic take. I can easily admit I don't know what's coming, but _homo sapiens have ever witnessed_... _cannot conceive of near future that we recognize as real_. Come on, lol Imagine your
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by apsurd 3y ago
no i don't notice that, and i moved back to my suburban hometown where everyone is pushing a stroller. STAHP love connecting with adults to... talk about their kids.
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by apsurd 3y ago
This is a really helpful reply. Thank you. Some thoughts: Excellence is not in contrast to fun, leisure, and relaxation; it's made that way via Capitalism and hustle culture. > In another vein, one could make the argument that the p
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by apsurd 3y ago
Why is it foolish? I get the cynical attitude around not feeling like you're being taken advantage of; feeling like a fool. Is that the core reason? It's the sentiment (nothing wrong with that) I ask because while I don't rej
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by apsurd 3y ago
you're the CTO of a company mostly composed of talentless hack engineers that can't code their way out of a paper bag? You're literally the apex engineering lead; that's so... sad. Do something about it.
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by apsurd 3y ago
well, the context is within entrepreneurship: it's under "don't participate in Shark-Tankification of worth." basically dont be a wantrepreneur seeking vanity metrics. i do agree the essay is very capitalist centric, but
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by apsurd 3y ago
flippant comment that's provably false. id say more restaurants have happy hour exactly to create value during this slow time, than are closed.
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by apsurd 3y ago
Well it seems like you do agree that there is value in building a community and even stability. It's not that you refute the value, you just don't want it forced down everyone's throats as some self-righteous ideal and measur
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by apsurd 3y ago
Had to look up "tradcon". Sounds pejorative. "...but should we?" is a good question, I agree. You mention that people _assume_ "building community" is a good thing we should do, and that you are unconvinced th

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