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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I watch a lot of YouTube about everything nerdy and celebratory to every detail and facet about the global apocalypse. Yesterday for the first time in months, a novel idea got through to me… dude was talking about the overblown reactionary movement to which I initially ate my own vomit… yes, I consume this drug, but yes, I am cognisant it’s really bad, so don’t tell me it’s all okay… Something along lines of “everyone thinks it’s like the industrial revolution. It’s not. It’s like the Internet or mobile devices. We just forget how big a change those were now that they’re normative, so it sounds psychotic to compare AI to such “small” shifts in society like the Internet or mobile”… and I felt a fuck ton better. Copium or not, it’s nice to hear a grounded take (he backed it up), and neither a sycophant or chicken little diatribe that feel respectively like sociopaths with heads in the ground or click bait unsubstantiated drama.

    Not undermining what AI is doing to people, society, and the ecology. But now that I type that, thinking what to follow, anyone remember Mary Poppins? How normal it was for little kids covered in soot missing fingers at the dawn of the industrial revolution. We just need regulation which is the actual fundamental shift problem, as demand for political action is no longer democratized now that the Citizens have United.

    Am I a douche? Lying to myself?







  • That’s why I like selling at startups. I find engineers I like, making something valuable and helpful. These days most work comes from eng friends or old bosses recruiting. I make their equity valuable. I excitedly create new engineering jobs as I create demand for them to keep up with deal flow and appreciate every hire. If I sold car parts, I’d know how many kids every motherfucker on the assembly line has. Too many MBAs in tech now, no regard for humans let alone the ones creating the thing they’re making a living on.