The employment deal in software is changing quietly. Employers won't pay for the AI tools that define your productivity.
Carpenters, and other skilled workers figured this out long ago. Engineers are just starting to.
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Carpenters, and other skilled workers figured this out long ago. Engineers are just starting to.
Very soon, the cost of inference will find parity with that of search and/or search ads will be more effective and hence be charged more.
It will end up working out, I think.
Saved you a click. The rest of the article is fluff.
Having said that, I don't think we are completely free from gender bias in tech (yet) and that has far reaching effects on us going forward..
1) Break down your project into bits that excite you all the way through and imagine being excited while you're planning it. Have someone else be there with you with to plan this with you while you do it - helps with the planning. This chunking of the project itself is the battle. You beat this and you've conquered most of the problem.
2) Work on two - three manageable projects at the same time. This usually has worked for me my entire life. Alternate between them. When you get bored with one, pick the other one up and plan all of them out so you have interesting bits chunked out throughout.
3) Always work with high-energy individuals who would keep the energy up throughout the project. When you feel tired or bored, they will find a way to pick you back up again.
4) Always find projects that YOU can find some value in YOUR life.
If time isn't the limiting factor, and I saw on some other thread about pg saying how scalability isn't a bottleneck either (for now), not giving feedback is a choice they have retained. LOVE for pg to comment on this.
I've seen a lot of people who speculate (often for a long time), at the reasons for their break-up and that ends up consuming them. It might lead to them questioning the very basis of why they started doing something in the first place.
Feedback helps there! I guess, the sheer volume of applications make it impossible for them to individually respond to every application, but, without feedback, it just seems grim and insincere.
Think about it.. Same goes for you being with someone whose birthday pictures you're looking at and you can provide a context to them. Gifting is an area you can charge advertisers for. Think fashion!!! We take pictures all the time!! If you could provide the context to where the pictures were taken, the store it was taken in, and how there is a discount going on in that store, it would be amazing! Use the context of the photos, for instance, as 'subscriptions' to these contexts.
To elaborate, think of this scenario. I took a photo at H&M on Regent Street in London and then at Next further along the road. Since I took at photo at H&M, you can 'subscribe' me into H&M offers, etc. And same goes for Next. So when there are offers, an ongoing sale or either of the brands just looking to reach out to customers, you could be the conduit for them!!!!!!!!! THAT IS WORTH A LOOOOOTTT OF MONEY!
If you're not doing it, I WILL! :D :D
I'm a very curious person and have been all my life. Part of what makes me unique is my ability to go to great, if not seemingly impossible, lengths to find out things that pique my interest. And, YC, finally seemed like a place where I could belong after feeling so very different all my life.
It is painful to see them return your application with a generic 'no' because I have no way of knowing what I could improve or what is it that made them look away in the first place. I'm pissed off because I care.
To quote from Don Quixote, "there were no embraces, because where there is great love, there is often little display of it."
I hope they could give me some feedback. For once in my life, I'd know, for a fact, than having to ruminate and speculate over it.
I don't think the rejection has anything to do with the product itself. I reckon they got a lot of applications this year they wanted to fund that drowned out a lot of the other applications (such as mine, to ally different story though:)).
And, it's http://tapbeyond.com, a personalisation platform that lets people discover content and conversations around what interest them.
Matt Schlicht (Hipset / Tracks.by, YC S'12) gave me the advice to do it and we're just doing that. Working now to roll it out to these users first and listen intently and give them exactly that.
A couple of years ago when I was building a product, our board convinced us to apply for a patent. After a provisional application and following it up with a proper submission, we finally had an offer that granted us the patent. Never pursued it. I know, it makes sense to protect your ideas; but we had Whatsapp, Pinger and other apps kicking ass in the space.