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I feel like “unintentional napping” should not be called napping…

Napping for me means intentionally having a short sleep. I don’t know what unintentional napping is.

I think it’s saying one is a means to an end, and the other is the end itself. We need work for so much more than money, and it is good. But work should never be the end.

I’ve used this using Fable 5.1 for a few PCBs, and I’ve found it incredible.

The component selection through JLCPCB saves so much time - best part, if a component is out of stock, Fable quickly redesigns and reroutes to board for a part that is in stock (if the footprint is different)

It’s not perfect, but months worth of work gets done in hours.

At the moment I’m using LLMs for:

A business brain to track tasks, decisions and upcoming events

For coding including firmware

PCB component selection, circuit design and layout

Opportunity scout

Presentations, market research and reviewing legal agreements.

Understanding complex things

I’m working on some ideas to figure out how to navigate things. Here are my ramblings:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-3-ai-laws-thomas-davies-1q...

Why is no one lobbying to get rid of lobbying?

Ok, but does the government generally decide based on what’s in the best interest of the people, or the best interest of those who paid the most in the lobbying.

I think the answer to that should tell you how good or bad lobbying is.

The interesting thing is that the laws being created to protect against such extreme attacks will be used against the people when they are controlled by an extreme group.

The main challenge is that the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for impulse control and other things, only fully develops around age 25.

The problem with that is without some explicit instruction or guidance or invention before they have full control of their impulses, not everyone tames the beast unscathed.

This is the way.

This makes sense - as Paul Graham mentioned in his essay from January [1] “outrage means traffic”.

No-one gets more outraged than left leaning viewers watching Trump videos.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

Fair enough, but is the notion that some of the time, in a company that explicitly promotes DEI, that a person is there not entirely based on merit, evil and stupid?

Serious question.

This is a great start, well done!

Eventually it would be amazing to import (for example) a buck converter circuit with a wide voltage input, fixed output suitable for RF, and have it automatically check available components at JLCPCB and then lay it all out with, adhering to best practices (ground planes & capacitors right next to pins etc.) If the available components change, it can tweak the footprints and layout without having to start from scratch.

Good luck, I’ll be following closely!

One of my favourite stories is of George Lemaître who came up with the Big Bang theory, and predicted the Higgs Boson - while Steven Hawkins bet against it, and was proved wrong.

George Lemaître was a Catholic Priest.

I too have the same problem. I’m really good at starting things, and unless I find someone or some important reason to complete it, I seldom get there.

Nowadays I try to only start projects with those in place or else I find that I don’t fi…

Not just individuals, but relationships too.

Take a look at https://www.optimalwork.com/

I have only completed the free trial and listened to some of the podcast so far, but some of the ideas like “reframing” are game changing.

Isn’t that what the UK did with Australia?

Create a label “no bandwidth” or “f… off” if you prefer - then close it.

It’s never enough because you think external circumstances (your job, your income, your family) are responsible for your happiness - they are not.

Being happy with the way it is has very little to do with your external circumstances and more to do with your internal disposition. That’s why you can find people in all different kinds of circumstances that are happy.

How to get there is a much longer discussion, but focusing on what’s good and feeling grateful for those things is a start.

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The only way to be really happy is to serve others. Most of the time that means doing whatever it is that you do (working, parenting, teaching etc.) as well as you can with others in mind. Sometimes you have to do a bit more.

That’s just the way we are.

I once heard someone say that depression is a spiritual problem, as in the cause lies with your relationship (or lack there of) with a higher power.

I just had a thought - what if there is a biological or evolutionary quirk that believing in a higher power results in more happiness? It would certainly explain why some people who seem to have a supernatural outlook are so happy dispite what seems like terrible suffering.

E.g. Carlo Acutis [1] was known for his cheerfulness despite suffering and dying from leukaemia.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Acutis

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Then in some way, we are in agreement. Science cannot say anything meaningful about things that don’t affect reality. Religion (or theology) concerns itself with the reason that reality exists.

The purview of science is limited to phenomena that can be observed or experienced. The purview of religion (specifically theology) is that which cannot be explained by science (now or ever)

Not really - empirical science makes the assumption that nothing exists outside of the game (or at least anything that exists outside the game has to be proved from elements within the game)

The way I see it (using an analogy that necessarily oversimplifies things) is that if this existence were like a computer game, and we were the characters in it, then science attempts to understand the game, and religion (or perhaps more accurately theology) tries to understand the game developer.

It was a good selling point, only now it seems that vaccinations don’t prevent the spread as much as previously thought, especially the variants such as Delta variant. So it seem there won’t be any herd immunity anytime soon.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

I’m sure the Catholic priest who first postulated the Big Bang theory would be pleased.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître

https://atomichabits.com That’s all you need.

For fast prototyping I’ve started using jlpcb.com and even moved from Eagle to their easyeda designer - having a library of components that are in stock, without having to find and verify the footprint makes it a thousand times easier, even if the design software is pretty basic.