I ended up creating a brand new account just for that, and it worked fine. No idea why it would work with a brand new account and not with my old account in good standing, never suspended or warned about anything.
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I ended up creating a brand new account just for that, and it worked fine. No idea why it would work with a brand new account and not with my old account in good standing, never suspended or warned about anything.
Lately I've been writing about AI because it's impossible not to. But I generally write shower thoughts about tech and my experiences in the industry.
1) Do I enjoy the coffee business? Would I have bought that plantation if the opportunity had arisen? If the answer is no, selling is most likely the right answer.
2) That being said, it's not like the plantation is a hot potato that needs to be sold right away. OP has some time to check it out, learn about the business and decide if this is something worth trying for a few years. How long to try for? What's the opportunity cost? They would decide to invest a limited amount of time (e.g. one year of work) and then reevaluate at the end. I would timebox this decision process too. Perhaps learn all you can in a month and decide if you want to give it a shot? Part of this process should involve getting in touch with people in the industry and seeing if you like interacting with them. In the end, most of your job will be about interacting with the different types of players in your industry.
This doesn't follow. The machine can be distributed, only peripherals need to fit in human space and they don't need to be smart.
> The Royal Mail is aiming to deploy a fleet of 500 drones to deliver mail to remote areas, starting with small islands like the Shetlands or Orkneys. Britain’s National Health Service is trialing drone delivery for medication, specifically chemotherapy drugs, to cancer patients living on remote islands; one such route would save patients a three to four-hour ferry ride to the mainland and back to pick up their medications.
There might be easier mechanical ways to accomplish the same.
Also, I have yet to visit a civilized location in the world where you cannot buy a decent disposable razor that's better than the electric shaver he carries around the world. I understand they recycle pretty well too, if you're worried about waste.
If you've been on Twitter since the early days, you have noticed how it has become more and more about dunking and hate-quoting. Once you have an algorithm that decides what content causes the most engagement, you learn that negative emotions make people act. It's hard to scroll Twitter and not want to yell at something you disagree with. The medium itself does not lead to constructive conversation. This comment would require a Twitter thread, which is a scary thing to write. Every single tweet in a thread can be taken out of context, and you have to write accordingly.
As a company, Twitter has stopped innovating a while ago. The product has been stagnant, and so has the market cap. I expect that eventually it will collapse when the most interesting people to follow simply stop engaging, but that might take years.
My solution is to engage as little as I am capable of. I deleted the app from my phone, and I have a personal rule of only posting inoffensive shower thoughts that almost never get any reactions. I never get involved in an argument there.
- Think of a point I'd want to make, perhaps in 20-60 seconds.
- Do a few video takes until I believe it's good enough. Sometimes the first take works.
- Keep doing it until I have enough material, then edit the video.
As someone who is in his 50s though, I can understand the point of view of someone who grew up in an age in which writing was the obvious way. Paul might think differently if he tried to start a Youtube channel, but it doesn't seem to be interesting to him.
This would imply that Socrates only had trivial ideas. Socrates would disagree with this statement, and so would a large number of people. This belief seems like a cognitive bias to me. If you prefer written ideas, unwritten ideas may seem trivial to you.
If the two things are similar enough in the ways that the model applies, then it's good. Otherwise, it's not.