They have technology to solve the sleep temperature thing now. I don’t want to shill, but a quick search will find you some options. I finally picked one up during this California heat wave without AC and it’s a godsend.
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We see it in obviously exaggerated forms in film, like the Matrix, but that’s based on real shit. The best baseball hitters describe seeing the pitch the same way.
Is there a good reason to pit people against each other? Is it possible to provide a great education for everyone who wants one and meets some base qualification, etc.
I think the answer is pretty clearly that the best education, in many fields, will always require proximity and therefore scarcity. I just wrapped an OMSCS degree, and as much as I loved the program and the education, missing the on-campus experience definitely makes it a different thing.
Not because I learned any less of the material. More so because I walked away with very few relationships and very little spontaneous creativity amongst peers.
Some of that is on me for doing it while working full time, but it would’ve been hard regardless.
Many people consider those community aspects to be the some of the most valuable qualities of the college experience.
I believe it has been proven that as communities become more integrated, outcomes improve for all parties — and not just academically.
One Source, since people seem to disagree: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/23/...
Something more academic: https://gsppi.berkeley.edu/~ruckerj/johnson_schooldesegregat...
First thought was it would be nice to combine head bubble with blur, so you avoid the stark background -- that's probably already what you're doing though. Will give it a shot later today.
The fact that we have millions who just lost health care during a time when they need it most should be the nail in the coffin of our current system.
It’s been hugely flawed for years, and now it’s just a joke. Some problems have very simple, but very big and different from American status quo solutions.
People who love markets would still be able to pay a premium for what they want, just like they do now with all the care providers who have totally bailed on taking even the best insurance.
It's basically an MMORPG, but you're playing as an invented version of yourself.
This despite the fact that new features haven’t been released to the classic version for at least 3 years. Not only are they on a dated UI, they’re missing every single new feature that’s been released for several years (and that’s actually a shit load of features).
It’s true that the digits did jump around on me, but it’s not experienced as active motion, as portrayed here. It’s more that I see a false representation of what’s in the page.
I think words aren’t an issue because my brain is good enough at picking the word from what’s there and context.
It would be more like rendering the page with a few different Random letters swapped each time, rather than continuous movement of letters on the page.
In a place where talent is as competitive as the bay, you wouldn’t survive making people use subpar machines.
1. Exposure to his story. How did he get there. What did it take? How long? How did he pay his dues? How did he get lucky? How did he make his luck?
If I were a teenager, this would’ve been HUGE. It isn’t a blue print, but it gives you an idea of what these people go through, and how many years it takes to get where they are.
2. Exposure to his methods. How does he come up with jokes? How does he shape a story? How does he harness inspiration? How does he workshop and develop those ideas?
This is valuable to anyone interested in doing what he does. It’s a playbook for getting started. It has the potential to shatter the whole, “I don’t even know where to start” barrier.
“Start writing down funny things that happen” is obvious as hell, but hearing that’s exactly how one of the best in the world does it, from the horses mouth, gives it a different weight.
3. It’s entertaining. Even if you’re not intending to write comedy, it’s kinda like watching an episode of VH1 Storytellers. You get to hear great stories about how things, that you’re intimately familiar with, happened.
4. Pro-tips. This kinda goes with 3, but there are some real gems. He’ll say something casually about how he does X, and you just think, “duh. Of course that’s how I should be doing X. Can’t believe I never thought of that.”
Think about times in your life when you’ve learned something small from a peer and had your mind blown that you’ve not been doing it that way your whole life. Those are peppered throughout.
5. Demystification of the “master”. I actually think this might be the important thing in all of this. These people are just people. They worked hard and put themselves out there. They fail a lot; probably more than most.
I had the same feeling arriving in a start up office in Silicon Valley from a Texas childhood. I had pulled back the curtain, and it was just more people. Sure, they know a lot about machine learning, but that’s not because they’re superhuman, it’s because they spent the last 10 years (PhD) studying that extremely specific topic.
Seeing how human these people are makes me feel like there are a lot of people I know who are every bit as capable of writing funny things as he is. That doesn’t mean it’ll be easy for them, or that they’ll ever reach his level, but it makes it feel like if they just reprioritized a few things and did it — they might surprise themselves.
—— So, will he teach you the intricacies of script structure, dialog, timing, etc... no.
Will he spark enough creativity and interest that you get off your butt, start writing some stuff, and go find the content that will teach you those things? I think so.
In my mind, Masterclass is like a tasting menu of hobbies / alternative professions. It gives you a feel for what’s involved and what it takes, and then the person can decide if that’s the rabbit hole they’d like to go down.
I don’t believe it’s condescending to recognize a error, and offer assistance. We all make mistakes. It’s literally the first thing I ask every new manager to do for me if they observe something less than ideal in an interaction.
My hypothesis is that no one wants to correct them, the way they would someone they don’t fear retribution from. Their friends might fear being ostracized for implying they’re stupid. Their suitors might fear pushing them away for the same reason. They just say it wrong for years while everyone nods and smiles.
I’ve made a habit of noting them in meetings and then privately informing them after. Have heard replies like, “Wait, really!? That’s so embarrassing, I’ve been saying that wrong for YEARS.”
Constantly getting a pass cuts both ways. It’s also harder to stand on their own, since they grow so accustomed to people constantly offering help, and free stuff.
Unless I’m mistaken, the author never indicated that he was looking for a Fall internship until the second email. I doesn’t feel like he was ever actually rejected.
Mass layoffs already, leading to mass loss of health insurance, and bills for COVID treatment already surfacing in the many thousands of dollars.
If people start to have trouble putting food on the table, shit could get ugly real fast.
This one that is allegedly cell phones outside of a crematorium is probably the most famous example: https://twitter.com/solomonyue/status/1241166393673801728?s=...
I’ll try to relocate the one primary account I was browsing a while back.