nraford
In the US, or many other developing countries (i.e., those without a robust social security mechanism), the only way most of us can afford to pursue our passions to a high degree of performance is through cross-subsidization with a "real job".
The benefits that passion provide to a rounded life, better mental health, sense of perspective and so on are far worth the price paid, assuming your day job can finance it appropriately.
It's either that or poverty, which works OK for some until they have or want a family, get sick, have to take care of their parents or worse.
Monetizing passion is a shitty Faustian Bargain imposed upon us by the time and place we live in, unfortunately.
Could you someday add a login system or sharing system so I can save recommended books I want to bookmark to read later.
Thank you!
Seems like it would be such a useful data source for the rise and fall of various tech trends, industry sentiments, and so on.
The pulse of the Valley, even...
Counterclaim: I live in Dubai, have several trans friends and colleagues who live and work here, and they have many other trans friends who come to visit frequently.
Never heard a single instance or issue of this, not to mention executions.
Where are you getting this crap from?
PS - Fuck Spez
I tried using Ollama on my machine (same specs as above) and it told me I needed 49gb RAM minimum.
The question is, where can we buy one? Or even better, where can we buy one with 16 knobs to replace my MidiFighter Twister? :-)
I'd love to live in a world where I could bring my whole self to work. I would love to live in a world where social and racial equity is part of the purpose of the company... where companies are radically transparent and honest.
We should absolutely fight for that world, but there is absolutely nothing certain about it. Wrapping it in "the future of..." is a dangerous framing which implies certainty or probability, which sadly isn't the case.
While I did use the specific skills and knowledge I learned in the process for a couple years, the underlying methodology of discovering needs, aligning interests, convincing others to support you, and developing new ideas and opportunities have been essential - even though I now do something totally unrelated to my degree.
Obviously I was both lucky and atypical, but the "useless vs. useful" distinction is not so black and white. Liberal arts universities _used_ to be about learning how to be a whole person in the world, of which gainful employment is an important part (but not the only goal).
Clearly the aristocratic origins of university education are out of step with the economic realities of today, but the DNA of the approach is arguably even more important to financial outcomes in the long run than just getting a degree in business or STEM.
The world is a mess and defaulting to a cookie cutter degree just because it will get you a vanilla, status-quo job out of the gates is not the kind of thing that will serve most people in the long run (IMHO).
Ever been to a corporate Christmas party? It's basically that with a lot more money.
There are some very interesting talks, but its mostly pretty vanilla. There are also some very, very interesting people, especially outside the gates of the main congress center.
But most of it is pretty much exactly what it sounds like; boring old people and their staff jockeying for status and bragging rights of who met with who, who got into what event, etc.
No one is in charge, there are no adults in the room and there are no sinister plots. Nothing really gets done or gets decided, other than an annual update of the ultra rich leaderboard, which is even scarier than the alternative if you think about it.
I had my own dramatic "mid-life crisis" a few years ago in my early 40's and have two teenage kids (pre-teen at the time).
We didn't hide anything from them, including the overall shape of the career issues, relationship issues, hopes and dreams, how we were handling regrets and commitments, and so on.
Of course we didn't involve them in all the nitty gritty (and what we shared, we do so with respect to their relative ages and levels of experience), but the idea that hiding what it means to be a complete, imperfect and yet aspirationally evolving human being from your kids is a major opportunity lost.
Now my kids know that just being successful doesn't mean you're happy, that everyone goes through changes of heart, that our goals and dreams evolve, and that this is a natural part of life.
I'm a huge fan of parental role modelling through action and reflective practice. Showing them how you go through your own life transitions helps them tremendously in theirs.
Not as an app exactly, but you should check out Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurt’s suite of tools called “Holly Plus”:
I’m pretty sure you can access their model somehow and even train your own voice using their “spawning” approach.
She did an awesome TED talk demonstrating this:
https://www.ted.com/talks/holly_herndon_what_if_you_could_si...
Here’s a cool example, using Dolly Parton’s song “Jolene”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPAEMUzDxuo
I don’t think it’s quite at the level of consumer use yet, but I know they’re working on it. Definitely check it out.
This kind of poor journalism, taking a momentary online scandal and turning it into "news", is both symptom and cause of the ongoing degradation of our media environment and public sphere.
How this is "news", and what anyone is supposed to do about it, is beyond me. Absolutely zero social, economic, or intellectual value add.
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords if they get rid of this kind of info garbage (which sadly, I'm very much afraid they wont).
I slept with my kid (I'm a father) for almost a year and trust me, you're still deeply aware of them when they're next to you.
Smothering does happen, statistically speaking, but the odds are so tiny and the benefits so great, it's basically a misinformation campaign based on bunk 1950's science.
I recently "retired" from a major position after nearly a decade of 14 hour days and even though I took a couple of months off (and I am starting two new projects), I still love the freedom to just slack off and play Elden Ring for a couple hours every now and then.
It's not the most productive time in my life but that's OK. I'm sure it won't last, but it is so damn nice to be able to relax again after several decades of stress and high performance.
PS - Mid-40's, divorced, teenage kids live with their mom, GF who also WFH, puppy
Lorde asked, “What does it mean when the tools of a racist patriarchy are used to examine the fruits of that same patriarchy?” And she responded, “It means that only the most narrow perimeters of change are possible and allowable.”
Replace "patriarchy" with "oligarchy" and the same wisdom rings true.
It's a bit sci-fi, but the way you described it is so beautiful, I'd love to better under the complete richness and beauty of the human experience from both sides, even if only temporarily.
I'm sure the world would be a better place if all had the chance to experience both sides and then chose.
It has over 660 million users these days, the vast majority of whom are single men.
Something like 30% of the users tell it "I love you" on a daily basis.
Why haven't we discovered life yet amongst the vastness of the stars?
Because they wanked themselves to death in VR pleasure palaces.
It's called "Locational Advantage" and there's a few decent studies here:
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10527001.2021.2... - https://www.redfin.com/news/how-much-does-walkability-increa... - https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/walking_the_walk_cortright.pdf - https://www.housingwire.com/articles/better-walkability-mean... - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02642... - http://www.reconnectingamerica.org/assets/Uploads/2009Walkab... - https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
Etc.