What PG wrote here truly resonates. I worked for a large Co and then 7 years ago started my own thing.
At first it felt unnatural. Doing something that most others are not feels wrong. Eventually, once I accepted the daily feeling of ambiguity created through exploring a limitless world, I knew I had made the right decision.
My advice to anyone navigating the transition is to ensure you first setup something for initial survival (e.g., figure out how to freelance, find a flexible job, learn a skill).
Having even a bit of money flowing in (irrespective of the amount really) while not being tied to a large Corp gave me that initial sense of freedom I needed to truly think big. It kept me from "giving up" and going back.
It's a slippery slope though, if you get too used to just doing freelance, you've built around yourself artificial barriers similar to those that exited before for you. You will gravitate to the easier projects because they will have the best ROI for you on your time.
Find the right balance. Just enough freelance to live, but not too much where you're not trying new things and truly learning how to build long term value.
Project like this make me stop and truly appreciate the time someone took to make this... and make me wish I had more time in my day to consume this beauty in its entirety. So much knowledge retained here.
My dad passed away from squamous cell carcinoma in 2010. In retrospect, through my casual research into the space and tools like this one, it occurs to me that the entire event was likely preventable and occurred merely because we did not react quickly enough to the cancer’s presence.
My 3yo loves chatting with Gemini, more than just watching some show. It give her undivided attention and always asks follow up questions to her silly comments.
Since this is reported on by "Insurance Journal" it makes wonder how much of this fine was paid for by their liability insurer. Does anyone know? Presumably they have no coverage for illegal activities, but they never agreed they did anything illegal.
>I apologize, GPT-4, for mistakenly accusing you of making mistakes.
I am testing large language models against a ground truth data set we created internally. Quite often when there is a mismatch, I realize the ground truth dataset is wrong, and I feel exactly like the author did.
An interesting silver lining is that reported happiness (shown near the end) seems to be inversely related to all of the other negative effects. At least from first glance at the data.
I have a photo of myself holding a 256Mb SD card when it came out because it seemed magical to me that a single card could hold so much data. After all the leaps the process is still magical.
I think claims like this have the potential to bring out a great deal of research into the public sphere about the effects of social media, but looking at the law firm acting on behalf of the plaintiff, I see it's a personal injury law firm with ~20 lawyers (https://neinstein.com/about), and they have taken on the assignment on a contingency basis. Sadly, I doubt they will have the resources to go up against the major tech companies for long...... but, assuming they have not taken the assignment on as a PR stunt, I am rooting for them.
At first it felt unnatural. Doing something that most others are not feels wrong. Eventually, once I accepted the daily feeling of ambiguity created through exploring a limitless world, I knew I had made the right decision.
My advice to anyone navigating the transition is to ensure you first setup something for initial survival (e.g., figure out how to freelance, find a flexible job, learn a skill).
Having even a bit of money flowing in (irrespective of the amount really) while not being tied to a large Corp gave me that initial sense of freedom I needed to truly think big. It kept me from "giving up" and going back.
It's a slippery slope though, if you get too used to just doing freelance, you've built around yourself artificial barriers similar to those that exited before for you. You will gravitate to the easier projects because they will have the best ROI for you on your time.
Find the right balance. Just enough freelance to live, but not too much where you're not trying new things and truly learning how to build long term value.