Thanks that’s exactly the type of guidance I was hoping for. I’m trying to think more of architecture now that I move from basic (50-150 LoC) scripts to more complex applications, I’ll try to read up on good practices suited to my skill level on that front
Pricing info would be welcome, I pay for otter.ai and also bought MacWhisper so I'm not anti-paying but I don't feel like downloading and signing up 'for free' without any idea of the downstream cost
They found PMF in a niche (productivity-obsessed email-superusers), which is decent market in size, but raised money and got press coverage like a mainstream so in the end it feels like they kinda failed.
It reminds me of Peloton (though they did go mainstream-ish), or the Snoo (smart baby bassinet)... just because a ton of people email/exercise/have babies doesn't mean the bulk of them are in the market for the hyper-optimized and high-price solution.
I've been anxious about this for the past couple of years, to me the biggest challenge is that if you end up affected in the first few waves you face a real uphill battle: the stigma of unemployment or marginal employment will still very much exist, the cost of living in your general income bracket will still be based on the assumptions that most households are two earners on full wages, and macro adjustments (UBI? Mass re-training? other large scale policies?) won't have been implemented yet. I could easily see mid level white collar workers never be able to recover and fall down several pegs in their standard of living.
Like the idea, I once did marketing for a startup and creating infographics was as useful as it was laborious....
Feedback: The fact that two of the examples on the page use the exact same format (the paperclip) and all of them also follow the "top to bottom" reading pattern (no landscape mode) gives the impression that it's just a handful of templates and rules not really AI. Not sure if that's correct but that's the first impression it made on me.
AirPlay or more accurately "screen mirroring" does cast sound and more often than not recognizes the video content and casts it full screen (from most iOS media apps such as youtube at least). It doesn't always work on my samsung TV without an Apple TV device though, in about 10% of cases it'll just fail to connect to the TV altogether
Hyper tailored version for each role, with SEO-like focus on the right keywords that demonstrate fit not with stated requirements but industry-specific business lingo
Between the name and the logo colors I assumed for years it was a frozen foods store (there's mostly in strip malls too so I'd drive near but never close enough or slow enough to truly peek), then one day I stepped into one and realized it was an inflation-adjusted dollar store
I have a Boox Ultra Tab C (color) and while true I don't find it problematic in the slightest. I went down the rabbit hole of watcing video comparison etc. but in practical terms once I started using it I never once felt that I wanted a brighter/lighter screen. YMMV.
Maybe some power tools that get only occasional use could be fine with a better rental market. Not long ago I bought a ceramic tile cutter because renting one for 3 days was more expensive that buying one outright, but if that market went towards more expensive but safer models I'd reconsider and would do just fine with renting. And then tradespeople who need these tools more than 10 days per lifetime need to buy upscale anyway...
Start by identifying the problem you're trying to solve, then validate that the problem is worth solving and that your approach can get people wanting to solve it. Then figure out what's the quickest way to test this, and only then if all is validated start building something.
AI is very legitimately a large scale disruptive force, but its speed of adoption and true value creation will vary greatly industry by industry and application by application.
In some cases it helps the long tail of the market: DALL-E and Sora can probably wipe out most of the small business segment of users for stock photos and images, but not replace it for larger companies. Copywriting AI can help independent bloggers but not replace actual journalism.
In others it only helps the larger players (using AI for fraud detection, algo investing, medical diagnostics)
And then it's also about to become a bigger factor in defense/military.
In Europe a lot of old buildings do this conversion easily, it's really more a problem with modern construction (and hence most American buildings) where the entire design is extremely skewed towards one use case vs the other
So beyond the awkwardness, discomfort, and other reasons, for the sake of preserving walking as one of the last truly disconnected moments in one's day it would be good to simply not do it with the same distractions we face when we sit in front of our laptops
Accountability is needed in this era of "marketplaces". I don't care if it's thru better/clearer separation of first-party vs third-party sellers or thru letting the retailers like Amazon represent however they want but get dinged when something goes wrong; but right now it seems like there's absolutely nothing done. People are increasingly buying healthcare product online, or products that could be dangerous if they malfunction (appliances), and at the rate we're going it'll erase 50+ years of progress in electrical and fire safety as well as further erode our health and wellness (faulty covid tests or thermometers, poorly calibrated dosing tools, etc.)
I joined as employeee #1 as a friend of a friend (we were friendly acquaintances for a year or two before). I think the relationship helped get us to a good working rhythm right away, but as many founders do he had slightly misrepresented some facts about how far along the company was and was slightly greedy with equity, so I left about 6 months in when factoring the newfound facts into the expected value equation showed me that I'd be better off back on a regular W2. It's been 4 years and the company is still around, but as I expected it's quite a bit behind where it would need to be for my personal economics to have made sense (and that's still assuming an exit that may not come). Our relationship has cooled a bit but remains friendly, I happily served as a reference/expert on a customer call and wish the best for the company.
The article is more about sleep quality but I personally often realize that I am lethargic rather than tired when life/work is a bit boring and magically find energy when it gets exciting. Most of us have relatively dull and repetitive lives so we don't get the adrenaline flowing enough to fend off a baseline tiredness/lethargy on most days
Parts of it is that when you're cutting an arbitrary number (like 5%) just because.... you kind have to do it "randomly" so that there's no claim of discrimination. If it just so happens that all you best performers share a demographic trait of the protected or protected-adjacent kind (sex, orientation, religious beliefs, etc.) you'd expose yourself to discrimination lawsuits by people who don't match that facet.
It sucks and it's a symptom of risk management being a leading consideration to the process of a layoff, more so than performance optimization or culture change, but that's how it "makes sense"
Pros: Affordable compared to similar cities, yet very rich and diverse economy with multiple sectors represented. Friendly people and decent infrastructure. Relatively "central" in the US for domestic travel.
Cons: Extreme weather. Above average (though not as bad as advertised) crime problems. Lack of any worthwhile natural POI except for the lake. Relative isolation from other great cities in the US, as most of the rest of the Midwest is dead, dying, or uninteresting. Limited entrepreneurial culture.
The thing that made America successul almost exactly 100 years ago is now the thing that will hurt its competitiveness on the global scale for the next few decades. Mostly because elections cycles and attention spans now move too fast for infrastructure builders to get rewarded, so instead they get punished.
In absolute terms it's not hard to believe (despite tiny sample size in the tweet) given the rise in popularity of seltzers and other low ABV drinks in the past 2-3 years. But in share of craft as % of the overall beer market? I suspect it's stable or even increasing given they're becoming more mainstream (albeit not sure if some original craft brands still qualify now that they're so dominant).
I'm using it to write short stories where my 3 year old kid is the hero (a custom GPT sets the proper context (name, age, location, interest) so the prompts can be short like "a story about learning to read with a new dragon friend")... and doing so bilingually, with each paragraph available in both languages
I work for CCC IS, we make software to help collision repair facilities and auto insurers estimate the damage to your vehicle and the needed repair… only in the US, only private vehicle auto insurance… $7B market cap
I use clearVPN because it comes standard in my Setapp subscription and it does a good enough job for my limited use (geo unblock, occasional p2p download) I’d only recommend it in context of it being included for “free” thru the setapp bundle