mikert89

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by mikert89 2mo ago
AI gives more leverage to exceptional people, its an amplifier not an extender
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by mikert89 2mo ago
I'll say this, people are seriously underestimating how sophisticated ai outbound sales has gotten. There are certainly startups where 1/3 of the engineers are focused on "go to market engineering", which is a mix of ai
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by mikert89 2mo ago
most of this complexity is because 1000 different types of businesses are jammed into the same database schema and ERP. Its all non sense
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by mikert89 2mo ago
It’s well known that the moat of system of record is how difficult it is to extract your data into another system.
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by mikert89 2mo ago
The big risk for these platforms is that AI reduces the cost to switch to another ERP. IF AI can map all of the data between two different competitors, the whole business model is finished
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by mikert89 2mo ago
I think opinions on HN are less relevant and less information dense. Many people here are not keyed into the true trends in the industry, and instead are cynics
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by mikert89 2mo ago
You used your most prized mental faculties to build software: logical intelligence, creativity, etc to make someone else rich
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by mikert89 2mo ago
its still not enough, and the up leveling is a problem because the people getting hired arent qualified to be upleveled
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by mikert89 2mo ago
what are you even trying to argue? that the most critical part of the biggest companies on the planet dont need to pay above market? i know people at deep mind, its impacting their ability to deliver good products
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by mikert89 2mo ago
the fate of the company partially rests on whether deep mind does well, you sound like an MBA
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by mikert89 2mo ago
they are paying them like rank and file google employees, aside from a few star researchers
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by mikert89 2mo ago
Nowhere near what other ai labs are paying. Most deep mind employees make what typical Google employees make
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by mikert89 2mo ago
just less relevant, less social, not as "bright", less with it, more out in space
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by mikert89 2mo ago
I’ve heard the pay at deep mind is low and people are complaining about it
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by mikert89 2mo ago
google had the best tooling a decade ago...
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by mikert89 2mo ago
no these people are deeply tied into the scene
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by mikert89 2mo ago
i disagree. i have a unique view of this type of drug use. i was part of a large social circle of psychedelic users, over the course of many years. i very rarely took part. i watched close friends change.
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by mikert89 2mo ago
unfortunately, I think repeated psychedlic use has deterministic and predictable changes to peoples personalities. its not some "awakening", its a structural change in the brain. i watched many close friends fade away after too mu
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by mikert89 2mo ago
I believe that the drugs cause structural changes to the brain that make it more difficult to function in the reward structure of society. You can claim through a philosophical lens that society is flawed and so this is okay, but ive seen i
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by mikert89 2mo ago
anyone i have met that did Psychedelics more than a few times, permanently changed their brain chemistry in a way that was obvious. sure they dissolve some kind of prison, but many people never make it back from that dissolution and end up
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by mikert89 2mo ago
Psychedelics arent that far from turning your brain off and then turning it back on again but anyone i have met that did Psychedelics more than a few times, permanently changed their brain chemistry in a way that was obvious. clearly they a
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by mikert89 2mo ago
no these people have families
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by mikert89 2mo ago
Yeah, alot of high stress jobs pay enough to live on, but you cant really get ahead. And so whats the point? Probably the CTO had actual equity, by now they consider it a random management role, the actual person working that job can just b
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by mikert89 2mo ago
its not that its not enough to live on, its just not worth it for what you give up in life more and more people are just choosing not to play that game
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by mikert89 2mo ago
people that are able to work "good jobs" are choosing not to
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by mikert89 2mo ago
Anecdotal evidence, but more than half of my friends that grew up: 1. middle upper class 2. college educated at a top 75 college 3. tall, decent looking are just not working regular corporate 9 to 5s and get by with consulting, small busine
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by mikert89 3mo ago
best comment on this thread
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by mikert89 3mo ago
I've long thought the bootstrap stuff was a partial scam. There is so much information inside people's heads about how to successfully start a business. In some industries, with the right contacts, they can tell you exactly what t
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by mikert89 3mo ago
Right it’s like venture investing c very hard to evaluate short term
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by mikert89 3mo ago
i dont think hating on ivy league types is that common, and 90% of people have no real life experience with this kind of thing, or are even aware of how corporate hiring/funding works at the higher level.

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