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I kind of have similar problem, except I completely avoided twitter for months because it made me less productive, and now I feel a bit out of place, I’m guessing most people just got tired of news content , they have twitter spaces and twitter circles as new features, it could be many people now are only tweeting within their circles.

What I mean is authentication/verification for the brand that is digital web-based, you are the person officially representing it, I am asking if there is another popular method to get verified, to not get confused with someone else.

if you have a common name.

T-RY or TRYscript method

Is it like a writer's block ? I noticed that there is a disproportionate tendencies between very creative states of mind and execution of things, usually when I am in the total opposite state where I have way too many ideas, I would be almost day dreaming about things, reading books or thinking about how people in the next 100 years would live, and by imagining myself in the far future, sometimes writing short stories, I would be able to turn something from that story into a project idea, of course the consequence of that is sometimes my ideas tend to be "too creative" for people to follow through, and there might be miscommunication happening.

the execution state of mind is totally different it is going in autopilot vertical thinking where you would risk tunnel vision on details that might not matter.

if you don't want to risk being too creative, maybe ask why you want to work?, what kind of existing projects would you like to contribute to if possible? or remember a time where you didn't have ideas drought.

>I believe that change will happen dramatically in software sometime soon. If you use your imagination, you might see that change has to happen because of economic pressure. There aren’t enough programmers, the salaries are getting very high, and technology demands are growing exponentially.

okay so in twenty years that would be 2042, that is around mid century that has many negative climate change predictions, and it assumes our energy supply by that time will continue to increase with the demand for more tech, people somehow will manage to carry on and adjust and adapt to climate change with clean energy and it will not be severe enough to limit tech ambitions.

based on what you believe should software developers[ today ]continue to think of themselves as employees-first? or owners first? an AI can't own anything, corporations own the AI. In this context are you thinking of software engineers as co-owners or labor?

the two most memorable articles I could think of are :

OpenAI co-founder Greg brockman mentioning how he became an ML practitioner, it is surprisingly humble and has many references to other interesting sources https://blog.gregbrockman.com/how-i-became-a-machine-learnin...

the second is very old original paper(1948) for Claude Shannon on information theory, when I blocked some time to read it, it was so jaw droppingly relevant for a really old paper he was going through basics of phone transmissions, and how he constructed bits and gigabytes, and why logarithmic structures matter , it's very dense and good kind of dense, if you're frustrated with the amount of bugs you have to deal with in software, the paper help highlight what have been persistent old problems manifesting in new languages and data structures, it is the kind of paper you would return to many times for reference.

https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...

>"As long as you have funding, quantum gravity is basic research at its finest. If not, it’s pretty much useless knowledge"

the issue of the public seeing basic research as useless has always bothered me. and I'm not sure if basic research is truly useless because of its innate nature or if basic researchers themselves make it look useless on purpose because they like it to be secluded from "real life" or maybe it's too exhausting to try to explain to people while it's still ongoing.

reading Rutherford's own notes and biography was truly enlightening and refreshing, there is more to physics than the purely theoretical part.he didn't think he was too good to work with his hands.

Engineering physics / applied physics / medical physics are all interesting interdisciplinary fields where you can see physics come to life.

It’s interesting that you mentioned guilt vs shame cultural background, how does this play out differently in a startup environment?

there are way too many things I want to do if this was safe and possible but probably the first thing is to get a direct contact with NASA and start working on better imaging of exoplanets, I would spend most of my other time on the most difficult/ near impossible science problems and see how many I could solve and at what rate per day.

thank you for thinking about doing something kind.

This will largely depend on your location and host country immigration rules.

Is there someone in particular that you’ve met or know before the war that you would like to help or you are just thinking about helping refugees in general?

the video is probably the most exciting use of hololens I've seen, the graphics are basic, but this seems to have strong implications for how AR will be truly useful.

well we at least learned this line

"It often surprises people when I tell them this, but since 1991 I’ve been a remote CEO, interacting with my company almost exclusively just by e-mail and phone (usually with screensharing)."

Stephen Wolfram was working remotely before the web was created, so he had an email service before the web was even created ?!

it is oddly refreshing to see someone defying stereotypes, never really thought of the wild west desert as a place that would be inspiring for an artist.

I like collecting books and in some way on purpose buy and collect way more than I could possibly read in all formats, audio,physical,digital.

I guess for me finishing the book is not the expectation, I like to reflect and sit back and really examine if I agree or not agree with the author.

books that I decided to stop reading :

"You are not a gadget" by Jaron Lanier, it's too negative and has the bias of believing lack of action is equivalent to building and self-correcting, I might return to it one day but right now I don't need more of that academic passive negativity.

kazuo ishiguro "never let me go", the introduction of the novel is gripping, the strange tone of the young protagonist draws you in, but then it starts getting more heavy with London heavy clouds dark sky vibe, and I was feeling like "no thanks, not today".

The one thing in common with the books that I finished more quickly is that they were either inspiring or had concise clear conclusions with satisfying progression and ending.

cool concept, I enjoy listening to lex's podcast

I'm curious is it searching through fetched data from live Youtube API or did you have to download all the data somewhere locally?

I like how this query generates interesting math-related clips https://hedgy.app/?query=Math&max=50

there are people who will actually look down on you if you work at certain big name tech companies,

there are some people who are apologetic that they've worked at FAANGMULA+ like Tristan Harris at google, susan fowler at uber

I think you really should watch Tristan documentary the social dilemma to see what many "lay people" think (the opposite of high regard and awe)

Faang companies impact Is not equal

Facebook is not apple and not google.

Working on Facebook Oculus is in no way equivalent to the culture surrounding google's deep mind.

They are serving drastically different communities.

I think people who are truly conscientious will not care about branding as much as the value of the work they are producing, they will be able to think about it objectively separate from the company brand, they will be okay with working without a big name, and no attention because they trust their own judgment.

this is precisely why I still believe startups have more potential energy than established corporations, regardless of what the cynics think.

when I see anyone thinking about glitz and glamour before what they will actually be doing, I lose trust in their judgment.

impact on project > company brand

I enjoy writing short stories, reading fiction of hidden gem unknown authors, I use to like indoor rock climbing a while back.

cool combination ,

Nassim Taleb and Rene Girard are one of most of the profound intellectuals I've come across, the world never looked the same after reading the black swan. and I'm still digesting Girard.

it's a very interesting development.

I think it's because many engineers underestimate how much the force of habit shape people behavior.

habits that shape the consumer, employers, companies making decisions for automation.

maybe drug store managers would feel like they have no one to manage? it would be too disruptive for labor.

From a consumer perspective even available tech like voice recognition doesn't seem to add or change much for me personally like I know Siri is on my iphone right now, but how often do I feel comfortable speaking to her? almost never.Why would I speak if I could type?

Virtual game characters like assistants would look too odd and uncomfortable, except maybe in japan, it's uncomfortable to make eye contact with human strangers, let alone 'robot eyes stranger'!.

maybe if younger kids were exposed to virtual assistants they would be comfortable in adapting to them, just like gen z adapted to preferring typing over answering the phone.

maybe that could be the future of post-gen z generation.