Progress is characterized by a short period of extreme stress followed by a longer period of stabilization and rest (plateau). Both are necessary. After pursuing a goal exclusively at the expense of everything else in your life, it's important to return to balance

Women only want ONE thing and it is a niche small business that is so, so unbelievably unprofitable that it nearly financially ruins their husband.

you know how people say "rich keep getting richer"? I think everything is going to end up winner-take-all people can't get jobs meanwhile there are others out there with 3 sales roles juggling them with AI software using résumés tailored perfectly for every company what else?

The number of mid-senior level openings is UP 15% from January. Juniors are still fucked. AI has made at least the bottom third of software engineers obsolete. That number will get worse. Learn to use AI now so you can stack 3-4 jobs during money printing season later this year

Most normal people conversations have extremely low information density. You only realize this after having high information density conversations with intelligent friends. It feels like one is speeding while everyone else is stuck in traffic

I agree with this thread and I think if you are a SWE you should position yourself in one of two categories: 1. Develop niche AI tools and sell them B2B 2. Use AI coding tools to stack jobs at non-tech companies

I've realized this too after using AI code generation tools for a few months. A product’s UX is just as important, if not more important, than the LLM. Cursor isn't popular for the tech (it's just RAG and system prompts). It's popular because it's fun to use.

Defender the Greeks had two words for time. Chronos for clock time, and Kairos for event time / phenomenological time there are years where days happen, and days where years happen