My favorite 'mind training' work is Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra. Technically this is not a lojong text but it always struck me that in purpose it most certainly is. I also remember reading somewhere that HHDL said something to that effect as well.
As for lojong, Geshe Sonam Richen's Eight Verses for Training the Mind is a great little book (I really like his translations).
B. Alan Wallace's A Passage from Solitude is an exposition on another core lojong text, Geshe Chekawa's Seven Points for Training the Mind.
Given that reddit threads on Claude's performance over the past couple of months are making their way to HN as 'news', I thought this post was interesting enough to add (yes, I see the irony).
If you are willing to rule out mass hysteria (which may or may not be reasonable) - the question is whether continual internal tweaks - for whatever reason - affects performance to a degree that whether or not you are able to use the platform for 'real work' (define it as you wish) can fluctuate from month to month or even week to week.
- should you off-load key work to an industry that has not yet found a success business plan? I'm just an AI hobbyist, but this seems insane to me. Of course, if you are on an enterprise plan there is some buffer. But there is no guarantee.
I am not a professional coder. However, I have typically seen people respond more favorably to Code compared to other systems including Codex (percentage-wise). I'm curious to know what exactly you feel is inferior?
On the other hand, recently for me, the usage limits in Claude have been inconsistent and frustrating. I seem to get a lot less out of it than I have in the past and am considering trying one of the other big 3 sub plans to see whether it suits my use case more.
>It makes sense for companies to show Wall Street that they understand the assignment: adapt or die. It matters less whether a company knows how to deploy A.I. and more whether investors believe it is on track to do so. In that respect, it doesn’t matter whether a company’s stated rationale is sincere or not. Once it announces it is cutting jobs for A.I., the remaining workers have no choice but to buy into that vision.
this is how it works sadly. Short term optics for mid-term pain (most likely)
It's not just the misleading "average" that is problematic. USA Today "reporting" on a "report" by Empower where you find this:
The numbers below reflect Empower Personal DashboardTM users as of October 2025, with the average and median net worth of these individuals, broken down by age. *(These figures are not identical to, nor directly comparable with, representative national data from the Survey of Consumer Finances from the Fed.)*
To elaborate on comments below; I agree that the correct term is "dark patterns". And, one common form of dark pattern is to increase "friction" - to slow down or make more difficult what the user is trying to do (or in other cases, reduce friction "buy now, pay later").
I would echo the sentiment of taking some time. The way to think of this is not as "time off" - but acknowledging that you have the time and space (and resources) to thoughtfully consider your next move. Don't make important decisions under a time-pressure that is self-imposed. Instead, take a month to consider what you want to do during the next state of life - and be grateful that you have the opportunity to consider your next move from this point of view.
Perhaps there is something interesting here; but what is the comparison group? I am not convinced that earlier generations had values that better matched corporate interests. We were just more likely to show up. It can also be the case that both corporate and individual interests have walked further away from each other as individuals become more hyper-individualistic and corporations become more hyper-capitalist.
Anecdotally I have found that the quality of perplexity.ai has gone down significantly over the past year. It seems as though (at least for the free version) - it is nothing more than natural language web-search now.
As for lojong, Geshe Sonam Richen's Eight Verses for Training the Mind is a great little book (I really like his translations).
B. Alan Wallace's A Passage from Solitude is an exposition on another core lojong text, Geshe Chekawa's Seven Points for Training the Mind.